Trust me, I’ve been waiting for this moment from Jenni Carlson.
Should Jeff Lebby be the next offensive coordinator at OU?
I knew it was coming. Everyone in this market knew it was coming. Every market has a moral guardian and Jenni is the moral guardian of the Oklahoma sports market.
And as I write my response to Jenni Carlson’s piece on her column this is what I would say first.
Grow up a little bit because you’re now a parent like Mike Gundy hoped you’d become some day. Each year that your child grows… I hope you impart to your child the doctrines of forgiveness, redemption, and staying on course with the life journey we all travel.
We all error. We all make mistakes. We all ultimately seek redemption in various forms in this life and beyond. Redemption is a thing with me. Because I know I’m gonna need some redemption mulligans when all this is over for me. But I do get better each year. It’s a process.
Another thing…you must be the only person left breathing who views OU on the same pristine prism you claim the Sooners travel on amongst the other members of the current college football world.
Did someone strike you in the head before you actually wrote OU is a pristine place? Is your piece a sympton of acute head force trauma?
OU is a football cash flow monster if you haven’t taken the time to notice. It’s probably one of Oklahoma’s most valuable commodities. When in your world was OU a pristine light on the college football prarie?
Name for me that date. You can google if you need to.
I’ll answer for you. I was botn in 1957…that would in a sense mean in my lifetime OU has never been a pristine place where college football has been played.
It’s a fun, winning, exuberant place where college football is played with mojo and splash, but it’s never been pristine.
So when I read your piece you pretty much lost me with the pristine nonsense.
OU football is like every other cultural thing in America nowadays. It’s dysfunctional to its core and does the best it can to navigate the tough choices it has to make to remain a viable entity within its genre.
Barry Switzer’s exit ring a bell? Gary Gibbs’ firing another bell? You ever interview Beverly Schnellenberger? Ever contemplate how David Boren ultimately handled the Joe Mixon situation? Ever hear of an Alford Plea before Joe Mixon? OU’s exit to the SEC? When was OU pristine in my lifetime?
Your column doesn’t have a case, Jenni…. because OU has never been a pristine football program—so why would now be any different?
OU does the best it can. Period. Just like at Oklahoma State where they almost fired their coach last year for wearing some sort of pro Trump dumbass T-shirt. BTW…Gundy admitted he was a dumbass. I give him a ton of credit for that and getting rid of the mullet in the same year. He finally grew up. The O Staters need to stay away from the pristine bullshit as well. Don’t make me laugh.
There’s nothing pristine associated with college football. Cage fighting has more dignity. OU isn’t Vanderbilt. Never claimed to be…I hope.
By the way should Phillip Montgomery be the head football coach at Tulsa? He was just extended another two years and was Art Briles’ offensive coordinator at Baylor?
There you might have a case for your flawed argument because Tulsa University could in a sense sell itself as a pristine institution which plays DI football.
So…should Phillip Montgomery be the head coach at Tulsa?
Your Honor…the defense concedes OU has never had a pristine football program. This is a waste of the taxpayer’s money and the Court’s time.
Your Honor…if the Court could stop this nonsense and allow the prosecution a few hours to locate their argument and their case…I think this would be the approriate time to recess and have some lunch.