When was it known Thompson was out for sure?

[The Fake Lonnie Finch]

I didn't know until game time. Of course, I'm a fan - so why would I know?

I know practices are closed, but did anyone have wind of this? Do we have any way to know who was practicing at #1 last week?

If this was a game time decision, it was a very bad one. If it turns out they knew Thompson was gimpy all along and built the game plan around him anyway, I'd call that pretty stupid. It doesn't matter who you start - McNulty or Osborn - if neither of them were practicing at #1 this week. Either would have been at a disadvantage.

Overall, I'm disappointed. Tulsa was really minus some big guns and it looks like we went out there with an experiment. Not pleased.

SIDENOTE: I guess you won if you called Vegas and bet against the line at 23 - Tulsa only beat us by 17!

OTHER SIDENOTE: Saw Mr. and Mrs. Kokjohn returning from the game just south of Ardmore this morning. Mrs. Kokjohn is a lead foot! Couldn't stay up with her.

[THOR]

vito has a new blog up that mac said he knew dt was out all week. it was a competition between the two other qbs...

[Hopeful]

i posted that he was in a walking boot friday

[bstnsportsfan3]

yet DT was in UNI and warmed up before the game...i watched him....no limp, nothing...looked 100%. I honestly think we just saved him for conference play.

[Mean Green Matt]

yet DT was in UNI and warmed up before the game...i watched him....no limp, nothing...looked 100%. I honestly think we just saved him for conference play.

If this was the case, I understand the thinking, but are we really in a position to sit our starters out to save them for conference play? Surely Coach Mac knew that the game last night was winnable. Now, if we had been playing Alabama a week before conference started, I say take a team full of the entire practice squad and student volunteers to strap on pads and literally take one for the team.