Let’s talk about the injuries. Is there an issue in the training room? Is there substance behind players loosing confidence in the those keeping them healthy and healing them?
Love my Sooners! That said the realistic expectation should be 7-8 wins at best. I want so bad for BV to be the guy but he hasn’t proven for a second in 3 seasons that he can be a great HC.
@@geenona-vq4xkquick quiz: how many teams did Arbuckle and Mateer’s Washington State lose to in 2024? a: 5 How bad were the teams that they lost to? they LOST to: #97th ranked Oregon State #104th ranked New Mexico #121st ranked Wyoming Arbuckle and Mateer LOST to those teams. Plus they lost in double digit blowouts to #21 Syracuse and #9 Boise State. Why is nobody talking about this? Those are losses against bottom feeder cfb teams. And now they’re coming to face not mountain west teams, but 3 steps up from that, SEC teams? 🤔
@@tullfarley4962- they won’t discuss it because too many fans have circled the wagons around BV. We’re not making competent hires, but they don’t care so long as BV is still here - he can do no wrong.
Talking injuries isn’t an excuse, it’s a reality. And our job is to discuss all of it. The offense wasn’t good enough by a long shot and that’s why Littrell was fired and Joe Jon didn’t keep the OC title and they went outside the program. Venables understands it wasn’t good enough. But that defense. He helped build that defense.
The incompetence of OUr staff worries me. Sure, we have Arbuckle. But we also still have JJF and Demarco Murray, and we still don't have a DC, which means Brent will be preoccupied on defense instead of solely focusing on being the CEO. I have to see this team on the field before my mind can even comprehend a 9 or 10 win season.
Good take & I know, you are just discussing injuries, not using it as an excuse! 👍🤝 But; from here on out, no discussing last yr or talking about injuries!🤕 Lets move on & btw, OU was just voted, 2025 as the hardest schedule, so I'm NOT expecting much! I don't see 9 wins! 7-5 or 6-6 again!😔😭 We will, mos def, be drinking during the SEC games!😂🍻 Gonna be a tough schedule & tough year!😢🍻
The O-line is two deep at both guards and both tackles with 4 and 5 star prospects. And that's just freshmen and sophomores. Center concerns me. TE concerns me. WRs will be good not great. QB and OC combo will definitely exceed last year's results.
@dariussuite1605 bro reapectfully, Fasusi and Fodge 5 🌟 and 4 🌟 freshmen LT and RT. Eddie Pierre Lewis, I don't know man. Maybe you aren't looking at all of the last two years
@kennethwatson448 That's only 3 players one 5 star and two 4 stars. Your comment seem like you were saying we had a lot more. Eddie Pierre Lewis in some rankings is listed as a 3 star.
Agreed. Finebaum is stating nothing but facts. OUr national perception has already been diminished, and if we have another bad year it could get BAAAAD.
Finebaum is a scumbag! Can’t stand this guy. Long before OU joined the sec he was nothing but an sec pusher. He sees nothing else in college football, is completely biased against every other team and conference and has zero objectivity. And what a difficult observation to make: OU had a bad year and needs a bounce back season. What a genius! I wonder how many sleepless night it took him to come with brilliant take! Wow! One final point, injuries aren’t an excuse, they’re a reason! No team in college football could have overcome the injuries OU had on offense and achieved anything meaningful. I went through this same thing with my favorite nfl team on the defensive side and it kept them from reaching their objectives as well. One or two injuries, ok. But when you have a better offense on the sideline than you do on the field, that doesn’t work!
Spring portal transfer have to sit out one year if they transfer within the conference. The only transfers we can take in the Spring portal are non SEC players.
We need to build a SEC team that can run the ball West coast offenses won't win , the one year we could run the ball and play Defense we won a national championship. year 2000! i am afraid coach Venables chose wrong and will be gone after next year!
