Gunga Din
| Favorite team: | Oklahoma  |
| Location: | Oklahoma |
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| Number of Posts: | 3462 |
| Registered on: | 7/6/2020 |
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re: Can John Mateer make a Year 2 jump
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/8/26 at 9:49 am to dallastiger55
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Literally every fanbase is saying how much better they are at every position. I’ve heard about a dozen podcasts from writers on different teams and they all say that.
Everyone is undefeated and has title hopes. Copy and paste every year
I laughed when I read this because it reminds me of what former OU SID Harold Keith used to say.... "Everybody is undefeated in August"...
But seriously... OU has reason for optimism.
1) Mateer and offense in second year
'2) Defense returns returns ten guys who started full or part time last year.
3) O line returns four of five starters after having a brand new line in '25.
4) Both RBs return
5) Portaled in a starting SEC O lineman for the one vacent spot... and two SEC TEs...one of whom was a starter at Florida.
6) Returning an all conference WR... and portaled in two other P4 wideouts.
7) Return both the first team all conference kicker and punter.
I could go on about the portal and freshmen and up and coming players... but that would be getting into the blue sky hopium stuff you mentioned.
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re: The Most Loyal Fan Bases in the SEC, ranked 1 through 16
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/8/26 at 9:37 am to Old School Tex
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Tom Herman’s Jr. High behavior eventually caught up with him, ha…
I always wondered what actually happened on that set... because it was strange. That being said... he certainly COULD have actually been telling that story... because usually it takes some serious provocation to flip the double bird. LOL.
:lol:
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So, your softball program will be an even bigger drain on your athletic budget?
You must be one of those guys who doesn't follow women's sports...
At least I hope that it true.
re: The OU Rock Creek Entertainment District ($1B) breaks ground 12 May
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/7/26 at 6:54 pm to ManBearSharkReb
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$1B for the smallest arena in the SEC?
Interesting choices
It is 1 Billion for the whole development...
The arena is just part of this. Gonna be a bunch of beer joints, restaurants and stores and a hotel out there.
This located on an old Navy base that was located north of Norman toward Oklahoma City... It is a huge area and includes the University airport. They have developed some of it but there is still acres and acres just sitting there. So they decided to put it there as it is closer to a lot of the fan base in OKC.
The size of it is based partly on what they could afford (they aren't paying for the "entertainment" piece of the project) and partly because they can't compete against the Thunder for attendance.
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If Mateer could keep his composure he’d be a lot scarier to opponents. Tends to panic and make bad decisions.
Unfortunately, he had good reason to panic on a lot of occasions.
I think he can do a lot better if his supporting cast is better.
Yes, he made a lot of mistakes... but he also made something out of nothing on a lot of occasions.
re: The Most Loyal Fan Bases in the SEC, ranked 1 through 16
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/7/26 at 7:30 am to Old School Tex
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I know Oklahoma fans are loyal, and I have watched many losing games to Oklahoma. Even Oklahoma little old ladies shoot the finger at our player buses when they arrive at the Cotton Bowl for the Red River Shootout each year…
Tom Herman got a lot of mileage out the "Little old OU lady" shooting the double bird story...
And I loved how he used it to explain away that time he got caught shooting the double bird to the camera when they went live one time on the Longhorn network...
After that aired he claimed he was telling the Little Old OU lady story to the other guys on set when the cameras went on.
:lol:
re: Former Gamecock QB Stephen Garcia
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/6/26 at 5:06 pm to Audioman213
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Wow this inspired me to finally get a checkup. Been putting it off because I’m a hypochondriac.
You are not a hypochondriac...
A hypochondriac would be at the proctologist's door as soon as he opened because he would be convinced that he had cancer.
You sound like you are just a normal guy who is just a little leery of somebody putting something up your butt while you are asleep.
re: The Most Loyal Fan Bases in the SEC, ranked 1 through 16
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/6/26 at 9:24 am to SlimCharles140
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The DUMBEST list ever linked on this site.
I don't know about the DUMBEST...
But it does seem rather random...
Like the guy had his pet dog or chicken do the picking.
re: SEC Softball Tournament 2026
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/5/26 at 6:26 pm to umop sujoH
Auburn
State
Ole Miss
All advance...
State
Ole Miss
All advance...
re: CFP era record vs ranked opponents
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/5/26 at 7:56 am to RunningJacket
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It’s because they rank SEC teams high every year. If they ranked ACC teams high then they’d have a lot more ranked wins. It’s all a scam to get your money and you SEC guys eat it up.
But, again, the preseason polls will have the SEC teams ranked highly based in nothing except your fans are willing to spend more money. .
I won't say you are wrong about this list...
But if you exclude OU and Texas (because they have only been in the SEC for two years during the 13 year CFP era)... There are only three SEC teams the top 15 on here.
re: Chips are down: Have you ever had to intervene with a fan of your school harassing others?
