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As big of a media dumba** Mike gundy is, Riley comes across as the polar opposite feeding the media exactly what they want to hear. Everyone hailed him as a genius golden boy for his “most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard” COVID comments, and then returned to practice two weeks after the “most ridiculous return date he’s ever heard” as if any new info came out in those two weeks. Seemed to me it was more ridiculous to him to let the rest of the country get too much of a competitive advantage.
OU had a big COVID outbreak before Bedlam (and admittedly still whooped OSU up and down the field)
meanwhile OSU and ISU had the fewest outbreaks/players miss games in the big 12, but gundy is a backwoods inbred idiot still who knows nothing about how to run a football program in a pandemic. Any national coverage on the OKC thunder consulting Gundy and the OSU medical staff on how they handled the pandemic so well?
Not saying Gundy’s media gaffes aren’t dumb as hell and he has himself to blame for the backlash, but the media loves them some Lincoln who really “gets it” cuz he feeds the talking heads what they want.
he’s a better football coach than Gundy and is better at “playing the game” to keep a better image. Has the local media eating out of the palm of his hand. Not saying I’d complain if I was an OU fan and he was winning 12 games a year, but it seemed pretty intentional to pair him up as “boy genius” next to gundy’s “out of touch old man yells at cloud”
OU had a big COVID outbreak before Bedlam (and admittedly still whooped OSU up and down the field)
meanwhile OSU and ISU had the fewest outbreaks/players miss games in the big 12, but gundy is a backwoods inbred idiot still who knows nothing about how to run a football program in a pandemic. Any national coverage on the OKC thunder consulting Gundy and the OSU medical staff on how they handled the pandemic so well?
Not saying Gundy’s media gaffes aren’t dumb as hell and he has himself to blame for the backlash, but the media loves them some Lincoln who really “gets it” cuz he feeds the talking heads what they want.
he’s a better football coach than Gundy and is better at “playing the game” to keep a better image. Has the local media eating out of the palm of his hand. Not saying I’d complain if I was an OU fan and he was winning 12 games a year, but it seemed pretty intentional to pair him up as “boy genius” next to gundy’s “out of touch old man yells at cloud”
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Yes but it was always entertaining to watch bob stoops yell at John Hoover and general “idgaf” rust belt accented attitude.
he seemed like he cared a lot less about what would score him brownie points
am I biased? Hell yeah, but I don’t have to be entirely rational, we’re talking sports hate here. I am however, entirely convinced the the wording Riley used was intentional to juxtapose himself to the other Oklahoma school in the Big 12’s coach and the local media would be lining up in knee pads if Riley was being consulted by an NBA team for how well he led a program through a pandemic
he seemed like he cared a lot less about what would score him brownie points
am I biased? Hell yeah, but I don’t have to be entirely rational, we’re talking sports hate here. I am however, entirely convinced the the wording Riley used was intentional to juxtapose himself to the other Oklahoma school in the Big 12’s coach and the local media would be lining up in knee pads if Riley was being consulted by an NBA team for how well he led a program through a pandemic
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What pisses me off about nick Saban is his waffling in opinions depending on what benefits Alabama.
One year conference championships mean nothing and it’s all about who’s the best team, then one year winning the SEC should be the end all be all.
he asks “is this what we want football to become? This ain’t good for the kids” about no huddle/up tempo offenses, now his opinion is clearly pretty different.
His take about the early signing period was BS. “What if these kids want to go to a bigger school and now they can’t?” Feigning concern about that, what he really means is “we missed on the 5 star we wanted, now we can’t even raid the non-blue bloods for their top 4 star, with a last minute offer while they’ve recruited them for 2 years, who probably would’ve rode the pine at Alabama.”
hell of a coach, but hell of a hypocrite. And he’s just an a**hole as well. Still respect him 50,000x as much as Urban though.
FWIW I just sports hate Lincoln. I obviously don’t think he’s an actual piece of **** like Urban, Freeze, Jimbo, Mullen, Lester Miles, or (vomits) Briles (both Kendall and Art)
One year conference championships mean nothing and it’s all about who’s the best team, then one year winning the SEC should be the end all be all.
he asks “is this what we want football to become? This ain’t good for the kids” about no huddle/up tempo offenses, now his opinion is clearly pretty different.
His take about the early signing period was BS. “What if these kids want to go to a bigger school and now they can’t?” Feigning concern about that, what he really means is “we missed on the 5 star we wanted, now we can’t even raid the non-blue bloods for their top 4 star, with a last minute offer while they’ve recruited them for 2 years, who probably would’ve rode the pine at Alabama.”
hell of a coach, but hell of a hypocrite. And he’s just an a**hole as well. Still respect him 50,000x as much as Urban though.
FWIW I just sports hate Lincoln. I obviously don’t think he’s an actual piece of **** like Urban, Freeze, Jimbo, Mullen, Lester Miles, or (vomits) Briles (both Kendall and Art)
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