This was brutal. I hope Boone wasn’t watching because he could only come to one conclusion after watching this football game…the conclusion would be except for the football season in 2011 his alma mater hasn’t really progressed all that much football-wise.
In Texas pool hall parlance I’ll go further and say it appears Boone pissed away somewhere between half a billion to a billion dollars trusting Mike Holder’s judgement in never going beyond Mike Gundy as his football coach.
O State was completely healthy coming into this game with no COVID scratches on their roster Saturday night.
This was clearly O State’s biggest game since perhaps that Bedlam game in 2011 when Brandon Weeden delivered the goods for Boone’s trust in Holder’s O State process.
But on this night… nine years later the ugly bare truth was exposed to anyone who watched this football game….O State with Mike Gundy isn’t a real threat to beat OU in a Bedlam football game anytime soon.
This was Gundy’s 16th Bedlam game as the head man and if you take away Bob Stoops’ insane repunt to Tyreke Hill in 2014…. the Mullet King now stands 1-15 combined against Bob Stoops and Lincoln Riley.
OU won 35-19 last season in Stillwater and this year’s margin of 41-13 is misleading. The game wasn’t this close. O State’s only touchdown on the night was enabled when Bookie Hadley-Riles took an inexcusable post play penalty to keep an O State drive alive. Other than that …OU’s defense virtually stuffed Mike Gundy’s offense.
OU’s improved defense with Ronnie Perkins back wreaking havoc held O State to 246 total yards of offense. The same Chuba Hubbard who outed his head coach as a Trump birther this past summer was held to 46 yards on 8 rushes.
Gundy’s two quarterbacks… Spencer Sanders and Shane Ellingsworth went a combined 15-40 throwing the ball. Tylan Wallace who like Hubbard probably should have gone pro last spring was not a factor with six catches on the night.
The much vaunted O State defense allowed OU to score on their first five posssessions of the football game as QB Spencer Rattler played with the calm and poise of Lincoln Riley’s next Heisman finalist come next college football season.
Rhamondre Stevenson bullied the O State defense with over a hundred yards rushing and was clearly the best running back on the field at Gaylord Family Stadium with 25,000 spirited fans in attendance.
It was a game which told a story of two programs with two different coaches going in completely different directions with their football seasons heading into Thanksgiving week-end.
Keep in mind this was supposed to be a transitional year of rebuild for OU with Spencer Rattler assuming the quarterback position as a redshirt freshman.
Right now OU appears to be the best team in the league with a defense which is actually not all that bad.
In closing…I hope Boone wasn’t watching because he got snookered. He didn’t get what he thought he was paying for back in the day. Sometimes athletic directors have to do unpleasant things like making a coaching change. Probably going to be tough attracting elite black high school football talent to Stillwater with a Trump birther running the program. Just a thought.
I wonder what Mike Holder is thinking this cloudy cold November morning the day after another predetermined Mike Gundy loss in Bedlam.
I’m thinking Boone’s thinking Holder should find a football coach who can beat OU once every third Bedlam game at the minimum if the peckerhead is going to demand top fifteen coaching money.
Otherwise… go back to paying Mullet King the Travis Ford money and be content not seriously contending for Big 12 championships let alone being a nationally elite program.