The Fake Lonnie Finch

More Darrell Dickey guys sign? Shocking! We had NFL talent on the roster all this time, and...nevermind.

Listen, the store's a little cramped, but it had Nike goods. I bought a North Texas Nike Mean Green hat. Go buy one, you'll love it. If you love it half as much as I love mine, then I love mine twice as much as you love yours.

It was good for me.

Okie math? He was a freshman in 2009 and a sophomore in 2010, played both years. So, he's got three to play two. Okie math will catch up someday.

He also beat Gabe Lynn, who is also a DB at OU. You look at that video, see that three or four went to OU, and you realize how big the talent gap is between that UTs, OUs, Bamas, etc. and the non-BCS AQs is. All of those guys are quick and have good hands...and, that was before they got to college. This thing is, it's hard to be down on a kid with that much talent who wants to play but is too far down the depth chart of his fellow 4- and 5-star recruits. He's not bad, it's just that everyone those schools sign is fantastic. Look at the kid who led Tulsa to a 10-3 record and a win at Notre Dame last year - G.J. Kinne. That guy started his career at Texas, but got tired of sitting behind Colt McCoy. The guy may never be a pro, but he's obviously a pretty good college QB. You can't fault guys like Kinne and Trice for moving on. As I've posted before, recruiting is a two way street - and the kids only have five to play four. If thing aren't the way the coaching staff sold to them when they were sitting in your living room during recruiting, I've got no problem with a kid leaving.

GreenBat lists Trice in 2007:

Videos of Trice blocking a punt in 2009 and stripping kick returner of ball in 2010.

Thread on Trice from March: Scored 1390 on SAT out of high school; many BCS AQ offers coming out of high school.

Hell, yes! Some of us posted about this guy in May or June. He started on OU's special teams as a freshman and blocked a punt. The kid's a gamer.

It's not 90%. Also, you're not even arguing the same point. OU recruited Texas, and the nation, long before power conference and big television deals. The TV won't change anything. Texas can still only sign up to 25 players per year, with 85 allowed on scholarship at a time. To believe having a network that, realistically, only their most hard up fans will subscribe to will effect OU's recruiting in Texas or anywhere else is patently absurd. Under Stoops, OU players from states other than Texas and Oklahoma: California - 12 Kansas - 10 Florida - 9 Georgia - 9 Missouri - 8 Louisiana - 6 Colorado - 5 Nevada - 5 North Carolina - 3 Illinois - 3 South Dakota - 2 Tennessee - 2 Arkansas - 2 Arizona - 2 Ohio - 2 South Carolina - 2 New Jersey - 2 Michigan - 2 Utah - 1 Virginia - 1 New Mexico - 1 Maryland - 1 Nebraska - 1 Oregon - 1 Pennsylvania - 1 Iowa - 1 That's 94 players in 13 signing classes for Stoops...about 7 a year not from Texas or Oklahoma. And, from coast to coast, in every time zone. I'd say OU is fine. Stoops is pulling them in from all over just like the Sooners have always done. The Longhorn Network won't change that. If Gary Gibbs, Howard Schnellenberger, and John Blake couldn't kill OU's nation recruiting, a TV station subscribed to by Longhorns fans isn't going to touch it. I mean, I guess Texas fans and their administrators can dream... Before Stoops, OU had All-Americans from Arkansas (3), Louisiana, Florida, Missouri, Colorado, New Mexico (3), North Carolina, Kansas, and Michigan. They're from every decade beginning with the 40s. OU has been pulling in players from all over the country since WWII. To count the All-Conference players OU's has had over the decades would be ridiculous. They've had dozens come from states other than Texas and Oklahoma. I understand that Texas people think this network will springboard them to some other plane. But, look...they already had more money and facilities than anyone in the country in 2010, and they went 5-7. Again, money doesn't life weights, run bleachers, suit up and play, or coach. With scholarship limits all being equal, whatever Texas money has now means nothing. They're already a Top 20 program facility-wise. Whats it going to mean? Are they going to build tow or three more weightlifting facilities? Whether you lift in one or three facilities, you're still not doing anymore than guys at OU, Alabama, Florida, etc. are doing no matter how many places you do it. Texas already had the top of the line in everything, and they only checked in for a total of three Big 12 titles in, what...14 or 15 years? Their 85 still have to line up against the 85 from A&M, OU, Tech, etc. The money means nothing when you already have more than everyone else. Unless they can change the rules about how many scholarships they can give or can change NCAA rules so that every Texas high school player has to sign with a Texas school, then it means nothing. Screw Texas. Let their jackoff fan base have their TV station. It's good for the rest of society because it keeps them off the streets.

