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Sooner success depends on improved defense

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By Mike

My season tickets have arrived. Two-a-day practices begin for the Sooners this week. Hey, it’s August.

As that stadium announcer says, “It’s football time in Oooooklahoma.”

And not soon enough. We need to get that bad taste left in the mouth after the debacle in the Cotton Bowl.

But before we get too hyped up about the new season, let’s not forget how miserable last season ended.

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Sooner recruiting class very ‘defensive’

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When the Sooners’ 2012 season turned into a scoring fiesta – from the West Virginia game on – there was one thing very evident: the defensive line was the most significant weak spot.

Just overall, the defense looked shabby.

“As the year went on, I felt like our defense started to deteriorate,” Assistant Coach Mike Stoops said on Wednesday, when asked about the greatest needs met by the 2013 recruiting class.

So, when Santa delivered this year’s recruiting gifts, ala National Signing Day on Wednesday, we all opened the crimson and cream packages hoping and praying Bro’ Mike, Coach Bob and the rest of his staff had spent the last 32 days (since Johnny Football) scouring the hinterlands to find big guys who could pass rush and tackle.

Looks like they did just that.

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Defensive weakness evident in bowl loss; time to make some changes

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Life isn’t like the movies. Real stories don’t always end in some feel-good episode. Sometimes they have no resolution.

And so ended the Landry Jones story at Oklahoma. And the Sooner football program took another turn.

Oklahoma got their butt whipped by a one-Heisman band who was everything he was billed to be, as the Texas A&M Aggies rolled the Sooners 41-13 to end the 2012 season and bring Jones’ tenure in Norman to a close.

Some fans, although surely not any that were paying much attention to the game, expressed consolation that it was the under-appreciated Jones’ last game in a Sooner uniform.

The reality is, Jones played well in the game. He was calm. He was focused.

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