Cash for Clunkers to Blame for Horrible OU Season?
by Bryson on Dec 7, 2009 8:22 PM CST
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Print"We were so busy filling out the government paperwork that even the (Oklahoma Sooner's) football players actually had to come in and work overtime." The assistant manager of sales from Big Red Sports in Norman, Oklahoma asked to remain nameless, but was able to shed some light on the puzzling performance of the 2009 OU football team.
"After Rhett Bomar and J.D. Quinn were kicked off the team uppper management decided to make players work for the $18,000/month paychecks. Up until the Economic Recovery Plan the players were able to fill up their time with mindless small tasks and were still lable to look over the playbooks between helping customers. But when cash for clunkers hit the players had to put practice in the background as our auto sales absolutley overwhelmed us."
New reports now claim that Jermaine Greshman injured his knee when he slipped in the break room on a puddle of coffee cream. Sam Bradford had also reported a sore shoulder before the BYU game and claimed it was due to the hours upon hours of filling out government reinbursement forms.
It is widely believed among full time emplyees of Big Red Sports Auto Sales that Coach Stoops would call, using a different alias and voice each time, and demand that the players be released so the team could practice stopping statue of liberty 2-point conversions attempts.
During the BYU and Texas games, with or without Bradford on the field, the OU offense was sluggish and hardly showcased the previous years prowless. But, even when auto sales slowed down, the big question of whether or not OU's offense would be able to recover and get back on track in time to salvage the season has been answered. And that answer is the Sun Bowl.
Still Oklahoma fans might consider themseleves lucky to be in the Sun Bowl and not in a more prestigious showcase.
Oklahoma has lost five consecutive BCS bowls (LSU, USC, Boise St., West Virginia and Florida), that statistic coupled with dropping four of the last five Red River Shootouts/Rivalries against archrival Texas have decreased Stoop's nickname from "Big Game Bob" to "Medium Game Bob" to "Baylor game Bob."
In the future fans can expect Oklahoma to stop scheduling BCS buster teams such as TCU and BYU as the season opener in the future, and to use a less strenuous profession to funnel money from boosters to players.
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Wow
Talking crap about a team that has gone to the Big 12 Championship 7 of the last 10 years while you have gone 3 times. Whatever. It seems rather sad to me that you have nothing to do but talk crap. Enjoy your year. As history has shown us it only comes around for you every 4 years. (2001, 2005,2009) Nuff said.
God, I hate Sooners
That’s pretty much all I have to say. I just hate Sooners. They troll for something to say after their hapless season.
Dear Sooner,
This was a stupid/goofy post. Don’t get your wittle feewings hurt. Go back to Cwimson and Cweam Machine where all the world still makes sense.
"I don't care if I have to run100 times or pass it 100 times...Whatever it takes to win is all that matters to me" -VY
by 2100 San Jac on Dec 8, 2009 11:47 AM CST up reply actions
It's ok
We understand you have a inferiority complex. We’ll let it slide.
Wait
Aren’t you the one trolling the opponent blog, hitting the “look how good we are, damnit!” talking points?
You ain't hurt.
Inferiority?
Of our two teams, which one is undefeated and headed to the title game and which one is 7-5, unranked and headed to the Brut Sun Bowl?
Seriously
Do we really need to talk about trolling. People from this board are on our site frequently. Don’t go there. I not saying “look how good we are, damnit!”. It’s just funny to me that you feel that you have to push down OU at every opportunity you have. When clearly the last 10 years they have been the better team. And in history aside from head to head the OU program has accomplished more than UT has. Wasn’t it ESPN this summer that had a article on which program was the best college football program in the country. OU was #1. Texas was top 10 so let’s pat you on the back as well. So yes, it appears that you have an inferiority complex that causes you to make fun of OU to make yourself feel better. I respect your program but sometimes it’s amusing to hear some of the crap you spew here. Enjoy your undefeated regular season. It may be awhile before you see it again. If history tells us anything, you only get a shot at this every 4 years. (2001, 2005, 2009).
so...