@@LockedOnSoonersyes, definitely. meanwhile, what is OU bringing to the table? John Mateer, who got his stats playing fresno state and Portland State and losing to New Mexico and similar bad teams and getting blown out by double digits to the only ranked teams he played (Boise state and syracuse). Any qb looks good against air. OU brings back the last ranked team in all of the football bowl series in “sacks given up”, with 50 sacks given up in 2024. OU brings in a whole new offensive coordinator and his system, a system honed NOT AGAINST SEC STYLE TEAMS but against fresno state and portland state and other such powerhouses that nobody has ever even heard of. OU loses the soul of their defense, Danny Stutsman, and Billy Bowman. But you’re going to go to 2024 playoff team Tennessee and beat them in their own house. You’re going to Bama who you caught sleeping in 2024, thinking they aren’t going to have you circled on their calendars this year. You think you’re going to spank South Carolina in their house, who arguably should’ve been in the cfp in 2024. SMH you guys crack me up!
@@tullfarley4962you made an excuse for every team except OU. So to your estimation every team will get better in the offseason besides OU. And OU is the only team losing players to draft or portal. Gotcha.
It's ranked the hardest schedule of any team in college football. Right after a terrible season, we get the toughest schedule in College Football. He will have to win 9 games, IMO, to retain his job.
Unless Norman has moved, it is still less than three hours from DFW metro. Nebraska’s recruiting base is the main reason they will likely return to their past glory.
Finebum, was blasting BV at Clemson for years for beating his beloved SEC. Believe in BV, he will build a juggernaut, todays College FB has changed so much it’s hard to keep up with these spoiled kids and wanting $$$ instead of putting in the work
@@toddkerbs2564 You're in denial. Venebles is the reason not the players. He is embarrassing Oklahoma and has signed some of the lowest receivers from the transfer portal that nobody wanted. Sit down.
I think OU is in worse shape than most believe. It's alarming that a program like ours is excited about getting the WSU offensive coordinator and their QB. You do realize they lost to Wyoming? I want BV to succeed in the worse way but he has a tremendous amount of work to do.
Can you do a video about John Mateer? Because i have several questions for you to address. 1) What caused John Mateer and his Washington State Cougars to implode at the end of this season and lose 4 games in a row? 2) Which of the games that Mateer lost in 2024 concern you the most coming into 2025? -was it the Nov 16 loss to New Mexico? -was it the Nov 23 loss to Oregon State? -was it the Nov 30 loss to wyoming? -was it the december 27 double digit blowout loss to #21 Syracuse? -was it the loss to Boise St? 3) Sooner world seems about to erect a statue to John Mateer, their new 2025 “Jackson Arnold” style touchdown jesus. What actual accomplishments against real competition is this based on? 4) Does OU and their fans think that this qb who has only beaten mid and bad “Mountain West Conference” teams, and lost to several as well, going to come in and save OU in 2025 behind the 84% returning O-line production that ranked last in all of college football in “sacks given up”? PLEASE make this video and address these pressing questions.
Injuries? That reciever room GAVE UP! emmit jones should have known, if he didnt he is a fool! This team has a ton to prove BV has a ton to prove! Mens athletics is going DOWN at OU!
The answer may be let BV lead the defense and bring in another head coach. Arbuckle has the offense. Long term, work on attracting and keeping top players in Norman, OK, which is not such a glitzy place to be for newly minted 20 year old millionaires. So, it may take some creativity and social network skills more than most probably think it will.
Wake up bro 😎 this is the SEC! The Sooners will loose to all SEC teams that they lost to last year! We don’t have the coaches or the players to win in the SEC! Fans you’d better get ready for another disappointing season!
