New Staff Selection

84HuskerLaw said:
I tend to agree that OU fans may be feeling pretty uneasy right now.  Coach quits. Players leaving.  New conference with atleast 3 or 4 super power type programs (Ala, Ga, LSU, Fl) and then rival Tx, Tenn, Auborn, A&M, and several more that are never less than pretty challenging teams for anybody).   The Big 12 offered about 5 easy games and maybe 3 challengers and one real toughie.  No more conference titles awaiting them unless they play great fb almost every week.  
Riley gets out at a good time imo.  USC could become royalty in the PAC 12.  Only one or two rivals.  Southern Cal is USC property with a big name coach for several years.  
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I saw in one story (sorry I don't have a link at the moment) that said Riley was not a fan of the move the SEC and that was a contributor to him leaving OK.

 
84HuskerLaw said:
I tend to agree that OU fans may be feeling pretty uneasy right now.  Coach quits. Players leaving.  New conference with atleast 3 or 4 super power type programs (Ala, Ga, LSU, Fl) and then rival Tx, Tenn, Auborn, A&M, and several more that are never less than pretty challenging teams for anybody).   The Big 12 offered about 5 easy games and maybe 3 challengers and one real toughie.  No more conference titles awaiting them unless they play great fb almost every week.  
Riley gets out at a good time imo.  USC could become royalty in the PAC 12.  Only one or two rivals.  Southern Cal is USC property with a big name coach for several years.  
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Agreed 100%. Go from the top of the food chain to being among a handful of equals. I’d have to imagine Oklahoma and Texas will get a bit of a raw deal with scheduling for awhile too. 

 
Any word on defensive staff staying in tact? If Fisher gets pulled away to another school, the natural thing for us would be to slide Busch in as ST coordinator and secondary coach, no?

 
Can Ron Brown coach special teams? Joe Ganz?

 
@Hedley Lamarr, Agreed though I’m not sure which to let go (or move to an analyst role). Dawson seems more likely though I can’t help but wonder if the defensive side is all staying or if they’re sniffing around other places as well.

 
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Wistrom Disciple said:
Dude, you’re creating the narrative you want to believe and that’s fine. Please don’t pass it on as fact. 
 

For the bolded… which conference has Oklahoma played in the past ten years? Could it be the same division and conference you belittled Nebraska for going 10-4 consistently? Oklahoma is a good program and wins consistently but, let’s not reduce conference realignment to having just a little “direct impact on program success.”

To do so would be wildly ill-advised without evidence to the contrary. No P5 program that changed conferences has won a title in their respective conference the past ten years. I believe that is enough of a sample size to emphasize a significant impact.
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Ah yes, because a handful of teams, none of which were elite or even close to elite at said time of conference moving, is a fair sample size and totally an apt comparison to a title contending, conference champ program.  You sir must have gotten an A+ in statistics back in the day because your perspective and scientific reasoning is bullet proof!  

If any one is creating the narrative they want to believe in I think its you bud.  I simply laid out facts that Oklahoma, whether you want to look at the past 3, 5, 10, 20 years, is significantly better than where any of the teams you outlined at the time they switched.

Your argument would have legs if said schools were actual conference  champs prior to moving, but they weren't.  In fact, of those schools- we were by far the closest and yet I'd still confidently make the case that our profile in the late aughts pales in comparison to the progrum oklahoma has had and will continue to had.     

 
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