Can you imagine what TCU's coach could do with OU's resources? Was Landry Jones ever considered that great a prospect by anyone else outside of the not very big 12?

All good questions, Pick.  All top coaches are definitely overpaid, in answer to one.  But that's just the nature of the beast.  

In answer to yours, Ignatz:  No, I can't imagine him doing more with their resources than Bob could, and yes, Landry was considered a great prospect by just about everyone.

AMEN!  You've nailed it once again, Mr. Picker...  I've wondered those very questions over the last several weeks...  Bottom line is that OU needs to make some changes - namely within its coaching staff...  The Stoops good ol' boy network isn't up to snuff...  There have been problems with Venables and BJ Wright for a few seasons, although the offense's ineptitude has overshadowed any defensive miscues this season (Miami game anyone?)...  And an experienced O-line, QB, TE, WRs, RBs made Wilson look like a genius last year...  This year, even though they don't have the dogs to do the same thing, the coaching staff is stubbornly sticking with the same scheme...  The epitome of the definition of insanity is doing something over and over again and expecting a different outcome...  Even in Boo Blake's last year in Norman he was smart enough to scrap da Bone in the first game of the 1998 season when he figured out it wouldn't work...  The Switz didn't try to force Jamelle Holieway to run a pro set offense after Miami shattered Troy Aikman's leg...  A good coach/coaching staff will develop a scheme based on the personnel instead of trying to make a square peg fit in a round hole...

I still fail to understand how they can't find ONE person to kick a freaking field goal...  Special teams miscues tick me off the most...  Maybe OU should employ Mike Leach's tactic and get some college coed out of the stands...  Heck...  I've still got eligibility left...  And even at 5', I'm pretty sure I'm bigger than little Jimmy Stevens, too...

Great post, sir!

Good players make coaches look good.  Bad players make coaches look bad.  We have less good players on offense due to graduation, injuries, suspensions, dismissals and transfers.  The few "good ones" still there are underachieving.  Firing coaches or calling different plays won't change that.  Sorry.

I think what is most amazing to me is that OU cannot find a kicker that they trust to even ATTEMPT a 40 yard field goal in the 4th quarter of a close game. If you look at the top programs in college football, a group which OU portends to be a part of, they all have superb special teams on a yearly basis. OU's special teams for at least the past two years have been absolutely terrible. Where else can the blame for that lie but the coaching staff?

Hey Pick, please explain to me why a coach would opt to call a play on fourth and short to a pitch man five yards behind his line of scrimmage with no blocking in front???
This game would even be an embarrasment to John Blake/Howie Smellingburger. We have developed a new low that we now can start talking about.

It seems that on this OU team, when one person gets injured -- at any position -- school is out, there's no hope of a quality replacement.

Why?

Other teams plug in good subs all the time.

Each game, there are a couple hundred guys hanging out on the sideline.

Who are they?

What's up with the red-shirt program?

Blaming the field goal kicker is a disgrace. It's a way of letting Stoops and the coaching staff off the hook. Pro kickers miss 40-yarders all the time. Why wasn't this guy kicking earlier if he was the best? Why let him try his first meaningful kick at Nebraska? Blame the coaches that put him back there, not the kid himself.

PS: Nebraska stinks and lowly KU takes the Cornhuskers out this weekend.

I'll go along with that KU prediction, Pick. It seems like any team with an average offense can outscore Nebraska. We'll see.

Atticus, they do play football outside of the SEC, believe it or not. Obviously, OU had zero recruits ready to play this year to make up for injuries. I can't really put that on Atticus. Landry Jones threw five picks the other day. Not the O-lines fault, son. 

Nebraska's offense is 84th in the country and they play in the Big 12. Holding those jokers to ten is not amazing. OU needs help at EVERY position on offense.

There are three big problems with the OU offense right now: 1. The Offensive Line is terrible, 2. the receivers are not running their routes correctly (and dropping passes), 3. The offensive coaching staff isn't making in-game adjustments to what the defense is doing. OU was pressuring KSU's QB in their game against OU, and the KSU coaches rolled the QB out of the pocket in order to adjust to OU's pressure. However, the OU coaches failed to adjust and just kept running the same plays.

Jay Cronley, you great know-it-all you!! Please use your tiny wisdom and tell us what OU's record would be as of this moment if it had played every game with a healthy Bradford (returning Heisman winner) and Gresham (returning top 15 Pro pick and All American)!!

Rapid Robert, the whole point is that OU doesn't have Sam Bradford BECAUSE of the points the Picker made!

Bad recruiting system, questionable coaching, and shallow depth on the O-line lead to Bradford's injury in the first place.

Why is it that OU is racking up all these injuries by the way? Are these the most unlucky kids in the nation? Maybe someone needs to light a fire underneath the seat of the Strength and Conditioning coach.