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Bad Satire Taken Seriously

Published by
Clark Matthews
 on July 11, 2008

Did you hear that Sam Bradford AND Landry Jones were arrested for drug trafficking leaving one of the Horsepigs as the starting quarterback for the Sooners this year? 

What’s that you say? 

You think something that scandalous would have been more widely reported than on a Nebraska fansite message board? 

You think it would have been frontpage news and that James Hale would be spending as much time on the air as Dan Rather on election night 2000 trying to explain how the Horsepig is now in position to win the Heisman if it were true?

That’s crazy talk.  At least it is if you happen to work for The Oklahoman or if you sired Landry Jones.

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Category: OSU Football and OU Football. 19 Comments

Oklahoma Potsmoker of the Year

Published by
Clark Matthews
 on April 20, 2008

I know this story is a few weeks old, but I decided to sit on it for a special occasion.  Today is that special occasion.  A quick glance at the calendar informs me that today is April 20th or 4/20.  As this is the first “National Potsmoker’s Day” that TheLostOgle has been in existence, this will be the first time we have awarded Oklahoma Potsmoker of the Year.  Our inaugural recipient is… Continue reading ‘Oklahoma Potsmoker of the Year’

Category: OSU Football and Oklahoma State. 9 Comments

Five Star Super Gold Top 150 Recruiting Post

Published by
Patrick
 on February 6, 2008

Disclaimer: If you are Carey Murdock, stop reading now! We repeat, stop reading now! If you are James Hale, please continue reading.

So today is national signing day! To reflect on this creepy day where men of all ages wonder, dream and bicker about the major life decisions of 17 and 18 year old high school seniors, I thought I’d share with everyone this great recap of the 2001 OU football recruiting class.

The recap was written by some guy named AtlantaSooner (EDIT: Tony here. For those of you who actually have lives and haven’t inhabited OU message boards for the last ten years, Atlanta Sooner was, back in the days of (speaking of Carey Murdock) BoomerSooner.net, the guy to go to for recruiting recaps. This was before Rivals and Scout got big. We worshiped him. So this post is yet another data point in the “Tony is dumb” category.) Even though he probably wasn’t an official recruiting “expert,” his thoughts, opinions and projections of the 2001 class seem to mirror the words of those recruiting scribes found all over the net. And for the most part shows how ridiculous (and funny) college recruiting rankings and analysis can really be.

Highlights are after the jump:

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Category: OSU Football and OU Football. 14 Comments

Bye Bye Bobby Reid

Published by
Clark Matthews
 on January 4, 2008

 

Maybe this was Jenni Carlson’s plan all along.  In a decision that is as unsurprising as it is dumb, Bobby Reid has chosen to leave Oklahoma State University.

Due to the fact that Bobby injured his shoulder and was forced to redshirt his first season at OSU, Reid is limited on his options.  With his senior year coming up and no redshirt available, he cannot go to another Division I (or as the NCAA wants us to call it, “Bowl Championship Division”) school and compete.  He either has to go to a lower division school, such as Sam Houston State (where no former D-I quarterback should be caught dead), or give up football.

Although, it appears there might be a third option:

Rajika Reid told the Dallas newspaper that her son had not yet decided whether to transfer to another school or to apply for early entry into the NFL draft.

Seriously?  In one of my earliest posts, I made fun of JamesOn Curry for making the decision to enter the NBA draft after his junior season at OSU.  Compared to Reid, Curry’s choice looks brilliant.  For one, at least Curry was an underachieving starter, but a starting player nonetheless.  Also, JamesOn apparently had a promise from the Bulls that they would select him in the second round.

Reid has neither of those things going for him.  Sure, some NFL guru is probably reading this right now and saying, “well, Matt Cassel is Tom Brady’s back up on the Patriots and he never started a game in college.”  Sure, this is true, but Cassel went to USC where he apprenticed to Carson Palmer and then was passed on the depth chart by Matt Leinart.  Both of those guys won Heisman Trophies, and Palmer was taken first overall in the NFL draft (Leinart would have had the same fate if he had not returned for his senior season in an attempt to win three straight mythical national championships and learn ballroom dancing).  So, obviously, there was the chance that Cassel was NFL quality, just not first round quality.  Does anyone really think that Zach Robinson is going to be selected in the first round?

