BCS Championship: OU vs. Florida Live Blog

Hmm, Bob is ok at head coaching. Just get rid of Wilson or demote him to water boy and maybe OU can have above average offensive performances in post season games. And to Texas. There is no excuse as to why you guys do not go to the Big 12 championship or the National championship every year. You guys always have one of the top recruiting classes every year and still, Bob is able to win more Big 12 titles and go to more BCS national championships games with the left overs Mac doesn't want to recruit.

For all those Texas fans out there who have nothing better to do then write on these blogs in a pathetic attempt for the rest of the country to feel sorry for you by attacking Bob Stoops. Since you guys seem to think Mack Brown can walk on water lets examine the facts. Bob Stoops has won 6 Big 12 championships in 10 years. Mack Brown has won 1 Big 12 championship in 11 seasons (Lets remember that was the season he had a freak at quarterback!) How many national championships has Mack Brown been in? Just 1 (Again, that was the year he had a freak at quarterback who single handingly dismantled USC!) Stoops has been to four National Championships. When it has mattered in the conference Stoops has outshined Mack Brown again and again. BOOMER SOONER! By the way Texas fans should be embarrassed to talk about how they should have been in the title game after that pitiful performance against an Ohio State team that they were heavily favored to win.

Sooner fans, I recall hearing a lot of the same yak about Frank Solich (see Dean's comment above) before he was run off. Be careful of what you ask for, and recall Blake and Schnellenberger, etc. Maybe Stoops needs to alter the coaching staff a bit, let him do that as he sees fit. I'm an NU fan, but was disappointed that the B12 didn't perform better in the big bowls. And for all the tu posters, sorry tu would not have played the Gators better, they stunk it up in the Fiesta against a second rate OSU team that they should have beaten by 3 TD's. Get over it.

It is time to move on for both Stoops and myself. I can't waste these hours watching the team. Letting myself believing in them only to have it obliterated every year. Perhaps they aren't studying the film; I don't know. Game-- after game -- after game; the bad play calls, the bad preperation, the complete waste of talent and the embarassment of family and friends calling to give their condolances. The money wasted on trips to Pasadena, and Eugene. The hours! The hours I have lost! Here is a case study: Just look at how good Adrian Peterson is doing now. Oh no, lets pretend the rest of the team doesn't exist and never use him as a decoy. Lets make sure he always gets the ball so the opposing team knows where to go. Lets slow the speed of the offense down to a crawl in the second half of the game against Florida, and for kicks lets completely stop blitzing. Oh yeah, why would you want to throw the ball to Gresham he is only the most intimidating sure thing ou has for a reciever. Florida was a good team, especially Ahmad Black, but the O line should have been used as a battering ram against the smaller and less mature Florida D Line. It was again a total waste of talent much like Adrian Peterson. It is ridiculous and absurd. I proclaimed I was done with them this last year after the WV fiasco, but I was sucked back into the games because of how great Bradford was doing. This time I mean it. I'm taking all of my sooner paraphenelia putting it in a box and sending it to good, old, coach bob. I will place a very polite letter explaining how I just can't support the team with my time when over and over again he and his staff go completely loco in either their game prep or during the game. I will ask him to put the items on a shelf and when he wins a BCS game to please send it back to me. I will even put some cash in the package for return postage. This just has to stop. Its just not fun anymore. Ever since USC, there is now a palpable dread that is associated with OU playing in a BCS game which has been reinforced in subsequent years. Its not the talent, Its coaching. Lofa Tutupu said as much after Championship game. The players deserve better. The fans deserve better. The Big XII deserves better. I am quite sure Missouri would have shown up much better last year against WV than OU. Enough! By the way Mr. Stoops, if you were half a man you would return the three million you just recieved. That kind of money demands success. Have some honor.

