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Sooners prove that pride in scheduling still matters

 
By Berry Tramel | Published: October 19, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment


photo - Oklahoma did the right thing in scheduling a tough opponent like Miami, even though the Sooners’ record doesn’t show it. Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman
Oklahoma did the right thing in scheduling a tough opponent like Miami, even though the Sooners’ record doesn’t show it. Photo by Nate Billings, The Oklahoman

NORMAN — Hey, Bob Stoops, I know you’re busy. Know you’ve got your hands full, trying to patch together a line and teach the lads to catch the ball and find a few points here or there that can make a trip home much more pleasurable.

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But can we talk?

And no, I don’t have any advice on this 2009 team. I’d have to take a number; plenty of folks stand ready to advise, and some of them have some decent ideas. Like using Dom Franks a little on offense.

I’ve got something else, after that 16-13 loss to Texas dropped you to 3-3 and darn near out of the rankings, where you’re hanging by your bitten-down fingernails at No. 25 in the AP poll.

Some of those around you tired of losing — I know, everybody’s tired of losing — will be in your ear soon. Whispering a solution to the problem.

They’ll tell you to quit playing teams that can beat you.

Quit playing the likes of Brigham Young and Miami before Texas.

Don’t listen to them. Don’t give in. Don’t join the mob that embraces the lowest common denominator.

Sure, you could be 5-1 and ranked, I don’t know, ninth or 10th today. All you had to do was play opponents who couldn’t possibly beat you.

Fans would be happier. Voters, those lemmings, would like you more. But you would know the difference.

You know that what you learned on the sandlots of Youngstown and in Big Ten stadiums, what has been reinforced on the Oklahoma plains, remains true.

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