We are a 2nd tier program now. That's the simple truth. No one considers OU elite anymore and it's due in large part to the sunshine pumper idiots in this fanbase that don't want to hold anyone accountable for anything. BV should have never been extended and he should have been fired THIS YEAR. It would have shown everyone we aren't okay with mediocrity. Instead, we sent a big message that being average is fine at OU now. It's a JOKE. There is a very good chance OU never recovers to elite status. Once you lose it, it's almost impossible to get back. Just ask Nebraska. No one at OU is serious about doing what it takes to be a top program anymore. Castiglione is not the best AD in the country and never was. He's been coasting off the Stoops hire for 25 years. We have to clean house from an Admin perspective FIRST to even begin to fix this. Bring in some young elite people who understand modern college athletics and NIL who have the energy and drive to fix this. BV would be gone immediately. He's a terrible HC and an AVERAGE DC. He was a panic hire by OU when Riley left instead of conducting a proper search and getting the best coach you could get. Now he has embarrassed this program with historically bad stats and seasons and he still has a job today. Things won't magically change this season. It will be worse. Guys quit on BV this year. They were healthy and chose not to play for this staff for a multitude of reasons including the medical staff, the fitness staff who overtrain these guys, and BV's endless 2 hour sermons when guys just want to go rest in their room. And before anyone questions me, I KNOW it. This isn't a guess. We have a clown show in Norman right now. Our record this season is going to be really bad. We aren't going into Tuscaloosa, Tennessee, or South Carolina and winning. It's not happening. John Mateer isn't going to be some savior. He's a mid level QB. He's not elite.
U simply. Don’t know football. And aren’t an OU fan. All you talkin is negative emotion. Oh and exactly what year did we become a clown show? Just this year? Get real bro. You’ve just been spoiled with the highest of highs for most of the last 25 years. This is about the grind. U run from it. U scared. We don’t need fans like u. We need fans that embrace the grind. LETS GET IT! Bet we won’t be 6-6
@@Parlay-xb8ezHe is most likely an OU fan. My opinion is that Brent has to prove it on the field. We won’t accept mediocre seasons. Two loosing seasons in three years is not acceptable at all!
And screw Finebaum. His fairweather BS is getting old for everyone in the SEC. But...OU better get better rapidly, BV is on the clock and we aren't gonna blame it on bruises this time.
Let’s talk about the injuries. Is there an issue in the training room? Is there substance behind players loosing confidence in the those keeping them healthy and healing them?
Love my Sooners! That said the realistic expectation should be 7-8 wins at best. I want so bad for BV to be the guy but he hasn’t proven for a second in 3 seasons that he can be a great HC.
Look at the d fence but he is not proven hell last year was injuries so just up can u do better can u
Our d is a beast
@@TheCarlisleClan keep looking.
Bunch of sunshine pumping in here and trust me i love sunshine.
Anybody that predicts an 8 to 10 win season is a sunshine pumper
It’s definitely possible. If our defense stays at a similar level & Arbuckle/Mateer gives us something on offense
@@geenona-vq4xkquick quiz:
how many teams did Arbuckle and Mateer’s Washington State lose to in 2024?
a: 5
How bad were the teams that they lost to?
they LOST to:
#97th ranked Oregon State
#104th ranked New Mexico
#121st ranked Wyoming
Arbuckle and Mateer LOST to those teams. Plus they lost in double digit blowouts to #21 Syracuse and #9 Boise State.
Why is nobody talking about this?
Those are losses against bottom feeder cfb teams.
And now they’re coming to face not mountain west teams, but 3 steps up from that, SEC teams? 🤔
@@tullfarley4962- they won’t discuss it because too many fans have circled the wagons around BV. We’re not making competent hires, but they don’t care so long as BV is still here - he can do no wrong.
@@tullfarley4962Good point.
If we have a bad season I don’t wanna hear no excuses!
Talking injuries isn’t an excuse, it’s a reality. And our job is to discuss all of it. The offense wasn’t good enough by a long shot and that’s why Littrell was fired and Joe Jon didn’t keep the OC title and they went outside the program.
Venables understands it wasn’t good enough.
