At this point it seems pretty clear this is Caleb Williams’ team barring injury or concusssion protocol or a COVID issue.
It’s hard not to fall in love with this kid. You can understand why his teammates love playing with him.
A very articulate kid with a very firm belief in himself which translates into the team playing better. Maybe he should start getting in some of the defensive huddles just to see if that would transpose itself into better play on that side of the ball.
But I’m not going to be snarky with the defense. I think they’ll look better when they get Turner-Yell, Woodi Washington, Jeremiah Criddell, and Isiah Poe back into the rotations. The next three weeks with Kansas, Texas Tech, and the bye week couldn’t have come at a better time.
Which brings me to this thought…what if both the Kansas and Texas Tech games become blowouts by halftime?
What does Spencer Rattler want to do? I mean…does he want to go out there and compete at full bore or does he want to go out there and have to play with a watered down play list to ground down the clock?
I think it will be interesting to observe. This dynamic in particular. Or does Lincoln Riley go with the walk-on to get him some snaps just in case. If you’re the backup you need snaps. You need to stay sharp.
We should be to the point now where the OU Daily doesn’t feel the need to spy on any more OU football practices.
I hope the Sooner fan base can tap on the brakes just a bit as far as Spencer Rattler is concerned and show some humanity his way. This can’t be easy for him.
The booing is just so classless. Let it go and imagine that could be your son or grandson or nephew out there and wish the best for him in his journey just as you will for Caleb Williams.
But again…you never know in football when an injury could happen or a player could be concussed or come back with a positive Covid result.
We should all just take that collective step back and hope both of these guys the best paths forward to fulfilling their dreams.
It should be a good ending for both of them.
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With the NBA getting started this week I’ll start posting on my NBA/Thunder Journal. This will include other teams which are trying to win…instead of just tanking. But when there’s something Thunder related which should be noted…it will be on my blog.
I mean, ostensibly that’s why I started this blog..to in essence give my objective takes so as someone who stumbles upon my blog can read something from someone who isn’t on Sam Presti’s payroll or like Berry Tramel or Jenni Carlson very much operating on the basis of what’s said off the record never gets written on the record. That’s bullshit to a certain degree.
That’s why the Thunder are so overly guarded as to their coverage in this market. They want an inherent quid pro quo attached to everything Thunder related.
I love Berry Tramel’s coverage of OU football and basketball, but my question to Berry Tramel would be…”Why don’t you hold the Thunder to the same standards you hold to Lincoln Riley, Mike Gundy, Porter Moser and Mike Boynton? Or Russell Westbrook?”
Tough, but fair all across the board should be the mantra.
I mean, in a courtroom under oath…when a question is posed in a reasonable manner… an advocate can plead with Your Honor to have the witness answer the question in a forthright manner. Right?
That seems to fair to me.
As a writer/blogger/whatever…at some juncture your inner soul has to be more than just a quid pro quo arrangement. It has to be or why else would we have newspapers and blogs in the first place.
Since Cade Cunningham is now with the Pistons…I think I’ll follow Porter Moser’s first year at the OU helm as my primary basketball beat this season.
If someone just asked me…”Mike, what beat would you like to follow this season in Oklahoma if you could pick just one?” It would be the OU basketball beat. Don’t get me wrong…I love OU football… where this team could be going, but I’ve always been an outlier of sorts in that OU hoops has always been a big thing with me. Part of it is the fans aren’t insane like with the football program. It’s not an insatiable Monster.
From Johnny Mac to Dave Bliss to Joe Ramsey to Les Lane to Billy Tubbs to Kelvin Sampson to Jeff Capel to Lon Kruger to now Porter Moser….. OU hoops have consumed part of my winters.
Basketball season is basically here with fans in the arenas.
Finally…music and fans. and hoops all altogether for the college game.