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Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

U40: The Mike Stoops/OU defense situation, Riley talks postseason

Oklahoma Sooners Unofficial 40

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Sports, Football

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2018

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Take us back to California, to those crystal neon signs. The gang is back from Los Angeles and the Rose Bowl after eight days in paradise. Well, except for that loss to Georgia. We breakdown all the talk surrounding Mike Stoops and the future of the OU defense. Carey had a chance to catch up with Lincoln Riley who had just returned to Norman about the Rose Bowl, the defense, the future and more. Josh has been in San Antonio for the U.S. Army All-American combine checking in on Sooner commitments and prospects. He gives us a full breakdown. We also talk lots of where the Sooners go now. Riley has to hire a 10th assistant soon. Who will he tab? The full rundown is below: OPEN - We're back from our L.A. trip and the Rose Bowl was so crazy none of us even remember the score 0:06:45 - The Mike Stoops rumors start flying as soon as the game ends 0:08:42 - Lincoln Riley addresses the defense 0:15:15 - The defensive line dilemma 0:17:45 - Josh talks about the help that could be coming in recruiting on defense 0:29:50 - LB recruiting, 10th assistant has to be on defense? 0:43:10 - Improve defensive recruiting or everybody gets fired 0:47:50 - NFL early departures. Could Rodney Anderson leave early? 0:55:16 - Recruiting announcements at the All-American games 1:01:40 - A&M makes a DC hire, more coaching movement/10th assistant talk 1:12:55 - Will Lincoln Riley be able to stomach watching the national championship game? 1:18:30 - What are Riley's biggest regrets about the Rose Bowl? 1:22:20 - Kyler Murray wants to play baseball again. What does Riley think? 1:28:50 - OU needs better players than what they have now on defense 1:31:40 - The Trae Young Show. We talk some OU hoops Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Coach Riley? Yeah, it's tough to describe right now.

0:35.2

It's a hell of a college football game.

0:37.4

You know, an epic Rose Bowl game.

0:47.1

You know, and being on this side of it is, it's difficult to describe. The disappointment, you know, the hurt that we feel that those guys in that locker room feel right now.

0:53.0

Some of them came in, you know, telling me sorry and telling us sorry.

0:57.7

And I said, don't tell us sorry.

0:59.2

You know, you, our team put it on the line.

1:02.2

They laid it on the line. They laid it on the line every snap. We weren't perfect. We did a lot of really good things on both sides of the ball, but we certainly weren't perfect and had some opportunities. You know, let it let the game get back a little bit

1:15.5

closer there in the third quarter and at that point it became you know it was going to

1:18.8

come down to one play here there and it did and but it's been a great run you know senior class has been

1:25.6

tremendous I mean to win three straight big 12 championships you know being this

1:30.1

college football playoff twice and And then just, especially this year,

1:35.0

there's a lot of reasons this team could have turned the wrong direction.

1:39.0

From the coaching change, that I was state loss, just all the things that this team had to battle through.

1:45.2

And I'm proud as hell to be their coach.

1:48.8

It's been a great, great season and I think we'll set the stage for even bigger things here in the

1:54.5

next few years so we'll go questions from there.

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