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Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

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Sports, Football

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2019

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

It's really our first official offseason pod, which means you get a closer look into the minds of the entire staff. We're not sure anybody needs that, so apologies ahead of time. We talk about the cancellation of the OU Caravan stops and what that means for fan outreach from the University of Oklahoma. And how are relations between fans and the program these days? Is the new softball complex and it's non-starter as a project indicative of how tough the climate is to raise money for OU right now? We also hit the recruiting trail with Josh who has been to the Frisco/Little Elm area in North Texas the last week seeing newest commitments. Nate Anderson and Ryan Watts. The full rundown is below: OPEN - Thanks for the kind and crazy Ratings and Reviews lately. Eddie's Cubs kick out a guy for playing the circle game? 0:04:00 - The Kevin Durant injury heard around Oklahoma 0:09:00 - Uncomfortable body hair talk and Josh's story about meeting his wife 0:14:45 - No more Tulsa Caravan. What's up with that? 0:20:55 - Fan attendance is becoming an issue. How is OU's outreach working after this stuff? 0:26:24 - How does James Gallogly and what's going on with him and finances play a part in all of this? And with the new softball stadium? 0:33:25 - Eddie gets philosophical on us about how people are consuming things 0:40:50 - How the loss of Fox Sports channels could affect watching football in the future 0:53:12 - Josh headed out on the recruiting trail to speak with Nate Anderson. And how Bob is a jerk to us. 1:03:04 - Josh's trip to see Ryan Watts 1:06:24 - Carey wants his chair back from Eddie after Josh's Watts' story. Eddie's NFL allegiance is discussed. 1:11:10 - Running back recruiting discussion with Josh 1:21:30 - Ratings and Reviews, thank you listeners! 1:27:43 - Eddie gets busted for his lack of pronunciation skills. This time it's one of his boss' names. 1:29:30 - The staff member that always screws up our social media account 1:32:33 - Carey knows more about how many concerts Eddie has been to than he has 1:35:00 - Chris Steele is in the transfer portal, but so is a Clemson running back. Could OU be interested in one or both? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	News team, a symbol!
0:07.0	Asembo! It's back and bigger than ever. It's the unofficial 40 from Sooner Scoop.com.
0:21.2	Presented by the Choctaw Casino One Resort in Durant.
0:25.0	Now, here's the entire sooner scoop crew,
0:28.0	Carrie, Josh, Eddie, and Bob.
0:32.0	Oh! Josh, Eddie, and Bob. All right, then.
0:36.0	Welcome back.
0:37.0	It is another edition of the Unofficial 40 Podcast,
0:40.0	right here on Sunnis Cube.com is well we're heavy into the recruiting
0:46.6	season which is where a lot of the coaches have been lately out on the road
0:50.8	Josh McQuishin was out on the road yesterday.
0:53.1	That's one of the reasons, one of the many reasons.
0:55.5	We're doing this today on a Thursday instead of the customary Wednesday,
0:59.0	so we expect, well, next week I've got to make a trip,
1:02.4	so I think we're going to be an even earlier
1:04.4	podcast next week. So a lot of stuff going on guys I don't even know where to
1:09.2	begin so I want to say this first and foremost.
1:13.0	Thanks to everyone who has gone on iTunes and given a rating for the podcast and fighting the
1:19.7	miserables.
1:20.7	I guess that's what I've decided to call them. Eddie do you concur with that?
1:24.0	Yeah.
1:25.0	We got a nice spike.
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