I’m not an O State football fan, but I’m not a hater either. I love Pat Jones on the Sports Animal. Eddie Sutton is one of my favorite college hoops coaches of all-time and as I wrote on here before I have an autographed photo of Barry Sanders in a Detroit Lions jersey. And BTW… I think Sanders’ 1988 season is the best season I’ve ever witnessed by a running back in college football history.
O State has had bad back to back losses to Texas Tech and Baylor. A tough Iowa State team awaits the Cowboys in Ames.
Should O State fans be concerned?
Well… they can be concerned, but if they’re smart they’ll shut their mouths with the benching of Spencer Sanders nonsense and realize he’s a freshman quarterback who’s has turned the ball over eight times in the last two games.
You can’t do that at any level. Ask Baker Mayfield—he’s killing the Cleveland Browns this football season and he’s a second year pro who won the Heisman.
The future of the O State program requires Spencer Sanders work thru this or else this will be the program known as death stops for both Bobby Reid and Spencer Sanders. You think other schools might point this out to future QB recruits who live in Texas?
He’s learning and trying to grow as a quarterback. He knows he needs to get better. He knows this is a process.
He’ll get better incrementally this season. Having Drew Brown replace him now would be a disaster for the program moving forward.
Some of these O State fans need to take a reality check. You’re not OU, Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson or Auburn. You’re a football program which has never won a national championship in football minus the fictional one in 1945.
This program would not even be where it is now if not for the $1 billion dollar generosity of Boone Pickens.
Boone has a right to bitch, but he’s in Boone heaven currently and quite frankly I don’t think Boone would bench Spencer Sanders given the possibility this young man works thru this rough spot and becomes a program changer for Boone’s franchise.
Brandon Weeden took the back half of a lost season to make the adjustment to DI college ball.
O State fans,,,please leave Spencer Sanders alone and go watch college wrestling if you can’t be supportive of your quarterback. I’m almost certain Lincoln Riley would love to have this kid on campus in Norman as a graduate transfer at some point. Just a thought or two.