Gunga Din

Do you not even know your cars?... that is a MATBACH....

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This is the intel I'm looking for.

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I really enjoy the downtown bars and restaurants that have been mentioned. The Field House if it is still there was a good place to watch other games.

The walk from downtown through campus to the stadium is nice until you get to all the hospital/medical school stuff between campus and Farout Field... but it is a pretty long walk.

'UGA alum proclaims he has 'no respect' for Texas A&M..."

"Aggie fans worldwide are crestfallen"...

"News at Eleven."

He must have smelled the lox on that pizza.

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My dad grew up in Duncan, OK.

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I don't know if most SEC fans know this... because he ended up in Mississippi and went to school at Alabama.

But Jackie Sherrill lived in Duncan, OK until the tenth grade.

I guess parity is interesting.

What I find interesting is turning on a game and seeing one of OU's former players playing for some other team... and I didn't even realize he was even at that team.... because he has transferred a couple of more times since he left OU.

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Nothing like a big game in front of a home crowd.

Penn State would put on a show.

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Sorry, but playing in State College, PA in December or January in a high stakes game in the elements.... I don't want it.

I do like the first round games being on campus because it could force southern teams to play in freezing could weather for once...

but once you get past that round... I'd rather see teams be able to play without being hindered by weather.

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Whoa… I had not heard that before.

Scheduled a press conference that he was never going to attend?

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That is because it didn't happen...

We know this because Riley coached Oklahoma in a game on Saturday night... therefore USC couldn't have had a press conference lined up for Friday night.

And I guess if there was an LSU press conference set up for that Saturday morning... He would have had to be in Baton Rouge on Saturday morning to announce that he was head coach and then I guess fly back to Stillwater to coach OU in their game that night.

Or I guess he could have just stayed in Baton Rouge and OU could have named an interim coach that afternoon. :lol:

As was stated before... Riley lost the game to OSU on a Saturday night. Denied he was taking the LSU job in that post game press conference.

USC announced he was the head coach on Sunday morning... the next day.

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I went to Norman last year to see the campus. My word.

First, the campus is built around the football stadium. It is like the football team comes first, and the rest of the campus and town was an afterthought.

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The campus is built around the admin building and the library/ The north and south ovals. The stadium is kind of on the east edge of campus.
I'm sure you didn't notice on your drive by tour.

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I wish I was joking, but I’m not, OU was by far the most pathetic and ugly campus I have ever seen in my life, and I have been to many. A bunch of crappy buildings built in the 60’s and 70’s, and a bunch of dead grass, with a few scraggly trees mixed in.

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The academic campus at OU is green and lush. I'll admit... the residential and athletic parts of campus aren't much to look at for the most part.

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The dorms are straight out of the Soviet Union. The fraternities and sororities were nothing to write home about either.

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Guilty as charged on the old dorms... The newer dorms are quite nice and are done in the Cherokee Gothic architectural theme on campus. The Greek houses don't have to apologize to anybody. You are flat out wrong there.

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Lloyd Noble arena is straight from the 70’s in a gigantic parking lot with weeds growing all over the place in the parking lot cracks.

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[b]The LNC is straight out of the '70s and we are trying to get a new arena approved. Maybe some of your Mizzou friends can weed eat the parking lot for us when they come to town.

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There is a group of bars north of campus that are pathetic. It is like one block.

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It is called Campus Corner... and it is not much different than any other commercial/entertainment strip you will find next to a campus. The Corner has some charm because it isn't really located on a super busy street. There are routine block parties down there... and actually... it is about three or four blocks along Asp, Buchanan, University, Jenkins and Boyd.

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There’s a downtown area where there are allegedly bars, but you have to cross a rusty, crappy railroad track to get there from campus. There are literally rusty railroad cars with graffiti sitting there. I mean WTF.

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Railroad track does suck. But downtown is kind of built like an old Wild West Main Street.

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Norman is a dump. The word that comes to mind when I think of Norman is weedwacker. I don’t know why the residents there let it look like crap, but hey to each there own.

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True, lots of Norman isn't real great. But the area around campus is nice (except for the railroad track)...

OU is unique in that around campus you wouldn't think Norman was 130K and part of a 1.5 million metro. It is pretty tranquil. Meanwhile when you get over by the interstate... Norman has all the busy streets and congestion that you usually see right around the University itself.

Maybe you should come to the game to get another look.

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Bedlam on ice was the first step and the logic behind this thinking.

They will follow the Ohio State model going forward and rarely contract in-state schools that might pose a threat.

It might work for awhile, but alumni influence from other schools in the state will cause this political will to fracture.

Let us see how long they can hold it.

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Well... there are only three D1 teams in the state...

And OU already has Tulsa scheduled for 2030.

So I'd say they will "hold it" until 2030....