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No mas.

Just before the distasrous ending of the first half in the venerable Cotton Bowl, the OU Sooners rolled over and collectively whispered,” No mas.”

I’ve now thought about this for two days before posting on the Red River Rivalry on my blog. But this is what I’m left with. Brent Venables and Jeff Lebby gave their players a death knell game plan with Davis Bevelle taking almost all of the quarterback snaps and the breaking point came after OU foolishly used a timeout in the last ninety seconds of the first half to aid the Lohnghorns’ in expanding their lead to 28-0 heading into intermission.

Who in thier right mind thought these Sooners, even if they could have stopped Texas on third and thirteen, could have possibly scored points with Davis Bevelle running the show with less than a minute left in the half?

No mas. The Sooners quit…even Braden Willis, Farooq, Eric Gray, Marvin Mims, and Drake Stoops.

What OU basically did in this game was play 10 on 11 football with the Horns on the power play for most of the game.

This was nothing more than capitulation from the open kick-off to the miserable end of the game.

No mas.

“If our coaches don’t give a flying f–k…then why should we?” “Why should the players?”

Can anyone really blame them or us?

They quit. The second half was a formality and Texas could have scored 70 points if they so desired.

Here’s some math for you on this listless, heartless OU defense…in the last three games this group has given up close to 1,800 yards of total offense and 156 points against the collective group of K-State, TCU, and Texas.

The score when Dillion Gabriel left the field in the TCU game was 34-10…Horned Frogs.

While clearly Davis Bevelle should not be playing anything but a down here and there at most….the OU issues on this team are much deeper on the defensesive side of the football.

When you can’t read or react or tachle that’s a defensive problem which got worse for the third straight game.

This morning on WWLS…Pat Jones said the OU defense is terrible. I would say that’s a generous assessement.

I don’t know what to write at this point. Did Sam Presti take over the reigns at OU for Joe C? Is this a new variation of tanking at the college fotball level?

And yet…OU is still favored in Vegas to beat a pesky Kansas team which came close to beating the Sooners in Lawrence last season.

Let’s circle that game in red from last season. Perhaps, it was there and then in Lawrence both Lincoln Riley and Caleb Williams starting planning their escape from rogue red Oklahoma to USC because they better than anyone else knew what the Sooners would be on the defensive side of the football this season.

The end…for now.

Oh, boy. Quinn Ewers was named as the healthy starter for tomorrow’s Red River Rivalry game in the Cotton Bowl.

OU is in John Blake hell right now. As a team they appear to be lost and their season is on the brink.

John Blake of Taco Bell fame per Berry Tramel actually won his first Red River Rivalry game in ’96. Nobody saw it coming.

Tramel wrote two years later upon John Blake’s firing that ‘Just because you once worked a a Taco Bell doesn’t necessrily mean you should manage a Taco Bell.’

I have no idea who gets the start tomorrow for the Sooners at QB. It could be Dillion Gabriel, could freshman Nick Evers, or it could even be juco transfer General Booty.

But I would think it’s one of those three because of the obvious need for a mobile quarterback to keep the Sooners within sight of the Longhorns in this one.

As this game goes…usually OU’s remainder of the season goes.

Seems pretty simple. Either pull your shit together as a group or or play out the string to a 7-5 or 6-6 season …or worse.

At some point as a team you have to hate the way you’ve been playing and respond.

This was cool. I’ll be watching pretty much all the MLB Playoffs since the Thunder aren’t worth more than say the occasional five-minute capsule of play here and there. I’d rather watch Big 12 or high school hoops given the non-stop tanking. I mean…it’s somewhat conceivable I could die before the Presti Death March comes to an end in Oklahoma City.

Given my tough year…I’d say Vegas has my life expectancy down at 71.5 on the lif scale over/under.

Aaron Judge passing the Roger Maris threshold was good fo the game. Hopefully this wil somewhat cleanse the game of Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, and Mark McGuire….and of course the cheating Houston Astros.

The problem I have with Houston is that I really like Altuve and Bregman as players. So…I’m somewhat torn there.

Since the St. Louis baseball Cardinals acquired my favorite player….Nolan Arenado—the Cards have become my favorite team. I’ve always respected the Cardinals, but Nolan put me in the Cardinals’ camp.

I fell in love with Nolan when he was playing fore the Colorado Rockies. For my money…e’s the best combo glove-bat third baseman in baseball. Nolan needs a ring though.

College football, Big 12 hoops, the Golden State Warriors, the NFL, the Avalanche and Lightning, and MLB. I shouldn’t be bitching…my sports cup runneth over.