But that defense. He helped build that defense.
@@LockedOnSoonersinjuries are on the strength and conditioning coach as well. He can’t run them into the ground
The incompetence of OUr staff worries me. Sure, we have Arbuckle. But we also still have JJF and Demarco Murray, and we still don't have a DC, which means Brent will be preoccupied on defense instead of solely focusing on being the CEO. I have to see this team on the field before my mind can even comprehend a 9 or 10 win season.
Completely agree
5 or 6 wins is my guess
Finebaum is a Logical Journalist in his own mind only!
Can you guys go over potential TE coach options?
We are stuck with JJF. We are too broke to do anything else.
@@donburda8460what’s the name u want?
@Parlay-xb8ez
Todd Hartley, Taylor Mouser or Alex Golesh to name a few.
Someone who can recruit and develop talent. JJF does neither if you watched last season.
Why? They haven't fired the current guy.
Going into the bye I agree with Jay on 8 or 9 wins. 10 wins is where we need
Good take & I know, you are just discussing injuries, not using it as an excuse!
👍🤝 But; from here on out, no discussing last yr or talking about injuries!🤕 Lets move on & btw, OU was just voted, 2025 as the hardest schedule, so I'm NOT expecting much! I don't see 9 wins! 7-5 or 6-6 again!😔😭 We will, mos def, be drinking during the SEC games!😂🍻 Gonna be a tough schedule & tough year!😢🍻
The O-line is two deep at both guards and both tackles with 4 and 5 star prospects. And that's just freshmen and sophomores. Center concerns me. TE concerns me. WRs will be good not great. QB and OC combo will definitely exceed last year's results.
Who cares. BB is the most overrated coach in CFB and they will play like shit every season until 8 or 9 games into the season like always.
I agree, ive got them starting in a hole in every group, gotta prove you can do it from day one, im not bettin on it@@XxsoonerbornxX
We don't have a lot of 4 and 5 star prospects on the O-line
@dariussuite1605 bro reapectfully, Fasusi and Fodge 5 🌟 and 4 🌟 freshmen LT and RT. Eddie Pierre Lewis, I don't know man. Maybe you aren't looking at all of the last two years
@kennethwatson448 That's only 3 players one 5 star and two 4 stars. Your comment seem like you were saying we had a lot more. Eddie Pierre Lewis in some rankings is listed as a 3 star.
Finebaum isnt wrong. He’s not there to pump sunshine.
Totally. Sooners have a ton to prove this year. Venables is on the hot seat. Gotta go win.
Agreed. Finebaum is stating nothing but facts. OUr national perception has already been diminished, and if we have another bad year it could get BAAAAD.
Finebaum is a scumbag! Can’t stand this guy. Long before OU joined the sec he was nothing but an sec pusher. He sees nothing else in college football, is completely biased against every other team and conference and has zero objectivity. And what a difficult observation to make: OU had a bad year and needs a bounce back season. What a genius! I wonder how many sleepless night it took him to come with brilliant take! Wow!
One final point, injuries aren’t an excuse, they’re a reason! No team in college football could have overcome the injuries OU had on offense and achieved anything meaningful. I went through this same thing with my favorite nfl team on the defensive side and it kept them from reaching their objectives as well. One or two injuries, ok. But when you have a better offense on the sideline than you do on the field, that doesn’t work!
Not big on Paul Finebaum, but he's being honest
@@LockedOnSooners coach will be gone after next season.
Problems last year - offensive coordinator and the health of the offensive line both have been corrected!
No it hasn't
Spring portal transfer have to sit out one year if they transfer within the conference. The only transfers we can take in the Spring portal are non SEC players.
We need to build a SEC team that can run the ball West coast offenses won't win , the one year we could run the ball and play Defense we won a national championship. year 2000! i am afraid coach Venables chose wrong and will be gone after next year!
Oklahoma schedule is most likely MORE DIFFICULT this year . Going to Alabama, Tennessee and South Carolina.
