Urban Meyer just became the fourth coach since the merger to not make it thru one season on his NFL head coaching contract. I think all of us knew this was doomed since the bar video in Columbus went viral.
But here’s the question I ponder aloud…since Donald Trump literally tried to have Mike Pence, his own sitting vice-president, hung on the grounds of our nation’s capitol who will replace Mike Pence on the Trump ticket in 2024?
What person out there seems to possess the complete lack of character and the abundance of grossness of personality which will attract the average Trump voter?
Don’t laugh.
Meyer won national championships at both Ohio State and Florida…which are of course both hotly contested swing states.
Both have gone viral with videos which seem to titilate evangelicals to turn out in record numbers.
Trump won over evangelical voters with his affinity for furniture stores and some of the things we never knew one could do there at closing time.
Meyer became college football’s Viagra poster boy along with Bobby Petrino.
Trump to his credit made Billy Bush a household name, while Urban Meyer in less than a season eviserated the memory that Jacksonville not all that long ago played in the AFC Championship Game.
Meyer called his own players and coaches losers.
Trump called every person serving in the military losers and chumps.
Both seem to posess the inane ability to bring out the absolute worst in humans all around them.
Urban Meyer didn’t make it thru a year, while Trump was almost impeached twice in his first term.
So as the talking heads ponder who will be Trump’s running mate in 2024…I’ll be the first to throw out the name Urban Meyer.
After a loss like that…you need a reflective song or two. My little grand daughter Aubrey turned one today. She’s not ready for the karaoke microphone yet. Robert is though. He’s proved himself worthy by singing Baby Shark like it’s never been sung before.
But maybe next year…Aubrey will be ready for Danielle Bradbury or Kelsea Ballerini or Carrie Underwood.
‘Potential’ should be the group song for this Thunder group. Just a great song.
I sure hope these kids on the Thunder realize thru all this pre-ordained losing this isn’t on them because actually I see some real potential in about seven of them.
Don’t give up. This isn’t your fault or your doing.
I feel dirty even trying to write recaps on the Thunder. Cock fights have more legitimacy than these tanking Thunder games.
I need to check to see what the Vegas line was on this game.
But you have to admit on this loss the Big Tanker up there in the sky couldn’t have drawn up a better ending to this game to send the pathetic Thunder into sole posession of the 15th seed in the West a full week before Christmas.
My adorable little grand-daughter Aubrey had her first birthday today and we can’t wait to see them at Xmas.
I need to go check the spread on this game then put some Christmas music on here.
What a great loss!
I checked…New Orleans was a road 4.5 favorite…so the pathetic tanking Thunder covered. Does it get any better for the Thunder…. a loss, a cover, and now right there with the Detroit Pistons with Troy Weaver battling Sam Hinkie-Presti for NBA futility among the thirty teams in the NBA.
What would we name the team if Adam Silver moved the Thunder to Las Vegas? It seems like such a natural brilliant business move.
Merry Christmas!
One of the gifts we’re giving to out grandkids are these little karoke microphones. Kid you not. Can’t wait to bring them out on Christmas Eve and sing this one with Little Robert.
Wow. When I grow up I want to be Caleb Williams. I mean seriously. I had no idea about him taking eleven classes at one time. That’s sick and that comes from a guy who worked his way through college in six years going to night school. and being so tired at times I fell asleep in some classes.
That was the first thing which struck me in this interview which was Caleb’s first real public exposure since Lincoln Riley doesn’t allow freshmen to be available to the media.
This young man has more self vision and confidence than I can ever remember in a young athlete.
Plus…he’s smart and articulate to the point you have to keep reminding yourself he’s a college freshman.
When he really had me though was when he mentioned Drew Bledsoe going down with the Patriots and Tom Brady never relinquishing his position from that opportunity moving forward.
I didn’t even know young guys like Caleb even rememebered who Drew Bledsoe was in relation to the history of Tom Brady.
So impressive.
Obviously…I’m an OU fan and I’d love for Caleb to stay two more years in Norman. But if he does decide to move on then I’ll respect his decision and be a fan of his regardless.
