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BREAKING NEWS: Oklahoma FIRES Ben Arbuckle | More Changes Coming For The Sooners Now? · Sooner or Later Sports

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  Speaker 1: It's official, Ben Arbuckle is gone. Oklahoma actually made a change,
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  Speaker 1: and they let go of the offensive coordinator. Chopping wasn't gone.
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  Speaker 1: So let's talk about it. Before we do that, welcome
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  Speaker 1: can rip some apart. Guess what? Oklahoma made the move
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  Speaker 1: that we've been waiting for. They fired Ben Arbuckle. If
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  Speaker 1: you've been listening to me and Coop talk about this
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  Speaker 1: for a bit, I kind of told y'all that this
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  Speaker 1: was literally the one thing that I have been needing
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  Speaker 1: to happen. And it's nothing against this man, but he
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  Speaker 1: obviously did not want to win games in a way
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  Speaker 1: that we need to win games because he kept trying
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  Speaker 1: out a quarterback that he's known for four years doing
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  Speaker 1: the stuff that he ain't supposed to be doing. So
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  Speaker 1: what does this mean for Oklahoma, though? It means we're
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  Speaker 1: getting a new offensive coordinator. The thing that you've all
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  Speaker 1: been asking for, the thing that you've all been wondering
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  Speaker 1: if we ever will do, here you go. This is
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  Speaker 1: also the second time Brent Venables has fired an offensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator after losing to South Carolina, which is even more
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  Speaker 1: the most hilarious thing of this entire scenario is the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we have fired multiple coaches because of Shane Beamer.
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  Speaker 1: Shout out to him. I kind of feel bad for
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  Speaker 1: him at the same time in this one, the fact
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  Speaker 1: that this all happened to him, but No, the offense
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  Speaker 1: has just been atrocious. I was actually running the advance numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Literally was going to make a video about this, um,
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  Speaker 1: before we play against Florida. And I'm going to post
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  Speaker 1: it up here because it's really bad how Oklahoma has
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  Speaker 1: been just this season on the offensive side. And you
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  Speaker 1: can tell that for him, and to his credit, I
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  Speaker 1: think he has a fear for the backup quarterbacks. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I think he's afraid that they're just not ready. And
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  Speaker 1: so he's just been running them rampant, thinking that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: When I look at the advanced numbers, this is a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I've been building this on my new website, UnfairSports.com. But
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  Speaker 1: 4-0 Oklahoma and going up in this one, like going
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  Speaker 1: up against Florida, our offense, one of the worst in
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  Speaker 1: the country. Like when you look at the numbers here,
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  Speaker 1: this is where things get just super bad. EPA per play,
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  Speaker 1: top 127. It's like we're in the hundreds in everything
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  Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball. Except for on pass,
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  Speaker 1: we're at 75, but it's just been atrocious. And he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't made an attempt to even get better. You keep
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  Speaker 1: trotting out John Mateer and all of his struggles, and
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  Speaker 1: this is what you're getting. This don't look good. Not
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  Speaker 1: sure if y'all noticed this, but this don't look good.
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  Speaker 1: So in this case, it's actually a good scenario that
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma is moving on. from Ben Arbuckle, because yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: is what we needed to do. Now, the question is,
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  Speaker 1: what the heck is next? Because, I'ma keep it a buck,
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  Speaker 1: now after firing Ben Arbuckle? So on the offensive side,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think BV hasn't announced or said anything about
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  Speaker 1: who's going to be the interim coach, uh, at all.
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  Speaker 1: I've been searching the socials. I haven't seen anything. And
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  Speaker 1: as expected, we're, we're in a situation where now we're
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  Speaker 1: just trying to figure out what the heck is going
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  Speaker 1: to be next. Um, I'm actually wondering if there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be more. John Bryce over here on the socials
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  Speaker 1: from USA Today Sports is saying that there's more to come.
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  Speaker 1: Like there could be some more changes. So if that's
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  Speaker 1: the case and we do get rid of additional coaches,
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  Speaker 1: that could help, right? That could be a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: But we know that the search for an offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: is going to be wide and far. They're not going
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  Speaker 1: to just go pick someone and say, I think that
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  Speaker 1: they actually get rid of more people on the offensive staff.
