Orange Power outage
Published: 7/23/2007 5:05 PM
Last Modified: 7/23/2007 5:05 PM
Just saw the Oklahoma contingent leave the St. Anthony Hotel in downtown San Antonio, site of this year's Big 12 football media days. As far as I could tell, Bob Stoops, Malcolm Kelly, Marcus Walker and Joe Jon Finley were here for five hours, and none of them said anything incendiary about Texas, Oklahoma State or the color orange.
Not that I know for sure -- I spent the entire day following players from OU, Baylor, Nebraska and Kansas into vacant ballrooms, unoccupied hallways and dark stairwells, just so I could get decent answers to indecent questions you'll read much more about in this Sunday's World.
Still, it seemed all anyone wanted to talk about was the Sooners' reaction to the NCAA "deal," or what it's like living in the shadow of college football's ultimate Cinderella (Boise State), or if the Oregon officials still keep anyone up at night, or the quarterback position.
If anyone got off any kind of blast at the expense of the Longhorns or Cowboys, I didn't feel it.
I did hear (second hand, I'll admit) that someone asked Walker to name the best wide receiver in the Big 12. He said, naturally, "Malcolm Kelly."
So then some wise guy went up to Kelly and asked what that made OSU's Adarius Bowman and Texas' Limas Sweed. Kelly, as quick a thinker as he is a runner, said, "1A and 1B."
I guess we'll have to wait for Wednesday, when the Cowboys and Longhorns visit the St. Anthony, for any serious smack.
Just in case we stay civilized the entire week, here's something to keep you occupied, the first media prediction of this year's OU-Texas game I know of, courtesy of CollegeFootballNews.com:
"Texas has the quarterback edge and will be stronger in the defensive front seven, but OU will have the far better offensive line and far, far better secondary. The Sooner front five will control the tempo and get the running game going, while the secondary will do a better job on the insanely good Texas receiving corps than the Texas secondary will do on the insanely good OU receiving corps. This will be when OU makes a statement that it’ll be in the hunt for the national championship all season long...
OU 23, Texas 17"
-- Guerin Emig
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Guerin Emig
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