It’s KSU Voodoo! Black Magic! Call In A Witch…
It is now official, I’m just as great a psychic future fortune teller as was Nostradamus, Edgar Cayce or Jean Dixon.
OU’s football team should never again play Kansas State under any circumstances, anywhere, anytime ever again – without some Witch/Conjurer/Sorcerer who magically transports themselves to the center of the field wherever the teams are playing and then proceeds to cast a spell on football ineptitude, stupidity and poor play over every second of KSU’s play.
The Curse Of The Wildcat has struck OU again. And this time, it was not only ugly proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, that, right now, Venables, et al on the defensive coaching staff, have no Sooner magic over a barely acceptable, very poor defensive squad.
In the Sooner’s mystifying and epic defensive collapse last Saturday a seemingly dumbstruck Venables, the head Defensive Coordinator, and Co-Defensive Coordinator Ted Roof looked bewildered in the post-game press conference, with not a real answer between them of how they are going to fix the Calamity Of The 12 Defense that trotted onto the field in Kansas?
The harsh truth, the bitter reality is that Venables and Roof are not miracle works, although they very well could be by seasons end
Both good men solid and hard-working coaches lamented poor tackling, defenders being out of position, taking the wrong angles and making the wrong reads etc., etc.
The harsh truth, the bitter reality. is that Venables and Roof are not miracle works, although they very well could be by seasons end.
And Santa Claus is real, Donald Trump isn’t guilty of treason and insurrection, and the actress Dianne Lane is my secret girlfriend who is begging me to move to California to be by her side day and night (Please, God!)
The truth of the matter is, Lincoln Riley and his defensive head coach, a.k.a SmuckFace (and whose name I will never type or say again) left the defensive cupboard not just bare, but with a bunch of guys who, frankly seem unable after two years to learn and play at OU’s historical level or anywhere near it.
They just cannot cut the mustard. They are, no doubt, working hard and trying to get better, but, to get back to the Bob Stoops, Larry Lacewell levels of defensive dominations, is probably going to take two more years.
Yes, this squad absolutely can get better and play better. It has no choice for the remainder of this season. but I’m absolutely fed up with watching game-after-game, season-after-season of OU’s defense get kicked in the keister like a one-legged, man – the target of the butt-kicking contest, in an octagon while other two-legged guys run around an octagon kicking that one-legged guy’s behind.
It’s just sad and absolutely pathetic.
Now, in a cooled-down attempt to be fair, Roof and Venables were left with a barrel full of mediocre players in my opinion – at best, as I have reminded you, dear reader, as I have reminded myself.
The Riley-year defenders couldn’t get it together last year, and they aren’t getting it together this year – and they might not next year. I do, sincerely hope many, if not most of them, are gone next season. Many of the good ones have already gone to the NFL this year.
This year, so far, is really no different as last year as far as I can tell through three games; and with the absolute nuclear football-gauntlet speeding towards our boys in crimson and cream, I don’t see a very pleasant season-ending remained of the regular or bowl season for our team.
Things, could change, certainly, and while Coach Brent is frustrated, but calm in cool in press conferences, I suspect a butt-kicking and tongue lashing was administered at some point in the after-game-locker room, or will be, during practice this week.
I don’t have any idea whether Ted and Brent can reincarnate a Sooner defense like those in the past as the season moves forward. I am certain they will lose countless hours of sleep and time with children and grandchildren as the weeks go forward.
They will lose sleep. They will try. They will do their best. But this season, time is not on their side.
So, we fans, as they probably will hope for measurable improvement. We will cheer on! We fill the OU Memorial Stadium and we will flock and cement ourselves into recliners and over-stuffed chairs with ottomans under our feet.
We will drink our beer, hard liquor and sodas and over eat pizza’s, we will party into the nights, creates new offspring in the euphoria of victory. We will praise the football God’s, we will cry. We will cuss.
But Bob Dylan and Obie Wan Kenobi shared similar words once I think:
The Times They Are A Changin’.
GO OU, BEAT TCU!
— Mad Dog
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