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Sam Presti and Coach Mark must be reading the Underground because the Thunder pretty much checked every box on my list in a 116-104 beatdown of the defending Western Conference champs.

This was not a mere twelve point loss by the Spurs. The Thunder led by as many as 26 points in the first half and led by 21 points at the intermission. The only thing Spurs’ fans can cling to to in this defeat was the slightly amusing hamburger skit at halftime which was featured on First Take this morning. If you were with youngsters under the age of ten…that was a mini-win for you Spurs’ fans.

I hate to write cliche things on my seriously under-read eclectic blog, BUT THIS WAS A STATEMENT THE THUNDER JUST MADE TO THE REST OF THE NBA. The statement being…when we’re healthy we’re the real defending champs regardless of what the Spurs and the NY Knicks might want to think.

Shai was easily my No. 1 Star of the Game with his 32 point performance. But please notice how many times Cason and Ajay brought the ball up court and in essence allowed Shai to not have to work so hard. Please notice all the tough guy, high basketball IQ things Dub does for Shai. Please be intelligent NBA fans. Become students of the game beyond those pitiful Thunder Network telecasts. MJ implores this of you. Don’t be like some of those stupid OU fans who call into the Jim Traber Show.

I loved the little mini-confrontation in the third period when Coach Mark pulled Shai early on a rotation because he, like MJ, thought Shai was gliding with that big lead for awhile. Shai barked a few words at Coach Mark while taking a seat. Coach Mark didn’t respond. Shai took a seat, BUT Coach Mark after thinkig about this for a very brief pause got Shai back in the game and Shai didn’t glide any more in this basketball game.

That was coaching brilliance. That was a coach not allowing his ego to undermine his team by realizing MJ’s First Axiom of Being a Great Coach, that being….PLAYER MAKES THE COACH. Period. But a really smart coach knows how to work that singular truth.

Jared MCain was my No. 2 Star with a 20 point night going 6-8 from beyond the arc coming off the bench. I love his basketball hubris. He has no fear of failure. You can’t coach that.

The three Williams ‘brothers’… Dub, Will, and Kenny collectively are my No. 3 star. That’s the physicality and the toughness I want to see from this group. I want this team to play like a hockey team with a chip on their shoulder. When a punk like De’Arron Fox throws down Chet like it’s a WNBA game with Angel Reese and Wembyama starts running his mouth—that’s the reaction I want to see. Five *****s from MJ for that reaction. I love you guys. You could be hockey players and that’s an ultimate compliment on this blog.

Other than being thrown down to the floor by a man a foot shorter who should be playing in the WNBA….I thought Chet was better than he was in the Western Conference Finals. He competed except for that embarrassing moment with Fox.

But again take notice how every Thunder player on defense was in essence ‘spying’ Wembyama. Every single Thunder player had Wembyama on their mind with a head on a swivel. Every single Thunder player wanted to shame him with a 1-12 shooting night and humiliate him. Wemby’s only field goal came as the final second of the third period expired. No mas, baby. No wonder Wemby sounded like Roberto Duran in the postgame presser.

Ajay Mara…my thoughts? His minutes were perfect. With Coach Mark throwing Isaiah, Chet, and ‘El Grande’ at Wemby all night long it was in this one game…perfect. That’s the precise role ‘El Grande’ needs to fill this season for the Thunder to win their second NBA championship.

Philly with Tyrese Maxey, another brilliant Coach Cal guard from Kentucky, and LeBron looked very comfortable together in the Sixers win over the Knicks. If Embiid can stay healthy enough to play in 54-56 or so regular season games I could see Philly being a serious thing in the East.

Denver in OKC on Thursday night. I’m excited and ready to see how both teams respond in this marquee national game of the night.

Moderation, patience, and wisdom always, MJ.

