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Bomar vs. OSU
Published: 6/10/2007 4:22 PM
Last Modified: 6/10/2007 4:22 PM

It's hard for a Division I-A football coach to get his team motivated when playing a lower-division opponent. In those instances, the I-A coach prays for anything -- like bulletin board material, never mind the source -- to get his team's attention.
Christmas will arrive early for Oklahoma State head football coach Mike Gundy because a little bulletin board material is apparently be coming his way, courtesy of Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine.
I don't have a copy of the magazine yet, but supposedly a Texas writer (David Claybourn of the Greenville Herald-Banner) is picking Rhett Bomar and the Sam Houston State Bearkats over OSU for the biggest upset of the 2007 college football season.
It would really qualify as bulletin board material if the quote came courtesy of Bomar himself, but the OSU coaches will likely take the quote and post it in the locker room, regardless. You take what you can get and milk it for all it's worth.
I hope Bomar gets his head on straight and redeems himself, but I'm going to go opposite Claybourn's opinion and predict that the former Sooner quarterback won't taste success in Stillwater on Sept. 29. The talent gap between OSU and Sam Houston State is too vast. The big question: If any OU fans attend the game, who will they root for?






Reader Comments 4 Total
Yoda (6 years ago)
Bomar is no Jedi. Yoda sees the future: Pokes 42- SHS -14, Bomar on the bench with a broken collar bone. Adarius Bowman routs the defense.
Chris (6 years ago)
There is no question that OU fans will attend our game: there's always a few of them sporting the OU garb at OSU games. I still haven't figured out why.
Stew (6 years ago)
Here is why OU fans wear their gear to OSU's games....OSU's game is not on TV and starts at noon....OU's games are on National TV that night, so they go to Stoolwater to watch their 3rd cousin's brother's niece's step-son, who grew up in the trailer park on the southside of town play for the Pokes...then they go to Norman that evening to watch REAL FOOTBALL!! BOOMER SOONER!!!!!
Sure (6 years ago)
"their 3rd cousin's brother's niece's step-son, who grew up in the trailer park on the southside of town"? You mean, as opposed to the majority of Sooner fans in this State, who crown their mullet haircuts with an OU hat they picked up at Wal-Mart instead of receiving one purchased by their parents at the student union gift shop upon graduation from college in Norman?
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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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