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Medium Game Bob's Wheelhouse
Published: 11/28/2011 11:55 AM
Last Modified: 11/28/2011 12:00 PM

What lifetime achievement humiliating loss to Texas Tech, which has since lost five straight while giving up 52 points per game?

What national championship opportunity lost?

What confused pass defense?

Medium Game Bob is back in the game.

Whereas playing for a national title seems as unlikely now as it did more than a decade ago, the OU coach is on comfy ground, competing for the championship of a leaky conference, and the right to go once more to the worst bowl city in American history, Phoenix, to play against a team without many athletes, Stanford, which was recently skinned by Oregon.

The early weather forecast for the OU-OSU night game Saturday is for a cold rain. Reduce the size of the field, and the Venables Einstein Defense, where you have to make 11 reads, then move to the extra point, is easier to play.

You can already see the OSU fans thinking: Oh no, here we go again.

Texas Tech was a big game, as is any that has a direct bearing on the national title.

This is a medium game.

The OU coach wrote the book on winning this kind.




Reader Comments 15 Total
Goffer (last year)
Your an idiot
                    
BobSmith007 (last year)
...Or perhaps "you're" the idiot.
KEEP GUNDY (last year)
He's right.
LaffALot (last year)
Hmmmm
Baylor’s Griffin the 3rd,
throws for 480 yrds, runs for another 80 yrds
All everything Baylor wide receiver Wright
had 8 catches for over 200 yrds vs. OU

What do you ‘thunk Weedon & Blackman & Moore
are going to do to that
Sooner “Oh no a pass” Defense?
The Picker (last year)
Laffer, if the weather restricts the size of the field so to speak, and it turns into a fist fight, and OU's Einstein Defense doesn't have to think, it's anybody's game. The more insignificant the national impact, the more Medium Game Bob is to be feared.

Solo (last year)
The fact that OU, OSU, and KSU are the best the Big12 has to offer shows just how far the conference has fallen when compared to the top 3 in the SEC. Homers who think that any team in the Big12 has even a remote chance of winning a national title in the next decade should back off on the holiday punch...or maybe drink a little more.
The Picker (last year)
Solo, exactly right.

The SEC is almost unfairly good at the top. So there are some dogs toward the bottom of the conference, so what.

It's champ has an automatic berth in the finals.

It is better at the top because it plays its best players at cornerback and on defense, and because it stresses the run.
redriverndn (last year)
Could this be "Ice Bowl II" ????

"Ice Bowl I" was so entertaining that I'm still feeling the tingling from the spine tingling events of that night oh so many years ago....

Oh man, what would've/could've/should've been....

It is what it is, just another football game on a cold wintery Saturday night in northern Oklahoma....

Sadness choked up Okie St. before their game even began BUT OU, the Sooners, boola boola, the coaching staff did them in....
JED (last year)
The Picker is right. Bob Stoops is WAAAAY too comfortable at OU. He needs to start doing more than winning a conference title in a WEAK conference.
sokodad (last year)
LOL, Picker. I was gonna ask you if you were gonna downgrade the game to "medium" in light of each team losing.

I was perfectly comfie when you had it labled a "big" game. As an oSu fan, I am now fearful. You're correct; this is a classic medium for Bob, and nobody does the medium better than him.
mgsooner13 (last year)
Interesting. For OU it's a "medium" game. For OSU it's the biggest in school history. Isn't that usually the case though?
JG78 (last year)
Your people are fools... If Bob loses you will call it a big game. Hey OSU! How does it feel that the Pick can only write about how Bedlam is a medium game for Bob while OSU is on the cusp of its greatest football season in history? Such is the life for an Aggie and a third tier media hack who is afraid to identify himself....

Oh well, at least I can read about the Thunder in the World. Oh that is right. No I can't. Your paper sucks!
                    
225818 (last year)
Thunder? Tulsa World has excellent weather coverage.
norsemustang (last year)
At least Picker knows the difference between your and you're.
The Picker (last year)
Yes the Picker do know that.
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