BOOMER SOOONER!!

I am so tired of hearing about the game. I know, I get it – OU lost. Now, can we just get over it please?  The game was Saturday.  Saturday people!  Today is Wednesday. Don’t you think that’s enough time to lick your wounds and move forward?

And man, everyone has a theory and an opinion.  Today on the Sports Animal a caller was rambling on about how “kids today just don’t have a work ethic.” He actually said our players “don’t know what hard work is.” Are you freakin kidding me?  I’m sure that guy has no clue what’s it’s like to be a college athlete.  How much of their time and energy – their life – they devote to their sport.  It’s insulting to me that he would imply those boys don’t work hard.  They all work a lot harder than I did when I was in college.

And the next caller was just as bad – he blamed the loss on the arrogance of the players.  Are our players arrogant?  Sure.  But let’s be honest – the players of most college teams are – how could they not be?  They’re like gods on their campuses.   In addition, they get their egos pumped and feed before (and sometimes after) each game – they’ve got to in order to come out on the field feeling like they can get a win.  Our boys are not arrogant because they’re “OU” – they’re arrogant because that’s the nature of the beast.  Do I think we may have underestimated Texas Tech? Sure.  But we’ve done that before and when we realized that the team we were playing might actually be competition, we pulled it together and got a win.  Didn't anyone see the Kansas game?

The fact is, we lost for one reason: we played poorly.  That’s it. No big mystery.  We just didn’t play well.  It happens.

Fortunately for OU it doesn’t happen often.  And it’s a good thing too because another loss and we’ll drop another quarter of our fans. Seriously, one game and the tide has changed. 

Sunday I put on my Sooner shirt and wore it with pride. Yes, we lost but this is my team, these are my boys and I will shout Boomer Sooner until the very end! 

SOONER PRIDE!