We’re back from Colorado just in time for the Thunder’s opening night in San Antonio. It was wonderful and sublime with the fall color in Greenwood Village. I have fallen in love with eight month year-old golden lab Sunny. He actually had me at hello with his incessant hugging and kissing and breakneck speed in retrieving a fuzzy basketball in the backyard. Our Sunny’s reminds me of the Sunny Hayes-Brad Pitt character in the movie Formula I, which I liked very much… the gist of their indefatigueable spirits are pretty much the same. I need to see the new Brad Pitt dog movie. I hear it’s beyond great.

MJ loves the spirit… my OU Sooners offense better start showing some of ‘that’ in Starksville this Saturday if they wish to have a season not being compared to the three pitiful seasons of John Blake in Norman. I’ll write more on the Sooners pitiful offense, which shouldn’t be pitiful… later in the week.

This is not the time to pile on with all of the ‘experts’ on the Sports Animal all ready in full blown blow it up mode one week after Brent Venables was named the National Coach of the Week after the amazing win over Texas in the Red River Rivalry. There are times when I absolutely hate some of my fellow OU football fans. You can’t jump off a ledge every time you lose an SEC game. You have to grow from these setbacks because everyone in the league is experiencing this occurence.

Two words…get better, then three words….every single week. This is football—this is life.

This week the Thunder have my undivided attention on opening night and on Thursday in their home opener versus my second favorite team in the NBA, that being the Denver Nuggets.

Also, before my top three narratives…Sam Presti just signed Cason Wallace to his rookie extension contract at something close to or around to $28 million per season. This had to be done and now its done. The extensions to Ajay Mitchell and Jared McCain will be coming due down the road as well. I’m not going to fret on this because Sam Presti is the best GM in the league.

Now to my Top Three Thunder opening night narratives:

1 The return of JDub. JDub in my view is the Thunder’s best overall two-way basketball player. JDub has the soul of a ‘complete’ hockey player. He does so many different things well on both ends which make Shai a better player and the Thunder a more complete team. But in regards to the matchup with the Spurs…JDub’s physicality and versatilty define the Thunder’s defense. JDub plus Cason Wallace’s defensive speed and ability to stay in front of any guard in the league are why losing Lu Dort isn’t the end of great basketball defense in Oklahoma City.

JDub’s return is my No. 1 Thunder narrative. Period.

2 Cason Wallace. Sam Presti has shown us what he thinks of Cason by trading Lu Dort to Atlanta and by resigning Cason before the season started. Cason’s role on this team is of immense importance moving forward. It’s time for the rest of the NBA universe to witness what Cason is capable of as a complete basketball player getting starter’s minutes.

Quick question before heading to No.3 … which NBA team has the best two John Calipari – Kentucky guard combo in the league?

Answer: Sam Presti with Shai and Cason.

3 Coach Mark’s ability to insulate Chet’s fragile confidence issues in regard to Wembyama’s presence on the court. This is a nuance thing in such how does Coach Mark with the other Thunder players as a team minimize Wemby in the paint near the rim and beyond? plus…is the rookie Mara capable of giving the Thunder ten minutes of quality time against top NBA teams as the season moves along?

These are the things at the top of my list heading into today and tonight’s amazing three games on NBC’s Opening Day/Night marathon. It’s time for MJ Yogananda to put on his NBA blogging goggles and get serious.

Peace and love to all, MJ.

I will be back eventually to recap OU-Texas, then cover the Thunder-Spurs regular season opener. Our eight month-old grand-dog…Sunny the golden lab and the peak fall color in central Colorado beckons us yet again.

Colorado has five separate temperate zones, thus from the last week in September to the end of October there is peak fall color somewhere in the state.

Perhaps if the haters would just take some time to take in the natural beauty in our country… there would be much less hate.

Peace. Mike J

I love JWill. I watched him quite a bit during his days at Arkansas because Arkansas is my second favorite college basketball team behind Oklahoma.

Arkansas truly has had a history of excellent and interesting basketball coaches over the years. Eddie Sutton, Nolan Richardson, Mike Anderson, crazy Eric Musselman, who was ejected two straight years in the Arkansas-OU matchups, and currently Coach John Calipari (Cal).

