End of the Season, End of the Decade and Time to Tally

Great story RA. There is really only one thought that comes to mind after reading - why does there seem to be so many unhappy fans? It seems the number of fans that want Gundy fired is greater than the number of fans that think he's done an excellent job. Maybe the unhappy fans are just more vocal. Oh well, their problem I guess.
Have a happy new year.

my guess would be that most of the "unhappiness" can be attributed to a great start to the decade (2011), with a conf championship (and should have been MNC).... to the last half of the decade where we continue to struggle to break .500 in the conference most seasons.

the unhappiness might be better described as disappointment, because despite the promise of the season (any season), we always seem to find a way to lose a game or two that we should have dominated.

This year we had to beat a depleted and sickened half-team in Baylor just to keep from finishing below Texas statistically. The Texas coach got fired for it (even though they beat us), and we get feel good articles for that miraculous success.

CaliforniaCowboy said:

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my guess would be that most of the "unhappiness" can be attributed to a great start to the decade (2011), with a conf championship (and should have been MNC).... to the last half of the decade where we continue to struggle to break .500 in the conference most seasons.

the unhappiness might be better described as disappointment, because despite the promise of the season (any season), we always seem to find a way to lose a game or two that we should have dominated.

This year we had to beat a depleted and sickened half-team in Baylor just to keep from finishing below Texas statistically. The Texas coach got fired for it (even though they beat us), and we get feel good articles for that miraculous success.

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Coming into this past year:

HC: 16 Year tenure; $5.125mil per year (13th Nationally) salary
Staff: 33 salaried members including an ex-OU HC
Facilities: BPS & SS IPF
Offensive Returning Starters: 9-10
Defensive Returning Starters: 10-11
RB: 2019's National Leading Rusher, 1st Team All Big 12
WR: 2018's National Leading Receiver, 1st Team All Big 12
OT: #1 OT in College Football (Pro Football Focus), 1st Team All Big 12
QB: 2019's Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year, Gatorade's Texas State Player of the Year (2017-18), and Dave Campbell's, Mr. Texas Football (2017-18)
LB: 2nd Team All Big 12
LB: 2nd Team All Big 12
S: 1st Team All Big 12

Predicted Finish (consensus): 2nd

OSU 13, OU 41
OSU 34, UT 41
OSU 22, TCU 29

Final Big 12 Standing: 4th

Baylor was down 1 more starter than us. And all the starters we were missing will play in the NFL. So I don't really think that's a valid point. It's not a "feel good" story if they're all facts.

The year of the politicized virus that originated in Wuhan, China.

What with "flattening-the-curve" shut-downs, cancellations and opt-outs and all, the most relative tally of the bunch: NCAA Division I scholarship athletes (Men and Women and all Sports) that have died of that virus that originated in Wuhan, China:

ZERO (0), zip, zilch, not, nadda, none!

DjSmith23 said:

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Baylor was down 1 more starter than us. And all the starters we were missing will play in the NFL. So I don't really think that's a valid point. It's not a "feel good" story if they're all facts.

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come on DJ... as if we only played starters the whole game, and nobody on the 2-deep got onto the field.

The topic is not even a debate.

Not only is it a valid point, it is THE ONLY POINT that could be made about that game.

They almost could not even field a team - it was that bad. and they had other key people out due to injury too.

Because of injuries and COVID-19, either positive tests or contact tracing, Baylor (2-7, 2-7) had 47 people players, coaches and support personnel that were unavailable for the game.

"I wanted to play the game. I felt our team wanted to play the game," first-year Baylor coach Dave Aranda said. "You look at that game and you probably ask yourself if the team wanted to play. I'm asking myself just in hindsight. But at the time, it felt like we wanted to play."

Baylor had only one full-time assistant offensive coach at the game. That was running backs coach Justin Johnson serving as acting offensive coordinator and calling plays for the first time with the help of two graduate assistants. The rest of the offensive staff, including offensive coordinator Larry Fedora, missed the season finale.

The Bears didn't get to play a nonconference game, were plagued by injuries at running back and lost the Big 12's leading tackler halfway through the season. They had three losses by a touchdown or less, and the biggest losing margin before Saturday was 13 points at No. 13 Oklahoma last week.

DjSmith23 said:

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Baylor was down 1 more starter than us. And all the starters we were missing will play in the NFL. So I don't really think that's a valid point. It's not a "feel good" story if they're all facts.

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Quote:

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"We choose truth over facts!"

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- Joe Biden

I'm sure you'd agree. A win is a win. Someone attempting to equate the head football coach's situation at the nations richest athletic department to anything in Stillwater is ridiculous. Delusional fans, gotta move 'em. They do provide the laughs.

Gotta give it up to Gumby he tries to keep people in the sanity zone on this and other forums. It is a thankless job that I wouldn't want to do.

Joe Khatib said:

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Gotta give it up to Gumby he tries to keep people in the sanity zone on this and other forums. It is a thankless job that I wouldn't want to do.

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the whole thread is delusional, beginning with the article using "averages" to make any point at all.

the streak of bowl games is nice and "winning seasons" is nice, but nothing special... not really. BU won the conf twice in the decade. Whooo Hoooo for them!

Which are we more likely to remember, who won the 200 meters at the Olympics, or who won the Boston Marathon?

We cheer, or we don't cheer. I'm not staying in 2020, moving on to the "next decade" of cowboy sports

Sounds like you think Florida was a bad win for OU too? We had guys opted out and hurt. The point is, it's football. Nobody they were missing would have made a difference. It doesn't matter now. My point was that there's no point making excuses, because nobody is gonna make them for OSU. You've got your opinion tho. So that's fine.

I did not say that Baylor was a bad win... I think it was fortunate for OSU that we got the win in the first place, and don't think we would have won if they had been at full strength and had time to prepare for us.

I'm glad we beat Baylor. I'm glad we finished higher than UT in the standings. I'm glad Texas melted down and fired Herman. I'm glad Gundy did not get fired. I'm glad 2020 is over.

moving to 2021

good to see you again too, Gumby