For OU football players, it’s a business trip
Sooners say they’re avoiding distractions in Miami
BY BERRY TRAMEL
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Published: January 7, 2009
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. — As usual on bowl trips to this south Florida paradise, the University of Oklahoma Sooners are staying at the Fontainebleau Hotel. South Beach and its many temptations are just a mile or so down Collins Avenue.

Oklahoma players take pictures of the BCS Championship trophy during media day at Dolphin Stadium in Miami on Monday Jan. 5, 2009. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)
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Free shirts to honor Bradford
Cherokee Nation officials will give away T-shirts with the University of Oklahoma logo and quarterback Sam Bradford’s name and jersey number written in Cherokee at the BCS National Championship game in Miami, Fla. The Tahlequah-based tribe says it wants to acknowledge the accomplishments of Bradford, OU’s latest Heisman Trophy winner, who is a member of the Cherokee Nation. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chad Smith will wear the T-shirt while attending Thursday night’s game between OU and Florida at Dolphin Stadium.
But the Sooners say they haven’t succumbed. They’ve got work to do.
OU plays Florida on Thursday night for the college football national championship.
"Nobody has even mentioned partying,” defensive tackle
Gerald McCoy said. "Everybody talks about having fun after the game. It’s all business.”
Well, it’s not all business. The Sooners are spending time on the beach, in the malls and in their hotel banquet room, where pool tables, foosball and arcade games are set up.
But the
Orange Bowl Committee has cut back on required team functions, at the request of the coaches.
And OU safety
Nic Harris said the Sooners understand why they’re in
Miami, "Not to party, but to play a great game.”
And the Gators say they are no different.
"This game is so big, we’re all in bed by 9,” Florida offensive tackle
Phil Trautwein said.
The Sooners say their bowl attitude is different from years past. OU has lost two straight Fiesta Bowls and its two BCS bowls before that. Of course, they never acknowledged a lack of focus before any of those defeats.
"Different team, different year, different outcome,” Harris said.
He has a motto. WTLG. Win The Last Game.
"That’s why we’re going to go out and play, excuse my French, a hell of a game.”
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I live in Dallas so you can imagine what I have to put up with day-in day-out...last summer some drunk LSU fan was the only one talking smack to me about how he hates Oklahoma and how LSU is a real team...yea he'll be rooting for the Gators tommorrow night Im sure because The Tigreeeer didnt make it.
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OoooooooooooooU!! Al-ight..
Sam show the swamp lizzards what an acurate pass looks like.
D Line show Tebow what the turf tastes like.
OU 42 - FL 28
After the sooners win, I bet none of the "cooters" log in to post that they were WRONG!
I have to totally agree...in fact, I get offended if anyone messes with any of the Big 12 states! Especially Texas though...the majority of our players come from Texas..so gotta have some love their guys....Go Sooners!
I have to totally agree...in fact, I get offended if anyone messes with any of the Big 12 states! Especially Texas though...the majority of our players come from Texas..so gotta have some love their guys....Go Sooners!
I have to totally agree...in fact, I get offended if anyone messes with any of the Big 12 states! Especially Texas though...the majority of our players come from Texas..so gotta have some love their guys....Go Sooners!
throwing out a **ity performance in Bowl games and ducking his tail between his legs,
disappearing for a month and the reappearing as if nothing had happened. He makes a
Shameful amount of money not to be held accountable, especially in a time when money
is tight and no jobs. Fans use a lot of money that could be better spent, to go see his
teams play and expect better results. We as fans don't get "free" everything to follow the
Sooners, like the media, we pay as we go. We demand better results, or a logical explanation
as to why the results were bad, not running, ducking, and hiding by him and his staff. They
say they are accountable, but when the media questions them after one of his failures. they
lob softball questions at them. The media is afraid of him and his staff. He'll cut them off.
throwing out a **ity performance in Bowl games and ducking his tail between his legs,
disappearing for a month and the reappearing as if nothing had happened. He makes a
Shameful amount of money not to be held accountable, especially in a time when money
is tight and no jobs. Fans use a lot of money that could be better spent, to go see his
teams play and expect better results. We as fans don't get "free" everything to follow the
Sooners, like the media, we pay as we go. We demand better results, or a logical explanation
as to why the results were bad, not running, ducking, and hiding by him and his staff. They
say they are accountable, but when the media questions them after one of his failures. they
lob softball questions at them. The media is afraid of him and his staff. He'll cut them off.
The best thing which can happen to football in Oklahoma is for OU and OSU to settle the south division and the Big XII championship on Thanksgiving weekend, not the second Saturday in October.
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