Arkansas has truly had great basketball coaches. So I was delighted when the Thunder surprised me by picking JWill in the second round of his draft class. I was clamoring for it and I’m to assume Sam Presti in reading the only honest Thunder blog out there… kept the JWill second round pick stashed in his back pocket and waited for the appropriate time.

Here on the video is JWill playing the pants off Chet Holmgren in the Razorbacks’ stunning upset of top-seeded Gonzaga in the Sweet 16. Again…not trying to pile on, but a players’ heart is part of the equation if you’re going to max a guy and make him a face of your franchise.

I’m honestly not trying to pile on here. But at some point there needs to be narratives out there not always orchestrated by Nick Gallo, Matt Pinto, and Royce Young. That’s the primary reason I’ve stuck it out with this blog.

If I was a piler-on-er I’d be eviserating OU offensive line coach Bill Bedenbaugh right now, but I’m not because I’m patiently giving him two more weeks to see how this plays out with OU’s offensive line woes without Michael Fasusi.

I’m a Libra…some have cursed at me over the years for being honest, but at the end of the day I’m basically a fair-minded person. That’s what Libras do. I think I would have been a excellent judge, and if Donald Trump had ever walked into my courtroom the United States would be in a different space currently.

Berry Tramel taught me this…always be human and fair before you’re negative with something you write. I love Tramel btw.

As far as JWill….every championship team needs a chemistry-character player who has the game to go with being able to handle coming off the bench and doing whatever it takes to make the team successful.

And of course there’s that beautiful smile. During the long, arduous NBA season… every team needs a guy like JWill with that smile and attitude to get through the mental rough spots when fatigue sets in.

Don’t ever discount guys like JWill because when you get to crunch time deep into the playoffs…a guy like JWill or Jared McCain might just sneak up and win you a basketball game coming off the bench.

Don’t ever discount the value of role players.

Love, MJ

I’ve changed my mind in that before we leave for Colorado again I’m going to feature my No. 8 and No. 9 guys on my OKC Thunder rotation for the upcoming 2026-27 season.

It will change with me from game to game depending on the opponent and situation. If the Thunder need more size…then it would be JWill-Ark. If the Thunder need instant offense off the bench from a guy with absolutely no fear of failure and what I call ‘basketball hubris’… it would be Jared McCain coming off the bench.

When Sam Presti had to let Lu Dort go…he’s what he knew he still had at the guard position: Shai, JDub-hybrid guard/forward, Alex Caruso, Cason Wallace, Ajay Mitchell, Jared McCain, Topic and Barnhizer. Add to the fact Presti drafted two additional guards in Bennett Stirtz from Iowa and Otega Oweh from Kentucky.

Note: I actually sat next to ‘Tega twice at OU womens’ games during his two year stay in Norman. Great kid with no lack of confidence. What he did at Kentucky did not surprise me at all. His older brother plays in the NFL. He comes from a sports family. Keep an eye on ‘Tega’s evolution as I think Presti will eventually try and keep him in OKC.

But back to Jared…this is a young player who if he learns to play enough defense…is going to be another incredible get by Presti. I thought it was one of the best moves in the entire NBA trade dealine by any GM.

This kid is the exact mental opposite of Chet. He has NO FEAR OF FAILURE. I mean, if he misses his first six shots…he pretty much blows that off until he finds himself in the flow of the game. I think that’s what Nick Collison used to describe as ‘finding or losing yourself in the game.’

And then there’s Chet looking at Wemby and fretting while contemplating potential failure. Look at these highlights from Game 6…Jared never once blinked or backed away from Wembyama. You can’t coach that. There isn’t a drill for that skill. And I guess he might still be wearing nail polish. If he makes shots and improves his defense it doesn’t bother me.

Tomorrow or Thursday I’m doing JWill Ark before we head back to Greenwood Village, Colorado to dog-sit our eight-month year-old baby golden lab dog grandson named Sunny.

Plus…it will be peak fall foilage week in most of Colorado. It is amazing fall color in Greenwood Village. This is what older people do when they can’t play sports any longer. This is what happens when your body can’t go anymore… dog sitting and fall foilage.

