soonerboy_odanorth
11/8/2009, 11:47 PM
I know you have all been hung up on record-setting offenses and strings of Big XII championships year-after-year...
But the fact is even the best of programs need to catch their breath every once-in-a-while.
College football is very cyclical. That Texas is running on a decade of 10-win seasons should not alarm you. They do that. Then they run for 15 years with a whole bunch of nothing.
Our cycle is more compressed... 7-8 years of 10-win seasons, with 3-5 inexplicably underachieving.
Bottom line... you have to realize that at some point there has to be a confluence of circumstance....
And prescience to know that now ain't it.
Take a look at what we have on the O-line now, and what we are returning next year. Chances are next is going to be a re-building year, too. Then the year after that, is going to be a defensive rebuilding year.
After that... we likely are at the forefront again. But you have to believe... have to believe we have great coaches in place... and don't place your adult hopes on little Johnny-Superstar.
Having said all that, throw in your early 90's 'Bama and 60-something Texas beat-down tapes and enjoy.
You will feel better in the morning.
Boomer Sooner!
But the fact is even the best of programs need to catch their breath every once-in-a-while.
College football is very cyclical. That Texas is running on a decade of 10-win seasons should not alarm you. They do that. Then they run for 15 years with a whole bunch of nothing.
Our cycle is more compressed... 7-8 years of 10-win seasons, with 3-5 inexplicably underachieving.
Bottom line... you have to realize that at some point there has to be a confluence of circumstance....
And prescience to know that now ain't it.
Take a look at what we have on the O-line now, and what we are returning next year. Chances are next is going to be a re-building year, too. Then the year after that, is going to be a defensive rebuilding year.
After that... we likely are at the forefront again. But you have to believe... have to believe we have great coaches in place... and don't place your adult hopes on little Johnny-Superstar.
Having said all that, throw in your early 90's 'Bama and 60-something Texas beat-down tapes and enjoy.
You will feel better in the morning.
Boomer Sooner!