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It's not a myth. OU's got players from every region of the country on their roster, from New Jersey to California. I'll bet that during Stoops' tenure, they've gotten player from just about every state in the union. Of course, they're going to get players from Texas - it's only 90 miles from Norman. But, the question is whether the Longhorn Network will adversely effect recruiting. In OU's case, that's a distinctly laughable notion. Again, the scholarship limit is still 85 for every school at this level. Texas having a network won't change that. It means nothing. It's a jerkoff channel for people whose lives are so pathetic that they have to watch college athletics 365 days a year. These are the same type of middle-aged losers who run around hounding 18-year old kids for autographs. Just watch. This type of thing will saturate the market because there are only a finite number of people whose lives are so pathetic. The vast majority of people can draw a line between supporting their alma mater on gameday and having a craving to see something about it every day of the year. Most of the alumni and fans will get tired of pulling out the credit card for $24.95 every time a game is on. This is what is happening now. The pissing match between Texas and the Big 12 now is Texas wanting to pull one conference game a year and make people pay them to watch it instead of keeping it in the Big 12's current TV package. Other schools, and their fans, won't do it enough to make it profitable. What dickbrains that run the Texas', OUs', etc. of the world want in the future is for every game to be pay-per-view straight to them. At that point, we'll see how popular the game really is...or, isn't. What the Sun Belt Conference and other conferences need to realize is that they have the opportunity to jump into the "free" televised game gap that the greedy buttholes of the college football world leave behind. Longhorn Network, BYU Network, Big Ten Network, Notre Dame on NBC...it's all a result of this myopic belief that everyone cares about your program enough to pay you. It's a lie. I think BYU, Texas, the Big Ten Network, and Notre Dame have overplayed their hands. As others follow suit, it will just be more and more and more pay-per-view. The average college football fan will get fed up and check out. That's where we and our conference need to be ready to stand in the gap and provide.

This doesn't make any sense. OU had no winning seasons from 1994-1998, five years. Yet, they were still landing future NFL players during that time period. The hire of a real coach had them winning a national title within two years of his hire. OU gets players from all over the country. The recruiting advantage of Texas is an overplayed hand in these type of discussions. Their recruiting is basically finished by April. So, what is the new television channel going to accomplish? Tipping it so they're basically done in March instead? Same with OU. They're going to get top recruits early and often whether or not Texas has a network. The network doesn't give Texas more than 85 scholarships, so they can't just give a scholarship to every football playing kid in the state or country. The reality is that there is always a bubble on things. The BCS schools will eat themselves in their race for greed. Notre Dame is the prime example. Own network. NFL coach. It didn't matter. At some point, you still have to have your 85 scholarship players get on the field against other schools with their 85 scholarship players. There's nothing more to gain. Texas and OU already have state of the art stadiums, work out facilities, and coaching. More money gets them no more advantage than they already have. The proof is Texas' 5-7 record in 2010. The money doesn't lift weights, practice, coach, or play. The Longhorn Channel will be nothing more than a masturbation station for their pathetic fan base. And, I expect the OUs of the world to follow suit. They will quickly be as irrelevant as MTV has become. There's a saturation point, and college football is sweeping headlong blindly towards it.

The Big 12 may not hold, but OU is too cowardly to go to the SEC. They'd go Pac-12. Texas A&M may join them. I'm not real impressed with what I've seen out of OU and A&M's athletic departments in the way of gonads. Neither had the balls to tell Texas to stick it last year when both had the offer to jump to the SEC. Both would have followed Texas into the Pac-10. Pathetic. OU appear to be at the pinnacle of its power and, yet, still can't seem to act on its own. Texas, in my opinion, is like the 2000s mortgage market before the crisis - it will get too big and unwieldy for itself and crash. Outside of Texas, there isn't going to be much interest in their brand; something Notre Dame has already discovered. Having a big pile of money is one thing; but, you still have to compete. Texas sucked last year and will likely suck again this year. You can't dress up dollars and put them on the field.

Canales and Bowen will eventually be hired to go elsewhere. McCarney...it'd be hard to see him get another gig like Iowa State, but you never know. The upside for us is that if other schools do come after our head coach or assistants, it means something is going terribly right for us. So much so that whomever replaces them will likely be as much or nearly as able.

