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No News is Good News in Spring
Published: 4/17/2011 10:56 AM
Last Modified: 4/17/2011 10:56 AM

There was virtually no news that came out of spring football at Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Tulsa.
No news is good news.
Spring football is all about new, young and inexperienced players finding a spot in the starting lineup or rotation.
There wasn’t much of that for the Sooners, Cowboys and Golden Hurricane.
There are reasons for that. OU, OSU and TU return almost of their key players from very good teams.
All three have experienced and high-quality quarterbacks. The best players at the three schools, all of them All-Americans, return this year.
All three schools are deeper and more experienced than they have been in a long time.
In other words, there are good reasons why the optimism for next fall is off the charts.
OU will likely be the No. 1 preseason team in the country. OSU is likely to be a top 10 preseason team. And, there’s a chance that TU (finished 24th last year) will be in the top 25 preseason poll.
As good as laast year was for our three state football teams, and it was the best season in history for the three combined, this fall could be even better.
The schedules are herder - especially for TU. The Golden Hurricane will play three probable top 10 teams in the first month of the season.
OSU has hard games in the Big 12 and Arizona - plenty of potential stumbling blocks before the season-closer with Oklahoma.
And, the Sooners are not good enough to be overlooking anybody out there. Most Big 12 teams have enough good players to spring an upset if OU doesn’t play well.
Still, this spring gave us hope for a historic fall.



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