Archive for November, 2005
For those of you struggling to accept Oklahoma’s last second loss to Texas Tech on Saturday it is time for you to know something, the system is decidedly imperfect. Officiating itself has its flaws, but this joke of a replay system needs a serious overhaul. There is a general idea that some replay is better than none, another flawed thought. As a fan your only hope is that the same people that tweak the BCS every year can take a look at the comedy of errors that has accompanied this horrid system this off season and rethink the way it is utilized.
Continue Reading November 20th, 2005
The Oklahoma Sooners take their “come from ahead and win†style to Lubbock this weekend where they will try to make a case for an invitation to the Cotton Bowl. OU will try to beat their main competition for that bowl, those crazy Red Raiders, you know, the ones who joined the ranks of Florida Atlantic, Montana State, and Arkansas State last weekend in Stillwater. Can Oklahoma win again on the road in a tough environment? Depends on which Sooners and Red Raiders show up.
Continue Reading November 19th, 2005
As the plane flew over Owen Field fans gasped and half-heartedly agreed with the sentiment that flew behind. “Hey Gary, Delta’s ready when you are.†Oklahoma fans didn’t know that they had just begun to embark on the worst five year period in the school’s history anymore than they knew they were being pummeled by one of college football’s newest legends.
Continue Reading November 16th, 2005
NORMAN, Okla. — Oklahoma baseball head coach Sunny Golloway announced the signing of 11 baseball players for the 2007 season to national letters of intent on Tuesday. The class, Golloway’s first as the head coach at OU, features seven athletes that come from the high school ranks and four others from the junior college level.
Continue Reading November 16th, 2005
In a season of firsts for Bob Stoops he finally got to enjoy one on Saturday. Oklahoma had not won in Lincoln since 1987 and there is not a soul before this season who believed that streak would come to an end the weak after the Sooners needed double overtime to beat Baylor…in Norman. Stoops, who lost in September for the first time in his Sooner career and lost a season opener for the first time since his days with Bill Snyder in Manhattan, won in Lincoln for the first time as a head coach. Though as much wasn’t on the line, it was almost as good a game as the one he lost there in 2001.
Continue Reading November 1st, 2005