A sweet 2008-09 for OU has turned awfully bitter this year
Published: 1/27/2010 11:08 PM
Last Modified: 1/27/2010 11:11 PM
You figured there might be a price to pay for Oklahoma's remarkable success across the athletics board in 2008-09.
The football team made the national championship game with a Heisman Trophy winner quarterbacking the highest-scoring offense in college history.
The men's basketball team advanced to the Elite Eight with the unanimous national player of the year, the first in school history, who would go on to become the No. 1 pick in the NBA Draft, another OU first.
The women's basketball team punched a ticket to the Final Four behind a player who became the first four-time All-American in women's college history.
Well, the bill has come due. And apparently, it's monthly.
Recapping the year in Sooner sports 2009-10 to this point…
Jermaine Gresham gets hurt.
Sam Bradford, the Heisman winner, gets hurt.
Every center on the football roster gets hurt.
Adrian Taylor gets so hurt in the Sun Bowl that teammates cry.
Blake Griffin, the basketball player of the year, gets hurt. (OK, blame that one on the Curse of the Clippers if you want. But still…)
Whitney Hand, the best player on the women's hoops team, gets hurt.
Willie Warren, the best player on the men's team, gets hurt.
Tony Crocker, the best senior, gets hurt.
The football team loses five games.
The basketball team struggles to stay above .500.
Fans struggle to keep their sanity, while wondering if 2008-09 was worth what has happened in 2009-10.
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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