Guys, our coordinators alone could have head coaching jobs soon. We're ridiculously lucky to have what we now have. We literally have three guys who are head coach worthy. To our opponents, we'll be like one of those three-headed hounds of hell, a cerberus. You'll all realize it once the season kicks off, or my name isn't Orville Redenbacher!

It's your generation fighting and mine. And...the 60s hippies are laughing at what you all call protesting. Inasmuch as we a still in Iraq and Afghanistan 10 years after 9/11 shows how little political and societal effect your generation's "protests" have done. In the 60s they rebelled for what has turned out to be no good reason. We now prop up communist countries by sending them our jobs and giving them total access to our markets...and going into debt with them. Once they shaved and went corporate, the hippies began giving the country away bit by bit to China. Everything you turn over is made in China, Vietnam, or some other oppressed country. In the end, human rights don't really matter to hippies and protesters. They just don't want war to stop oppression because war is bad. It's better to have the people in those countries oppressed and to ruin our economy by going into debt to them and sending them all of our manufacturing jobs and whatnot. It's a fair trade off to them for not having wars...and, far enough away so that the old hippie and young protester can sit at Starbucks half a globe away, sip their lattes, and pretend the oppression isn't happening. Note: I love how easy it is to come into the non-sports forum every now and then and draw everyone offside. It's almost too easy, and I should be ashamed of myself for doing it. But, I got to work in midgets and ostrich farting along the way, so I'm not as ashamed as I should be. Sorry.

Riley was fine here, just miscast as an FBS-level quarterback. It took a toll on him. He should make a fine FCS QB. I'd be just as happy to see Riley in Frisco playing in the FCS National Championship Bowl at Pizza Hut Park - that's what happened to the guy with three names who transferred from SMU to Eastern Washington.

That wouldn't work - he's already said, his generation makes love, not war. It's our generation fighting the war on terror...on the front lines. We're not running around protesting the protection of our future. If it weren't for Ronald Reagan telling Mikhail Gorbachov to stick his balding pate back up his poop shoot, the Soviet Union would have never folded. And sandwiched in between Reagan and Gen X are this generation of money-wasting Baby Boomers. I say they do away with the Republican and Democratic parties and replace them with the Born Pre-1965 Party and the Born Post-1965 Party. Watching these baby boomers trying to solve the debt is like watching six midgets trying to light the fart of an ostrich over and over again. It's pointless - we already know that sissy McConnell will cave, and the fart will be lit nevermore.

The upside is that he won't have to drive very far to see us in the New Orleans Bowl in December.

Right now, as I leave for lunch to go get a dead animal sandwich, 66.67% of the voters believe UNT will win 5 to 8 of its games. I think it's on! Let's break outta this mutha like a bunch of people hiding in a trojan horse who get pulled into a city after the city people think the ships of their enemy have sailed away, but some of the enemies are hiding in the trojan horse and come out later after the Tonight Show with Jay Leno when everyone is good and asleep and open up the city gates and let the rest of the enemies, who are their friends, into the city to kill and destroy their real enemies, who at the beginning of this sentence were just people in a city who found a big, wooden horse and rolled it back into their city as a souvenir of victory, but which became, ironically, a terrible instrument of doom. Let us become that terrible and ironic instrument of doom that as of 11:53 a.m. Central Standard Time on July 19, 2011, 66.67% of voters in a sports poll who care think we can be!

That chance was gone when he signed on the dotted line for Houston years ago. There will be no Andre Ware II.

NSFW - TURN THE VOLUME WAAAAAAY DOWN!

It's now later in the day, and 65.42% of voters believe that we'll win between 5 and 8 games. This gives me good reason to celebrate with a congratulatory Wild Cherry Pepsi.

Let's face it, whether you're a Republican or Democrat, you've been screwed. Baby boomers and their politicans have run up a huge bill and we're left to pay for it...us and our children. They said we were worthless when we were out cutting class and getting laid. But, in reality, they're just more jealous that we got more overall trim than they did, and we did it in the hey day of women - the 80s - when almost every woman in America was firming her assets with aerobics three or four times a week. So, they've run up their massive debt and are sexually frustrated (hence, their baby boom creation of Viagra), and we have to somehow pay for it. Screw you, Baby Boomers! Quitters! You quit Vietnam and quit paying your bills! You quit and shirk. I'm glad I dated and slept with your daughters in your own houses! We've disrespected one another, so we're even. You are my enemy until my Generation's Republicans and Democrats save the day, like they're going to have to. Put your pencil back in your pants. We'll figure this one out without you. Filchers.