I bought my Bedlam Basketball Holiday Classic tickets today. Very nice seats. Very nice. Low and on the curve on one of the baseline sightlines. This needs to be a yearly deal for me as a Stage 4 survivor moving forward. Both games should be very hard fought and I would guess close games.
I would probably go with the O State men as maybe a 1.5 favorite in the first game given how poorly OU played at Arizona State the other night in the first half. And with the women both teams are ranked, it should be a brawl and I’ll pick the Sooner women by 3.5 points.
We’ll have to see how this goes. I would hope its a raccous atmosphere. MJ loves raccous.
My wife refuses to go to this event with me and has warned me about my language in what could a very heated atmosphere for the O State fans given these last two seasons of having a football program which self-inflicted itself with a death penalty even more severe than the NCAA wrath that the Hart Lee Dykes cheating scandal brought at the end of the Pat Jones’ era.
This will be my first visit back to PayCom since my experience last spring when Luka got tossed with his second technical and a riot ensued four rows behind me. I never should have told my wife about that incident. I was actually a peacemaker in all of that druken angst and turmoil. But I had to agree with the Laker fans…Luka should never have been tossed.
This should be tame. We used to travel to Stillwater back when Gallagher Iba was then one of the best environments in college basketball under Coach Sutton. I loved that environment.
I’d like to see a Bedlam football game every now and again somewhat similar to what OU did with Nebraska a couple of years ago. Coach Morris needs to conquer UCO and Tulsa first though before that conversation takes place.
Bedlam football again would be fun.
Love and peace.
MJ