By THE PICKER Sports Columnist on Jul 18, 2012, at 2:28 PM Updated on 7/18 at 2:28 PM
THE PICKER
Here's what all the experts are saying about the Thunder, past and future:
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
Blah, blah.
Blah.
Blah, ...
Who gave Perkins all that money and said he was the real deal?
Who drafted the KU center who couldn't play?
Who ...
OU football coach Bob Stoops had this scoop during his Tulsa campaign stop: The bottom of the SEC stinks.
What campaign ...
Somebody sent an email asking who we would hire today as head football coach, Stoops or Gundy?
We started to write back saying get serious.
Then we started thinking.
Who's hot?
Soon there will be teenagers who weren't born when Stoops last won his national title. He has been consistently strong in a good way, not great. Gundy was a flop against Iowa State away from a national title game. Was it Gundy or was it the quarterback? Soon we'll know.
Who is flexible?
Stoops' staff has been a good 'ol boys club forever, reinforced by the return of his volcanic brother, who couldn't stop traffic at Arizona. Gundy quit calling plays just in time.
Recruiting?
OU seems to have drifted slightly away from Texas toward jucos and strangers from faraway places. Everybody knows what a truck load of jucos means: trouble. OSU's stadium is a monster perk that is landing lots of hightly recruited players.
Sense of humor?
Stoops has been known to get defensive from, "How's the weather?" Gundy has been known to dance.
So it's much closer than once thought. If we were hiring a head coach today, we'd take Stoops barely, because it's been so long since he won the big one, he has to be motivated again.
Next year, the one after, who could predict for sure who would be the hire.
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