I don’t mean this to sound cold…but OU’s last national championship came with Josh Huepel transferring in as a juco. And basically jucos then are what transfer portal players are in today’s college football landscape.
In 2005, Bob Stoops had to remove national top recruit Rhet Bomar and replace him with Paul Thompson. That 2006 OU team with Paul Thompson to this day remains one of my favorite OU teams of all-time… even with the heartbreak in the Boise game.
So…I hope Caleb stays. But if he doesn’t… I’m certain with OU’s storied quarterback history which was was already in place with Josh Huepel, Jason White, Paul Thompson, Sam Bradford, Landry Jones, Trevor Knight, Baker Mayfield, and Kyler Murray that there would be someone out there who’d love to play quarterback for the Sooners next season if Caleb opts out….maybe Bo Nix. Maybe someone who’s been laying low waiting until Caleb’s announcement.
OU’s schedule is very favorable next season. With Iowa State and O State losing a lot on their defensive units I would think whoever plays QB in Norman next season will have a memorable season given how the 2022 recruiting class has held up.
I hope Caleb stays, but if he doesn’t I’ll still be a fan.
This kid is lit, absolutely lit.
Jeremiah Hall is excellent as a podcast host. I’m guessing his future beyond football includes broadcasting of some type. Good luck, JH. Same to Brayden who I expect to be back next season as OU’s tight end.
And good luck to Spencer Rattler and Austin Stogner at South Carolina. Great choices by you two guys to play for Shane Beamer who I think at the end of the day was Joe C’s second name on his list after Brent Venables.
You have to figure at some point Chris Wallace was starting to vomit every morning looking into the mirror and realizing what a complete farce he’d become at Fox Network.
Chris Wallace along with the previously departed Shep Smith now become the last two departing humans at Fox who could even call themselves something close to journalists depending on how you view Brett Baier.
Probably you also have to figure Chris Wallace decided it was time to leave the newwork of white supremacy, domestic terrorism, and white illiteracy and head over to CNN to search for more fulfilling work.
Wallace had just signed a new lucrative four year contract at Fox last year so give him some credit for leaving the Fox money on the table.
It would at this point seem untenable for any real journalist to stay at Fox what with the Twin Towers of Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity manning the titular face of what in essence is a Donald Trump propaganda news outlet.
If you’re a Trumper and you’re reading this do me a favor…do something you normally don’t do, that being read a book and expand your mind.
Try this for your next read…’The Loudest Voice in the Room’, by Gabriel Sherman. It’s a duel biography of Roger Ailes and Fox Network.
You should at the least know how it came into being you waste your time watching this trash night in and night out and obliterate your own brain cells in the process.
Chris Wallace…you finally did the right thing. Your father like me though wonder what took you so long to do the right thing.
You watch this and be the judge. My intial though is that Las Vegas wikk probably have an NBA franchise sometime in the next three years.
History can be a cruel teacher.
Currently… Oklahoma City ranks 28th in NBA league-wise attendance. Only Detroit and Indiana rank below the Thunder.
Again…you be the judge and guess where this might be headed given the ownership of the Thunder could probably double their equity franchise value in five years if they moveed the team to Las Vegas or maybe even back to Seattle.
Time has flown by….hasn’t it.
I wouldn’t call this interview perjury…but I wouldn’t call it a testimony of the truth to the people of Seattle either.
Let’s take a look back at the NBA Draft of 2009. Sam Hinkie-Presti had the third pick in this draft class. Golden State had the seventh pick.
This is actually where Oklahoma City eventually lost Steph Curry to the Golden State Warriors….not in the summer of 2016.
Hinkie-Presti with Kevin Durant already on board opted for James Harden with the third pick in the draft while passing on what would have been the second generational player on the Thunder.
Obviously, Harden wasn’t a bust, but why in the world would you tank in Seattle to get the rights to pick Harden if you weren’t going to keep him after the 2012 Finals’ run?
Why?
This is why as I sit here watching this bullshit tank in 2021 I feel OKC tanking is a complete act of misplaced futility.
