Month: July 2020

I’ve never thought Mullet King was a racist per se of the David Duke template. More just like the average white guy in Oklahoma or Alabama who has embraced the whole Donald Trump experience because Meet the Press is boring at times.

To me this whole racist thing with Gundy is ludicrous. I wouldn’t fire Gundy for the Trump network shirt, but I would have run him off if contractually possible because he doesn’t win enough quality games versus quality opponents to merit his pay.

This whole nonsense about O State being the second best team in the Big 12 these past twelve years is nonsense as well. The Big 12 sucks. It is a piece of junk football conference which has stayed relevant because Baker Mayfield, Kyler Murray, and Jalen Hurts transferred to Norman.

If you take away those three quarterback transfers I think it’s relatively clear…the Big 12 football wise isn’t all that much.

The Big 12 hasn’t won a national championship in football since Vince Young beat USC in 2006. The Big 12 hasn’t made it to the finals since Colt McCoy lost to Nick Saban when Saban won his first ring at Alabama.

Let me go further on Gundy. He’s won ‘One’ conference championship in his fifteen years at O State as the head coach. He leveraged Boone Pickens and Mike Holder so he wouldn’t have to play quality non-conference teams and with Brandon Weeden won ‘One’ championship in a conference which doesn’t tackle.

If Bob Stoops hadn’t repunted to the NFL’s most explosive current player in Super Bowl champion Tyreke Hill… you know what Gundy’s record would be versus the defense-less Sooners?

1-14.

Let’s call this like it is. With Mike Gundy as the head man at O State the program has about the same chance of beating the defense-less Sooners as it does in seeing Boone Pickens ride down from hydro-carbon heaven into his football stadium on Haley’s Comet.

$5.25 million per for this bullshit?

You know why Gundy never took any SEC West job? Because he would have finally had to coach against football teams which can actually tackle.

And just to be fair..that’s probably the same reason OU stayed away from the SEC West as well.

So when I read what Mike Holder and Burns Hargis said in relation to Gundy being a changed man by all of this…I kind of smiled.

Do this for me, guys.

Tell Gundy to play Ohio State in Columbus next year or LSU in the Kick-Off Classic.

See if we witness real change.

There has been so much turmoil in our lives of late I thought I’d post this today in appreciation of Chris Paul’s season in Oklahoma City.

Whether the NBA successfully restarts its season in August doesn’t matter. Chris Paul came back to Oklahoma City in the trade for Russell Westbrook and was the perfect fit for Billy Donovan and Sam Presti.

His professionalism and clutch play were key in OKC’s surprising 40-24 season which was ended in March by the COVID-19 play stoppage.

He was clearly the Thunder’s MVP as he formed a three guard tandem with SGA and Dennis Schroder which was one of the best three guard tandems in the league.

I have no idea if the NBA will be able to successfully pull off this COVID restart in August, but either way it goes Chris Paul’s season in Oklahoma City was an extreme positive for every fan of the Thunder.

The Thunder are starting to practice again and ‘ostensibly’ will start playing some games again in August. So we’ll see how that goes.

As an Oklahoman this 5th Congressionaal District runoff will be something I keep track of on my blog.

Obviously…I think Terry Neese is crazy and a Glenn Close-like stalker of the the Trumpster Fire. So as an open minded independent I will give Stephanie Bice a look.

She’s attractive. She’s articulate. I would pick her over either Mary Fallin or Kevin Stitt in a heartbeat. She has experience in Oklahoma politics. I wish she would just be honest and say she was a Carly Fiorina supporter back in 2016. BTW…just last week Carly Fiorina endorsed Joe Biden pretty much saying Donald Trump is a complete and utter joke in the White House.

If Stephanie Bice would just say openly in Oklahoma what Carly Fiorina said just last week I could actually consider voting for her even though I’m somewhat of a social liberal with fiscal conservative leanings.

I differ with her on several things, but I’m an open minded person. I don’t need all of my boxes checked. If I voted tomorrow I’d vote for Kendra Horn just for the fact she agreed with Carly Fiorina and voted to impeach the most corrupt POTUS in American history.

So here’s Stephanie Bice doing an intro interview explaining her candidacy back when there where nine Republicans seeking the opportunity to unseat Kendra Horn who like Carly Fiorina doesn’t think Donald Trump is fit for the presidency.

From the first moment I saw a Terry Neese ad and then her subsequent Save Trump yard signs there was never a doubt in my mind she’d be the GOP choice in Oklahoma’s 5th congressional district.

Terry Neese took the Kevin Stitt playbook from the 2018 gubernatorial race and went two steps beyond tethering her and Donald Trump together as if they are one.

Neese garnered 36% of the vote while state senator Stephanie Bice came in with 25% of the vote.

Neese’s stategy will be simple…she’ll continually run ads reminding every rogue red Rebublican in the district that Bice was originally a Carly Fiorina supporter in 2016.

Ball game. Game, set, and match.

Mick Cornett go ahead and call Stephanie Bice and explain to her what is about to happen.

On the Dem side Kendra Horn easily swamped one of my former poly-sci professors at UCO in Tom Guild. Tom actually used to be a Republican. Go figure.

Horn vs. Neese should be a war and one of the more interesting congressional elections in the nation on November 3rd.

Oklahoma’s 5th District is somewhat what unique in that it combines Norman with some of Oklahoma City’s more educated pockets of people who woudn’t automatically vote for Hitler or Stalin if they had the R next to their names on the Oklahoma ballot.

Vegas would have Horn as a very slight favorite I think in that she’s amassed a nice war chest of $2.3 million and I would think Independents like myself need a little more than Terry Neese’s mantra of Save Trump and Mary Fallin II.

For political junkies it should be a great race.

In reality…this is a very effective ad. It offers no apology in throwing red meat at the Trump base and explaining why every Trump voter in the 5th District should vote for Terry Neese.

From a political strategy standpoint…I give her credit. Never give a sucker an even break and kick him in the face when he’s down.

This Horn-Neese thing is going to be a bloodbath.