NORMAN - For the first time since the Blake era, we are glad the season is over. Yes, there's a bowl to come, and yes, we will be there for our 300th game in a row. But this season is as over as any season has ever been, after a completely unacceptable, gift-wrapped, 38-35 home loss to Aggy this afternoon in Norman. And we will say it out loud - this has been the worst and most disappointing season in the Stoops era.
It is simply unacceptable for this team to have gone 8-4, with three (THREE!) home conference losses, including a loss to a bad Oklahoma State team. This team was 3-3 at home, with wins over Louisiana Tech, a mediocre Tennessee team, and a bad Kansas team. That's it. Something has to change. Not sure what it is, but something.
Yes, we're down our starting QB, and Sterling Shepard, and lost Samaje Perine in this one, and a pair of starting o-linemen. Don't care. Even with all that, we led Aggy by two touchdowns with five minutes left in the game. Under no circumstances should this game have been lost. And if Bob Stoops had declined a running into the kicker penalty and let OSU have the ball inside their 20 with a minute left and no times out, we still would have won.
Instead, for some inexplicable reason, he took the penalty and punted again to Tyreek Hill, one of the most dangerous return men in the country. And you know what happened then. We knew the game was lost when that happened. We knew we wouldn't move the ball in overtime. We knew that Michael Hunnicutt was going to miss that field goal in overtime. It was certain to happen as soon as Aggy tied it up.
338 days ago, this program was at its highest point at the end of a season since it last won the national title. Today, it's at the lowest. The only good news? There's nowhere to go but up. Except we were already supposed to be up.
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