I just don’t spend my time watching G League basketball.

When you get older..you clearly understad the need to maximize your time and cut out the fluff.

If Heisman ballots were going out this week…my ballot to go to New York woud be 1 Caleb Williams, USC 2 CJ Stroud, Ohio State, 3 Bryce Williams, and 4 Spencer Sanders, O-State.

His team is 4-0 primarily because of him is ranked No. 7 nationally. He is the best ball player on Mike Gundy’s team and he is their best running back as well even though he plays the quarterback position.

Mike Gundy seem to have finally figured it out….his best ball carrier (Spencer) needs at a minimum 15 rushing attepts every game. With Jaylen Warren now playing for the Pittsbursg Steelers….Spencer Sanders has to be the man within reason. I would think anything over twenty rushes a game might be a bit much.

It’s early in the fourth tier Big 12, but with O State’s 36-25 win at Waco the Cowboys appear to be the team to beat in the fourth of fifth tier Big 12 for one simple reason…that being, Spencer Sanders is the best ball player in the league.

O State’s defense defense was as horrfiic as OU’s in their season opener versus, Central Michigan, but from that point forward the Cowboys have improved incrementally every week.

In the defenseless, baffy Big 12 if you can hold a team to 25 points a game and have Spencer Sanders with his talented quartet of receivers…I would think the Pokes have a very solid chance of advancing to the Big 12 Chanpionship Game.

In my lifetime….in 1976 Terry Miller finished second in the Heisman voting and in 1988, of course Barry Sanders won the Heisman. I don’t think with a glamour QB like Caleb in Los Angeles that Spencer Sanders can win the Heisman, but I think for certain he should have a chance of getting to New York.

Hope he makes it.

Go for it kid, I’m playing Gloria for both you and General Booty this Saturday. I like your chances just a bit better.

Wht not? If you’re going down to Dallas with that defense….at least have some fun with this. The kid from Pitt is too slow. He’ll get sacked ten times.

Turn General Booty loose. Who knows….maybe something biblical could happen like it did with the 2019 St. Louis Blues. Maybe OU could land a couple of haymakers like Leon Sphinx did with Ali.’

I mean….give us OU fans some entertainment.

What do you have to lose?

Josh Heupel was a juco and he won a natty at OU. Cam Newton did the same thing at Auburn. It’s too late to win big with General booty with this defense, but why not give it a roll?

What could it hurt?

From worst to first…there’s precendent as far as the Big 12 because there’s not really a great team out of the group. You gotta fight thru this though. You can’t just lay there like a lazy dog feeling sorry for yourself.

I mean…a week ago today everyone was ready to annoint Baylor as the de facto Big 12 champ.

Not much to write really. TCU just literally executed OU’s chances of turning their season around as far as contending for another Big 12 title. If OU isn’t careful they might even struggle to become bowl eligible if Gabriel Dillion misses very much time from that dirty hit he took in the second quarter against the Horned Frogs.

OU’s defense was once non-existent as they gave up over 600 yards and 55 points.

I thounght a couple of guys looked okay on offense….freshman running back Javontae Barnes, tight end Braden Willis, and WR Jalil Farooq. Kicker and punter were fine.

The young man from Pitt is not anything but an emergency backup. His mobility is an issue.

I think it will be very interesting this week to see if juco transfer sophmore General Booty sees action if Dillion Gabriel stays in concussion protocol.

If you’re going to get your ass kicked in the Red River Rivalry, then it might as well be with your second best quarterback option on the field.

I’ve been saving this for the Thunder’s bullshit training camp…so I think on the heels of the trade with Houston which took place yesterday this would be the right time to post it on my modest Thunder blog.

I don’t mean to be cruel and I don’t want to be cruel on my blog, but if I had two dogs who looked like Poku and Toothpick…I’d shave both their asses and walk them backwards on a leash. This is ridiculous is what it is.

I respect Doug Gottlieb’s takes at both the NBA and college level. So I’m going let him give his opinions on the Thunder’s drafting of Chet Holmgren with the second pick in the 2022 NBA draft and how Lebron broke Toothpick in half so easily.

BTW….the trade with Houston makes the Thunder worse because they actually traded away a nice second unit center in Derrick for nothing which in anyway makes the Thunder a better basketball team.

The only thing Presti did with that trade is dump around $10 million or so in salary to make the pathetic even worse.

Here’s what I’ve decided to do on my blog this NBA season.. Anytime this basketball season I write something related to the heaving piece of shit a.k.a as the Oklahoma City Thunder …I will reward myself with one of favorite songs of all-time.

