Daily Bullets (Sept. 20): No Putting Lipstick on This Pig

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Originally published at: Daily Bullets (Sept. 20): No Putting Lipstick on This Pig

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To answer the one question: Does this feel like watching the 90’s era of Cowboy football? YES!!! Absolutely!! This is exactly how it felt. Aside from the size of the stadium and number of people in it, it’s identical. The lack of energy among the crowd and sideline are identical. The lack of offense and defense are identical. The final score and result looked very 90’s-ish. Lack of answers or solutions from coaches. The redundancy, the stubbornness, where we sit in the standings currently….its all Pat Jones/Bob Simmons territory. I swear I was having flashbacks last night to when I was about 10 years old. For reference, I’m 43 now.

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We’re literally the Purdue or 2024. Except I don’t think we’ll give anyone a close game this season. We’re going 1-11 this season. Something makes me think Gundy did this as a big middle finger on his way out. You would think a coach wouldn’t be this arrogant and stupid. However, it wouldn’t surprise me if he actually is this dumb.

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Shifting sports, I’ve noticed Cowboy golfer Filip Fahlberg-Johnsson hasn’t teed it up in the first two events this fall. FF-J was a major contributor to the NCAA championship run, but drew some heat for his “gamesmanship” in his individual matches. Is it possible he’s been benched this fall by Bratton?

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I don’t remember the early 90s, but I remember 95 and on. The 90s were a result of some cheating in the late 80s. The Simmons era was frustrating, but it felt like there was hope and the best days were ahead of us. The 1997 Alamo Bowl season is still one of my favorites. Our 40,000 fans that went to that bowl game shows similar feelings. Then came Les/Boone/Mike and here we are. I was at Simmons’ last game in 2000; he almost beat OU during their national championship season.

This stings worse than the 90s. The 90s Big 12 was brutal. OU and Texas were bad teams. Nebraska and Colorado won national championships. A&M and Kansas State were a few plays away from winning championships themselves. Being bad losing to good teams is easier than being bad and losing to back-up, pre-pubescent walk-ons from Tulsa.

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Can we cancel the rest of the season and just play UCLA every weekend?

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I still don’t think we would go to a bowl

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I half agree with you. After we were put on probation Pat Jones coached with a wose is me attitude and there was no hope in the program. When Bob Simmons came in and beat OU in 1995 ( I was in Norman for that game) he pumped hope into the program. He only had one winning season but beat OU 3 times, which at the time was a big boost to fans. Now Simmons changed in my opinion after he had that big surgery and I think lost some fire.

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Do you think Gundy will be fired on Monday or do you think they are trying to get commitments from donors to use for his buyout?

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Knowing the way this administration works I think it would be at season’s end. Nobody was fired until we were into the postseason of last year. I think it’s possible once we’re sitting at 1-7, but I still doubt it.

the guy literally returned the second most starters in the NCAA last season and went 3-9. I don’t know exactly what gave people any hope he was going to do any better with older outdated coaches, and a roster that doesn’t seem to have a single NFL draft caliber player on it.

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I do remember ‘91. I was 9 years old. I remember asking my dad if we would ever win a game that season. We didn’t. This feels like that.

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Weidberg better get on it. VT and UCLA already started their search and it appears Wisconsin and Arkansas are throwing their hat in the ring pretty soon at this rate.

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I was referring to the end of Pat Jones era and the Summons era. Pat jones era the program was deflated. At least during the Simmons era we had hope and beat the Sooners 3 times to Pat’s zero.
Oh yeah I remember 0-10-1, I was 24

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0-10-1 was due to draconian ncaa sanctions. We couldn’t even appear on tv that season if I remember correctly. Our current situation is due to what?

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Gundy won’t be fired during the season. That wouldn’t do any good. We have maybe a half dozen real players and the rest are scrubs who either couldn’t get on the field with their old teams or FCS types who thought they could compete with the big boys. Gundy will not go out on his own or without a fight. He firmly believes he can rebuild the program if they just let him coach out his contract. It’s going to get ugly.

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Who are the two baseball players in the photo? Does anybody follow our team closely enough to pick our players out of a photo lineup?

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Anyone see Missouri State is up 35-0 at halftime against UT Martin?

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Gundy and the fans that consistently make excuses for him.

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We should get HeyChamp’s opinion on this. He’s been the football expert all over this forum so far :+1:.

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I don’t think it feels quite as bad as the early 90s. I was there and had season tickets to the 0-10-1 season. There were games that we couldn’t score at all against mediocre big eight competition, and we would only get a few first downs. You could count them on one hand. It was seriously a major celebration if we got a first down. We were atrocious, far worse than this.