So the Picker now declares that the OKC sports media, in entirety, is incompetent and only a writer from his own paper is worth his salt. Close to crossing a line there Picker.

Anybody know why Venables hasn't gotten a job after all these years?

He has had NO other offers...are you serious? But you are right about one thing...Venables' remaining in Norman is an exercise in reckless loyalty...not Venables to Stoops, but Stoops to Venables. Why is it that Brent can field a team that looks like a Montessori team for nine games and then suddenly rear up and plays like Switzer's 1974 defense in two games? That, my friend, is inconsistency. He isn't being offered jobs elsewhere because others can see what he is NOT doing in Norman. When Pelini served as co-defensive coordinator alongside Venables, the two couldn't stand one another...barely spoke...and the result was obvious. So what happened? Pelini left for LSU and Venables remained. And he will continue to remain until he gets a shot at a head-coaching position elsewhere (should he ever be able to put an entire season of effective defense together at one time...) or until Stoops leaves; Stoops will never...ever...let Venables go. Too loyal. To a fault.

Gosh...just think of it...a text message from Bob Stoops. Golly gee...willikers.

Tulsaadguy, Texas has BYU at home and is at UCLA next season, no cupcakes, either.

Mack seems to have lost a step.

One, how can you not know a quarterback is average?

Two, how can you keep playing one who is?

Stoops loses five and gets a raise. Mack's losing record could double his salary. Football money is funny.

It's true, hanging out with the OKC Sooner media clones is something to which we aspire. Trade stories about the times we had bowl beers with the kicking coaches, etc.

I like it better when you rip on Tulsa local sports radio. Whats Jerkens' show up to, 20th, 21st in town?

Picker no like Stoops. Picker want John Blake as coach.

Had to chuckle when I read that last blog entry. Picker, I'd swear you had written it yourself had 'imminent' not been misspelled (or perhaps you misspelled it intentionally to comply with the literacy standards of the Daily Oklahoman). When I relocated from Tulsa to St Louis in the late nineties - before the proliferation of the internet and news files - I had friends clip out and mail the Picker column on a weekly basis; never failed to produce a smile at least or a belly-laugh at best. Time to stop lest I further inflate Pick's ego...

Hey the Browns are becoming unhappy with Mangini. Stoops to Cleveland? 15 degrees, lake efeect snow at the stadium on lake erie, and....... LeBron's house is for sale

Have to confess, am not the picker and my spelling is suspect at times but is rendered spell check error free on Microsoft word. WGSPOST, same here, living in Wyoming my folks clipped out the Picks every Thursday and mailed them too me, at school as well. When my sister errantly threw away my picks collection from the very beginning, I went to the library and photo copied all the missing Pick's installments. This collection is nestled snuggly between Patton: A Genius For War and The Art of war by Sun Tzu. The genius is the humor and ability to point out the obvious to non-homers and objective soul’s throughout the universe.
Two of my all time favorites were “Fred Akers would have surrendered the Alamo” when he punted with maybe 2 minutes left in the RRR and was behind. The second was the Nebraska runner that use to reference himself as “Endzone Jones” after playing OU the Picks said his name should be “Hospital Zone Jones” brilliant stuff. There are many more of course but, sheer genius though. If you can’t laugh at this stuff it’s incredibly sad.

It's the highlight of the week reading the picker. I have to admit that some of the posts are now getting better than the article.

What in the world is going on here? I step away for a little bit and everyone is holding hands and stroking an ego that long ago reached maximum size? I am used to WGPOST being around the picker just in case an aroma escapes Pick, but wow I didn't expect it to be contagious. Pick I have always liked the column, especially when you are wrong, which is almost always, so I really enjoy it. But this is almost nauseating, "I went down to the archives and copied those my sis threw out!" I almost cried when I read that. I have Rockwellian painting envisioned in my mind of Wg, dcood, jhpoke and valhalla gathered around thursday paper, or was it Saturday Evening Post? At barber shop, everyone reading every word, back in the long, long ago. Ah, they don't make em like the ol' Picker anymore, sigh.