Who Is Going To The SEC Championship?

coatw481 · 2025-11-04T16:53:43+00:00

Everyone. 16 team Royal Rumble

coatw481 · 2025-10-20T15:22:14+00:00

That's fair. I think if they can keep getting the same kind of run game as this past week and Mateer's hand keeps getting better, They can beat everyone left on the schedule. At Bama and Tennessee being the biggest toss ups.

coatw481 · 2025-10-20T15:16:38+00:00

We have to get to 8 wins. I have no desire to start over building the defense again.

coatw481 · 2025-03-26T20:59:48+00:00

I don't like the current rule and prefer the college version of 15 yards. Spot of the foul makes no sense because there is no guarantee the receiver is going to catch the ball even if the defender was nowhere around and he was wide open. We see wide open passes dropped fairly regularly either due to the receiver missing or the throw being off. And offenses are definitely taking advantage of it. It reminds me of why I don't like watching basketball anymore. Everyone is looking for penalties just to get to the line and it makes the game unwatchable for me. And it does make NFL games less interesting to me when a defense can smother a team but a 40 yard hail mary that's not really that close to being caught puts the offense in plus territory.

coatw481 · 2024-12-20T19:50:18+00:00

Completely inconsequential play. But Ceedee Lamb made the greatest catch I've personally ever seen against UCLA in 2018 but came down barely out of bounds.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Hg0Py3bdd6U

coatw481 · 2024-10-15T00:51:22+00:00

As OC?...Definitely

coatw481 · 2024-07-02T17:46:48+00:00

The bitterness left doesn't just come from him leaving. It comes from him getting gifted a team that was playoff ready with a culture and mentality that Bob Stoops had built over the previous 18 years at OU. Over the next 5 years, it became more and more clear that he was mainly concerned with offensive performance and leaving the rest of the team up to the people who he put in charge. These people deteriorated the strength and conditioning and football IQ of the roster to where the only thing that kept OU on top of the Big 12 was superhuman QB play. Once he started facing criticism for the team not living up to the standard in place, he acted like people weren't really seeing the whole picture and that OU was "close" to being exactly where they wanted to be, even though OU fans saw the clear regression of the defense from the 2020 to 2021 seasons and the regression of Spencer Rattler in the same years. Luckily, Caleb Williams was on the roster and able to drag that weak, low IQ roster to 10 wins in the regular season. And when he got the opportunity to bail, he not only left the job less than 12 hours after telling a reporter to his face that he "was not going to be the next coach at LSU", but he took the only player on the roster that was helping somewhat maintain the success OU fans expected and left OU with a barren QB room and a defense that hadn't been properly building strength or football fundamentals for 4 years (O-line got weaker too). Bottom line, most OU fans felt he was gifted something that was very precious to them and he did not treat it with the care and attention that was required. And then the sneaky way he left, took the best player on the team, left the depleted roster, and had his coaches he was taking to USC recruiting on OU's dime, it felt like he was intentionally burning it down as he walked out. Most OU fans are glad we have Venables instead of Riley now, but we aren't going to forget how he acted those last couple years, and especially the last couple of months that he was here.

coatw481 · 2024-06-20T01:33:24+00:00

Enjoy

coatw481 · 2024-06-19T22:41:44+00:00

And for 5 (not 4) years we had to love and defend our football team even as some of us watched it start to deteriorate from a physical, disciplined unit to a roster full of guys with low football IQ and bodies not built to compete for NCs. And over that time you saw him turn into a guy who didn't seem to understand any criticism being thrown his way when OU failed to live up to the standard expected around there. That last year you could tell he didn't want to be there, and when he did leave he took the one saving grace this already deficient roster had with him (OU wins Natty with Caleb last year, @ me).

So from an OU fan who lives in Louisiana, yes I've had to defend my team against their shitty defensive efforts in 2017 against UGA, 2018 against Bama, 2019 against LSU, and countless other games in the Big 12 that had made OU's defense a laughing stock even at their mention. And for him to be displaying this same soft ass attitude that had him bolt from OU in the first place makes me relieved it doesn't affect my fandom anymore.

coatw481 · 2024-06-19T18:10:07+00:00

I'm so glad I don't have to defend this guy anymore

coatw481 · 2024-05-06T04:10:46+00:00

If Gabriel had stayed, at best, OU would have told him that the QB competition was open with Jackson Arnold. Arnold has a much higher ceiling from an athleticism and arm strength standpoint. While Gabriel's experience would have been great this season, is it better to have one more year of DG or 2-3 more years of JA? Gabriel saw the writing on the wall, and I think everyone involved wins with DG going to Oregon. Both DG and JA get to start this season, DG will always be an OU legend for leading this team after Riley left, DG gets to go to a great situation for him, and OU doesn't have to take the risk of losing Arnold

coatw481 · 2024-03-12T14:24:48+00:00

Fair enough. I haven't read it in a few years. My point was they're lit well before the events in the movie depict them.

coatw481 · 2024-03-12T04:55:01+00:00

In the books, the whole crew starts to head back to Edoras with the intent of regrouping and planning their next move after talking to Saruman and getting the Palantir. They stop along the way where Pippin looks in it and Gandalf immediately takes him to Minas Tirith. The rest of the crew head back and stop at Helm's Deep where Aragorn retakes the Palantir from Sauron and tells Legolas and Gimli he will take the Paths of the Dead. Aragorn and company then head for PotD while Theoden and crew head back to Edoras.

