Down and Dirty....The life and crimes of Oklahoma Football
by MeatchickenHorn on Nov 4, 2009 6:47 PM CST
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ESPN reported this week (Ivan Maisel) in the "3 - Point Stance" Column the following......
Southmoore (Okla.) High junior quarterback Kendal Thompson committed to sign with Oklahoma on Monday. He is the son of Charles Thompson, the quarterback whose arrest and conviction for selling cocaine helped bring an end to the Barry Switzer Era in Norman 20 years ago. By all accounts, Charles Thompson has reformed, and his son is an upstanding young man. But it is a little odd, no?
Charles Thompson after his prison time wrote the book "Down and Dirty" which detailed the drugs, boosters, money, guns and rape that Switzer had let fester on his quest for more Oklahoma Football glory. How OU avoided the "death penalty" is a question for the ages.
I understand how ESPN can find this "a little odd"........I find it absolutely mind boggling.
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You find it odd that they signed a kid...
Who had absolutley nothing to do with his fathers moronic transgression?
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by Jon Woods on Nov 4, 2009 11:17 PM CST via mobile reply actions 0 recs
Transgressions
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by Jon Woods on Nov 4, 2009 11:17 PM CST via mobile up reply actions 0 recs
Of course not
It’s just a little…ehh, what the devil do kids say to describe it these days…“bad juju,” perhaps? He’s a legacy.
If we’re going to make a big deal of legacies in a positive light, like Eli to Ole Miss, then this is just as valid to note. Eli had no more to do with his father’s college career than Thompson’s kid had to do with his own father’s.
by burntorangehorn on Nov 5, 2009 6:39 AM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Charles Thompson
He definitely made a lot of mistakes when he was at OU, but now Thompson is an outstanding individual who gives back to his community. Good for him. I hope his son does extremely well at OU (except, of course, against UT). I fault Barry Switzer as much, if not more, for allowing many of the things chronicled in that book to go on. (He obviously had nothing to do with Thompson’s decision to deal drugs. That was all on Thompson.) What I cannot understand is OU’s adoration for a man who took their program’s reputation to a new low. They still love the guy. If Texas had ever had a coach like that, I would want him barred from the city limits.
Maybe Jon can explain their thinking. It must be something I am missing…
by dimecoverage on Nov 5, 2009 10:24 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
Switzer
I have often wondered that exact same thing. I don’t see how he is still adored in Oklahoma, and viewed as a well respected guest opinion on college football shows. Sure he won a lot of games but he brought shame to that program and in turn, the university. Why he is still viewed with such reverence is beyond me.
by shaqui chan on Nov 5, 2009 2:09 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
I agree, but
to most people nothing means more than wins.
If you're so sure of what it ain't, how about telling us what it am!
by circa1015 on Nov 5, 2009 2:52 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
We are talking about Oklahoma, right?
O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A?
Just so I’m not mistaken…
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- Thomas Jones
by beast in bama on Nov 5, 2009 5:10 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
Sooners believe what was going on then isn't any different than what was going on anywhere else
the only difference is some people wrote books about it
Switzer is adored b/c he won three national championships.
Under Mack Brown, texas has had drug dealers, drug addicts, burglars, drunkards, thugs, and all sorts of other miscreants on the team, but I don’t see any texas fans calling for his ouster.
Maybe you should ask Mack Brown why he admires Switzer?
by Beergut on Nov 7, 2009 11:51 PM CST up reply actions 0 recs
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