…does that mean OU is good for a craptacular season every 4 years (2005, 2009)? Point to the last time when UT had seasons like that.
by vy til i die on Dec 9, 2009 10:38 AM CST up reply actions
People make fun of OU because it's a rivalry
There wasn’t a long thread consisting of Aggie jokes in the leadup to the A&M game because we feel inferior to A&M. And you can cherrypick whatever stats you want to make either team look better. The fact that you can do that so easily means that the programs are on a similar tier of success and prestige, so for us to feel inferior would just be silly. If we were A&M, yes, you would have an argument. But when the best you can say is that we go undefeated every 4 years? Come on. Get some perspective. We can just as easily point to something like our undefeated record in BCS games versus Big Game Bob’s slightly lesser record. It’s a rivalry. Both sides make fun of the other because that’s what they do. With any rivalry. There doesn’t have to be some underlying psychological reason for it.
It's funny the rivalries Texas has.
They have to ridicule other programs whereas there are rivalries in college football where the team actually respect each other. OU/Nebraska is one.
Not the norm
Think of tOSU/Michigan, UNC/Duke, USC/UCLA, Bama/Auburn, ND/USC, Mizzou/KU, UF/FSU, ND/Michigan. All very bitter and I can think of firsthand examples of put-downs and disrespect I’ve heard or seen from every one of the rivalries I mentioned. Besides, what about OU w/ respect to Texas? Do you think the majority of OU fans respect Texas and treat its fans with respect? Because if you don’t, then you shouldn’t throw stones at Texas.
I will say, though, that my most vivid (but by no means by only negative) experience with OU fans was at the 2007 RRS after the game, when a group of OU guys pulled my sister and me – just two college-age girls alone and minding our own business – out of our taxi (we had been waiting for it for an hour and a half in the rain at this point), got in and took it, and said “I guess y’all have been losing a lot of things today.” I also go to grad school in Indiana, and when I drive home to Texas for visits, I can’t go through Oklahoma anymore because of the amount of harassment I get from drivers with OU decals and even from cops (getting pulled over for no reason). I generally haven’t had a problem with Hogs fans when I go through Arkansas. So don’t come on here acting all sanctimonious about how OU respects its rivals and Texas is the only school in football who ridicules other programs. If you refuse to admit how bitter the rivalry is on both sides, see how prevalent this is in college football, and you get offended by standard rivalry fare, then that’s your problem.
I think it's just funny
The RRS has been over for months and you still have to put OU down. My point is I think it makes you feel better about your own programs accomplishments or lack thereof. I’m not offended just amused.
I know when I go visit my boyfriend’s family in Ohio I only hear Michigan jokes in November, and living just a few miles from the Michigan state line, I only hear Ohio State jokes in November and Notre Dame jokes in September too. I also never see Sooners with upside down Longhorn decals on their cars in any other month than October.
Think whatever you want, you’re entitled to be wrong.
Ahem....
59-40-5…ring a bell? Peace.
"Stats are for losers. I like winning games." - Will Muschamp
"Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts." - Earl Campbell
So what. You were better than us 19 more times.
Great, a program is not made on the head to head against one team but the entire seasons they can put together. OU has done better than UT in putting together complete seasons. It shows in the number of Conference Championships and National Championships we have compared to you. So keep throwing out the 59-40-5 as it is all you have.
We also have our record in bowl games.
How has Stoops done with that? Do you have to win the big ones to have a complete season?
We are not just talking about Stoops
The overall head to head is through the history of the program so my post on complete seasons doesn’t just include Stoops years. Yes we have had struggles lately but overall they have done well.
Your words
When clearly the last 10 years they have been the better team.
by LonghornEm on Dec 9, 2009 12:45 PM CST up reply actions 1 recs
Pay attention to the conversation
What you have pasted above is a different conversation. This conversation involves the wonderful aurgument of 59-40-5.
So what. You were better than us 19 more times. Great, a program is not made on the head to head against one team but the entire seasons they can put together. OU has done better than UT in putting together complete seasons. It shows in the number of Conference Championships and National Championships we have compared to you. So keep throwing out the 59-40-5 as it is all you have.
Where in my original post
On this conversation are we talking about just the Stoops era?
You know what?
