Tramel wrote a relatively soft piece today on how O State is 90-38 in football the past decade which ranks O State at tenth in the nation in the past decade in overall wins.
Here’s what Berry Tramel didn’t write;
- Not one time in the past decade has O State advanced to the Big 12 Championship Game. This ranks O State with Kansas, Texas Tech, and West Virginia as the only Big 12 teams to never advance to the title game.
- Of the 90 wins one must consider Mike Gundy from the point of the loss to Florida State in the 2012 Kick-Off Classic never again allowed Holder and Boone to schedule another non-conference game against a national Big Boy school. Not one. O State’s upcoming road game at Boise will be their toughest non-conference assignment since the Florida State game.
- Texas. Texas has sucked the past decade and much of what O State has done to improve their football image comes from the fact O State has handled Texas, but then again so has TCU which is 7-3 vs. the Horns the past ten yeaars. Should there be outrage in Fort Worth that their Frogs aren’t SEC bound?
- Head to Head versus OU. Against some of the historically worst OU defenses the past decade O State is 2-8 and would have been 1-9 if Bob Stoops hadn’t repunted to the most explosive football player in the NFL or world for that matter. Beat OU in Bedlam.
- So..in closing here’s what I would say to O State and their Trump socialist fandom … You have a fourth year quarterback who was National Player of the Year in high school. Some called him the next Vince Young. When November 27th rolls around do something special to make yourself more marketable….win at home in Stillwater in front of the Bolsheviks and make your argument to ESPN and the PAC 12.
- Quit living off OU and create your own football identity and cash flow.
- The end. These were all the things Tramel should have included in his piece.