Tonight’s entry is Blurry by Puddle of Mudd.

I loved this song the first time I ever heard it.

Yawn. How sad it is Sam Presti’s version of sustainability has come to this in the mecca of American domestic terrorism and adult illiteracy.

Sustainable…..color me dubious for certain.

The things Sam Anderson didn’t write in Boom Town could easily make for another book calulating the Thunder’s symbiotic demise with the cultural abyss known as Oklahoma.

Perhaps at some point Senator Markwayne Mullin and some of hie more fervent Q supporters will purchase the Thunder. Glass half-full, right?

For the sixth time since Clay Bennett and Aubrey McClendon purchased the Seattle Super-Sonics then kidnapped the franchise to Oklahoma City the Thunder will shamelessly tank away another NBA basketball season.

Vegas has moved the hapless Thunder down to 21.5 seasonal wins for the time being. I would agree and move them down from 24.5 to 20.5 on my sheet given it apppers Shai Gilgeous-Alexander the max player who never plays probably won’t cross thwe barrier of forty games played this NBA season. This cat has to be the most rested player in the league at this point who basically never plays. Which is somewhat sad.

I have no idea what I’m going to write abut this season in relation to the Thunder given the domain of my blog is okcthunderground.com. But I’ll wing it and follow the new arena versus moving the team to markets like Seattle and Las Vegas who actually make sense as an NBA city.

I’ll cover not only the Golden State Warriors, but the Colorado Avalanche on my blog this season. You know…real professional sports team with real coaches and real general managers. Imagine that.

If Aubrey were still living…I wonder if he’d be calmly sitting by as his team continues to embody the very worst aspect of the NBA as a league.

Which is of course …shamelessly tanking a third consectutive season because his GM didn’t hedge his 2nd pick in the draft by picking a real player with a body which wouldn’t break the first time he played in something akin to a real NBA game where big, fast, strong, black players would take Chet on in the paint.

Have a nice weekend watching college football and the NFL.

Okay. Let’s do this. I don’t want to rant on my blog coverage on OU’s most recent inexplicable loss to Kansas State. So I’m going to defer to Coach Mike Leach and allow him to do this for me. I’ll be fine after Coach Leach does this for me. It’s like having multiple football epiphanies. Save this….you’ll probably need this later in the season.

Pepperdine Law School Graduate, Michael Leach swinging his sword.

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For the third time in the past four years the Oklahoma Sooners lost to the K State Wildcats. This time the score was 41-34 and in reality the game wasn’t that close as OU scored a prevent defense touchdown with around thirty-five seconds to make it appear this was a one score game.

OU’s defense in a word….was putrid. Coach Venables said as much in his post-game…so this isn’t me just ranting. Missed tackles. No sacks. Giving up generous yards after contact when a Sooner actually touched a K State ball carrier.

Tulane must be pretty damn stellar given they beat these same Wildcats 17-10 the week before.

The typical OU dumbass fans who call into Jim Traber were blaming the loss on Sooner quaarterback Dillion Gabriel because he missed Drake Stoops on a deep route in the seond quarter.

Really?

OU never led in this game. Ther defense was horrific…pee wees pretending to be a man like Mike Gundy.

Wildcat QB Adrian Martinez had his second staright career game against the timid OU defense.

Hard to believe this is the same school which produced the Selmon Brothers under Barry Switzer in the mid 70’s.

On the game’s biggest play… on a third and seventeen at midfield near the two minute mark–nary a Sooner touched the previously beleagured Nebraska QB as he cruised fifty-five yards near the Sooner goal-line to put the game away.

Gabriel, minus his offensive line for committing multiple dead ball fouls, was actually decent considering he only had possession of the ball ten minutes in the first half.

If after seeing this game on film, Mike Gundy should be hung if Spencer Sanders doesn’t get at a minimum eighteen run play touches in Bedlam.

Duece Vaughn was Duece Vaughn…the latest in a line of K State scatbacks like Darren Sprouls and Mack Herron.

I’ve now wathced every team in the Big 12 play at a minimum two games. I was wrong about the Big 12 being a third tier football conference. It’s a fourth tier conference without one single team in the league who has any business playing in this postseason’s four team NCAA Playoff format.

If it wasn’t for the surrendering aspect of writing this…I’d write I hope the Kansas Jayhawks win the football crown this season in the Big 12.

If anything this completely unphysical, pathetic loss reinforces to me the Sooners need to join the SEC so as they can recruit some players for their defense who can tackle someone and display some ‘hit them in the mouth mentality’ of sorts.

O State at Baylor next Saturday is the game I’ll be following on my blog next Saturday.