There's a story developing here, in my opinion.
We all know how smug Stoops comes across when he's talking to the media and booster organizations for OU. I'm sure that doesn't come as a shock to a lot of people. After all, we saw that attitude in its infancy during his time with Spurrier (who, in my belief, fostered what we see in Stoops today.)
Jon Solomon and Bonnie Bernstein have been covering OU this past few weeks and had a few interesting tweets yesterday.
This isn't the first time, or the last I'm guessing, we see evidence of Mayfield "talking." Chalk this up to QB confidence, arrogance, whatever moniker you want to use but there's no denying he carries himself in his own special way (images of Al Bundy with his hands down his pants come to mind.) Putting it mildly, seeing that kind of behavior from a starting QB, under a head coach like Stoops, raises red flags with me.
Enter Kyler Murray.
We're watching the implosion in College Station right now. It's my belief that all stems back to one Johnny Manziel and how Sumlin let him "do his own thing" without thought of what consequence may come.
You've seen reports about Murray and his father clashing with Sumlin over QB decisions made at A&M.
How are the two situations different from each other? I see Stoops coddling Maysfield. I saw Sumlin doing the same with his QB's.
We're seeing how that ended with Sumlin at A&M. Now, seeing this story about Maysfield, Patterson, Stoops, et al I can't help but suspect we're going to see the same thing at OU in the next season or two.
We all know how smug Stoops comes across when he's talking to the media and booster organizations for OU. I'm sure that doesn't come as a shock to a lot of people. After all, we saw that attitude in its infancy during his time with Spurrier (who, in my belief, fostered what we see in Stoops today.)
Jon Solomon and Bonnie Bernstein have been covering OU this past few weeks and had a few interesting tweets yesterday.
This isn't the first time, or the last I'm guessing, we see evidence of Mayfield "talking." Chalk this up to QB confidence, arrogance, whatever moniker you want to use but there's no denying he carries himself in his own special way (images of Al Bundy with his hands down his pants come to mind.) Putting it mildly, seeing that kind of behavior from a starting QB, under a head coach like Stoops, raises red flags with me.
Enter Kyler Murray.
We're watching the implosion in College Station right now. It's my belief that all stems back to one Johnny Manziel and how Sumlin let him "do his own thing" without thought of what consequence may come.
You've seen reports about Murray and his father clashing with Sumlin over QB decisions made at A&M.
How are the two situations different from each other? I see Stoops coddling Maysfield. I saw Sumlin doing the same with his QB's.
We're seeing how that ended with Sumlin at A&M. Now, seeing this story about Maysfield, Patterson, Stoops, et al I can't help but suspect we're going to see the same thing at OU in the next season or two.
