OU WINS!!!!!!!!!

[Rick Dogg]

I'd hate to brag, but I was right. I had the balls to pick OU and I was dead on! Oklahoma put on the best defensive performance I have ever seen. AS far as I'm concerned, they shut out Chris Weinke-Dink. He really looked bad.
Even more exciting for me is Bob Stoops might come to Ohio State. When the Gameday crew asked him about it, he looked nervous and kind of dodged the question. He also lied by saying he didnt know the job was available. Kirk Herbstreit went on the Jim Rome show and said that at the luncheon before the Orange Bowl, Stoops, Bowden, and he were discussing the very topic of the OSU job. I hope he goes to OSU, because I KNOW that he can turn that program around.

[Marc]

Stoops to OSU? I don't know if he can just leave his national champion team like that, but stranger things have happened.

Anyway, congratulations to the Sooners. Instead of saying how they were overrated, does anyone think we should have been saying Weinke is?

[Spike]

I just wanted to say congratulations to the Oklahoma Sooners on becoming the sole National Champions last night. I was a little bummed last night that my Canes didn't get a piece of the National Championship but that's okay because the Sooners definitely deserve it with their dominating performance on Defense. I think what a lot of people, including myself, underestimated about their defense is how fast they really are. They just really shut down anything Weinke and company wanted to do. From what I saw last night of the Sooner defense, even if "Snoop" Minnis played I still think Oklahoma would have pulled out a close one.

And what a great coach Bob Stoops is. What a game plan with the short passes. It was like using the run and shoot offense as a ball control offense to keep the ball away from Florida State's explosive offense. What I also like is what Stoops has done with his receivers. Most of the guys who play Wide Receiver for the Sooners were running backs. That's why a lot of them have low jersey numbers. He got those guys to buy into the fact that they could help the team much better as Wide Receivers and they've produced.

[Tom Baker]

I don't see any chance of Stoops going to Ohio State. That's just wild speculation. There's nothing for him to gain by the move, and he seems happy in Norman.

Ohio State should target Minnesota's Glen Mason (former OSU player and asst), Pittsburgh's Walt Harris (former OSU asst) or Youngstown State's Jim Tressel. Both Mason and Harris have had some success at their current schools (both have gone to bowls) with less overall talent and poorer facilities than they would probably have access to at Ohio State. The only knock against Tressel is that he's a I-AA coach, and they don't often make a successful transition (Holy Cross's Mark Duffner to Maryland was a flop, and former Marshall head coach Jim Donnan just got canned at UGa) but he has been successful there.

[Rick Dogg]

I know it seems unlikely, but he is from Ohio, so you never know. I dont want any of the three you named. I want a big name that player will be excited to play for. I was thinking you bring in an old coach and Chris Speilman as an assistant. Then in about two years, give Speilman the job.

[Tom Baker]

I think the Oklahoma AD basically refused to allow Ohio State to talk to Stoops. I believe he was mad that OSU started mentioning Stoops as a candidate on the eve of the Orange Bowl. I expect Oklahoma will do everything it can to keep Stoops there, and Stoops hasn't publicly expressed an interest in another school. Right now Stoops can probably get away with murder in the state of OK.

Also I just read Pittsburgh has denied OSU access to Walt Harris, but Minnesota has allowed Glen Mason to talk. The only thing about Mason is that he was named the coach at Georgia after they dumped Ray Goff, but changed his mind. However, I'd say there's a definite limit to how far he can go at Minnesota, with the athletic programs at that school being under serious NCAA scrutiny. I know it was the Gopher hoops program that was flirting with the death penalty, but problems often trickle over to other programs, and there is such a thing as guilt by association.