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/5/26 at 7:47 am to Harry Rex Vonner
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paperwasp just making shite up
no way any of that ever happened
Probably not.... but you should still sue him for theft of intellectual property.
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Texas am is a very good team and the fans should be happy going into next year.But why does Texas am fans keep calling longhorns trash despite making the sec championship before them despite only being our first year
It defies explanation...
re: Ole Miss message board alleging LSU QB Sam Leavitt bet on ASU games
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/3/26 at 6:55 pm to SidewalkTiger
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A weird group, to be sure. I definitely understand why he was tired of their stories.
Seems to me that the things that Ole Miss fans have been saying about Kiffin since the end of November '25...
Are the same thing that LSU fans were saying about Kiffin before end of November '25.
re: Oklahoma Back to Back SEC Champs
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/3/26 at 1:22 pm to Wishbone85
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It's the same argument every year. The men's world series has been held in Omaha since forever. I never see Nebraska there.
Great point
and it isn't like there aren't other baseball stadiums that aren't big to host the event either.
Of course Omaha is probably the only place that has a place that big that doesn't have a pro baseball team to play in the venue.
But if Creighton got good... and went every year... they would be playing in their home park. That'd give all these whiner something to REALLY complain about.
:lol:
re: Oklahoma Back to Back SEC Champs
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/3/26 at 12:40 pm to SwitzersWishbone
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They have to stay in a hotel like everyone else
They do... but I wonder if they actually HAVE to...?
That being said... If OU gets back to the WCWS I am dreading all the complaints about how "unfair" it is for OU to play in OKC all the time...
When the fact of the matter is that there is no other facility in the country that can legitimately host the WCWS other than the one in OKC.
I'm so tired of all the bitching about this that I'd be willing to donate to some other city/university/entity that would be willing to build a 14K softball facility just so we didn't have to hear the complaining anymore.
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I lived in Dallas for 11 years and I hated Dale Hansen for his bias.
Dale Hansen is an interesting guy to bring up for this thread...
I think he grew up a Nebraska fan (in Iowa) and worked in Omaha before moving to Texas. So he had hatred for OU before he ever got to Dallas.
He is an example of what this thread is about in that Oklahoma and Nebraska were rivals... but Nebraska fans had way more hatred for Oklahoma than vice versa... OU WAS Nebraska's rival while Nebraska really wasn't OU's rival... For OU and their fans... Nebraska was the team you had to beat to win the Big 8 and go to the Orange bowl. No hatred at all. But in Nebraska... they had a lot of emotion tied up in the game against OU. I remember one time actually Osborne apologized to the state of Nebraska for losing to OU.
In the later part of the history of the Big 8... Nebraska kind of had it going with Colorado... but they mostly hated the Colorado fans because of how Nebraska fans got treated in Boulder.
Now Nebraska hates Iowa... which is like looking in the mirror and hating yourself.
re: Oklahoma just doesn’t belong in the SEC
Posted by Gunga Din on 5/2/26 at 9:22 am to umop sujoH
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$16 according to the website. Not bad.
The way it works is that you pay $16 dollars to get into the Caf...or a meal plan.
Once you are in there they have about 20 options... and you can eat at any or all of them. They have all kinds of different foods in there. But Chik fil A is the only actual franchise type place.
If you want to just keep eating Chik fil A sandwiches... You can. Or you can get a sandwich there and go to one of the other places and eat something else.
There were a couple of times I just pounded down Chik fil A sandwiches until I was full. You eat one and then just go up and ask for another one and they hand it to you.
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Some of us understand the sanctity of Chick fil a
Couch Cafeteria at the University of Oklahoma has the only "all you can eat" Chick fil a in the world.... and I'm not kidding.
re: SEC Mike post spring SEC rankings
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/30/26 at 7:02 pm to Faurot fodder
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History says a lot of things, like:
Dust Bowl - 1
Okies - 0
History also says that even during THAT decade... Oklahoma had a winning record against Missouri... :lol:
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You're right. "Everyone" didn't say that – just SEC fans.
:lol:
To be fair... The SEC is a lot deeper... But the OU, Texas and Oklahoma State were as good as the best SEC teams. But in the SEC, there are four or five really tough series' as opposed to just two. And in the SEC you get to skip some of the better teams in the regular season. If you played everybody, there would be about seven brutal series.
re: Nobody can get into Texas or Vanderbilt, but what the next hardest school to get into?
Posted by Gunga Din on 4/30/26 at 10:23 am to Victor R Franko
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I might not be the sharpest knife in the drawer, and I certainly can't understand what you're talking about. What math? Older sister attended in early 70s, I started in 78. We had 50K students back then. What you talking about Willis?
In your other post you said your FRESHMAN CLASS was 50K.
(as opposed to it being total enrollment)...
I do remember that Texas had 50K for a long time and was the largest University in the country in terms of enrollment for a decade or so until Ohio State, UCF, A&M, and UCF passed it. Mostly because Texas just stayed at 50K and became more competitive.
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