SOONERGUYS Blog

Two things last week had us thinking. First, how silly the Elephants in the OK Legislature looked  rejecting the Flaming Lips’ tune Do you Realize? as the official state rock song.  Gov. Brad Henry fixed that. Then, we heard some really good music at the second annual Norman Music Festival down on Main Street.

It got us wondering if we need some official Soonerguys rock song. Well, we haven’t picked a song. But, we found a whole rock band: Kings of Leon.

These guys are not only a great alternative rock band who have toured with U2 and made the cover of Rolling Stone, but they’re big time OU Sooner fans to boot. Check out how band member Jared Followill has to stand in one place in his living room to watch all Sooners football games, otherwise it’s bad luck. Sound familiar? Oooooh yeah.

See their tailgate at last year’s OU-Chattanooga game.

So, the Official Soonerguys Alternative Rock Band? Kings of Leon. Rock on, dudes.  — Mike

Coach Bob Stoops may be super-coach, but when it comes to his BlackBerry – don’t ask him.

The Oklahoma coach committed a secondary NCAA violation because he didn’t know the difference between a text message and an email sent from his BlackBerry device, according to documents the Associated Press obtained from an NCAA compliance report.

That’s understandable. I don’t know squat about BlackBerries, except they make wonderful cobblers.

Stoops shouldn’t feel bad. At least he’s not geographically challenged. According to the AP report, assistant Coach Jackie Shipp committed a minor violation by taking a recruit to a restaurant he thought was on campus. My guess it was the Louie’s on campus corner. Or the lavish new O’Connells. Yeah, boy.

This shows how silly the NCAA rules are.

An email is permitted, but a text message (which is delivered to the recipient in exactly the same way) is not? Again, I’m no Bill Gates but even I know how ridiculous this is.

A catered dinner at the student union is OK, but the chips and salsa at Louie’s is an impermissible NCAA violation? Yes. And, once a recruit has the blacked chicken sandwich, well, that creates an unfair recruiting advantage for the Sooners. No wonder we’re on probation.  —Mike

In true boastful Texas “we are better than anyone else” fashion, Gov. Rick Perry on Friday suggested the liberal control of the White House was reason for Texas to consider seceding from the Union (I’m not making this up).

Gov. Perry reminded us that Texas used to be a separate Republic (true, in the biggest land grab in North American history the Texans stole it from another country – Mexico); and he thinks it can legally secede (this is what happens when the lawyer isn’t consulted before going public).

He forgot that last time they tried that was from 1861-1865 and it did not turn out so well – 618,000 Americans died.

Here’s my suggestion to Gov. Perry: Just put an asterisk next to Texas’ name and say it is really a whole different country, but the stupid BCS rules don’t allow it. Yeah.

Still there would be bad news for the Longhorns: If Texas were a different country, then the Longhorns finished second last year to “National” Champion Texas Tech.  — Mike

 

 Mike’s Rant

Norman’s finest arrested TE Jermaine Gresham this week for failing to pay a seat belt ticket.  Our fair city is a safer place today, now that justice has been served.

It cost Gresham $349 dollars.  It cost the Norman Police Department the expense of who knows how many squad cars, tactical team members and planning meetings necessary to catch this menace.  Not to mention the loss to IHOP because these policemen had to miss their morning donuts.

OK, OK. That donut comment was about as fair as … oh, maybe singling out someone who happens to be an OU football player for not paying a misdemeanor traffic ticket — something that I’ve never before seen or heard happening to anyone else in Norman.

Maybe we should ask local criminals to quit being lazy and get out there and burgle or something, so our police force won’t have so much idle time on their hands .  Pretty soon police will start arresting people for  failure to move their garbage polycarts from the curb after trash pickup.

 

Uh, which reminds me….I’ll be right back.

 

On the other hand:  Come on, Jermaine. Ask Corey Wilson about wearing seatbelts, dude.