If as an organization you passed on Steph Curry, then in essence hit a home run with James Harden then why in the world are you tanking now? You’ve proven that even when you hit the lottery…you don’t know how to monetize the lottery into a championship. In essence…you passed on Steph Curry for a one year rental of Kevin Martin, Steven Adams, and two busts in Jeremy Lamb, and Alex Abrines.
That’s what you did even if we’ll never hear that on a Thunder broadcast.
You have shown it doesn’t matter if you tank then hit a home run… that you as an NBA organization can’t navigate the waters to win a championship.
And if you can’t navigate the championship waters like Golden State has done then why go through the process of tanking in the first place.
Just admit what you are, accept it, and be a competitve team which makes the playoffs, but never rings the ring beyond the first or second round…..kind of like Oklahoma State football.
But why in the world put your fanbase thru this if you can’t as a GM team build at an elite level.
The Thunder have never gone out and made a splash head coach hire. Never hired a head coach with a strong personna who would have reeled Russell Westbrook in. So if you’re never going to do any things like this….then why TANK IN THE FIRST PLACE?
This is the dumbest thing I’ve ever witnessed. Beyond the pale of Operation Bongo as far as self-inflicted pain.
Enough of that.
Steph Curry, congrats later tonight when you break Ray Allen’s three point shooting record. You’ve had a generational career and literally changed the game of basketball.
I find this interesting even though OU signed four star quarterback Nick Evers this week-end. You would think Nick Evers will be redshirted his first season to get OU’s depth back in place at the quarterback position.
If Caleb Williams were to announce he was leaving…Bo Nix is a player I’d want talk to if I were Jeff Lebby. This kid is SEC personified.
Bo was one of the top dual threat quarterbacks in the entire country in 2019. He’s been up and down at Auburn, but he defintely has athletic up side and even beat Alabama once.
He’s from a place called Pinion, Alabama. Hell… if Jalen Hurts would come to OU…why wouldn’t Bo Nix.
He was coached by Gus Malzahn and then this season by Bryan Harsin. He’s played against the toughest competition in the country and at times excelled. When his game is on he’s exceptional. Consistency is his issue.
Even before Lincoln Riley left Bo Nix is a player who somewhat intrigued me because of his heart and competitive spirit. The kid is fearless. I think I even gave him three helmet stickers this season.
I would think if you put Bo Nix in this rinky hinky dinky Big 12 league with a coordinator like Lincoln Riley or Jeff Lebby you’d have the best quarterback in the conference and possibly a nationally elite quarterback if you could reel him in a bit.
I mean this is a kid you probably want with you in bar room brawl.
I wonder if when Jeff Lebby was at UCF if he ever recruited Bo Nix. It wouldn’t shock me if he recruited Bo Nix.
I’m not sure where we rank Kyler right now in the ranking of current NFL quarterbacks? He’s definitely in my Top 8, but in the Top 4 ….I’m not sure just yet. I’m not sure I can go there. But he’s clearly ahead of Baker for certain. I’m not sure where to put Baker Mayfield as well.
These are the kinds of things whcih keep me awake at night.
Huge game for Kyler and the Cardinals tonight versus the LA Rams.
If the Cardinals win they will remain the No. 1 seed in the NFC, if they lose Aaron Rodgers and the Packers assume the No. 1 seed position.
If the OKC Thunder are pathetic, what do we call the Chicago Bears? What an embarrassment that team is to a magnificent city like Chicago. Aaron tells them he owns them…and then he goes right out there and owns them again with a decimated offensive line in front of him.
Very sad.
Do we calibrate Aaron’s stats downward because he gets to play the pathetic Chicago Bears twice in a season, plus he plays against the equally bad Detroit Lions twice every year as well. That’s something to consider on my Top 8 QB list.
I want to do my Top 8 QB list as soon as this game is over.