This conversation isn’t even about which team is better. It’s about whether or not Texas has an inferiority complex w/ regard to OU. When my Baylor alum parents trash talk Texas, yes, there’s probably some inferiority complex there. But to think that Texas has an inferiority complex towards OU because OU has 7 national titles and Texas has 4, playing for 5, and OU is ranked #1 to Texas’s #7 in an ESPN article ranking “prestige” is rather extreme. Texas is ahead of OU in several metrics, including all-time wins (2nd behind Michigan), all-time win percentage (3rd behind Mich and ND at .727 – OU is at .717), bowl appearances (2nd at 48 to OU’s 42), percentage of weeks ranked in the final AP poll (.85 to OU’s .684) Big 12 conference game win percentage (#1), winning seasons (NCAA record 105 out of 116), financial value as an athletic program, etc. OU is obviously ahead in a number of things, too. The point is that you get a different answer for “who is better” depending on what you look at – the programs are comparable in success. I don’t have to prove Texas is better, nor am I trying to, I’m trying to show you why we don’t and need not have an inferiority complex. That’s what I meant about you being wrong. You might think OU is so superior that any mockery or criticism is an inferiority complex (see? I can play psychoanalyst too!) but that’s on you if it is. I’m not going to try to argue ad nauseum that you have a certain motivation like you’re trying to do to us, all I can do is to try to defend the feelings that we actually have.
And that article says nothing even remotely relating to inferiority complexes (besides being suspect anyway – ND in the top 5? I actually go to ND and I think that’s ridiculous because I realize people think ND hasn’t been relevant in 20 years. And Michigan all the way at #8?). Do you seriously think any of those teams in the top 10, or even including a few in the top 15 (like LSU, Florida) think they’re in any way inferior to any of the others? Does Michigan think it’s inferior to tOSU and ND? Do you think you’re inferior to USC to the extent you have a complex about it? Please. You’re attributing your opinion to an ESPN article that just ranks “prestige” and proclaiming it as gospel.
Seems to me....
Maybe not an inferiority complex but it seems that with all the wonderful accomplishments listed above that maybe you would have a few more championship on the conference and national level. Texas seems to be the most underachieving program around. All those great recruiting classes and 10 win season with 3 Big 12 Championships?You only have 25 SWC Championships?You should have ruled that conference every year. Nobody else was even relevant except A&M a few years. Say what you, the article was not meant to show you had a inferiority complex, it was meant to show you that even outside of Oklahoma, people see OU as superior to Texas as a program. UT fans cannot see this or refuse to admit that their beloved Texas is behind anyone. My point is why is there so much bashing of OU?A inferiority complex is just one theory, delusions of grandeur is another, blah, blah, blah…………
That’s fine, and you can definitely make an “underachieving” argument. I admit that OU is ahead in championships and other things, and that it is a tremendously successful program. The bashing is just because it is a bitter rivalry, and like I said, you see the same thing in lots of rivalries regardless of the success of the programs involved. That’s all. I don’t know what else to say on the subject.
UNDERACHIEVEING!?
I wrote the article and I am here to defend it as a UT graduate and fan.
First: it was a joke made to tie together two spots on the OU record, the Rhett Bomar scandal and your sub-par season, good for a laugh. I have also recently posted on Utah’s blog, Boise States blog and a couple of others since I found this website. Not a single fan from the rival called out an inferiority complex for the other school. In fact the act of going onto the other teams blog and continually whining and complaining is the only evidence of any inferioirty complex shown by anyone here. Since I am not insane I will only accuse you of having the complex and not your whole fanbase.
Second…
Only 25 SWC championships? Yeah that’s not alot… a little education for you since you clearly need some: SMU, TCU, Arkansas, Houston, Baylor…all of those programs had amazing runs in the SWC and took quite a few championships and rightfully so. Texas A&M was not the only other prgoram. How many Big Eaight championships does OU have? I don’t know the answer to that tell me. Over the past ten years we have the same number of National Championships than you and we might have more in a month. Over the last ten years Texas has had 10 WIN SEASONS EVERY YEAR. That is clearly underachieving….we suck. I know you are supposed to be nice here but you are not nearly smart enough to back up your claims, if your argument is based on winning Conf Champ and NC’s you are picking on the wrong team here. 3 Conference titles, possibly four BCS wins and possibly two national titles in 12 years is a hell of a run, and something no fan would ever feel inferior about.
by Football Pope on Dec 17, 2009 5:14 PM CST up reply actions
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