But are they better teams than they were last year? One could argue, no.
@@LockedOnSoonersyes, definitely.
meanwhile, what is OU bringing to the table?
John Mateer, who got his stats playing fresno state and Portland State and losing to New Mexico and similar bad teams and getting blown out by double digits to the only ranked teams he played (Boise state and syracuse). Any qb looks good against air.
OU brings back the last ranked team in all of the football bowl series in “sacks given up”, with 50 sacks given up in 2024.
OU brings in a whole new offensive coordinator and his system, a system honed NOT AGAINST SEC STYLE TEAMS but against fresno state and portland state and other such powerhouses that nobody has ever even heard of.
OU loses the soul of their defense, Danny Stutsman, and Billy Bowman.
But you’re going to go to 2024 playoff team Tennessee and beat them in their own house. You’re going to Bama who you caught sleeping in 2024, thinking they aren’t going to have you circled on their calendars this year. You think you’re going to spank South Carolina in their house, who arguably should’ve been in the cfp in 2024.
SMH
you guys crack me up!
@LockedOnSooners you also have Michigan this year unlike last year playing nobody out of conference.
@@tullfarley4962you made an excuse for every team except OU. So to your estimation every team will get better in the offseason besides OU. And OU is the only team losing players to draft or portal. Gotcha.
It's ranked the hardest schedule of any team in college football. Right after a terrible season, we get the toughest schedule in College Football. He will have to win 9 games, IMO, to retain his job.
Its never too late to learn the Nebraska fight song, guys.
Dumb
Unless Norman has moved, it is still less than three hours from DFW metro. Nebraska’s recruiting base is the main reason they will likely return to their past glory.
Anything short of playoffs isn't good
OU will be the same as last year. BV should go. He isn't a HC.
100
Absolutely agreed Johnny. He’s a great DC but HC…..nooooo
“Slames”😂
Let’s gooooo Boomer sooner
Time for OU to nut up. We have a legit QB. The O-Line needs to make huge strides. If not, start the Freshman.
Strange end to the show....like someone hit end instead of pause
Finebum, was blasting BV at Clemson for years for beating his beloved SEC. Believe in BV, he will build a juggernaut, todays College FB has changed so much it’s hard to keep up with these spoiled kids and wanting $$$ instead of putting in the work
😭😭
BV hasn’t shown he’s capable of winning seasons, let alone “building a juggernaut.”
It has nothing to do with spoiled kids. It's had a lot do with Venebles. Ridiculous
@ typical answer, never blame the kids, give them anything they want all the time and you will be good. Accountability should never be brought up
@@toddkerbs2564 You're in denial. Venebles is the reason not the players. He is embarrassing Oklahoma and has signed some of the lowest receivers from the transfer portal that nobody wanted. Sit down.
I think OU is in worse shape than most believe. It's alarming that a program like ours is excited about getting the WSU offensive coordinator and their QB. You do realize they lost to Wyoming? I want BV to succeed in the worse way but he has a tremendous amount of work to do.
Do u realize that ou d is better then wsu
Can you do a video about John Mateer? Because i have several questions for you to address.
1) What caused John Mateer and his Washington State Cougars to implode at the end of this season and lose 4 games in a row?
2) Which of the games that Mateer lost in 2024 concern you the most coming into 2025?
-was it the Nov 16 loss to New Mexico?
-was it the Nov 23 loss to Oregon State?
-was it the Nov 30 loss to wyoming?
-was it the december 27 double digit blowout loss to #21 Syracuse?
-was it the loss to Boise St?
3) Sooner world seems about to erect a statue to John Mateer, their new 2025 “Jackson Arnold” style touchdown jesus. What actual accomplishments against real competition is this based on?
4) Does OU and their fans think that this qb who has only beaten mid and bad “Mountain West Conference” teams, and lost to several as well, going to come in and save OU in 2025 behind the 84% returning O-line production that ranked last in all of college football in “sacks given up”?