As soon as I witness evidence that OU has an offensive line and John Mateer takes care of the football….I’ll return to the OU football beat as well upon our return.

And I have to tell you people…as a Stage 4 cancer survivor I’m in this beautiful space right now. I feel beyond blessed. Seriously….it’s like I’m already in some semblance of heaven.

Grace and peace.

MJ

I don’t cover NBA pre-season games on my blog. I’m not pretending to be the team’s GM or coach so there’s no need for me to make any commentary on games which are basically for evaluation purposes.

My Top 7 Thunder Players Rankings preceeded all of this earlier here on okcthunderground.com and there’s nothing on that list I need to reconsider until we see how Chet fares emotionally versus Wemby in the season opener versus the Spurs on in San Antonio on October 20th.

We will witness if Sam Presti with a healthy JDub and Ajay, plus a resigned Isaiah Hartenstein can handle Wemby and help Chet come to some possible psychological truce within himself when Wemby is on the floor opposite him.

Obviously… that game, plus the Denver game on October 22nd will be where I start getting serious about this Thunder season. Suffice it to say…this isn’t MJ’s first NBA rodeo. The great ones know how to gradually roll into the NBA’s 82 game regular season marathon.

As I stated earlier several weeks ago … my No. 8, No. 9, and No. 10 in Coach Mark’s rotation is fluid at this point, and my guess is….8, 9, and 10 will remain fluid as this season moves along with Jared McCain pushing for that No. 8 slot as far as minutes played.

JWill, McCain, and let’s say possibly either Barnhizer or Kenrich round out my current rotation. Kenrich may only be an insurance policy…so we’ll have to see if he’s even in the rotation that much in the early portions of the season.

I don’t have Chet as the third most valuable player on the Thunder roster currently… based on what I think is an inflated salary considering his proneness to injury and his mortal, sissy-like fear of Wembyama.

Scoff if you will, but today it was written two other NBA teams have already let it be known they will offer Cason Wallace an offer of $30 million per season if he becomes a restricted free agent.

I’m telling you people…at some point in the not too distant future–Sam Presti is going to have to decide if keeping Chet means he’ll have to say goodbye to Cason Wallace and Ajay Mitchell.

Enough of that for the time being though. Chet either Will or Won’t Engage against Wembyama and Sam Presti will have to respond accordingly if he wants to keep Shai, JDub, Alex, and Cason in the championship window.

Shai is the soul, the heartbeat, nd the unquestioned leader of this franchise. Plus, given the abysmal state of the witless MAGA politics in Oklahoma outside of OKC, Tulsa, and Norman…I would say Shai, Clay Bennett, Sam Presti, and OKC mayor David Holt are the four most respected individuals in the state currently.

I don’t in anyway feel that’s an overstatement.

So here’s Shai.

Eternal divine love and kindness always. Even if the person opposite you is a complete and total fool… always find it inside of you to be gracious and kind.

MJ Yogananda

To think the Thunder were missing JDub, Ajay, and in reality Chet Holmgren in the Western Conference Finals and still were right there at the end with a reasonable chance indicates how deep this roster was and is.

I have Ajay as my No. 7 player on Coach Mark’s roster heading into this 2025-26 NBA season.

My thoughts on Ajay, like those of Cason Wallace, are that he’s only scratched the surface of his potential heading into this his third NBA season. The problem for Sam Presti is how does he keep Chet, Cason, and Ajay when we see the extension contracts value on the latter two players from other GMs in the league. This won’t be cheap.

Does Sam Presti part with Chet eventually? Does he calibrate Alex Caruso’s body can only absorb so much punishment heading down the road?

I don’t know these answers as of yet, nor does Sam Presti. But his job is to keep Shai and JDub in that proverbial championship window I constantly write about here on the blog.

Who is San Antonio’s No. 7 currently on their roster? I think it’s De’Aaron Fox, but we’ll see as this unfolds.

