Not really a shock considering Caleb’s somewhat tentative comments following the Alamo Bowl. I guess OU has a chance to still keep him, but I’m not banking on it at this point.
OU needs a quarterback. At this point—I’m not sure how long Brent Venables want to play this out with Caleb and his father. The transfer portal taketh and it giveth. What we don’t know at this point is what other DI quarterbacks besides Casey Thompson at Texas have been holding back waiting to see what happens at the OU quarterback position.
Oh, wait…OU just just got a transfer portal commit from UCF’s Dillion Gabriel….literally as I was typing.
The fact of the matter is the last time OU won a national championship in football it was with a juco by the name of Josh Heupel.
Heupel was the last left-handed quarterback at OU and I like the karma aspect of Dillion being a left-handed thrower as well.
The good thing about the transfer portal is that it’s better than signing a juco in the old days because you can sign a quarterback who’s coming from a Power 5 school or in this case an AAC school to fill your one or two year gap for the position.
It clearly hurts losing Caleb, but maybe getting this out of the way as soon as possibles flushes out the last remnants of this very odd last season of Lincoln Riley being Kathleen Turner from Body Heat in Norman, Oklahoma.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Caleb ends up at USC since Lincoln was the one his father wanted to coach his son from the beginning…and the asking price appears to be around $4 million. So much for the good feel from the Alamo Bowl.
I can see it now…Caleb and Lincoln sipping on cool beach drinks as the Body Heat credits roll.
I was somewhat shocked by the statment Joe C and Coach Venables made earlier today sounding like they were going to sign an NBA restricted free agent. But we’re clearly in a different era with NIL attached to the process.
Enough of this already. At least the OU seniors got to exit with some dignity in San Antonio.
Casey Thompson isn’t terrible either. He threw 24 TD passes this past season to 9 interceptions. Plus, he’s a dual threat mobile quarterback. I wouldn’t soley judge him by what transpired at Texas this season. Bijuan Robinson as one of the most talented backs in the country couldn’t help the Longhorns either.
Casey comes from a Sooner family which understands what it means to be the quarterback at OU.
So maybe there could be two transfer portal QBs headed to Norman
Here’s the thing about OU…they need to get much better on defense regardless of who’s the quarterback. They need to be able to play complimentary football between the offense and the defense.
If I were Joe C and I was going to spend a couple of million of NIL money it would be on defensive linemen, two more edge rushers, and two more NFL type offensive linemen.
For OU to even stay in the top tier of college football it will begin and end with bringing SEC physicality to the line play on both sides of the ball.
Alabama, Georgia…and possibly the Texas A&M Aggies with the linemen they just signed are what OU should aspire for in their SEC team building process.
I would say at this point Caleb, his buddy from high school, and Mario Williams are headed for USC if I had to lay down a wager at this point….with A&M and Georgia possibly in the mix.
Itis what it is…only look forward, not back, in the new Wild West days of NIL college football.
Joe C…buy linemen, buddy.