Sorry picker, football and men's basketball may both be contenders this year, but you might as well give the women's trophy to UCONN. A 30pt demolition of the #2 UNC Tarheels in Chapel Hill should convince most everyone that this may be the best women's team of all time!

Hoo: I TiVo-ed that and ran through the Ucon-NC women's game late. Never quite seen anything like that. It's like Ucon is two levels above everybody else. What does that coach do, land everybody in the northeast?

OU might be a little better. But it still doesn't look quick enough to stay anywhere near Ucon.

As far as men go, there doesn't appear to be a dominant team. Hansbro is basketball's Tebow. It's news when he ties his shoes. If Griffin doesn't get in foul trouble trying to dunk 15-footers, OU can stay with anybody.

If TU doesn't get into the NCAA is the coach in trouble?

Football is king at OU, always has been, always will be. Get use to it coach. But you will get more and more respect and attendance the more you win (not whine). Doing great so far Coach Capel. Billy ball really used to pack the LNC.

Who says no one regognized Griffin at McDonalds? Maybe, just maybe people just kept their distance. I am sure a bunch of 6'3 - 6'5 guys dressed in all OU warmup gear didnt stand out at a McDonalds. Give me a break.

The OU & OSU qbs are better than the one at Baltimore. Steelers play smart defense, not necessarily a bad thing. I would think the experience of Warner would be a plus. The Pitt offense didnt exactly put on a show remember 14 points came from the int for a TD.

First of all, if the North Carolina football team were in the top 5 in the nation, then yes, Butch Davis would absolutely be crying out to the fans for much needed and deserved attention...especially if he had one of the best (if not THE best) players in the nation.

Why wouldn't someone recognize and swarm him at a McDonald's? Wouldn't people swarm Sam Bradford? How are they any different? I'll tell you how. This is Oklahoma. Put these two players in an East coast school and see who gets swarmed (hint: they both would).

Sorry Pick, I've got the Steelers winning by 10. Here's a question: Why does Donovan McNabb play like a superstar for 3 and 1/2 quarters and then turn into petrified wood? A great QB thrives in the 2 minute drill. He lacks the mustard.

Hot flash for you Sooner faithful. Stoops is slowing eroding the program. Does he bring in terrific talent year after year? Yes. Does he contend in the dismal Big 12 every year? Sure. But through his rambling inability to win bowl games in general, BCS bowls in particular, and national championship games specifically over the past five seasons, he has planted the seed of doubt into the psyche of his team. Not to mention the total humiliation suffered by the breakdown against USC.

This is why OU is a stepping stone job. There are lots of resources and not a lot of demands. If you lose it, doesn't matter. Everyone is just waiting on the football ridiculously early preseason poll and to hear about who is and isn't leaving early for the draft. If Capel takes them deep in the tournament, I think he gets hired elsewhere, maybe even Kentucky if Gillespie keeps sucking.

Mike, yeah, you're on the popular side; somebody emailed me from a sleazy joint in Vegas and said it was already up to seven and a half!

These numbers frequently tell you which way to go. This early number is sure saying Steelers, the bookie joints are daring people to take Zona.

I just can't get over how close Baltimore played the Steelers with a totempole for a qb. Warner has some nice receivers. Number 11 has Velcro for hands. This would appear to be one of those perfect underdog bets (where it is legal) where you like the dog so much, you just stand up straight and take the risk like an adult. You lose, you lose. But seven, man, against a team with no O, it's hard to resist.

Matthew, you're right, I forgot about that one-game business with the other division, KU is in Norman.

The conference really is down isn't it, K-State, Iowa State, combined they couldn't finish .500.

Here's something somebody might be able to help with. It was emailed this morning.

Why does Texas A&M stink at everything?

That question almost gets deep fast.

Huge budget, huge ambition, huge recruiting, the football and basketball teams are and have usually been just horrendous.

Why?

This is not a good beginning to the Travis Ford era. At the season's worst point last year, after losing 6 games in a row 8,369 tickets were scanned on a Weds. in GIA against Colo. Tonight's attendance against Mizzou was 8,514. If bad attendance was the reason for Sean getting fired after two years, how long does Travis Ford have if this isn't fixed?

I like to think it is because they have horrid fans. I've never seen anyone so proud of accomplishing so little, but that's probably just wishful thinking.

I want to know why there are OSU alumni still supporting the Boone lackey Holder? I don't care how much money OSU shoves into their athletic facilities, with their ignorant pricing structure, it will be 6,000 years before they can compete with OU, if ever.

When the alumni association called for their annual donation recently, I told them I had already made mine. When the gal seemed quite confused and wished me to explain further, I told her "two tickets to the OSU/OU football game at exorbitant prices, my butt permanently scared by 16" inch seats, the Cimarron Turnpike down to one lane to accommodate I guess McDonald's while still paying the toll, and one $4.00 stale pretzel. I consider that my biggest sacrifice and best donation yet."

She thanked me.

Picker :

T A&M has only been decent...not dominant... at any sport when other teams are down. OU & TX in football in the 90s, Gillespie with basketball when OU & OSU were struggling. Seriously how long was he there 3 years? I think you can say that OSU under S. Sutton & the last years of Sampson were times when A&M had some success.
Slocum was moderately successful at a time when OU & TX werent getting the top tier & that was enough to compete. A&M is really it s own little world, have you ever been to College Station? They suck because they think that is enough.

{The lack of support at OSU is puzzling. There's something better to do in Stillwater than watch basketball? }

Cold, very cold. Funny, but cold.

I speak as a previous (sometimes) attendee. Much of the alumni don't like what is happening in Stillwater. It's a protest against Mike Holder and some of the adopted policies favoring strictly the money, and not the ordinary Joe's who were there through thick and thin.

And I didn't care for the way Sean Sutton was treated either. Even if Travis Ford pans out to be better, and I think he will, considering what Eddie Sutton had done for the university (minus the tipping of the bottle), OSU could have handled the Sean situation with far more class.

Just my opinion.