But beyond that…Sam Presti knows his team was 4-8 head to head versus the Spurs last season, and unless Wemby goes down with a serious injury—OKC’s road to another NBA Finals will have go thru the Spurs.

We still haven’t witnessed the grown up version of the Spurs’ or their head coach Mitch Johnson. That’s a sobering thought for the Thunder. Common basketball sense tells us they’ve only scratched their potential as well.

As a passionate NBA fan my foremost hope is we get to see the best versions of both teams as this season gets underway and concludes in June.

My takes on Ajay are…he’s a uniquely versatile, intelligent, skilled basketball player who can fill several needs for Coach Mark depending on the opponent as relates to time and score. He’s a player who in my mind warrants 28-30 minutes a game this season if he’s healthy.

His defense will need to be a bit more physical as he matures…but I love his basketball IQ and the fact he never seems to rush things. He is truly one of those players who allows the game to come to him. Extremely coachable.

Count MJ as a big Ajay Mitchell fan.

So for now…I’m going to pause my Thunder evaluation list at 1-7 for two weeks. I want to take a little more time considering why I have 8 thru 12 currently in this order… 8 J-Ark, 9 Jared McCain, 10 Kenrich, 11 Barnhizer, and 12 Topic.

For instance…is Kenrich a rotational player this season or just an insurance policy for Sam Presti? Developmental minutes are going to be needed not only for Jaylin, Jared, and Barnhizer, but for Sorber and Aday as well.

My take is that Kenrich for the most part is an insurnace policy this season. I love Kenny Hustle, but that’s maybe the way this goes if Presti wants to find the best eleven players to take the Thunder past the Spurs in their attempt to win a second NBA championship in three years.

That’s it for me on the Thunder for two weeks or so as we plan to go spend time in Colorado with our family where it’s been raining and the temperatures truly feel like autumn has arrived. My grandson Robert turned seven this Wednesday and that’s a big deal. His very tough little sister Aubrey turns six in December…. and that’s a big deal as well. Youth soccer and hockey seasons have begun. She scored a goal last week and did a little chirping evidently. MJ likes the hubris.

These are the kind of moments I was dreaming about during the tougher days of chemo and such. Dreaming, hoping I’d get to see these type of things.

My cup runneth over. Surely goodness and loving-kindness will follow me the remainder of my days, and I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever. That’s the hope. The vision. One day at a time….truly.

Eteternal love,

Mike J

Taylor is one of my favorite players on this team for certain. He’s a good interview mixing honest comments with his knowledge of the college game.

As was the case in the Michigan game my Top 4 helmet stickers went to defensive players with neither the special team or offensive players cracking my list.

That means for two successive games nary a Sooner player outside of the defense and punter has made my top four helmet sticker list. This trend cannot continue for Brent Venables’ group.

For OU’s 14-6 completely unimpressive win over Mew Mexico my stickers went in this order…. 1 Owen Heineke, 2 David Stone, 3, Taylor Wein, and 4 inside linebacker James Nesta. Owen and James at linebacker played every defensive down. MJ loved their grittiness, Michael Fasusi….not so much.

I thought all four of these guys were outstanding as they literally had to carry the Sooners’ offense over the finish-line in a home game where OU was a Vegas 22.5 point home favorite.

The Vegas line on now 29th ranked OU with their top ten defense and putrid offense is the Sooners being a 14 point road dog inside of Sanford Stadium on Saturday at 2:30 CST.

No. 2 ranked Georgia has played three bad teams while winning three routs of no consequence whatsover. The Sooners waltzed over cupcake UTEP 51-0, then lost to decent Michigan on the road in a one possession game decided by what was in essence a fourth period pick six by John Mateer. The Sooners’ defense without that pick six has given up one touchdown and 23 total points in their first three games combined.

But to beat a deadhorse to death …the Sooners lack of an offense in the last two games has the Sooners going from 8th to 29th nationally in the polls.

And you know what?

I would have to concur with the polls because if the Sooners cannot figure out their own offense to the tune of at the least averaging 21-24 points a game this college football analyst-guru swami would predict 7-5 for the Sooners being an uphill slog for certain.

