I’m just taking it easy here on the blog. There’s nothing of note to write about the Thunder since they’re in essence a G League team pretending to be an NBA team for the third straight season.
Both the college and NFL seasons are now well under way and that’s a positive for those of us living in Oklahoma. Both OU and O State are 3-0 after their first three games with both Dillion Gabriel and Spencer Sanders look like they’re the two best quarterbacks in the Big 12.
OU went up to Lincoln this past Saturday and eviserated the once proud Cornhuskers by a score of 49-14. Brent Venables was a total gentleman in this game as OU bascially could have scored seventy points on the porous Nebraska defense which was in essence eleven pylons wearing Nebraska jerseys.
It’s sad to see Nebraska this low. I havee no idea who they should hire for their next football coach. Since Tom Osborne they’ve gone thru Solich, Callahan, Pellini, and Scott Frost to no avail.
They never should have left the Big 12 and the fertile recruiting grounds of Texas. Why do think OU stays cleaved to the Longhorns? Answer… for those Texas high school football players.
Putting the Huskers aside..Brent Venables appears to have the Sooners headed in the right direction at 3-0 on ‘Both’ sides of the football. These guys actually tackle, play hard, and are amassing TFLs (tackles for losses like those Switzer teams of yore.
It’s a fun time to be a Sooner football fan. The roster is deep and young on both sides of the football. The program didn’t wither and die with the Lincoln Riley/Kathleen Turner move to USC and the Pacific Ocean.
I have OU ranked No. 6 in my current poll just behind Clemson and ahead of Caleb Williams by a hair. That would be an intersting game…OU vs. USC in a bowl game.
O State is No. 8 on my current poll. The Pokes will go as far as Spencer Sanders can take them is my take. Spencer has finally been turned loose by Gundy and Casey Dunn it appears.
As far as the NFL so far….I simply love NFL football and it’s very hard to repeat in this league. Very hard. The Rams without Vonn Miller and Odell Beckham Junior appear to be very mortal to me, while the Bengals are 0-2 and better be careful these next several weeks if they don’t want to play themselves out of a playoff space.
I have no idea what the Oklahoma Thunder are up to. My guess is the main pre-season emphasis is calibrating injuries to SGA, Lu Dort, and Josh Giddey so as Sam Presti’s ‘team’ doesn’t screw around and win more than twenty-four games this NBA season. I guess it just depends on what dictionary you’re using when you look up the word ‘sustainability’.
“Lincoln, buddy, could you put a little more sunscreen on Caleb’s shoulders before the next hotly contested PAC-`2 football game.”