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An Afternoon With the Very, Very Classy Bob Stoops

Posted by TaylorTRoom on October 6th, 2009 under Football

From yesterday's press conference with comments... "Those people, I'm sure they're good play-callers after the fact; they can call plays when they get their team (Nope, no insecurity here)," Stoops told reporters after Monday's practice. "Our game plan was what it had been all along; I don't see where people get that. We went right down the field and scored on the first drive of the game. We were calling those same plays throughout the game.
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Thoughts on OU/Florida

Posted by TaylorTRoom on December 18th, 2008 under Football

My hatred for OU grows hotter every day. The nation seems to have bought into Stoops' suggestion that their loss to Texas was insignificant, an example of a superior team overlooking an opponent playing over its head- kind of like Florida slipping up against Ol' Miss in the Swamp, or USC forgetting to wake up against Oregon State until it was too late. As we know,


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The 2008 BCS and Texas

Posted by TaylorTRoom on December 14th, 2008 under Football

I've put a lot of thought (and even more teeth gnashing and head-beating) into this post.  I've tried to support it with data, but by necessity a lot of it is conjecture, although well founded in my opinion.  If anybody can hack the numbers better, I would like to hear them. The November 30 BCS, which had OU 2nd and UT 3rd, drove a lot of the endgame of the 2008 season in college football.  It
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The Stoops Paradox

Posted by TaylorTRoom on December 3rd, 2008 under Football

I see a lot of people parroting Stoops' line about  how  you can't use Texas' head-to-head victory over OU in voting unless you also vote Tech ahead of Texas...but yet OU beat Tech.  OMG!  There is no solution!  I am surprised by how many people seem to buy this argument.  It's an example of specious reasoning called a paradox.  Merriam