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OU and mulligans
Posted December 1, 2007
There are plenty of lessons to be learned from OU's thumping of Mizzou in Saturday night's Big 12 championship game.
Among them: don't taunt OU coach Bob Stoops by proclaiming publicly that you should've beaten him the first time you played. It just ticks him off.
Remember in 2002, when Colorado went to Oklahoma, committed three turnovers early and lost 27-11? After the game, then-CU coach Gary Barnett said the Buffs gave the game away, and said he couldn't wait for another chance to play the Sooners. Stoops just laughed and said he didn't know mulligans were allowed in football.
But the when the two teams met in the title game, Stoops left no doubt, burying the Buffs, 29-7.
This year, it was a similar story. Mizzou lost to OU in the regular season, then spent the entire week prior to the title game saying they'd given the game away. Again, Stoops just laughed publicly -- then sent his team out to deliver a sound thumping to the Tigers, who will have no excuses about giving this one away. There is no doubt about who the better team is.
One more lesson? Chase Daniel might be a Heisman candidate, and he might have been the first-team All-Big 12 quarterback -- but he wasn't even the best QB on the field on Saturday.
We'll take Sooners QB Sam Bradford any day.
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Posted by extrapoint on December 2, 2007 at 6:55 a.m.
Bradford didnt have his own team's pass rush in his face all night long, either. OU's diverse blitzing packages were extremely effective. I hope Dan was taking notes.
Posted by SnowBuff on December 2, 2007 at 10 a.m.
ya... 3 down linemen and drop 8 does not work against that guy... to bad we didn't have the personnel to rush him like that.
Posted by rnorthro14 on December 2, 2007 at 10:55 a.m.
Coach Hawkins doesn't YET have the athletes and depth on defense (or on offense for that matter) that Stoops has at his disposition so its not even fair to make the suggestion.
Posted by extrapoint on December 2, 2007 at 3:15 p.m.
OU probably does have superior defensive ends....but if I remember correctly, we beat them. By disguisung and blitxing from different positions, something we could do a lot more of, it would better use the personel we do have, especially against guys like Daniel. They had him so penned up he couldnt even use his scrambling ability.
As far as DE's go there are not many on the recruiting radar. One 4 star guy, Finau froma JC and 2 three star guys, one from the islands, Correa, who is 6 foot 1 (a Dumerville clone?) and Marquis Hamm who is leaning towards staying on the east coast with Rutgers or Syracuse.
Does anyone know if Hudgins got a medical red shirt? He seemed to have impressive sack stats in JC.
Posted by extrapoint on December 2, 2007 at 9:14 p.m.
the personnel are coming!
Katoa just committed.
2 5 star backers plus Pericak and Cunningham. All we need now is Brandon Smith and Tevita Finau and the D will be awesome the next few years.
Posted by rodrigo on December 3, 2007 at 8:34 a.m.
Pressure from wherever just get it on cuz Daniels imploded bigtime. As long as he can't control his emotions and the opponent can find a way to get him flustered, Missouri is totally beatable. Dude embarassed himself, not through his play but the way he reacted to adversity and losing.
Posted by buffalo_flyer on December 5, 2007 at 11:07 a.m.
Maybe MU should have watched a clip of the first loss. Then they would have been fired up and "run-up" the score on the sooners.