and? I guess you missed the dozen times since then OU made the CFP/NY6 bowl since then showing that beating was an anomaly? if we had not sucked since the NC game and had actually made it to the CFP since then - people would have a different view. But since we have been on a downhill slide, we have justified the belief we didn't belong.
How many of those games did they win again?
Well, Michigan State made the CFP, got blown out 38-0 by Alabama, and then went 3-9 the next year. Is that better?
not many - how many did we? are you seriously trying to act like the college football perception of OU is not 10x better than that of TCU?
It’s been way better for basically forever. What’s your point?
so the fact that Michigan state is also irrelevant makes TCU and Dykes failure ok? man what a scheissing loser you really are evidently - "at least others suck also" - that your life motto?
that OU didn't disappear into the neverland after getting beat bad - but we did, so its a stupid comparison for Top to bring up.
We are 1-1, Oklahoma is 0-4. I think our perception purely in terms of CFP is stronger. It's not like we've been jumped for at-large bids like we were in years passed, we just haven't been good enough to earn one.
then you don't know [ Finebaum ] about college football if you think anyone on the planet not a Frog thinks anything about our football program is stronger than OU....plain and simple.
Idk I like having the Fiesta Bowl trophy and being the only TX and B12 school to win a semi.
Watching the replay gives me a semi for sure.
I think obviously not better going 9-3. We would still be here in this disappointing season but Sonny would not have had the contract extension. I agree with you in other points. I loved beating Michigan. I loved that we went to the national championship. After 2014, I never thought they would allow it.
Too much is being made of the contract extension. He's like the 30th highest paid coach in the country (despite a NCG appearance), and he's only under contract for 3 more years.
I am thinking more in years than in money. He would be closer to the end of the current contract and easier to pull the trigger.
OK, but that's easier said than done. The lame duck coach thing, unless you just want to set your coach up to fail. If money is that much of an issue, we are probably playing in the wrong pool, because in the pay for play era it's all about money and how much you have. You can have the greatest coach in the world but if you can't then go buy players, he is not going to win much. Texas Tech didn't get good by hiring the right guy and coaching 'em up.
Fiesta Bowl replay goes hard for sure.
mainly because teams that tend to make that, with the exception of Ohio State, Bama and Georgia, are usually there in part due to a fairly Senior laden team. The big trio can do that, because they have 4 stars on the 3 deep and don't tend to lose so much each year.
The fans always had hope that when GP was the coach, he'd get us into the top 10 or top 5 in the near future. He delivered many times. When he stopped delivering, he was shown the door in an ignominious way.
It's not like just as soon as GP started losing we got rid of him. He was 38-32 overall/24-26 B12 over the last six years of his tenure. That's a pretty damn long rope if 10-win seasons are the standard. As for the ignominious way he was let go, if the guy refuses to make changes on his staff, and refuses to step down when he's asked to, what are you supposed to do? Dykes may indeed need to go soon, but this "accepting mediocrity" bit 09 has going is dumb. If he can show me some posts from 2020 or 2021 where he is demanding we get rid of GP, I'll take him at his word that he just won't "accept mediocrity".
