Hey Charles:
You're right.
And that's why we have to keep being right!

The Media need not apologize to ANYONE for speaking the truth. The OKC OU media homers DO overrate the sooners constatnly and they NEVER admit it! Kudos to the picker for having the intestinal fortitude to say something the sooner nation may not agree with. If you don't like don't read it.

Yeah, the OKC media goes a bit overboard on OU...so what? Check any major newspaper in a state with a major college team (and usually without any big-league sports distractions) and you'll find the same phenomenon. Jeez, I check into this web site every now and then and it seems like you guys are always beating the same dying horse. Why not take up parcheezi?

Yeah, that's the point that's being made ad nauseum...over and over...which is my point precisely. So these OKC sportsheads tend to be a bit biased...it ain't exactly news. What the Picker won't tell you is that he's a died-in-the-wool OU fan as well (even played baseball up there) and now he feels he has to do a 180 to prove he isn't a homer. That's every bit as disingenuous as what the OKC (and some Tulsa) writers do.

Smitty - listen to Charles. He'll help you find your way if The Picker can't.

OK, I misprinted Murray and wrote Curry. I also screwed up and navigated the site wrong and did not see the article about his special day in the extra. I will chide myself before The Picker can. I look like an idiot. BUT, I stand behind the rest of it. The lock of the year will be Murray winning the RB job and becoming the next great in Crimson and Cream.

The Picker's an 'unbiased' fan? It doesn't take a Freud or Jung to see that what he spouts isn't anywhere close to objective; what the Picker displays is a negative bias caused by a backlash from trying to NOT be a fan. Now granted, there are fans, there are Fans and there are FANS, and those of us who have lived long enough to know better realize that following the Sooners (or any other team) is far more fun if done so with a certain healthy objectivity - a view that the Picker hasn't achieved yet. Sorry. And his fan club needs to stop behaving like those morons who fawn over Rush Limbaugh on the radio...

Smitty - you probably should avoid reading The Picker. Stick with Dave Sittler, he'll candy-coat your Sooners enough to satisfy you.

I'm a TU fan, and there are times The Picker dings TU. I don't always like it, but I realize he's on target when he does it. He's not only unbiased, he's fun to read.

And, he doesn't respond to his own posts like you do! LOL

Any thoughts about the "paltry" crowd of 21,000 at the OU game?

Couple of years ago, didn't they used to have 21,000 at a closed practice?

Here's a never-fail "tell," body language that spells trouble.

When a coach or an athlete gets testy, there's a reason: bad news is coming.

Tiger Woods stomps off the course Saturday night, refuses to talk to the press.

Loses.

Speaking of golf, color announcer Nick Foldo did a horrible job and should be put on probation. He couldn't beat Tiger one-on-one, so now he takes the field and delights in Woods getting beat. Nick Foldo kept saying, with what sounded like glee, that he had a feeling it wasn't Tiger's week. One guy beat Woods, for heaven's sake. Hey Foldo, tell Tiger in person what you're telling us.

Not sure by the term "administration" in your earlier post, Picker -- but wasn't Florida State a really good passing team when OU beat them in the Orange Bowl?

If you mean the current group of staff and players, it seems like they beat Texas Tech last year. Tech was average overall, but they do sure throw the ball a whole lot and do it pretty well.

You keep digging yourself deeper and deeper, Picker. That FSU team, even if Weinke was a career backup in the NFL (he made it there a little late in life), was amazing on offense. No one gave OU a chance in that game. And since when does lack of success in the NFL mean you aren't a good college quarterback? I can think of plenty of fine college quarterbacks, Heisman winners, who just weren't physically cut out for the NFL: Jason White, Dorsey, Gino Toretta. There are several guys in the NFL who made it just because of physical ability and not because of success in college, like Gus Frerotte. I think your argument makes sense if you talk about OU defense after Stoops-extra-strength and the national championship team secondary left. Before that, OU's defense regularly abused some pretty good passing attacks, like the Texas offense under Simms (keep in mind, you picked Texas most of the time during that era -- they must have been decent). I think your point makes more sense in the current era. The OU defense isn't the freakish phenomenon it used to be. I really respect OU's system -- I think it's designed to abuse spread offense teams and gosh, it was fun to watch them abuse Nebraska, A&M, and Mizzou last year with their rinky dink offenses. I think the secondary might actually be pretty talented and it might be an issue with the pass rush. Oh -- another vaunted offense that OU beat last year: OSU (a team I think you said was the best offense in the country at one point). OU didn't dominate, but they sure slowed them down.

Smitty, there's no doubt TAB is a big time OU homer. And, he's been a thorn in the side of most writers on this blog.

On the topic of me defending The Picker: In my opinion, the Tulsa World has two writers who are far and away the most honest, unbiased and gifted - The Picker and Jimmie Tramel.

I'll stand up for either of them at any time.