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Dave blisters players and coaches for the dismal performance against Texas

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Three years in a row OU has now lost to texas. Oh I know in 2014 the scoreboard gave us the win. But they still kicked our ass all over the field. Just like last Saturday.

What a huge embarrassment. How in the world does this team not come ready to play against their main rival? It’s the the Red River Shootout! It’s the Cotton Bowl and the Texas State Fair! It’s Billy Simms and Earl Campbell! It’s Roy Williams and Christy Simms! What else has to be said?!

Is it the coaches that have a problem conveying the importance of this rivalry? Is it the players themselves that for some reason can’t get up for this game?

It’s actually both. And I can’t for the life of me understand it. If we start with the players, Stoops is right. At some point the players have to decide to be ready to play. It’s more than talent and skill. They have to have a passion for it every single play.

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Look out Sooners – Texas will come out on fire — they have nothing to lose

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Four games in and I am not really sure how good this OU team is.

To be sure, the West Virginia win was a solid victory. The Mountaineers came in with impressive stats on offense and

defense, albeit against inferior opponents. The more concerning issue is the resume of the
other teams the Sooners have beaten this season.

Tulsa got beat by Houston and by a pretty healthy margin. But more disappointing is the Tennessee Volunteers. They just keep finding
new ways to blow big leads. Now the Vols are 2-3 and that Sooner win in Knoxville doesn’t look so great. Or does it? If you look at it from another angle, the Volunteers should have by all
accounts beaten Florida on the Gators home field. The same Florida team that has now knocked off then number 3 Ole Miss and is undefeated and a top ten team.

So again, how good is Oklahoma? You would think good enough to beat a complete mess of a 1-4 texas team this Saturday in the 110th edition of the Red River Rivalry. And that’s what scares me about this game. OU thinking they are good enough to just show up and beat the longhorns without breaking a sweat. Scares the hell out of me.

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It looks good, but Sooner fans need to be wary of these wounded Longhorns

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Let’s not start the celebration just yet.

There is no doubt there is trouble down in Austinville. The natives there are ready to run second-year coach Charlie Strong out of town. Frankly, his Longhorn team has looked pretty pitiful this year, coming into Saturday’s Red River Shoot Out, Rivalry or Showdown (whatever advertisers want to call it this year) with a 1-4 record (0-2 in the conference); and, more significantly, looking more like Gooberville high school team than the mighty Texas.

Meanwhile, Sooners fans will throw out any reservations they have held about their own team this week — because showing signs of weakness is not what you do this week — and, besides, No. 9 Oklahoma has proven with wins on the road against Tennessee and at home against West Virginia, that a win against Texas isn’t a question of whether it will happen, but rather by how much.

Boomer Sooner baby. Oklahoma should roll.

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