Gosh, I don't know - maybe OU's loss of Sam Bradford and in a game they were favored to win by 3 TD's seems like more of a story than Oklahoma State beating a team they were supposed to beat?  Maybe?

"Dog bites man", ain't much of a story.

As for blaming OU's loss on either/or - it falls on both sides of the ball.  The offense sucked, across the board.  The defense couldn't stop BYU on their final scoring drive - this "chicken or the egg" blame game is ridiculous - in the end, Oklahoma had a chance to win the game with a field goal - and missed.

Vermontsooner, the point Picker is making is that the media would rather talk about anything OU than something fantastic for OSU.

They would rather talk about which week Brandford is going to come back for an hour than talk about the fact that OSU is ranked in the Top 5 and on the cover of SI for five minutes.

There is something definitely wrong with that.

Well at least I beat the Picker.

Tattoo, I was referencing radio talk. I'm glad to see all the print and am very grateful for it.

I'd say that I disagree with the Picker in most instances, actually. But in this case, he happens to be correct when talking about local bias.

I listened all day today against my better judgement. A day in which OSU cracked the top 5 for the first time since 1985 and news broke of another SI cover (only this time it is national, not regional). Still, the radio guys would rather talk for hours about OU's misfortunes than OSU's achievements.

Is Bradford's injury a story? Of course. Is it the only story, though? Absolutely not.

I could understand if it were two years ago or even last year at times, but not right now. Right now OSU is a success story with many different storylines that Al and his minions just don't care about.

BLA,

I'm not sure if you agree or disagree with my post.  I get that you think I'm a hillbilly, was that your point?  You're wrong about Bradford though, he was the 1 bright spot in the first half, he just didn't have any help.  His QB rating for the game was over 150.0.

MexiMike, in my opinion, the media would rather talk about the current state of the Sooners because it's the bigger story, that's the point I'm making.  Oklahoma State was supposed to be good and supposed to beat Georgia...they are, and they did.  How is that deserving of more press than Oklahoma dropping it's first game of the season to a 3 TD dog, Heisman winner Sam Bradford being injured and out 2 to 4 weeks, and the Sooners losing Jermaine Gresham for the year?

OSU deserves some limelight as the #5 team in the country, but the Sooners collapse is the bigger story - both locally and nationally.  Look at the news coverage from the major networks - the Sooners problems are being talked about everywhere.  If all the sports networks were talking more about OSU than OU, I think the "local bias" claim would be substantiated, but the Sooners are the bigger story around the country, not just locally.

Listening to the Sports Urinal yesterday, I was expecting to hear their thoughts on the OU and OSU games.  When i tuned in, they were in a discussion about the BYU win and you could tell they had been on it the entire segment and probably some before that.  I figured they had either already talked about the OSU game or they had not gotten there yet.  Going into the next segment, they continued the OU talk from shoelaces to someone's pants being big to whether or not the titght end that started at center was really better than the one from last year when one of them, I believe the short, troll-like one, asks the mediocre Japanese baseball star, "What did you think of the OSU game."  "They were really good, man."  "Yes, I agree Jim, they were definitely good.  Good win, Jim."  And then back to Kevin Wilson and whether or not the line was as good as he was saying and whether or not Stoops was smart enough to know when they should pass the ball.

Anyone who disagrees with the Picker here is off their rocker and has NO idea how the industry should work. 

When you have fans who still wear their onesy pajamas of a particular school in as your journalists, this is what happens.

To even compare the OSU game to "Dog bites man" is about as weak an argument I have ever heard. 

Rarely has OSU ever won a game of this magnitude while OU has proven they have trouble with lesser, non-conference foes on neutral fields every year at the end of the season.  Which story is Dog bites man?

The story was Bradford.  And they hardly spoke of it.  They wanted to dissect which back-up on the line could fill-in because the number of stars he had when he came out of high school. I’ve worked around these guys before.  I know them and have seen and heard them outside the airwaves.  They are living, breathing tribute machines to everything that is sooner.  If there is any reason why you guys wanted to vomit in your Post Toasties on Sunday morning, it is because of these guys.  They fill your head full of propaganda and it is believable because the talent level is so high most years, one or two losses can cushion their BS.  But, they are no different than the Iraqi Minister of Information.  And you are no different than a derelict who will sit there and believe anything you hear.

Vermont, if OU is the bigger story nationally, then why is Dez on the cover of SI diving in the endzone for a TD rather than Bradford on the ground squeezing his shoulder?

As Adman said, this was a huge victory for OSU and in some ways, a welcoming party for OSU football onto the national scene. Were they favored to win? Yes, because it was in Stillwater. But even then, I'd say most media picked Georgia to win.

And like I said, I agree that Bradford and OU losing to BYU is a big story...BUT it is not the ONLY story. OSU deserves much more from its own local media than five minutes and a sweep under the rug. Obviously you are a sooner fan, but try to look at this objectively. If it were your team that was ranked 5th in the country for the first time in 15 years and had its first national SI cover EVER, wouldn't you be a little mad that your own local media didn't care enough to talk about it?

No doubt OU stunk it up but maybe, just maybe Max Hall is pretty good as well as the TE...Again, no one on OU bench watching the play clock with the game on the line, INEXCUSABLE.

As I've said, I agree that OSU should have more of the limelight.  Dez on the cover of SI is awesome, and well deserved - what more can I say?  The only recognition OSU fans should be concerned with is what the polls say, and the Cowboys are ranked #5 in the country, that's pretty good recognition if you ask me.

I'm actually trying to make a point concerning press coverage at local/national levels.  Let's take the names of the teams out of the equation (because it really doesn't matter), very simply:

1. Team 'A' (the favorite) beats Team 'B' (the underdog).
2.  Team 'A' (the underdog) beats Team 'B' (the favorite).

Even left as simple as that, headline #2 is more of a story than headline #1.  Don't take my word for it, look at CNNSI's College Football front page:

Storylines:
1.
2.
3.
4. Sam Bradford's injury has changed the shape of the Heisman Race
5. What BYU-OU could mean, ACC's lost weeked, more...

Five storylines dedicated to Oklahoma, and it's not much different on any of the other sites.  I understand the frustration by OSU fans that there team's accomplishment isn't being more "heralded" by the media, but the fact is - in MOST of America's eyes - the OU fiasco is a bigger story.

OU Glenn, you couldn't be more correct, I was simply trying to be nice.

Original Adman, you show signs of being a genius.Fire the politicians, bull, make a play WHEN THE GAME IS ON THE LINE. When has a Venables defense done that once? Ever?

One thing that not many people are bringing up is that OSU defensive finally stepped up and bad some big stops!

buster, Venables was just the co-defensive coordinator for that game. Mike Stoops was the other co-defensive coordinator. Ever since Mike Stoops left OU to coach at Arizona, the OU defense has been unable to make a stop with the game on the line. The exception is Oregon in the Holiday Bowl. However, that was on an underthrown pass in a meaningless bowl game. I don't consider the 2005 Holiday Bowl to be a big game.

buster, Brent Venables was co-defensive coordinator during that game. Mike Stoops was the other co-defensive coordinator. Ever since Mike Stoops left OU, the OU defense has been unable to get a defensive stop, in the big game when the game is on the line.