Hey Licker,
You miss all the Big XII Championships OU is racking up? How many other coaches are getting their teams to those big games? And USC and WV weren't close, but the others could have gone either way and you know it. Did you see what OU was doing before Stoops got there? You really think he isn't a great coach? Few coaches are doing what OU is doing, which is winning. It's not like there are coaches out there who are winning it all every year. Are there? Am I missing some team that has won six in a row? Is OU or Stoops to be held responsible for other Big XII teams, not being better? We can only play the teams in our conference. How about USC being in the Pac-10. Is it fair that they get ranked high by beating up a group of teams that are worse than anything in the Big XII? And even they keep losing at least once a year.
It's been a while since I posted on here, but I know you know who I am. I'll keep posting as long as you're going to continue to say silly things.

Michael C....I like your style.

If Pick was just one tenth as good a writer as Stoops is a coach he would be famous and not a hack.

He just does this to agitate the fans. Probably makes his readership numbers acceptable.

Ken7: It's not that he said something bad about the Sooners, it's that he seems ignorant for a sports writer. Where as you, on the other hand, just seem like a fool. I'd say something bad about OSU, but that would be like making fun of a retarded blind kid. And that's not right.

In order to justify the Picker's comments one would have to go back to each of OU's big losses and dissect the reasons why each happened. Then, one could assess whether glaring waeknesses at key positions were the cause, the breaks of the game (a Texas loss or two come to mind), or fundamental failures at critical moments in decisions made by the coaching staff itself. In many games all these factors come into play, sort of like mechanical problems causing planes to fall. Should OU's defense have been able to compete against Boise and West Va? One would certainly have thought so. Remember when a very well coached Washington team ran over a Switzer OU team with umpteen NFL type players simply by taking advantage of OU's defensive quickness off the snap by running misdirection plays? No adjustment by OU at the half and nothing changed.Another time an obviously inferior Arkansas team came out and whipped a much better equipped OU team in the Orange Bowl from the kick-off. I don't remember anyone taking serious looks at Switzer when those things happened. You really have to analyze each loss.

So, Alum, being terrible in the 90's is an excuse for being an also ran now?

Michael C.= typical gooner fan who couldn't find Norman on a map of Cleveland county!! LOL

hey ken that's big talk from the 4th best team in the big 12 south, congratulations on that.

I never knew it was a requirement to attend the university that you're a fan of. But then again the only fans of OSLose are alums, or there wouldn't be any at all.

Ken, as an OSU fan I have to ask you to shut up. You are putting down "gooner" fans for being the same breed of fan that you are. Be better than that.

Michael C, is refering to all OSU fans as "retarded blind kids" any worse than making fun of them? Doubt it. Stay classy.

Rogerq, the whole "4th best team" slam is a spin that holds less and less water each time used. When 4 teams are ranked in the top 15 in the BCS poll and they all happen to be from the same division, somebody has to be 4th. That doesn't make them a bad team. It makes the division that good. You're reaching.

Also, it's not a requirement to attend the university you are fan of but it is definitely obvious when you run into one of those fans that has never attended ANY institute of higher learning. They tend to use brilliant terms like "OSLose" and "Stoolwater." Yes, your 10 year old thinks it's funny, but then again, he's 10 years old, isn't he?

Lance-a-lot - you're an also ran in the Bedlam series and that definitely hurts....you should get your buddies Ken, Mex, and Outpick and go change Lewis Field to NGAF Field...................No Good at Football....oh yes, that ol truth most definitely hurts.....

Michael C: So we agree. Stoops' most important recent wins were against the Big 12 North, arguably the worst collection of teams on the continent.

Wins against OSU are big, no doubt about it. But against a horrific defense.

So if a person is to be fair, Sooner fan or neutral observer on a rock in Montana, it is accurate to say that in the last nine biggest games, five BCS bowls, and the last four Texas games, Stoops is 1-8.

That has nothing to do with where OU was a decade ago.

It is a proven fact that Stoops rescued OU from the depths of dispair.

But in the last 9 biggest games, something is missing.

Only homers could deny that.

The question is, what's 1-8 about?

Our theory is: a defense too complicated. If receivers come up uncovered year after year after year, big game after big game, it means something.

For visitors new to the site, please scan back to Rogerq's note.

meximike then maybe you should move to the mountain west or the lone star conference to get the success you desire. In my book 4th out of 6 isn't that good no matter where you're ranked in the polls. and i have no children and i wasn't trying to be funny, i was digging at you and it worked.

and ken7 if being a fan requires attendance at that particular university then i'll take you one step further: being a fan should require that you were an athlete. I was all district football and soccer in high school. I was an all district collegian too. I set 7 school records, 5 in my freshman year at the university level, top 10 at my position in the country. One of my records stood for 19 years before it was broken.

What up, tooth pick in nose ?? we'll throw out TBGF,NGAF, OU national titles in football, OSU national titles in football(ha ha), Degrees (meaningless where you go to school).........you're 0-0 and I'm 0-0.....I'll concentrate on a 4th straight big 12 title, and you might want to figure out how to beat Texas.....lol

Tattoo, I find it funny when you call anyone a "hick".

A "hick" is what many people from other states call all Oklahomans. A "hick" is someone who generally speaking can be considered "white trash". I think OU has plenty of those "hicks" running around (including yourself).

Next time you refer to anyone as a "hick", you may want to think of another term. It offends everyone and no fan base in Oklahoma is safe from them.