Sooner Center Ben Habern's Career Is Over, Sooner Wide Redivas Reinstated

I didn’t realize Shead wasn’t already in the starting lineup for this year, he was one of the guys who could move a pile last year, if I recall correctly. None of these developments strike me as necessarily making OU’s football team weaker, obviously not the part where all those receivers are allowed back on the team. Ikard is a capable center, and this seems to raise the physicality level of the unit as a whole.

Two of the WR’s had no business coming back. None. Jaz Reynolds has been doing dumb things pretty consistently off the field (his “joke” about shootings in Austin being the cherry on top) and Trey Franks has just been a jackass. Kameel Jackson might be deserving of a bit of slack as a true frosh, but I’m fervently unhappy about this decision w/r/t Reynolds and Franks. Quentin Hayes is a backup safety. If you want to speculate that he was allowed back so it didn’t look quite as obvious that this is motivated by the losses at the WR position, I’d hear that argument.

Makes his three time drug test failers miss all team activities between the end of spring practice and the beginning of summer camp. A real taskmaster.

RE: Habern
I mentioned earlier that OU’s strength on the OL was depth. That may be tested now.

RE: the others
Certainly Stoops could be hedging his bets, but we should see how the seasons plays out. Based on the reports leaking from camp, Franks may not be a great factor. Reynolds will likely start the first game, but if Metoyer is the 2nd coming, may not see the field as much later. Hayes may be a fig leaf.

Reinstating the WR crooks and cross-dressers is that it took him so long

Bob sent three of his wide receivers on vacation for 3 months for breaking the rules? Yeah, that should really set a good example in Norman.

Sometimes when I want to punish my children, I refuse to let them eat dinner and give them ice cream instead.

But so many of them are spot on.

“Oh noes! We can haz miss summr practicez??? Bitchez this waey!!! #YOLO”
-A direct (mis)quote from Trey Franks twitter feed.

if things don’t go well early on?

It seemed to me that part of last year’s second-half issues for OU were caused by off-field problems. (That certainly was the case with Texas in 2010.)

Thanks. Always glad for your input.