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jsy said:
im impressed bc venables is doing what he has to do to get the players he wants
its all about results
im not upset in anyway, the loss to Middle Tenn State and getting blown out by FSU and Duke needs to be pushed in his face everyday so it never happens again
those losses were completely unacceptable
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I absolutely would not be mad if it came from someone who has the credentials to say these things.
 
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Page305 said:
These are some valid points BUT at the end of the day, 6-7 is 6-7.... Losing 7 close games will put you on the same hot seat as any other outcome that results in losing 7 games.
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Absolutely IF we were talking about Brent as a 3rd yr HC. As a 1st yr HC & we’re doing an apples to apples comparison between the two seasons.

I just feel we’re trying to throw stones from a glass house, & if imma be honest, it’s annoying af.
 
DMoney said:
I'd be curious what the NFL rate is for Top 100 players. Does anybody know?

I know five-stars are 63% and four-stars are 22%. From the list above, we are at 54% with Top 100 players and lacking in impact players.
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Don't know the NFL rate but I did an informal study and found 55-60% play like impactful players at the college level. That's from 2015-2023.

Subjective, I know but I stand by it.
 
Rellyrell said:
Yeah, but there’s levels to dog ****. As I’ve shared w/ many privately, 5-7 doesn’t bother me as some, it’s how the 5-7 happened. 5 of OU’s 7 losses were 7 points or less, and they had a high powered offense, ranking in the top 15 in Total O. 5 of our 7 losses were 14 points or more, w/ 4 of such losses being 21 points or more while having an Offense than made the 1897 Yale Bulldogs blush.

So I think we need to stop trying to compare what happened to us last yr vs. UF, OU, or any other team. Mario was the only coach who came over w/ P5 HC experience and had thee absolute worst season of em all, & it’s not remotely close. We got our *** completely beat last yr while OU lost many games by slim margins. We need to focus on us & keep others out of our mouths until we clean up our own chit.
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TrumpyCane glad you mentioned offense

So Venebales expertise was the reason they went 6/7

Even more reason not to talk ****
 
Page305 said:
Well i'm not really the type to care about which type of doodoo smells worse. They both stink..... I mean, It's acceptable when you're going at it with rivals or at least a team you actually play but naw, I don't care. Dude lost 49-0. He has no place to talk. He also inherited a better team than Mario did. Had more time to recruit than Mario did. Going from 11-2 to 6-7 will ALWAYS be worse to me.
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i agree they both need to improve
but currently one is getting alot of the recruits we are going for
i dont care what needs to be done just get it done
and what happened vs Texas doesnt mean anything to me bc I dont care that another team beat OU
its like ole miss fans getting hyped cuz an SEC team beat another team
I find no joy in another team doing the work I want my team to do
i guess im just very disapointed so far this cycle esp after all the hype we were fed
 
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Imo a good season can get us in the top ten. That’s the ceiling. Just showing life on offense can steal a high level guy or two. The season won’t be the end all but it can help add a few more highly rated guys preferably from SFLA . showing them we’re trending in the right direction. Then build steam into 25.
 
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OrangeBowlMagic said:
It doesn’t matter man. It’s not about who’s worse. That’s the problem. People always wanna justify their suck cause another man sucked a little less. YOU sucked. Take care of YOU. Don’t talk about anyone else while you’re getting your **** pushed in.
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he doesnt have room to talk youre right but its the pitch hes selling to kick our asses on the trail. if we werent losing all these kids to them (highly ranked ones), i wouldnt care, but we are and that sounds like the pitch
 
I don’t understand the outrage in what he said. We were god awful last season. Arguably the worst season in the last 40 years of this program. Venables has to deal with his team regressing and underperforming. Don’t throw stones when you live in a glass house.

But he’s not wrong about us looking dead in the water. It also tells me if Mario can win some **** games and not look archaic doing it, it’ll alleviate most of the recruiting issues going on right now.
 
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hoops156 said:
he doesnt have room to talk youre right but its the pitch hes selling to kick our asses on the trail. if we werent losing all these kids to them (highly ranked ones), i wouldnt care, but we are and that sounds like the pitch
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He could very well just be a better recruiter.... but by no means he's winning kids over by the fact that we sucked, but they sucked less.
 
Page305 said:
Well i'm not really the type to care about which type of doodoo smells worse. They both stink..... I mean, It's acceptable when you're going at it with rivals or at least a team you actually play but naw, I don't care. Dude lost 49-0. He has no place to talk. He also inherited a better team than Mario did. Had more time to recruit than Mario did. Going from 11-2 to 6-7 will ALWAYS be worse to me.
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he lost his QB and other kids to riley leaving. mario retained the best freshman QB along w Caleb and turned into ****. either way, both coaches sucked ***.
 
Page305 said:
He's not winning these battles because of records. Kids are not picking them over us because they went 6-7 and we went 5-7. So that's why im saying his shots at us is utterly pointless. At least from the point of trying to differentiate two teams who had horrible seasons.
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That's fair. I just think it was a shot across the bow to take the heat off of him with the question.
 
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What were the realistic goals 6-8 weeks ago?

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TrumpyCane said:
TrumpyCane glad you mentioned offense

So Venebales expertise was the reason they went 6/7

Even more reason not to talk ****
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You can believe that high school recruits considering UM and Oklahoma are either going to think:
1) Oklahoma was just as bad as UM and Venables shouldn't be running his mouth
or
2) Venables doesn't give a **** about playing nice and he's got balls to directly call out another coach like that

I don't think recruits are going to look at the box scores to compare UM and Oklahoma. All they know right now is that there is a perception that UM is getting it's a$$ kicked on the recruiting trail (and especially getting owned by in state rivals) and coaches from other programs have so little respect for Cristobal that they are now publicly embarrassing him. Could Cristobal fire back and tell Venables to mind his own business and that the Sooners were equally awful? Sure, but then it looks like Cristobal is just whining that Venables said something mean. Venables drew first blood and that's what recruits will remember. Obviously the best response is to say nothing and just steal a bunch of kids that Oklahoma is recruiting, but the chances of that happening are slim to none.
 
For once I would like to see our fanbase come together man. Like these statements are coming from a program we're battling with for a few kids...... wooooo! not rivals or a team we play every year. I don't care how true his statements are, y'all gotta have a lil more pride and not allow 6-7 to talk so mighty over 5-7.
 
Rellyrell said:
Absolutely IF we were talking about Brent as a 3rd yr HC. As a 1st yr HC & we’re doing an apples to apples comparison between the two seasons.

I just feel we’re trying to throw stones from a glass house, & if imma be honest, it’s annoying af.
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i think its worse that a dude with 10 years of HC exp coached like thast last year. it was fireable.
 
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