CrippledShark, San Antonio (10/10/2009 12:08:05 PM)

Hoov,
Nice article and in retrospect I suppose there are a lot of similarities between these two squads.

I would also like to mention the loss of key coaches prior to the start of 2005 and 2009.

Actually every year that Big Game Bobbie has been here, he has lost key personnel on the field and on the sidelines.

It is bound to happen as you can't win all those Big 12 championships and play in all those BCS games without good coaching.

That being said; I feel safe in saying that Bob needs to look at all aspects of recruiting and not just players.

One name in particular - Gus Mahlzan. Just imagine what he could do with the talent at OU. Landry Jones under the tutelage of Mahlzan would make Texas Tech's offense look like preschool.

There are a dozen other coaches on both sides of the ball that could come in and reinvigorate OU's offense and solidify the defense.

Continuity and consistency are good but it can also become stale. In college ball the only traditions worth hanging on to are the campus life.

If you aren't moving forward - you lose the innovation, surprise and you become predictable. It's like the Dallas Cowboys - everyone knows that all you have to do is blitz Romo and more times than not you will get a turn over.

Bob needs to spice it up a bit in order to keep up because he can get talent. Think of the wishbone run by all the previous OU staff. Eventually, it went away because of scholarship limits and the talent became more dispersed across Div 1. All the good coaches that played against OU simply brought 8 men up and had corners and safeties with speed.

Then OU brought in this coach from Florida and he shook it up a bit. He used John Blake's players (he is a great recruiter) and inserted an innovative system. The rest they say is history and that is the problem - it is history.

Bob needs to re-write history before OU has to rebuild again.

Peace out,
Crippled Shark

Kat Hat, Owasso (10/10/2009 11:27:00 PM)

Wow... How novel... I only thought of this comparison... Oh... I don't know... This past summer... Perhaps it's why I wasn't really surprised that we lost to BYU... It was fate...