Anyway, rather than convert to a different position where the NFL might actually consider him, Reid will likely be playing in obscurity or else putting his education degree to use in the Houston Public School system next year.  Not exactly the fate expected of him when he was the biggest recruit to sign at OSU since R.W. McQuarters.

Category: OSU Football. 17 Comments

Merry Boxing Day From The Lost Ogle

Published by
Tony
 on December 26, 2007

I’m just trying to see if we can get 365 straight days of “Merry Something” as a headline on this blog. So far we’re up to 3. That’s just the kind of creativity you guys look for from The Lost Ogle.

Anyway, it’s a snowy day and we’ve all got the Christmas hangover, so none of us really wanted to write anything today. Instead, a look at what was making news 27 years ago. After the jump is an excerpt from an Oklahoman article the day after OSU lost a football game to the University of Washington.

I have to say, I can’t find a byline for this story, but something about it seems just slightly more vicious than the Oklahoman articles you see today. If Mike Gundy were the coach in 1980, I suspect he might have had something to say about this.

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Category: Jim Traber and OSU Football. 25 Comments

Bowl Season

Published by
Clark Matthews
 on December 5, 2007

It is bowl season and as a result, I, as an OSU fan, will be subjected to countless jabs from Sooner fans deriding the Cowboys invitation to the “WhoCares.com Bowl”. The jokes hurt because they are true. While Insight, thankfully, dropped the “.com” from their bowl sponsorship title, my beloved Cowboys who lost just as many games as they won (including a blowout at the hands of the mighty Troy Trojans) are on their way to a stupidly named bowl “classic” against another .500 team.

While the NCAA clings to the archaic BCS status quo as every rational fan and member of the media clamors for a playoff plan, the system is already broken. There is little glory in winning a bowl these days. In the days of yore, your school might have gone to something with a girly name such as the Bluebonnet Bowl, but at least it had a name and there were only a few bowls to which teams could be invited.

Now, any school who can win six games (even if some of those wins are versus lower division teams) get invited to a bowl which is named after any company who can pony up a couple million dollars.   Legitimate powers like Auburn and Clemson end up at things called the Chick-Fil-A Bowl.  There are 32 bowl games that will be played this season. That means more than half of Division-IA schools get an invite.  Of the teams that qualified with the minimum of six wins, only seven are not playing in the post season.

If this were the Sports Animal and I were Craig Humphreys, this is the part where I would explain how to fix the system. Instead, I intend to exploit it. Those seven teams were shafted and Oklahoma needs to get in the game of hosting bowls to correct this injustice. After the jump, see our proposals. Continue reading ‘Bowl Season’

Category: Brad Henry, Lauren Richardson, Mathis Brothers, OKC Advertising, OSU Football, Oklahoma Blog Awards, Oklahoma City Alumni, Sports, The Lost Ogle, The Sports Animal and Toby Keith. 10 Comments

Justice League of Oklahoma (Episode 2.2)

Published by
Clark Matthews
 on December 4, 2007

 

Previously: An orange clad fat man overheard the Sooner coaches badmouth the OSU Cowboys. Bob Stoops brought a threat to the safety of quarterback Sam Bradford to The Justice League.

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Category: Gary England, Justice League of Oklahoma, Lauren Richardson, Mike Gundy, OSU Football, OU Football, Oklahoma City Media, Oklahoma City Weather, Sports and Wayne Coyne. 6 Comments

Justice League of Oklahoma (Episode 2.1)

Published by
Clark Matthews
 on November 29, 2007

LOCATION: Owen Field at Gaylord Family Memorial Stadium

The Sooners have just put the finishing touches on a 49-17 shellacking of Oklahoma State, a win that clinched the Big XII South Championship. The scene is one of great celebration. Sooner players perform choreographed handshakes and scream “Boomer” with their forefinger raised high. Former players, like Jason White, Jamelle Hollieway, and Brian Bosworth congratulate the triumphant team. Meanwhile the coaches huddle to discuss the game, loudly saying things like, “They were better when this was their bowl game”, or “Miles was a jerk, but at least they came to play back then” followed by derisive laughter.

In the background, a large man dressed in orange watches the proceedings with a sour look on his face. Continue reading ‘Justice League of Oklahoma (Episode 2.1)’

Category: Amy McRee, Dean Blevins, Gary England, Justice League of Oklahoma, OSU Football, OU Football, Oklahoma City Media, Oklahoma City Weather and Sports. 9 Comments
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