{"id":4577,"date":"2011-12-30T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T07:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/?p=4577"},"modified":"2012-01-01T17:37:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T22:37:39","slug":"what-a-bowl-game-win-would-do-for-ou","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/?p=4577","title":{"rendered":"What a bowl game win would do for OU"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TEMPE , Ariz. — There are important things<\/strong> the Sooners can take from a win here tonight in the Insight Bowl.<\/p>\n

Of course a win is always good.\u00a0 And, a win to get some of that bad Bedlam taste out of our mouths would be very good.<\/p>\n

But even more than that, a win against Bob Stoops\u2019 alma mater would be important to right a ship that is so far off the expected course that we\u2019re not sure anyone is looking for it to return to port.<\/p>\n

A good performance by Landry Jones would squelch some of our Sooner fan friends who refer him to as \u201cLaundry\u201d Jones, apparently in reference to how his fumbles against Oklahoma State stunk up the place so much we burned our clothes that night.\u00a0 There is a good chance Landry will return for his senior season.\u00a0 We need him to step up to win this bowl game, but we also need him to do so in order to carry the Sooners into a positive spring practice.<\/p>\n

A dominating defense \u2013 especially against the pass (although we\u2019re not sure Iowa has the forward pass in their play book) \u2013 would go far in erasing from our memories the horrible catastrophe in Waco, Texas that can only be described as a second Hindenburg accident (or the earlier inexplicable loss to Texas Tech in Norman).<\/p>\n

A 100-yard game by Roy Finch would elevate his game to a Quentin Griffin level.\u00a0 That\u2019s the yardstick we have for any running back who is shorter than Danny Devito and quicker than the Flash (an odd combination indeed).\u00a0 More important than that is this offense needs to establish itself as a smash-mouth offensive team.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The inability to run the football is what keeps this OU team from being a consistent winner.<\/p>\n

A great bowl game<\/strong> by LB Travis Lewis won\u2019t help us much next year, but it would be a sweet cap on the career of a vocal leader of this team.\u00a0 We can knock his play this year because the reality is he played the whole season injured.\u00a0 We can\u2019t knock his devotion and enthusiasm \u2013 and a fire that, unfortunately, didn\u2019t ignite some of the other players on this team.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A win against Iowa can facilitate another player \u2013 Tony Jefferson or Gabe Ikard, for example, to step up as the new team leader.<\/p>\n

A balanced offensive game plan in the Insight Bowl would help us have some level of ease about Josh Heupel\u2019s play calling.\u00a0 Right now it\u2019s more like un-ease, a condition made apparent by the all-pass no-run playing calling by the offensive coordinator in the Sooners\u2019 last game in Stillwater.<\/p>\n

All of the above would be nice.\u00a0 And still the Sooners can get what they really need without achieving this wish list.\u00a0 They need a blow out win so that they \u2013 and many college football fans, and more importantly, football recruits \u2013 know that the Oklahoma Sooners don\u2019t belong in a pre-New Year\u2019s non-BCS college bowl game.<\/p>\n

The Sooners program belongs only in a BCS game \u2013 and sooner rather than later they belong in the BCS championship game.\u00a0 This Sooners team will decide tonight whether that annual expectation is realistic or not.\u00a0 — Mike<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TEMPE , Ariz. — There are important things the Sooners can take from a win here tonight in the Insight Bowl.<\/p>\n

Of course a win is always good. And, a win to get some of that bad Bedlam taste out of our mouths would be very good.<\/p>\n

But even more than that, a win against Bob Stoops\u2019 alma mater would be important to right a ship that is so far off the expected course that we\u2019re not sure anyone is looking for it to return to port.<\/p>\n

A good performance by Landry Jones would squelch some of our Sooner fan friends who refer him to as \u201cLaundry\u201d Jones.<\/p>\n

Apparently that’s in reference to how his fumbles against Oklahoma State stunk up the place so much we burned our clothes that night. <\/p>\n

There is a good chance Landry will return for his senior season. .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gameday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4595,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions\/4595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soonerguys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}