Link: Stoops tired of Bama's Sugar Bowl excuses.

While I agree that we don't need to be making excuses for losing those games, the first step in fixing the problem is identifying it. I think CNS nailed it. He wasn't making excuses, he was asked a direct question and gave an honest answer. The fact that Big Game Bob doesn't like it is irrelevant. Unfortunately, the press knows they'll get a sound bite by asking him about Bama, and he knows that the interviews give him media exposure to start lobbying the selection committee before the season even starts.
On a related note, the Oklahoma Board of Regents announced a multimillion dollar expansion to Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Turns out they needed the extra room for Stoops' inferiority complex...

If there's one thing Stoops can recognize, it's excuses for losing a BSC bowl game. He's made enough of them himself.

I was watching CFB Live. Today and they showed their 'insiders'. Strength of schedule rankings . The ten hardest were

1. Utah. 6. Stanford
2. Barn. 7. Hawgs
3. Florida. 8. Washington st
4. A&M. 9. Cal
5. Viles. 10. Irish

Bama was rated 43rd and the Sooners were 52nd. It was funny because they really banged on Stoops for commenting on A&M's supposed weak schedule. They made a point of the fact Stoops complained last year that the bottom of the SEC wasn't very good , yet He wants to brag about scheduling the viles . The Viles being one of those lower tier teams. One commenter even said 'He wants it both ways'
Bama had the 2nd hardest schedule among the projected 5 power conference winners. Ducks were 30th and FSU had the weakest at 59th which speaks to the weak ACC as FSU plays a pretty tough OOC schedule. I know at this point as everything is pure speculation, but, Everyone knows you should just shut up Bob

I don't blame him. Saying Alabama didn't show up is a backhanded way of saying that the victory was meaningless and downplays Oklahoma's role in the result. You can argue the first point, but few other teams could have beat Alabama the way that Oklahoma did.

Fat Boy from Norman is just like a gossipy old hag

I take what Coach Saban said as we just didn't prepare the way we should have. I feel like when the kickoff took place we played hard. If you don't prepare leading up to that kickoff though, you just don't play the way you can. The little things got us in the end.

Con said:

I take what Coach Saban said as we just didn't prepare the way we should have. I feel like when the kickoff took place we played hard. If you don't prepare leading up to that kickoff though, you just don't play the way you can. The little things got us in the end.

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The in-game effort was fine, imo - but as you say, it was the pre-game prep that showed in our mistakes and turnovers.

bamaga said:

I was watching CFB Live. Today and they showed their 'insiders'. Strength of schedule rankings . The ten hardest were

1. Utah. 6. Stanford
2. Barn. 7. Hawgs
3. Florida. 8. Washington st
4. A&M. 9. Cal
5. Viles. 10. Irish

Bama was rated 43rd and the Sooners were 52nd. It was funny because they really banged on Stoops for commenting on A&M's supposed weak schedule. They made a point of the fact Stoops complained last year that the bottom of the SEC wasn't very good , yet He wants to brag about scheduling the viles . The Viles being one of those lower tier teams. One commenter even said 'He wants it both ways'
Bama had the 2nd hardest schedule among the projected 5 power conference winners. Ducks were 30th and FSU had the weakest at 59th which speaks to the weak ACC as FSU plays a pretty tough OOC schedule. I know at this point as everything is pure speculation, but, Everyone knows you should just shut up Bob

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Gee I wonder who said that first? Oh that's right - it was me:

selmaborntidefan said:

The problem here is that Stoops is trying to have it both ways.

Hey, his team won the game and you've never heard me say any different. Stoops can say "Alabama (Whatever)" and nobody can say anything. Ok, so he's tired of excuses.

But then he brings up aTm.

Uh.....

ATM 41
OU 13

If he's going to get tired of excuses, he can't then imbibe sour grapes.

Oh and speaking of OOC schedules, Bob, how is it you have a problem with Texas A/M playing ULM WHEN YOU JUST PLAYED THEM LAST YEAR??????

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tide96 said:

I don't blame him. Saying Alabama didn't show up is a backhanded way of saying that the victory was meaningless and downplays Oklahoma's role in the result. You can argue the first point, but few other teams could have beat Alabama the way that Oklahoma did.

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I agree no matter how you spread the butter when you are done it is still butter.They outplayed Bama, and deserved to win. Like you say few teams can say they beat us like that but they did. I do not blame him for boasting about it at all. Maybe the next time we get a shot at him we will shut him up.

Blindside13 said:

I agree no matter how you spread the butter when you are done it is still butter.They outplayed Bama, and deserved to win. Like you say few teams can say they beat us like that but they did. I do not blame him for boasting about it at all. Maybe the next time we get a shot at him we will shut him up.

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In my opinion that's the only positive way to approach it, rather than making excuses about, "we weren't fired up" etc.
Who cares if we weren't fired up?! That's not Oklahoma's fault!
They showed up. It doesn't matter about our poor "widdle" excuses about why we didn't.
The team that wanted the game more won the game, and they deserved it.
Again, it ultimately came down to turnovers. You can't fumble with the score tied 17-17, first and goal on the 8 yard line. We did. You can't throw interceptions in critical situations. We did, although it was the younger players fault because they didn't buy in, cough.
If the only game that matters is the next one, then we need to play the next one and forget the last one.
sip

IGetBuckets said:

The in-game effort was fine, imo - but as you say, it was the pre-game prep that showed in our mistakes and turnovers.

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That quote is painted on the gym wall at the Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, NY.

Was it an original quote from Bear??

Alasippi said:

In my opinion that's the only positive way to approach it, rather than making excuses about, "we weren't fired up" etc.
Who cares if we weren't fired up?! That's not Oklahoma's fault!
They showed up. It doesn't matter about our poor "widdle" excuses about why we didn't.
The team that wanted the game more won the game, and they deserved it.
Again, it ultimately came down to turnovers. You can't fumble with the score tied 17-17, first and goal on the 8 yard line. We did. You can't throw interceptions in critical situations. We did, although it was the younger players fault because they didn't buy in, cough.
If the only game that matters is the next one, then we need to play the next one and forget the last one.
sip

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Agree

I've never seen more posts on any board about a game that didn't matter. Every Sooner fan could see from the kickoff that Bama wasn't as sharp as normal. I wish we had gotten Bama's A game, but I'm also realistic, football players are human. That game is history, time to move on. Let's play again in January!

We're 0-3 against as some like to call "Big Game Bob"

The only story here is we were minus four in turnover margin. Period. You do this against any decent team and you lose.

crimsonaudio said:

LOL, proof that statistics can be used to form most any argument...

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Exactly.

3-0 is 3-0.

2-0 against a hampered Franny and Shula. And 1-0 in a game that the players didn't care about.

Woohoo, you go Bob!

Wait, what was the point again?

I've always understood when someone "stooped" to doing something, they were doing something beneath their dignity.

Here's how I found it defined on the internet:

stoop: lower one's moral standards so far as to do something reprehensible.
"Craig wouldn't stoop to thieving"

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So now Bob Stoops stoops to taking cheap shots at Saban. Stoops... what an appropriate formal name for the coach fondly called Big Mouth Bob.