U40: The future of OU football's front office is being built now

Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

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🗓️ 3 January 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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On this episode of the Unofficial 40, we are talking about the changes to Oklahoma football from a General Manager perspective. Chuck Lillie is leaving for a GM role with West Virginia and everyone wants to know what that means. We are diving into OU's plans for the future as the football program will develop a front office structure more similar to the NFL. What that means and who that affects are questions that still need to be answered. But we breakdown what we know and what that means for the future of OU football and college sports in general. With the outflow of players to the portal, we're also starting to get a feel for what the team is going to look like next season. A lot of unanswered questions there too at certain positions. But we feel pretty good about the overall strength of this roster as things stand today. One player we're still waiting on to declare his future is R Mason Thomas. He put out an interesting video today. And Michael Fasusi shined this week during Under Armour practices. Josh tells us what that means moving forward. And we have some general CFP discussion to round things out. THE FULL RUNDOWN FOLLOWS BELOW: 0:00 - Welcome back to the Unofficial40! Chuck Lillie departing for GM role with West Virginia 4:30 - What does restructuring of the football front office mean? Here’s an elementary understanding of what’s goin on behind the scenes 28:00 - Will 2025 be the most talented *defensive* roster? 37:00 - What’s going on with R. Mason Thomas? And Florida State’s Marvin Jones Jr./Oklahoma State’s Kendal Daniels visited Norman 45:00 - Michael Fasusi named MVP at Under Armour 1:03:00 - Thoughts on CFP Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.7	Full turns apply.
0:34.5	News team.
0:36.7	Asimbo!
0:47.1	It's back and bigger than ever.
0:51.0	It's the unofficial 40 from Soonerscoop.com. Now, here's the entire Sooners Scoop crew, Carrie, Josh, Eddie, and George?
0:59.8	Oh, all right. Welcome back. It is another second edition of the Unofficial 40 podcast. Right here on
1:08.8	Soonerscoop.com this week is, well, we thought we'd dive in for another
1:13.7	podcast. I think the secret is, or the reason is we just can't get enough of hearing ourselves
1:19.4	talk. You know, we're full of ourselves up here. We like to, you know, throw out information
1:26.5	to piss off everybody
1:27.6	and just watch it all blow up. It's been an interesting week. In the Monday pod, yeah, there was a lot
1:35.0	of doom in that one. And I don't know how everybody feels moving forward now, but we do have
1:41.2	some news to share with you in that Chuck Lilly is moving on to West Virginia,
1:46.9	along with Zach Alley, and we're going to talk about the inner workings of the OU football program a little bit today.
1:54.6	So brace yourselves, maybe just try and listen, just see if it takes.
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