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Sooner success depends on improved defense

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By Mike

My season tickets have arrived. Two-a-day practices begin for the Sooners this week. Hey, it’s August.

As that stadium announcer says, “It’s football time in Oooooklahoma.”

And not soon enough. We need to get that bad taste left in the mouth after the debacle in the Cotton Bowl.

But before we get too hyped up about the new season, let’s not forget how miserable last season ended.

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When faith and a dream come together

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It began like any other day that morning in our 9th grade science class. Our teacher, Mr. Ott, was about to talk about the formaldehyde-soaked frogs we were to dissect. But then, he stopped and introduced us to a short young man with thick calves and a thicker baby-faced smile who had just walked in the door, seemingly out of nowhere.

He said he was Steve Davis and he was there to invite us all to the Fellowship of Christian Athletes meeting that was to be held that night in the auditorium. He was going to give a speech at the meeting.

Davis told us he had played high school football down the road at Sallisaw, but he was now a freshman in college. At OU, he said.

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Sooner recruiting class very ‘defensive’

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When the Sooners’ 2012 season turned into a scoring fiesta – from the West Virginia game on – there was one thing very evident: the defensive line was the most significant weak spot.

Just overall, the defense looked shabby.

“As the year went on, I felt like our defense started to deteriorate,” Assistant Coach Mike Stoops said on Wednesday, when asked about the greatest needs met by the 2013 recruiting class.

So, when Santa delivered this year’s recruiting gifts, ala National Signing Day on Wednesday, we all opened the crimson and cream packages hoping and praying Bro’ Mike, Coach Bob and the rest of his staff had spent the last 32 days (since Johnny Football) scouring the hinterlands to find big guys who could pass rush and tackle.

Looks like they did just that.

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