Where do I rank rookie sensation Mac Jones of the New England Patriots? I pretty much called that one at the NFL draft last season. If Sam Bradford had been drafted by Bilichick he would have had this type of pro career. Mac Jones and Sam are very similar QB’s in my view. Ball distributors with a ton of football smarts. But they need good players around them.
Where do I put Lamar Jackson?
Josh Allen makes my list, but where?
Do I drop Russell Wilson completely out of the mix?
But I’m set on my Top 3 for the time being…1 Tom, 2 Patrick, and 3 Aaron.
Now that college ball is over is when I get serious about watching NFL football. It’s time to get serious.
It was a pretty good week-end of sports for me. I enjoyed OU’s basketball win over Arkansas in Tulsa. Then later I watched Philly upend the Golden State Warriors and after that watched the Alabama-Houston basketball game.
OU is my sole Oklahoma basketball hope this season. The Thunder are pathetic and Mike Boynton’s team is on probation.
There were some great NBA and college hoops across the board. A very enjoyable week-end hanging out at home with the diva lab Pauli watching sports while my wife was in Seminole visiting her family.
On Sunday it was NFL football across the board for me as we’re now heading into the goal acheiving part of the season with four weeks left in the regular season. Not surprising to me the three best QBs in the game all have their teams peaking at just the right time.
Who is the 4th best QB in football is the question I ask myself as we veer towards the playoffs? I’m not sure who I would go with in that spot just yet.
Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady, and Aaron Rodgers all took care of business on Sunday as each of their teams now lead their respective divisions.
I’m not sure what I think about the Dallas Cowboys just yet, but they they certainly have some star power with Cee Dee Lamb and Micah Parsons.
The Buffalo-Tampa game was great, but in the end the same ending for the slumping Bills who now have a tough trek to just make the field as a wild card team.
Despite the loss..a historic perfromance by Bills’ QB Josh Allen as he became the fourth QB in NFL history to pass for over 300 yards and rush for over 100 yards in the same game. The other three are Russell Wilson, Lamar Jackson, and Cam Newton. I was a little surprised Patrick Mahomes wasn’t on this list.
I watched a little bit of the Thunder’s pathetic performance versus the Mavs without Luka, but there was only so much of that I could absorb as a reasonable human not into self-inflicted abuse.
Jim Traber may be right. He claims the Thunder aren’t tanking per se. He says they’re just pathetic by design. To me that’s a narrow murky line of semantics, but maybe he’s right and I should fall in line with that train of thought.
So from this point moving moving I’m doing away with the tanking terminology and climbing on board with the Traber Doctrine that the Thunder have a pathetic team, a pathetic coach, a pathetic GM, and a pathetic broadcast team.
I’m ceratinly not going to rant again about pimping and human trafficking anymore…I’ll just fall in line with Traber’s train of thought.
But I will say this …I look at those kids playing for the Thunder and it breaks my heart for them that they had to be drafted by the Thunder and be subjected to this dehumanizing experience in Oklahoma City. It has to be a very tough thing for an elite athlete to show up everyday knowing your owner, your GM, and your coach want you to lose.
It’s very sad when you think it through maybe even worse the agent scandal which just rocked the college basketball world.
Look at Philadelphia with the Hinkie Process. With all that shameless tanking all they have to show for it is one first round playoff series win. They still have the mentally unstable Ben Simmons and an injury prone Joel Embiid. So explain to me what the ‘process’ really did for the Sixers.
I genuinely worry about the Daily Thunder situation. We can only pray those people don’t end up like the Davidians in Waco back in the day.
Video above is for Bob Stoops and his zest for helping the Sooners get through this bump in the road. OU signed Nick Evers the 8th ranked QB in the nation this week-end… so if Caleb stays… basically the QB position is if anything in better shape than before Lincoln left. Plus, if OU needs another QB there’s always the portal. Edge rushers and offensive linemen should be the focus for the rest of this 2022 recruiting class. I’ll be very interested to see if any of the Clemson defensive decommits end up in Norman.
Have a nice Monday and don’t invest too much of your time with the Thunder when there’s so many other wonderful ways to enjoy sports in our market. If nothing else … go support the kids at your nearest high school.