jmillerfan
12/14/2011, 07:45 PM
This is how things get started in the rumor mill...I did not type this but one poster is 90% sure it was me, lol. I do post a lot and Jonathon is my son but I didn't post or type these things below and NateHeupel I know you didn't mean nothing by it and I hope you aren't a betting man my honest and humble opinion is things will be back to normal in Norman sooner than you guys think I urged Jonathon to go back and try to get on the team and had been trying to get him back on the team from the day he quit I kept telling him you never know what's going to happen. My kid is a good kid and very humble. The Sooner backfield will be fine and the coaching staff will be fine I think there just have been some things happen over the course of last year that has these guys emotional. The loss of a teammate is pretty devastating to say the least and we still pray for Box's family and continued strength:
regarding what is being said about the slo-mo trainwreck in norman, the father of a sooner player posted this today on soonerfans:
Folks, you may not like some of the things you are about to hear but they have to be said. I have a son leaving this program and have many mixed emotions. It has been a tough road and there have been mistakes on both sides of the equation. I will say that from my experience on the inside of the program that there are serious problems in this program. Please don’t attack me as an OU hater because I have a great respect for this program. The (morale) that I have witnessed is one of the lowest that I have seen in a program. This program is seeing an exodus because the people in charge of this program have forgotten that they have to be able to inspire those around them. The truly great coaches and programs have this ability and it pays great dividends. Yes, the players have a responsibility, but it still requires inspiration. As far as my son goes, I had never seen him have any problems until he arived at OU. It is a tough amd new environment but something went really wrong and unfortunately we may never know what it was. For those that will disagree, the proof will be in the pudding. It always plays out in the end. We wish you the best of luck and hopefully this program can return to the program that we thought it was. P.S. Some of your coaches are not who you think they are.
NateHeupel said: December 13th, 2011 at 10:50 pm
I’m 90% sure that post was Jonathan Miller’s dad. He posts a lot. Miller is the same guy who quit before the season was even over and asked to get back on the team…AFTER the RB’s started getting hurt. The coaches were/are extremely pissed off about that. Kid had a lot of fans in Sooner nation, and still has one in me.
Marcus Trice didn’t decide to leave so much as he was “invited” to leave. Think Darius White. Speaking of which, you’ll have to forgive me if I LOL’d at this comment:
“In other words, OU seems anything but stable at this point, and DGB and family places a premium on stability. I’m not quite ready to place Texas in the lead at this point because Arkansas offers the benefit of proximity and an established offense, but Texas has the perfect family atmosphere the Beckhams covet.”
The same place we got the rumors you mentioned is also spreading one about Darius White explicitly telling DGB not to come to Austin. Forgive me, Shutty, but if an elite WR recruit from the class just two before yours flat out told you not to come, wouldn’t you listen to that pretty damned carefully?
As for UT’s “family atmosphere”…correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t there a thread celebrating how many kids are being shown the door this year in Austin over at BC?
My bet is, was, and will continue to be, that DGB is going to look more carefully at 1) proximity and 2) who’s throwing the ball. I’m convinced that UT is going to be left in the lurch as a result. Tout family all you want. You can have a nuclear missile strapped to your back and superglue for hands, and you can live 5 minutes from your entire family, and it doesn’t matter if your QB options are Ash, McCoy, or a true frosh. McCoy is terrible, Ash needs 2 more years just to get from here to Greg McElroy, and Brewer is a complete unknown at the college level. DGB to Arky is my bet right now, I think we agree on that.
regarding what is being said about the slo-mo trainwreck in norman, the father of a sooner player posted this today on soonerfans:
Folks, you may not like some of the things you are about to hear but they have to be said. I have a son leaving this program and have many mixed emotions. It has been a tough road and there have been mistakes on both sides of the equation. I will say that from my experience on the inside of the program that there are serious problems in this program. Please don’t attack me as an OU hater because I have a great respect for this program. The (morale) that I have witnessed is one of the lowest that I have seen in a program. This program is seeing an exodus because the people in charge of this program have forgotten that they have to be able to inspire those around them. The truly great coaches and programs have this ability and it pays great dividends. Yes, the players have a responsibility, but it still requires inspiration. As far as my son goes, I had never seen him have any problems until he arived at OU. It is a tough amd new environment but something went really wrong and unfortunately we may never know what it was. For those that will disagree, the proof will be in the pudding. It always plays out in the end. We wish you the best of luck and hopefully this program can return to the program that we thought it was. P.S. Some of your coaches are not who you think they are.
NateHeupel said: December 13th, 2011 at 10:50 pm
I’m 90% sure that post was Jonathan Miller’s dad. He posts a lot. Miller is the same guy who quit before the season was even over and asked to get back on the team…AFTER the RB’s started getting hurt. The coaches were/are extremely pissed off about that. Kid had a lot of fans in Sooner nation, and still has one in me.
Marcus Trice didn’t decide to leave so much as he was “invited” to leave. Think Darius White. Speaking of which, you’ll have to forgive me if I LOL’d at this comment:
“In other words, OU seems anything but stable at this point, and DGB and family places a premium on stability. I’m not quite ready to place Texas in the lead at this point because Arkansas offers the benefit of proximity and an established offense, but Texas has the perfect family atmosphere the Beckhams covet.”
The same place we got the rumors you mentioned is also spreading one about Darius White explicitly telling DGB not to come to Austin. Forgive me, Shutty, but if an elite WR recruit from the class just two before yours flat out told you not to come, wouldn’t you listen to that pretty damned carefully?
As for UT’s “family atmosphere”…correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t there a thread celebrating how many kids are being shown the door this year in Austin over at BC?
My bet is, was, and will continue to be, that DGB is going to look more carefully at 1) proximity and 2) who’s throwing the ball. I’m convinced that UT is going to be left in the lurch as a result. Tout family all you want. You can have a nuclear missile strapped to your back and superglue for hands, and you can live 5 minutes from your entire family, and it doesn’t matter if your QB options are Ash, McCoy, or a true frosh. McCoy is terrible, Ash needs 2 more years just to get from here to Greg McElroy, and Brewer is a complete unknown at the college level. DGB to Arky is my bet right now, I think we agree on that.