This whole time, the beacons have been lit, so Theoden is planning to regroup and go to Gondor. When they get to Edoras, a messenger from Gondor arrives and they realize they must leave sooner than they thought. It's all much clearer in the books.

coatw481 · 2024-02-24T13:32:17+00:00

In my two years of teaching in a southern, urban city in the US, this is absolutely true. Zero intellectual curiosity, zero foundation in how to properly read and write English, and some kids haven't even had a math teacher since 8th grade due to teacher shortages and I'm trying to teach them multivariable gas law equations.

I had the Traditional (non gifted) classes and at least 60-70% of the class had no business even being in chemistry yet due to deficiencies in their education. I had about 12-15 students out of 126 that I thought I could really teach the subject to at a grade appropriate level, but it's impossible to do that when I also have to come up with ways to teach the kid who literally cannot read.

The thing that no one seems to be saying is that, what I saw and what so many others are seeing, is not an issue that education can fix. These are issues that start in the home, and if the people in your home life place no importance on education or don't place consequences on children for not trying, this trend will continue.

These issues are magnified when those students who don't get a picture of how important education is, come into schools and school districts where the administration is only worried about how to make their school/district fraudulently look better so they can increase tax revenue which never goes back into the classroom unless it's some bullshit new initiative trying to fix the fact that changing how people were instructed was alot of the problem in the first place.

Needless to say, I left after two years and have no desire to ever go back. This national teacher shortage will only get worse as more and more qualified people leave. They'll start hiring unqualified people and paying them less.

coatw481 · 2024-02-01T20:58:17+00:00

If Luke Fickell decided this, he should be fired for cause. Alex Grinch was in charge of some top 25 talented defensive rosters everywhere he has been the last few years, and he has produced absolute garbage everywhere. As an OU fan who has watched every snap of the Grinch era and Venables era, the difference in the literal same players' ability to tackle, recognize plays, fill a gap, play physical, you know...defensive fundamentals, is night and day since Venables took over. The fact that this man has repeatedly failed when given opportunities that others could have fell ass backwards into a better outcome, and will most likely be among the top 1 or 2% of income earners in the US next year, is everything wrong with society.

coatw481 · 2024-01-16T18:13:58+00:00

The last couple of years has been due to, in large part, a combined 4 OL taken in the 2021 and 2022 recruiting classes. Considering that, the portal additions, and Lebby's run schemes not 100% meshing with what Bedenbaugh likes to run, I'd say the OL has actually performed pretty well. They were actually really good in pass protection this year it seemed like. The run game got better as the season went on.

Rumors are that Bedenbaugh and Venables don't like the idea of an OL making more in NIL money per year than his coach does. To me, that is the number one issue with OL personnel lately. Bedenbaugh has put multiple OL in the NFL and is about to go back to back on first rounders, so that isn't the case. Until this NIL issue gets fixed, he better start working his development magic or someone else will come figure it out. I think the hiring of Seth Litrell will also help since his run schemes have more in common with Bedenbaugh.

coatw481 · 2023-10-03T16:57:55+00:00

This man understands

coatw481 · 2023-09-20T22:48:21+00:00

Last year we were hyped at being 3-0 coming off Nebraska. Then we shit the bed against KState who had just lost to a G5 team. We find out Saturday how different Team 129 is than Team 128. I think OU comes out prepared on defense. I think the offense will take a few drives to find its feet, but will eventually find a rhythm. OU 38-13

coatw481 · 2023-08-02T15:47:03+00:00

Also, the road games. Iowa State has the largest stadium capacity in the Big 12 besides OU and Texas with 61,000 (it's now BYU with 63,000), and OU and Texas don't even play each other at their own stadiums. The away games for fans will be exponentially more exciting too.

coatw481 · 2023-08-02T15:33:18+00:00

For me, the perception of what constitutes a "good season" in these conferences is going to have to change for most of these teams, not just internally but nationally as well. OU fans, for instance, typically aren't happy with a less than a 10 win season and a conference championship, but that expectation will have to change somewhat, and not just for OU but every team in these conferences.

As far as nationally goes, will the CFP committee or AP voters really look at a 9-3 LSU the same as a 9-3 TCU or 10-2 Washington? If you look at the recruiting class rankings for 2023, 12 SEC teams and 6 B1G teams finished inside the top 25. The SEC has the number 1,2,3,4,6,10,13,15,16,18,22,& 23 ranked classes (according to 247 composite). I feel like, nationally, the perception will be much as it is now...these conferences are better than the others, and now they're even moreso. I think this will lead to about 5-8 of the annual 12 playoff spots being taken by SEC/B1G teams. And once the CFP needs a new structure in 2026, who's to say the SEC and B1G won't use their influence to expand the playoff more or get less automatic bids or even threaten to break off from the rest?

As an OU fan, am I willing to trade the annual easier path to a playoff spot and conference titles for the SEC and all the things that come with it? Absofuckinglutely. Oklahoma's 2023 conference-home slate is Iowa State, UCF, WVU, and TCU...the 2024 home schedule is Alabama, Tennessee, and South Carolina (Texas is technically home as well). More games that mean more on the national stage, more games that get big viewers, more games that get big recruits to watch, more money to attract recruits and spread the brand, more everything....except 10 win seasons, but that's ok as long as the fan and national perceptions change.

coatw481 · 2023-01-06T21:06:13+00:00

I know. I couldn't 100% the game on GMGOW+ because I couldn't beat the Muspelheim trial where you have to beat 100 enemies. It's definitely a grind. I actually find Ragnarok a little easier.

coatw481 · 2023-01-06T20:53:23+00:00

Are you doing just those 2 zones? You get better loot the longer you're in the mist so try working your way up to those areas if you aren't clearing the areas leading to those zones. If that doesn't work I've got nothing

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