A Mild Surprise From Sooner Land
OU names Thompson starting quarterback (George Schroeder, Daily Oklahoman)
Oklahoma named a starting quarterback Thursday. But the competition continues.
Coach Bob Stoops announced Paul Thompson would start the season opener against TCU Sept. 3. But in a twist from earlier OU quarterback races, Stoops said Rhett Bomar will play “early in games as well as late in games.”
The indication was clear: The race, which offensive coordinator Chuck Long described as the closest he’s coached, is not over.
“The games are the final grade,” Long said. “That’s the final frontier.”
The final frontier? Err, okay Coach Long.
This comes as a mild surprise to me. I really thought that Rhett Bomar was going to get the starting nod, and I still think he'll be the starting quarterback by the end of the season.
Thompson knows the offense and will be steady, but Bomar has a chance to be special. Bob Stoops tends to put his best playmakers on the field; he's not a Parcells "bus driver" kind of coach. It won't surprise me if Bomar takes the job by the start of the Big 12 season (October 1), and it will surprise me if he doesn't claim the job by the start of the Big 12 South season for Oklahoma (October 8, against Texas). Or maybe he'll come in and lead the Sooners to victory against Texas, and claim the job that way. :)
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 08/26/05 10:41 | Big 12 Football | Technorati
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Well, we’ll have to cut Coach Long some slack....he is from the University of Iowa. It’s perfectly natural for U of I football players to conflate something academic, like a “final grade”, with a science fiction fantasy, like “the final frontier”.
Posted by TexasTommy @ 16:02 on 08/28/05
Games...The final frontier
These are the ramblings of Assistant Coach Chuck Long
His multi-year mission,
To explore strange, new mixed metaphors,
To seek rational thought and coherent expression, which would be
To boldly go where no U of I football player has gone before!
Posted by TexasTommy @ 16:04 on 08/28/05
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