I have been inside the Cotton Bowl when the Sooners lose, and it is not a good day from then on out. The loss exacerbates the headache from drinking beer in the sun and the previous night’s events. When you exit the stadium, you are beat, hungry, and ready to return to the hotel. This loss today is a bad, bad loss. I remember going to OU games in the nineties because tickets were plentiful. There was a reason for the abundant supply of tickets. The stadium wasn’t adorned with amenities as it is now, and it was inevitable they would lose a game they shouldn’t have. They had moments where they looked like they were going to put it together, but it never happened under Blake (God rest his soul).
I just wonder what is going on with this team. Usually, some leaders emerge at this point. Granted, we aren’t involved in the group’s day-to-day. We don’t know what happens in practice and the locker room. Both sides of the ball were unable to move the ball or stop Texas from advancing on them. Coach Venables is still a new coach, and I feel he will get things together. All good things come in due time. This team will have a fair amount of soul-searching before the Jayhawks come to Norman next Saturday.