Should The Next OU Head Coach Have SEC Experience?

I would answer yes. At the minimum the next Sooner coach should be at home with what it takes to be a consistent winner in the toughest football conference in the country.

And quite frankly…I think that’s one of the reasons Lincoln Riley is leaving the Sooners so as to avoid the weekly physical grind of the SEC.

So if we agree on this let’s start making a list:

1 Mark Stoops current head coach at Kentucky. 2 Lane Kiffin current head coach at Ole Miss. 3 Joe Brady 2019 offensive coordinator LSU-current offensive coordinator Carolina Panthers. 4 Mike Leach—current head coach Miss State. 5 Shane Beamer-former assistant OU-current head coach South Carolina. 6 Sam Pittman-former assistant Georgia-current head coach Arkansas. 7 Josh Huepel- current head coach Tennessee-former OU QB and offensive coordinator.

Take your pick. Joe Brady is thirty-five and the next Lincoln Riley hire only with a better resume than Lincoln Riley had when he landed the OU job.

Sam Pittman…a grizzled SEC veteran coach who has turned the Hogs into a respectable group with an emphasis on toughness and physicality. Both qualities so clearly lacking from this year’s Oklahoma team.

Lane Kiffin… the once assistant to Saban who has done an excellent job at Ole Miss.

Shane Beamer… the current Gamecock head coach who dazzled at OU as an up and comer as the special teams coach. Does anybody doubt his past value at that post after witnessing OU’s special team play last night.

Mike Leach—the mad scientist of the Air Raid offense who started his college career at Kentucky as an assistant and is the current Miss State Bulldog head coach.

Mark Stoops…younger brother of Bob who has turned Kentucky into a respectable SEC football program.

And the irony hire…Josh Heupel…who was dismissed as offensive coordinator at OU to accomodate Lincoln Riley’s ascension to the Sooner throne.

There you go…there’s seven current coaches with viable SEC coaching experience who I think at the least would be interested in talking to Joe C about how they would envision the future of the Sooners if they were the head coach in Norman.

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