Dave returns for the 2012 season with his weekly take on what Sooner fans should, or should not, be concerned about in the upcoming game.
Sept. 1
Here we are once again on the precipice of another season of OU football.
Although the Thunder’s run in the playoffs and the Olympics were welcome distractions in the off season, I am more than ready for the real games to begin! So let’s get the show on the road with this season’s first Worry Meter.
The Sooners travel to the west Texas town of El Paso to take on the Miners of UTEP Saturday night. Has anyone noticed that UTEP has become the refuge of high profile, but low morals head coaches as of late? Tim Floyd, after leaving USC due to paying OJ Mayo, and who knows how many others cash to play for the Trojans, is now the head basketball coach at UTEP.
OU vs. UTEP — The old Worry Meter is at 25 percent. Most of that being the fact that the game is on the road.
And, let us not forget who is coaching the Miners football team. Mike “It’s rollin’ baby!” Price. If you recall, Price coached his last game at Washington State against the Sooners in the Rose Bowl of 2003. It was his last game because he had accepted the head coaching job at Alabama.
Well a funny thing happened on the way to Tuscaloosa that summer. Ol’ Mike got a little too friendly with a working girl on a golfing trip to Florida. Many lurid details of the excursion got out much to Mike’s chagrin. One exchange between the young lady and the ball coach was particularly filled with school spirit when she apparently exclaimed “Roll Tide!”. Price’s response was “It’s rollin’ baby!”
Needless to say he never coached a down for the Tide. But I digress, and this is a family friendly column.
While it is never fun to start the season on the road, I don’t see any way the Sooners don’t win this one comfortably. It might be close at half, but OU should pull away and put it on the Miners this weekend.
And, a win would be an extremely good tiding as UTEP just happened to be the first opponent of the 2000 season. And we all know how that year turned out.
As such, the old Worry Meter is at 25 percent. Most of that being the fact that it’s on the road . . . and the slight fear of the occasional stray bullet from drug cartels across the street. With all that being said…BOOMER!!
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