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The consensus from Oklahoma fans is that he never made a commitment to being physical and playing defense and left the program in way shittier shape than he found it.

While this may be true, it is exaggerated to a great extent. Most OU fans thought we were going to win the league last year after we clobbered Nebraska. The volume on all that stuff went way up after OU started losing.

Furthermore, probably 80% of OUr fans would have bet their first born child that OU was going to have a better record than USC last year because USC was in such a "shambles"...They were all picking for USC to have a losing record. Most of them still won't admit they were wrong and instead just chortle about "Tulane"...

We OU fans have a right to be pissed at Riley for not being honest when he left and taking our QB in the manner that he did (although that is going to be the norm going forward)...

But the dude is a good coach. Percentage wise he has the best winning record in OU history. Better than Bud Wilkinson, Barry Switzer or Bob Stoops. And unfortunately for OU fans... he probably always will.