To the OU fans booing and calling for this and that last weekend….please either shutup or join another fanbase. I hate this segment of OU’s fanbase almost as much I disdain the LSU fanbase. These are the types Mike Gundy was saying had trouble paying their trailer park utility bills.

Nobody to my eye is dogging it out there. Michael Fasusi needs to play left tackle and be the Michael Lewis damn Blind Side left tackle and give this O-Line a shot of something…anything.

Maybe if MJ played the Gumby SNl video for him? Maybe.

• Michael Fasusi officialy ruled out for the Georgia game while David Stone questionable with Kip Lewis probable. No Cole Sullivan again which makes Kip’s presence critical for some linebacker depth. Fasusi is by far OU’s best offensive lineman and this is not a positive omen for John Mateer unless he rolls right-side in a hurry most of the game. Fasusi hasn’t played a down since the first half of the UTEP game. MJ is playing the Gumby video.

John Mateer as I stated last week needs to elevate his game in a major significant manner and Ben Arbuckle will be history just like Seth Littrell was after the South Carolina game if he can’t figure some things out in a hurry.

Speaking of that game…good luck to Michael Hawkins versus O State this week-end in one of my top three games of the week-end. My other two games are Ole Miss at Florida and 3-0 Tulsa at pitiful Arkansas. Tulsa get 7 on the road.

Georgia is 55-2 in their last fifty-seven home games. I would give OU at best maybe a 5-10% chance of winning this game… not even really a puncher’s chance because John Mateer and the entire offense haven’t actually thrown many if any punches minus the UTEP game and that was a Murray State type of team.

This is the largest Sooner double digit underdog spread since Alabama in 2014 and Florida State in 2001. OU won both games. By 14 ;points over “Bama and 11 points over the Chris Weinke team in the national championship game. So there’s that for the puncher’s chance train of thought.

This is one of those games where I’m sure Brent Venables wants to win, but more importantly wants to see the offense improve markedly for the Texas game in two weeks.

I can’t sign off as the Love Guru Swami on this one because in all candor this OU offense doesn’t have me in a loving state of mind.

OU OFFENSE…GET BETTER.

And to the defense…start creating points off turnovers like you did at Tennessee and Alabama last season. This offense needs points from the defense and special teams. DIE HARD. Be proud and die hard trying.

Taylor Wein, buddy…you need to give Michael Fasusi a long, semi-intense let’s go look in the eye. We need you, MF. John needs you.

MJ is not playing Gumby on an OU thread. No chance of that. Gumby is weak and passive-submissive. This is the Eddie Murphy…MJ wants to see on Saturday in Athens. Sharp, electric, and with a killer instinct.

Start with that mantra and then go GET BETTER. One play, one series at a time.

Mike J

Unlike CNN, MSNBC, Politico, the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic, NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, and even the wretched FOX Entertainment Network,… I pulled the plug on Donald Trump maybe twenty months ago.

Politics and ideology aside, he is not a human who can or should be believed or viewed in any serious manner. His presidency is a disgrace to what this country somewhat used to stand for.

What a disgrace for the Nobel Peace Prize as well as Mr. Trump has not only run the national debt to $40 trillion dollars, re-inflated our economy, completely screwed up the Strait of Hormuz, given our truckers $6 a gallon diesel, and even given us $4 dollar a gallon regular unleaded gas in the retail gasoline friendly state of Oklahoma.

Ukraine-Russia squabble…Day 1, right? Gaza beachfront condos, Day 2, right? Regime change in Iran with Epic Fury, two weeks, right? Poser Nobel Peace Prize winner, absolutely.

Additionally, Mr. Trump has alienenated almost all of our previous traditional friends around the globe, instituted idiotic tariffs of which he doesn’t seem to understand, screwed over our own cattle ranchers, undermined the Rule of Law, and completely blurred the lines of the three branches of government.

