I don’t buy the argument that OU’s talent is down…it’s depth is down…not its talent…Tony Jefferson should be an All-American before he leaves OU…so should Hurst and Colvin. David King should be All-Big 12. There is a wealth of talent at the skill positions on offense…most would be starting elsewhere. Several should be All Big 12. Some said the same thing anout Blake while he was at OU….no talent…no athletes…that was the knock on the 2000 championship team…FSU had all the award winners and athletes…only after OU won the NC did folks see we had talented players and athletes. Talent isn’t down. There arent many Petersons, Bradfords, Harrises wlaling around…those were superstars. OU gets its fair share…we have some that are backups that will open our eyes like White and Bradford and Broyles when they get to start. The problem is we have recruited too many players at a few positions. We don’t have enough depth on the lines and we are weak for the first time that I remember at DE under Stoops. That is where the recruiting problem is. Some of the guys playing are having to play more than what coaches more than likely anticipated them to play…some didn’t work out….some left.

Stoops has lost a lot of coaches and coordinators while at OU. Some left, i think because of a quiet internal pressure to leave and took lesser coaching jobs where they struggled and eventually left. There is some urgency inside the program being brought on by the constant criticism by fans and big contributors. That is what pushed BV out along with Willie Martinez. So I don’t buy it that loyalty to coaches is a problem….OU just doesn’t air its dirty laundry…we turn a coach leaving into a promotion…only BV was seen as a demotion and he left….after a complete meltdown on defense in 3 games,which were unexplainable and a defense that had struggled for a few years with the same problems.

Stoops has to know that the spread, and a hurry up that is not always functioning in a hurry up mode, has it limitations as defenses figure it out. We have to get better production out of the QB…. And that is the real problem with this offense. LJ is average at best and Stoops is settling for average. LJ needs some improvement. Has he really had to compete to keep his job at QB? Is Bell really that bad? Or Allen? Or Thompson ? Who,is pushing LJ? This is where Stoops has missed it….we have an average QB. It showed Saturday night…

And get some better announcers. Those two guys may have been nice fellows, but nice doesn’t cut it. We need announcers who know the college game, who don’t cut away while a penalty is being assessed and never let you know what happened, and who talk about other college football games instead of the crap that the NFL will be serving up on Sunday.

As far as the Sooners go, I’ll say what I’ve been saying since the disgraceful flop-job against USC. Bob Stoops will never win another national championship. He’s got a staff full of mediocre cronies, and his players do not play as a team. And his recruiting stinks these days too. What of that is he able to recognize, much less willing to change? What lies ahead for OU is a string of 10-3 and 9-4 seasons for as long as Bob is running the show.