The current coaching regime residing in Norman, Okla. these days have allowed me to observe & appreciate what's going on in Stillwater these days....

This weeks Sports Illustrated has OU at #8 & Okie St. unranked for next season.... The SI writers are unusually usually wrong seeing how they have access that others don't, so IN MY OPINION, I believe Okie State will be a Top 10 team & so will OU.... Okie St. will succeed because they put in the work, coaching, planning & recruiting.... OU will be a top 10 team because they will have BLUE CHIP recruits 4-5 deep, hard to fail with that kind of talent on a roster, they can plan & recruit....

Maybe someday this group from out of state will move on back to where they came & until that glorious moment, it will always be more of the same, overblown expectations crumbling just like clockwork.... Same old story, year after year after year.... S.O.S.... That is a distress signal, right ????

Tough to get the recruits to believe you have the best workout facilities in the nation when he knows good and well youve never been inside them. Heuple on the Magino fast track! Ive heard of sitting high on the hog and getting fat on your income but these fellas are taking it to a whole new level!

Willie Martinez - a guy who should never have been hired by Stoops in the first place (funny...I didn't know he'd attended Cardinal Mooney HS...) has tendered his "voluntary" resignation (in much the same fashion that football players attend "voluntary" summer conditioning programs on campus) to pursue those "other opportunities." Meanwhile, Venables is busy scouring Elvis country in efforts to find a position that will salvage both his own marketability and improve Stoop's increasingly desperate situation twenty miles south of OKC. And then there's Mikey. It isn't hard to read between the bylines of recent stories about Mike's visit to Columbus to realize that St. Urban the First interviewed Mike (at Bob's request) before declining to offer him a position on staff. This provides Mike with an epiphany...he now realizes that Norman is where the heart is and that, despite all of Horatio Alger's insignts, you can, actually, go home again. Good thing...Bob will need someone to take care of his shrubbery and paste-wax his car when Brent departs.