The recent Greenland deal? We already have a base there. We already had the basis for deal before all of the Trump bs bluster for those still wearing red baseball hats minus Majorie Taylor-Greene and Little Tucker Carlson and maybe Joe Rogan as well. Kind of like the immigration policy on the Southern border which already had bi-bartisan supprt in 2023 with Lindsey Graham of all people included.

And, yeah, the true Trump Doctrine reads… the First Amendment only applies to wealthy, white, Republican males or dumb, stupid white males who don’t know how to vote on their own economic behalf.

But I have to be careful on here…because when I stopped covering Trump on the blog and quit paying any attention to Mr. Trump’s nonsensical bullshit is when my Stage 4 cancer journey turned significantly in my favor.

I haven’t shared this train of thought with Dr. Showalter just yet, and that’s prolly one I’ll keep to myself other than here on okcthunderground.com.

But let’s not scoff at that notion because the inner spirit is a big deal in these cancer journeys. It isn’t just the chemo and radiation and pet scans. My approach to Stage 4 cancer was somewhat holistic and I think not viewing Donald Trump for the past twenty months may have been a supporting seminal cancer moment behind God, faith, my wife, family, Dr. Showalter, the inner circle, kindness, grace, mercy, and divine love.

Don’t out-think yourselves…love, humility, and forgiveness are, or what should be… our mantras every living breathing moment of existence on this plane of consciousness. I thought something MJ Yogananda-ish was needed here to start closing this down.

So back to the provocative question above..’Could Eddie Murphy as Gumby as the GOP Standard-Bearer in 2028′ be a stronger candidate for the MAGA zombies than JD Vance and Little Marco Rubio.?

Based on what MJ Yogananda has observed from the party of Lincoln and TR since 2016…sadly, my answer to the question would be sure, why not. Could he possibly be any worse than what we have in place currently?

Love first, love always.

MJ

It’s still very early in this college football season, but on Saturday night in Oxford we as college football fans got about as good as it’s going to get this season.

This was one of those ABC Game of the Weeks that met all the hype and then some. Trinidad Chambliss in essence did what I hoped he would do by taking down the boorish punk Lane Kiffen 32-24 while reminding all of us TC was the best player in college football last season and so far this season.

Since we don’t currently have offense this season in Norman, please pardon me if I vicariously live through Trinidad this college football season.

If this guy isn’t the runaway front-runner for this season’s Heisman so far…then they should stop handing out the trophy.

Yeah, so I guess Trinidad’s greatness wasn’t exclusive to the punkish Lane Kiffen being his head coach or play-caller.

It’s early in the SEC demolition phase of their season, and injuries and things like that could derail Trinidad, but I mean, this start by Ole Miss coupled with his breathtaking play in last season’s College Football Player has me emotionally okay even if OU’s offense never gets out of gate. Not really, but I can play that game if I have to.

Maybe what Ben Arbuckle should consider is taking a few wrinkles from the Ole Miss offensive playbook. John Mateer is moblie…get him out there in space rolling out right if his o-line can’t protect him. Run some delayed QB draw scramble plays. Use his legs. Those huge strong weight-lifting, squat-lift legs of his.

And blocking…that would be a nice concept to introduce to the OU players. When you block a defender…what does that generally accomplish?

Coach Mike’s answer: It in theory gives your playmakers the opportunity to have sufficient time and space to MAKE PLAYS.

You see what the Divine Love Swami has done here, right?

What I’ve done is talk about the dreadful OU offense on this Trinidad post simultaneoulsy so as it can emotionally balance my depression in relation to OU’s feeble play on the offensive side of the ball these past two weeks.

This way…I don’t even have to talk about the OU offense this week heading into the Georgia game in Athens.

One other thing before I log off on this post…in case you didn’t notice– the Tulsa Golden Hurricane blew out East Texas A&M by the score of 42-0 this past Saturday to improve to a perfect 3-0 start this football season. Congrats to Coach Tre Lamb and his squad.

Next up for me…will be my takes on Ajay Mitchell as my No. 7 ranked Thunder player heading into this 2026-27′ NBA season.

Complete and unconditional love.

MJ