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Post by Hands11 on Oct 8, 2018 8:42:30 GMT -6
What's everyone's opinion on how this went down?? Is OU going to miraculously get better on D now with Ruffin, or will it get worse??
IMO, I don't see this being a great decision in the middle of the season. This is something that should've been addressed after last season with the consistencies this D has shown over the passed few seasons.
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Post by Hitch on Oct 8, 2018 8:44:10 GMT -6
*past LOL!!!
I agree it should have been addressed prior to season. McNeil was DC at Tech and he has better athletes to run the defense, imho.
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Post by fbs on Oct 8, 2018 8:50:05 GMT -6
I think they'll improve, but I'm starting to see what looks like a culture problem in sooner land that lincoln better get ahold of quickly. The defense has some talent but also some GLARING weak spots. Don't know that Ruffin will magically make them better.
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Post by Hands11 on Oct 8, 2018 8:51:02 GMT -6
I think they'll improve, but I'm starting to see what looks like a culture problem in sooner land that lincoln better get ahold of quickly. The defense has some talent but also some GLARING weak spots. Don't know that Ruffin will magically make them better. I'm thinking same thing.
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Post by TOBC on Oct 8, 2018 8:54:36 GMT -6
the decision to fire stoops was made for riley. he turned down stoops's resignation after the game. should have been addressed after the loss to UGA.
i think it will improve some, but not to the point to where they all of the sudden become a dominant defense.
stoops should have stuck with the 4-3 they ran back in the early 2000s. he isn't a 3-4 guy. if they want to keep running the 3-4 they better find someone with extensive 3-4 experience to come in and get it done.
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Post by Hands11 on Oct 8, 2018 8:59:17 GMT -6
I had heard from the inside that Riley wanted to promote Diaco to interim DC and the powers that be (including some big time boosters) said uhhhhh hellz NO!!
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Post by Hitch on Oct 8, 2018 9:02:49 GMT -6
You talk to Cale directly??....
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Post by Hands11 on Oct 8, 2018 9:03:46 GMT -6
You talk to Cale directly??.... No I don't know him personally like elbow does.
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Post by fbs on Oct 8, 2018 9:04:45 GMT -6
sounds like Riley isn't really running the show at all...
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Post by TOBC on Oct 8, 2018 9:05:20 GMT -6
i don't know anything about diaco. i didn't even know he was on staff until last night.
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Post by TOBC on Oct 8, 2018 9:09:48 GMT -6
sounds like Riley isn't really running the show at all... they got a new university president. dude has only been on the job since the summer and doesn't have as much stroke with donors like boren did. i'm sure some very wealthy donors told the new prez he needed to dictate to riley that stoops had to go.
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Post by Hands11 on Oct 8, 2018 9:16:08 GMT -6
i don't know anything about diaco. i didn't even know he was on staff until last night. Diaco was fired at Nebraska for same reason Stoops just did.
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Post by TOBC on Oct 8, 2018 9:23:22 GMT -6
i don't know anything about diaco. i didn't even know he was on staff until last night. Diaco was fired at Nebraska for same reason Stoops just did. can see why they didn't want him named interim then.
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Post by Hands11 on Oct 8, 2018 9:26:29 GMT -6
I had heard from the inside that Riley wanted to promote Diaco to interim DC and the powers that be (including some big time boosters) said uhhhhh hellz NO!! from the inside? you sound like burnett.... HAHAHAHAHA!!! OUCH!!! Na I got a buddy who is interning there in the football ops offices. He hears a lot!
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Post by jmstreeter on Oct 8, 2018 9:27:50 GMT -6
Diaco was fired at Nebraska for same reason Stoops just did. can see why they didn't want him named interim then. Diaco is a capable coach. I spoke with him on several occasions last spring when he was recruiting one of our kids that ended up signing with OU. He basically said on D that they were lacking the athletes that he needed to fit his scheme and that the offense had the studs.
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Post by fbs on Oct 8, 2018 9:31:14 GMT -6
can see why they didn't want him named interim then. Diaco is a capable coach. I spoke with him on several occasions last spring when he was recruiting one of our kids that ended up signing with OU. He basically said on D that they were lacking the athletes that he needed to fit his scheme and that the offense had the studs. I mean, that's a perfectly reasonable excuse for a high school coach, but a division 1 powerhouse? Nah... I don't buy that at all. Recruit better kids.
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Post by Hands11 on Oct 8, 2018 9:34:00 GMT -6
Agreed fbs!
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Post by TOBC on Oct 8, 2018 9:34:24 GMT -6
can see why they didn't want him named interim then. Diaco is a capable coach. I spoke with him on several occasions last spring when he was recruiting one of our kids that ended up signing with OU. He basically said on D that they were lacking the athletes that he needed to fit his scheme and that the offense had the studs. lack the athletes? h3ll they got some of the best ones.
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Post by TOBC on Oct 8, 2018 9:39:07 GMT -6
not very many urlachers running around these days......
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Post by Hands11 on Oct 8, 2018 9:43:25 GMT -6
they need more white kids....thats tough to admit, being a black man and all....
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