I'm a Sooner fan like most who have posted and this is only the 3rd time I have ever posted a comment on a blog. The other two were after the last two Fiesta Bowl games. So I will not be as long winded and straight to the point. Bob Stoops should move on and it is time we get a coach that knows how to win the big game. OU Played in 3 of the last 6 BCS Championship Games, at least win 1 of them. In addition, get beat by Boise State and WV. Go hire the Utah coach, it worked for Florida. The Sooners have been a middle of the road team since Tom Stoops left to go Arizona. Bob Stoops should have been let go after the USC - BCS Championship game. The Sooners have had some of the best talented football teams in the past 5-6 years. So you put those players on the field with the current coaching staff and you can not help but win 10 games. Actually a good High School coach with that talent can win 10 games. But when you play an team that is just as talented and coaching is invloved, we will lose everytime. This past Thursday - The Sooners were the better team, talent wise and it showed at times. But the coaching was terrible, once again. I should say the play offensive play calling, in the big game was terrible once again. The "D" did their job, they held Florida to 1/2 of their season average. All the Sooners needed to do was to score 1/2 of their season average

I'm an orange-blooded Texas grad and I was pulling for the Sooners (yes, I know, sacrilege) and the Big 12. I saw a great game and, I think, the better team last night won. Congratulations to Florida. I realize that OU football is a religion in Oklahoma (I have lived there twice) and that's because it's been the only sports franchise in the region and a very successful one at that. However, I find a lot of the postings on this site disturbing. Since when are the Sooners obviously the best team on the field and that the only way they can lose is through bad coaching, play calling, etc.? Since when is a successful program that has made it to several championship games a failure? Since when does the head coach who consistently wins football games and ends the season in the top 5 or 10 need to be run out of Norman? Unbelievable! First, it's only football and, in the real world we live in, really doesn't deserve this level of angst. Second, you folks need to get a real life. I can't imagine how poor your lives must be to get this worked up over something that, in the scheme of things, is not that important. Get over it!

Could it possibly be that the so called BIG TWELVE is no where near as tough as the SEC. What makes OU fans think that because you can score 60 points against weak teams you have a great team. All the excuses boil down to Florida was a BETTER team and BEAT a weak team that plays in a weak conference.

Nothing better from this Oregon Ducks fan than watching Joklahoma go down, again. The look on Stoopid's face on the sideline was great. After the Holiday bowl the Sooner fans totally went off on how great they were and how bad Oklahoma State was, rubbing it in hard......now what do they have to say? At least the 'Pokes (love the term) have class and aren't throwing it back in the Sooners faces. Let's face it, the Sooners whine, get caught cheating and forfiet games, lose bowl game after bowl game, yet still manage to get in BCS games ahead of more deserving teams (and conferneces IMHO). I hope everyone remembers this when we do it all again next year. Go Ducks, Go Ok St.

Mike & Dave & most of the last 6 or 7 posters prove my point. The Sooner Nation has risen to mediocrity to thunderous applause, proud to be the best of a "not to bad" group of teams. That's where Bob Stoops has led you & you think it's great.We are not kidding when we say "the rest of the college football world looks at us w/ either derision or sympathy because they remember when OU football was the GREATEST (longest winning streaks & monster defences under both Wilkinson & Switzer),When teams played with their heart because that's what they were Taught- "if you're gonna play here that's how you play or you can sit on the bench". Stoops doesn't seem to be able to motivate these kids & has surrounded himself with people that make pretty stupid decisions,Look, there are some VERY good coaches that would love to Coach at OU, especially with the talent we've had & will continue to get w/ or w/out Stoops.I still maintain that we've had the talent to have won at least 4 national titles in the last seven years WITH the right conditioning & coaching. BOB STOOPS IS A VERY GOOD MAN WITH A VERY GOOD HEART, he's just not the right fit here, he would do great in the Big 10, Big East or the ACC.

To all you Stoops naysayers:Let his record speak for itself.Under Bob Stoops OU has produced 24 All Americans.An OU player has finished in the top seven in Heisman voting 5 times.Stoop's teams have set or tied more than 170 school records.OU won the 200 national championship,played for two more,captured six Big 12 South crowns and five Big 12 titles.His win percentage is better than 82%.And you blowhards want him to leave?Get real!Have you done as well in your business or profession?

Everyone's self bias will never end till the broken BCS is trashed. Just think how Utah and like Universities feels… these non-elite schools are told to sit in the back of the bus every year. The solutions… do away with the BCS! These silly arguments would end with a playoff... where everyone then would get their shot. Your frustrations should be aired towards the self-serving elite "monopoly" University Presidents. Someday we will look back the BCS system and wonder how it ever existed… segregation of the 1960’s! The current system is an embarrassment… Wall Street all over again.