PLEASE make this video and address these pressing questions.
You keep talking about Burks but he hasn't shown me anything. 😮😮
Injuries? That reciever room GAVE UP! emmit jones should have known, if he didnt he is a fool! This team has a ton to prove BV has a ton to prove! Mens athletics is going DOWN at OU!
100% agree!
You click baited me, stop it
The answer may be let BV lead the defense and bring in another head coach. Arbuckle has the offense. Long term, work on attracting and keeping top players in Norman, OK, which is not such a glitzy place to be for newly minted 20 year old millionaires. So, it may take some creativity and social network skills more than most probably think it will.
Wake up bro 😎 this is the SEC! The Sooners will loose to all SEC teams that they lost to last year! We don’t have the coaches or the players to win in the SEC! Fans you’d better get ready for another disappointing season!
We are a 2nd tier program now. That's the simple truth. No one considers OU elite anymore and it's due in large part to the sunshine pumper idiots in this fanbase that don't want to hold anyone accountable for anything. BV should have never been extended and he should have been fired THIS YEAR. It would have shown everyone we aren't okay with mediocrity. Instead, we sent a big message that being average is fine at OU now.
It's a JOKE.
There is a very good chance OU never recovers to elite status. Once you lose it, it's almost impossible to get back. Just ask Nebraska. No one at OU is serious about doing what it takes to be a top program anymore. Castiglione is not the best AD in the country and never was. He's been coasting off the Stoops hire for 25 years. We have to clean house from an Admin perspective FIRST to even begin to fix this. Bring in some young elite people who understand modern college athletics and NIL who have the energy and drive to fix this. BV would be gone immediately. He's a terrible HC and an AVERAGE DC.
He was a panic hire by OU when Riley left instead of conducting a proper search and getting the best coach you could get. Now he has embarrassed this program with historically bad stats and seasons and he still has a job today. Things won't magically change this season. It will be worse. Guys quit on BV this year. They were healthy and chose not to play for this staff for a multitude of reasons including the medical staff, the fitness staff who overtrain these guys, and BV's endless 2 hour sermons when guys just want to go rest in their room. And before anyone questions me, I KNOW it. This isn't a guess.
We have a clown show in Norman right now. Our record this season is going to be really bad. We aren't going into Tuscaloosa, Tennessee, or South Carolina and winning. It's not happening. John Mateer isn't going to be some savior. He's a mid level QB. He's not elite.
U simply. Don’t know football. And aren’t an OU fan. All you talkin is negative emotion. Oh and exactly what year did we become a clown show? Just this year? Get real bro. You’ve just been spoiled with the highest of highs for most of the last 25 years. This is about the grind. U run from it. U scared. We don’t need fans like u. We need fans that embrace the grind. LETS GET IT! Bet we won’t be 6-6
@@Parlay-xb8ezHe is most likely an OU fan. My opinion is that Brent has to prove it on the field. We won’t accept mediocre seasons. Two loosing seasons in three years is not acceptable at all!
100% agree!
@@Parlay-xb8ez you’re a clown.
Agree BV is trash and hasn’t shown anything as a HC. Decision making has been questionable on field and off field. Knows D but nothing about offense
Move BV to DC, Saban new HC.
Problem solved. 😂
Forget Arkansas State DC. That group gave up 406 yds rushing to friggin Old Dominion for goodness sakes...
He wasn’t the DC for that. The dude was only hired at the beginning of January. Like three weeks ago
Wrong coach
Love the negativity
And screw Finebaum. His fairweather BS is getting old for everyone in the SEC.
But...OU better get better rapidly, BV is on the clock and we aren't gonna blame it on bruises this time.
Slames?! 😂😂... Definitely getting a thumbs down😅
10 wins lmao….that will never happen with BV as HC!! Come on man.