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  Speaker 1: And I think once they make more changes on the
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  Speaker 1: offensive staff, that they're going to get themselves an offensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator that can bring people with them. This is literally
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  Speaker 1: the save Brent Venable's job move. And this is his
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  Speaker 1: final one. So if you've been following me, I have
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  Speaker 1: been a supporter of BV because his defenses typically do well. Statistically,
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  Speaker 1: they're still very good statistically overall, even with that massive
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  Speaker 1: blunder against South Carolina. And the big blunder on this
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  Speaker 1: is the explosive plays. They're 97th in the country because
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  Speaker 1: they always give up explosive plays because they blitz and
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  Speaker 1: they do so much work on that. But they've got
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  Speaker 1: to do better going forward. But now they have the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to because we don't have the dude that's been
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  Speaker 1: to me holding back this team calling plays anymore. They're
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  Speaker 1: doing something different. So this is the same Brent Venables
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  Speaker 1: job piece. And for Brent Venables, he has going at,
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  Speaker 1: he's got, I think he's got rest of this year.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to have next season. So next season better
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  Speaker 1: be another 10 win season because it seems to be
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  Speaker 1: that's what he's doing, flip-flopping. And then that 2027, 2028
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  Speaker 1: season is the season where Brent Venables most likely gets
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  Speaker 1: fired if he doesn't live up to expectations or he
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  Speaker 1: makes it out. It's one of the two. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to have to maintain a very good defense. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to have to maintain getting high recruits on the defense
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  Speaker 1: side of the ball. And then whoever they bring in
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  Speaker 1: for offense, they need to clean outs. Like, Witten, keep.
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  Speaker 1: Dillon McCullough, totally down to keep. Because I don't think
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  Speaker 1: anything that's happened has been their fault on the way
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  Speaker 1: that these plays have been called. Everybody else, I'm on
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  Speaker 1: EJ right now. Because we're starting to see his receivers
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  Speaker 1: get production. And now I'm asking the question, is that EJ?
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  Speaker 1: Or is that Buckle? We don't know. So he may, eh,
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  Speaker 1: he's gotten some solid recruits. They weren't producing, but the
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  Speaker 1: transfers were. But the question has been, who's to blame
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  Speaker 1: for it? Well, from there, you've got from, you got
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  Speaker 1: Bill Beaton bowling offensive line. Gotta go. Love Bill, love
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  Speaker 1: everything he's done Gotta go. This was his year. I
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  Speaker 1: gave him this season. He had returned a lot of
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  Speaker 1: offensive linemen that should have been ready to produce because
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  Speaker 1: they were actually getting better as the season progressed last year.
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  Speaker 1: They did not. This is it. This is your year.
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  Speaker 1: You got your year. You're done. That's my thought. And then,
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  Speaker 1: of course, your quarterback, all that, yeah. Time to move on.
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  Speaker 1: So now the question is, where does Oklahoma go? And
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people have been asking me, what's my
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  Speaker 1: short list? I can't give you a short list because
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what other head coaching jobs are available.
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  Speaker 1: Florida State just opened. You've got Maryland. You've got North
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  Speaker 1: Carolina State, right? You've got Baylor available. All of those
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  Speaker 1: jobs will be looking for offensive-minded coaches. And because they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be looking for offensive-minded coaches, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who's going to be what. I don't know. I'm actually
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  Speaker 1: a little nervous in regards to that. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what you're going to get going forward on that part.
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  Speaker 1: And so because I don't know what you're going to
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  Speaker 1: get on that, it's a wait and see on... who
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  Speaker 1: is the who who you're going to have actually as
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  Speaker 1: candidates now there are offensive coordinators out there you can
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  Speaker 1: put down as candidates there's coaches that are position coaches
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  Speaker 1: that are former ocs or assistant head coaches it's nfl
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  Speaker 1: guys you can mark on your list but again your
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing is who's going to be available and who
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  Speaker 1: can you go after don't know yet but we shall
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  Speaker 1: see very, very soon. I expect a short list to
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  Speaker 1: fly out on the socials in the next 24 hours.
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  Speaker 1: We'll make a video on it later today. Let me
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  Speaker 1: know what y'all think. Hop in the comments. Want to
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  Speaker 1: hear your thoughts. Oklahoma making that move is exactly what
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  Speaker 1: we needed. Why? Because all y'all want it just like me.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to be honest. A lot of y'all
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  Speaker 1: ain't going to want to hear this. I actually think
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  Speaker 1: Arbuckle is a solid offensive mind and I think he's
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  Speaker 1: going to have success wherever he goes. As long as
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  Speaker 1: it's not the Big Ten or the SEC. I just
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  Speaker 1: don't think he was ready for this. This is not
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  Speaker 1: the place for him. Mainly because he was too stubborn
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  Speaker 1: and by sticking with his quarterback, even though the other
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  Speaker 1: ones probably struggled in practice, show everybody that they struggled.
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  Speaker 1: Put them out there and let's see what happens. Because
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  Speaker 1: if they perform, boom, you may have prepared yourself for
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  Speaker 1: the next job. If they don't perform, boom, you can say, well,
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  Speaker 1: we got to go back to old faithful. You didn't
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  Speaker 1: do that. You didn't give the opportunities. And so to me,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, the only reason why I think he
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  Speaker 1: didn't take John out is because the other guys are
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  Speaker 1: not very good in practice right now. And that could
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  Speaker 1: be it. But at the same time, it also could
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  Speaker 1: be stubbornness. And he's shown us that that's not going
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  Speaker 1: to work here at Oklahoma. You need to fix the ish.
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  Speaker 1: Last season, you understood you needed to fix it. I
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  Speaker 1: understand that things looked better in spring and fall. Don't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Minute you didn't get your run game established. Should have
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