All you blowhards who are putting down Mr. Bob Stoops probably never put on a helmet or ran a wind sprint-Stoops is as classy as they come.Count your blessing.Do you want coach Blake back or how about schellenberger?You big cry babies!

The difference? Florida has play MAKERS; OU has players.

Now we see what happens when the wrong team represents the Big 12 .......... Never send a boy to do a man's job !! After last night, we can officially say of all the coaches in the Big 12, it is Stoops owns the crown as the coach who can't win the big game. ...... 0 - 5---- not good. Hopefully the Big 12 has learned it's lessong that who wins on the field is actually the better team to represent the Big 12 !

GO GATORS!!!!!! I am a born and raised Okie (had no choice in the matter) and I was cheering hard for the Gators. I dont understand the whole OU football thing. They win most of their games by sheer luck, not skill. I get a real chuckle out of looking at some of these run-down homes with a car on blocks in the yard and they have Sooners flags and signs hanging from their front porch. You know damn well not one person in that family has ever stepped foot on a campus. Oklahoma should concentrate on education not a stupid sport.

I am disappointed that OU lost. Problem is that OU just didn’t hire enough Texans. I mean only 10 Texans starting for OU? Come back next year with at least 15 and you might have a chance.

most of you aren't sooner fans or evem in oklahoma, now that's strange!! it was a fair game, congrates to florida. we had a great season that most teams envy.people!! remember GOD TEBOW lost the game he played after he won the heisman also, so the statment about the award means nothing. and if Bradford stays, we'll be tops again with more experience, but the pros want "drop back" quarterbacks, they kringe when a quarterback takes off running in the pros and that is why he would go higher than GOD tebow. so folks, be a fan and just support your team for next year no matter whom that team may be, and grow, borrow , or steal some brains...post season trash mouthing doesn't matter. and as for Bob, If he does nothing but 12-2 the rest of his time here, I would love it!! that is great, BECAUSE you would be in top 5 every year with that chance, and of all upper division teams it would end up the best, who wouldn't want to be 10-0 11-1 every year!1 SOONER FANS!! remember the Blake and Schnellenbeger years!!! (bad spelling)???? so don't run off the golden goose, we just might get the turkey!!

OU's problem and most teams that lose the bowl games is that the layoff from the season ending game is too long. That's always been the problem.

I'm a SOONER fan, it's no crime to expect the best. Under Stoops we have settled for medocrity in coaching while having the talent to have won 4 national titles.As much as i hate Texas they are right we shouldn't have been there (unless we had Pete Carrol or someone like that coaching). We've simply become PATHETIC & the new sooner tradition is Loosing the big game, What happened to OU pride, to championships & championship charcter, the regular season isn't for squat if we cant win the big one. If we had great,motiving coaches the players wouldn't get used to chocking & lets face it the droped balls & stupid penalities are a coaching issue as well as a poor player performance issue. Maybe someday we'll be able to hold our head high to boomer sooner again.

I Love Bob & I love the Sooners... I've already got money set aside to take the whole family to Dallas for the OU/Texas game... 117 other teams would do anything to be in that game. (See Mack Brown) The loss hurts big time. My son was crying. I tried to explain to him that in grand scheme of things. Losing to Tim & the Gators in the BCS final is not the end of the world. I visited a 40 yr. old man today in the Hospital, dying from cancer. Some of these hateful comments really seem to come from folks without much perspective.. And for the record, all of you together don't know as much as Bob & rest of his staff. It's actually funny to read that you think you could do better.. BOOMER !

the mighty ou sooners fall flat on their faces, yet again embarassing the big 12.. all the we deserve to be #2 and go to the bcs championship.. lmfao !!! what chokers ! the big 12s biggest fraud losses again and all is well in texas, thank you for makeing my night. hookem horns !!!!!

what a great game. So funny to watch Stoopid on the sidelines, whipping off his headset.

Welcome to what SEC football is all about flashy offenses throwing the ball all over the field, but ass kicking defense. I would agree that OU's defense played a pretty good game tonight. But we knocked the crap out of OU all night. BCS Championship Game Records SEC (5-0) Big 12 (2-4)

I know Texas has satisfaction in knowing that we aren't able to win the BCS bowl games, but I am having satisfaction in knowing that at least we can get there.

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