Oklahoma is 22-19 away from home since the start of 2005

Against A&M, OU had 104 offensive plays.
How many miscues in the Red Zone?
Landry was sacked 4 times.

Thanks to OU, avg. Coach Sherman
stays @ A&M another year after
looking like a “genius’ against
a predictable OU offense.

What happens to the Sooner nation IF they loose in Waco?

Anyone else smelling a OSU blowout
over them Sooners in a few weeks?

O/s of a 5 Big 12 Championships,
When was the last Big Game won by Big Game Bob?

Is Barry Switzer right, is OSU about to pass by OU
as the dominant f-ball program in the state?

What school has newer
& better facilities than them Cowboys?

Gentlemen, think back...it has been a slow, insidious process of degeneration in Norman. Blake left and Stoops entered the picture and by comparison (both personally and professionally), the messiah had just broken bread in the promised land. And then, lo' and behold, said Messiah leads the long-suffering (1988-1998) chosen people to the promised land with a completely unexpected national title in 2000. Suddenly, Stoops could do no wrong; his offense weathered the departure of Leach well with Mangino and the Mike Stoops/Brent Venables tandem seemed to be producing the perfect "Dick and Perry" synergy required for good defense. And then...bit by bit...we starting losing. First, winning the "Big Game" was replaced by "Heck, at least he gets us to the big game", and then we began losing almost every contest we played after Dec 5; and then, we weren't just losing but losing ugly (you never saw an opponent tatoo 55 points on Switzer's behind, did you?), and now we're playing .500 ball (maybe) on the road and struggling to avoid embarrassment, all to the tune of $ mil a year to Mr. Stoops. And if the head coach doesn't show some testosterone by realigning his coaching staff and putting the best players on the field as promised (are you listening Landry), we're going to find ourselves saddled with a permanently mediocre team with an even larger salary (did anyone catch the fact that Wilson and Venables just received raises a few weeks ago?).

Uh MexiMike, Brandon Weeden IS a mobile QB. Did you NOT see those scrambles on Saturday? He outrushed Griffin!! OSU needs to start executing more zone-reads!! Haha!!

It's time for a change. I'm tired of trying to rationalize the decisions of the OU coaching staff. Kevin Wilson is unbearable. Venables is frustrating but not to the extent of Wilson. I would rather that Stoops replace both.

Stoops' tragic flaw just might be his loyalty; he will stubbornly stand by Wilson and Venables...admirable traits usually, but not when so many are so highly invested in the result of his efforts.

I think Saturdays game at A&M was the worst performance by a Sooner team since at least the 55-?? smack down by USC. This team played 14:30 of decent football in the 3rd quarter. The rest of the time they looked worse than a team from the Muskogee School of the Blind (sorry Blind kids). As a Sooner fan, I am hoping that the freshmen will blossom sooner rather than later. As a realist, I understand that the coaching staff is not doing it's job in preparing these kids to play. This was a terrible effort and if they continue this way I hope at least OSU would represent the state as the BIG 12 South's best.

I completely echo the majority of the sentiments expressed in this thread. It's coaching, and Stoops is so stubborn he refuses to make the changes in the coaching staff needed to correct the problems. For 10 years, Stoops has had a pass because he won the National Championship using players that had all been recruited by John Blake. Since then, we've spent 10 seasons earning, rightfully so, the national nickname "Chokelahoma". The coaching staff doesn't make adjustments, doesn't stick with what's working, lacks creativity, and I don't think they're any good at picking the right positions for players. We have the fattest and slowest linemen I've seen in ten years.

Changes have been needed for the past 4-5 seasons. It's long overdue that Stoops make coaching staff changes during the off season. If something isn't working, try something different. When you have talent on the offensive and defensive lines and fail to develop over the course of the season, that's on the coaching staff. The consistent lack of discipline on the defensive side of the ball is also a sign of lousy coaching.

If it weren't for Josh Heupel, Stoops would be taking a lot more heat.

I'll end my post with the following analogy:
Josh Heupel is to Bob Stoops as Vince Young is to Mack Brown.

Lack of a defense puts the offense under too much pressure. Look what happened when Missouri played a Nebraska defense. Even some past teams had weak defenses, but were able to get through most of the season with overpowering offenses. They didn't get 'undone' until they ran into a program who could exploit that. Remember the USC blowout? This season, the offense is pretty good but not great...and less talented programs such as Missouri and Texas A&M are able to undo OU. I'm sure OSU is salivating in wait for their turn at OU.

OU-Overated Underachievers! Someone should lose their positions over this crap, either coaches or starters. Change something, this ain't workin, give someone else a chance to prove they can play or coach!

Here's what I think. Screw 5 star recruits. Screw 40 yard dash, vertical leap, and bench press numbers. None of those things are a substitute for toughness, intelligence, work ethic, or character. When less talented teams lose, at least many of them fight to the very end. I don't sense that from OU and I haven't sensed that from them for a long time.

Not that the players are the only ones to blame. Quite the contrary. Stoops is a great head coach, but he gives his assistants way too many free passes when things go wrong. I don't know that firing any of them is the answer, but he could chew them out from time to time. They are so incompetent at times that it makes me wonder if Jenks doesn't have a better coaching staff than OU.

gba, it might have something to do with TCU's soft schedule as well...just saying.