Keeping an Eye on Our Foes

“If you ask him, he’d tell you he was deeply touched by Mark Moseley, Tony Zendejas, and Rafael Septien as a high school kicker.”

I thought Septien only touched little girls…

So the Bruins likely roll in here at 0-3 or 1-2? Yeah, that’ll be a night game. Dammit.

As long as OU’s kicker can sell the flop he doesn’t have to make the FG. Matt Williams II?

Lazy-lipped Jennie Carlson breaks down the Sooner depth chart.

Vintage Stoops quotes from the same article:

How did your kickers handle Tuesday’s wind?

“Not good enough,” Stoops said.

Is that your No. 1 concern?

“Sure.”

What’s the story with the kickers?

“There isn’t anybody that’s nailed it down. They’ll be fine at times, then they won’t be.”

Thursday, the Sooners are holding walk-on tryouts. Stoops admitted his eyes will be on those who show up to kick.

“We’re going to evaluate some guys.”

Off camera, the conversation continued:

“And if they don’t meet your expectations, coach?”

“They will be dealt with accordingly.”

“Will Coach Schmidt make them drink their own urine?”

“Depends how bad they missed the field goal. Was it just wide left a few inches or did it dribble into the endzone like it was kicked by a drunk Hobbit?”

“Do you have any drunk hobbits on the roster?”

“I have no idea, you’d have to ask Coach Heupel.”

“Is Coach Heupel a drunk Hobbit?”

“We’re still evaluating.”

You know what a bad OU kicker means …

… a missed tying or winning FG as the clock expires …

… which means a dramatic loss for the boys in crimson and cream …

… which means …

CRYING SOONER KID!

… which never fails to delight me. At this point, the wife doesn’t even bother to castigate me for laughing at a heartbroken child anymore.

HenryJames has a foot like George Gordon.

Those aren’t the only Latino males that have touched Henry James.

“CRYING SOONER KID!”

I’m partial to the fat, crying sooner band chick. Either/or really. Maybe we can break new ground this year and get a crying sooner grandpa, facepalming, trying to hide the sorrow. Anyone remember the sooner guy with spiky hair that flipped off the camera in 2007? That was good too.

You forgot the titanic influence Greg Louganis had on HJ just in general as a person. You could say he was touched by him as well.

Initially, I read that as “a legend of jorts to this day.” Then I realized I misread it. Then I realized you meant to type jorts and had a typo.

Geez, Neuhisal suspending a starter for the first 4+ games of the year? What did he do?

The sooners hope it only cost them one game. As the Skins have know for going on a decade now: A shitty kicker will usually cost you 2-4 games per season.

Bates -
 
In the NFL it will. But OU will win most of it’s games by two touchdowns +

I think it was two years ago when the cowboys attempted a game winning field goal against washington, missed it, committed like two personal fouls on the play, and on THE VERY NEXT PLAY washington attemps and converts a field goal in the other direction to win the game.

Considering that a field goal attempt from the 40 yard line is a pretty long kick, and the 40s are twenty yards apart, Is that the only time in history that field goals have been attempted on consecutive plays in opposite directions?

Bates,

That sounds about right. BYU? Lost by 1, missed FG. Miami? Lost by 1, missed FG. Nebraska? Lost by 7, THREE missed FGs. A good kicker would’ve been the difference between a trip to Arlington/San Diego and a top 15 finish, and our eventual trip to El Paso. Speaking of which, did I mention that our kicker choked on a 35 yard FG when we up by 4 with 4 minutes left in the 4th? That wouldn’t have hurt at all.

I happen to think our offense and secondary are better than advertised, but that our DT’s are going to be a liability.

Vasher,

Ms. Carlson wants to know how you got your hands on her tape recorder. I personally think you sent the new BC intern to jump on that particular grenade, in a manner of speaking.

Trips,
This is solid gold. I expect watching that beatdown of UCLA to be as therapeutic for you as watching TCU get stomped by OU in 2008 (in person) was for me. It felt like a single malt scotch and water on…well, any day. Yes, I tried it your way. Yes, it tasted better. It made me feel sophisticated and upscale. I even went and purchased a monocle.

IDK, but the trend has been the other direction lately.

A whole lot of my optimism for this upcoming season comes from the news we’re getting out of other programs.

Where’s the note on how good A&M’s three starting freshman O-Liners are doing?

OU’s holding open try-outs for kickers when we’re expected to play a defensive showdown with them in Dallas?

I’m loving it.

Sure, our O-Line is green and a liability. But I’m not sure I’d trade our problems for anyone else’s.

Capt. O, we only have 2 freshman starters and they are at the Tackle spot. Our kicker had Mono all summer and has wildly inconsistent all fall camp. I don’t know that we’re having tryouts yet. I’m much more worried about the kicker than the Tackles. I would not trade Tackles with you, freshman or otherwise.

I patterned my game after Reggie Ho.

How does the OU kicking situation affect the UT return game, as described in this article I dug up:

http://barkingcarnival.fantake.com/2010/08/22/texas-football-mid-camp-report-special-teams/

It felt like a single malt scotch and water on…well, any day. Yes, I tried it your way. Yes, it tasted better. It made me feel sophisticated and upscale. I even went and purchased a monocle.

It felt like a single malt scotch and water on…well, any day. Yes, I tried it your way. Yes, it tasted better. It made me feel sophisticated and upscale. I even went and purchased a monocle.

It felt like a single malt scotch and water on…well, any day. Yes, I tried it your way. Yes, it tasted better. It made me feel sophisticated and upscale. I even went and purchased a monocle.

Us BC scotch fans, have been waiting a year to read that. BUT NATE!! Bifocals are the way to go!! A monocle? Are you effin kidding me?

I swear, it was the wind swirling out of the tunnel…..

I’ll be damned if Woody Hayes didn’t slap that kid in the white hat at the very end of the video. Kid approaches him with his hand out and Woody just smacks the shit out of him. I’ve never seen that before.

@Kilgore Trout

I don’t even know what school you’re talking about, because I was referencing two different ones in my comment. But either way, you’re just adding to my confidence.

@sugarpants:

That remains to be seen. The OU coverage team was nails in 2009, and spent 2008 getting nailed by just about everyone. The Shipley KR TD in 2008 ripped momentum right out of OU’s hands. If the kicker sucks, they’ll just have Tress Way lob rainbow kicks to about the 25-30. If OU’s coverage team is as solid as it was last year, most teams will start their drives around the 30. By the time one of the returners has the ball in his hands, half the coverage team will be standing around him.

HenryJames was known as the Christy Brown of Bigfoot, TX. So much poetic justice win.

ok seriously, I demand that barking carnival give me a link to a bigger picture of the stoops underwear pic. Don’t tell me to google it, if I google Stoops underwear, the BC post where I asked before comes up.

Stoops is loudly claiming this week that ou was “one good placekicker” away from a two loss team last year.

@ransom

Stoops is right. We weren’t beating UT (no way was Muschamp going to lose to Landry and his Uncle Rico looking ’stache) or Tech (they were still pissed off over the year before), but BYU, Miami, and Nebraska were all winnable games with a good FG kicker.

We collectively cross the holes in our souls where our hearts used to be.

You too, huh? Sold mine to the Devil for the 1999 OU game.

I found it, thanks for nothing http://www.bikerfox.com/celebrity/Fark%20OU!%20-%20Forums%20powered%20by%20WWWThreads%20PHP_files/stoops_fox_undies.jpg