Willie Martinez Resigns

   Secondary Coach Willie Martinez announced today that he is resigning from the University of Oklahoma. This resignation coming right after Mike Stoops announcing his return to be Co Defensive coordinator and in his press conference mentioned he would be couching the secondary which was Martinez's job. This seemed to make things a little awkward and rumors spread fast about Willie leaving. Now the big story is if Brent Venables who is the other defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. Rumors are spreading like a wildfire that he might be leaving but in the most recent press conference in which Martinez resigned the way the staff talked about the future it seemed to me that the plans have Brent in them. 

   If Brent were to leave it would be a huge loss for Oklahoma. No he hasn't done the best coaching job but he is an ace recruiter.Stoops said "Mike and Brent have a long history and comfort level working together, and have led some great defenses." So I don't think Venables is going anywhere. So as I said before with Mike Stoops and Brent Venables leading that OU defense they are bound for great success.

College Football Playoffs?

     Commissioners from the 11 FBS conferences met at a hotel in New Orleans this Tuesday to brainstorm some new ideas for crowning the national champion in coming years. The current BCS model is going to be in effect until 2014 when its 4 year deal is finished. Reports say that at least 50 to 60 possibilities for different changes were presented. One of the ideas presented is a four-team playoff system called the plus-one model. The idea consists of two national semi-final games and then a national championship game played a week later. Each commissioner seems to have different feelings about any sort of playoff model because some fear the 4 team system would inevitably grow to more and more teams. some of the other of the commissioners are on board with the idea claiming it will give us a clear cut national champion.
       BCS executive director Bill Hancock says this process will probably take place over 5-7 meetings before coming to a final decision. He also said a final decision should be made by July 4th 2012. Pac12 commissioner Larry Scott says that none of the ideas on the table right now outrank any of the others and none have been ruled out yet. So after 2014 the people that lobby for a playoff system might finally get what they want. Things also might stay relatively the same. Either way there is going to be an interesting topic to debate this spring and believe me people will strongly debate this whether they are for or against a playoff system.

     

Mike Stoops Joins Oklahoma

       Sources close to the University of Oklahoma say that Mike Stoops is to be joining the Oklahoma staff as a Co Defensive coordinator. The official announcement of this is supposed to come sometime Wednesday. With this addition Oklahoma is set for big things next season. While this year their offense was one of the elite offenses in the country averaging 39.5 points a game and also averaging  512.3 yards per game. With the return of Landry Jones and the hopeful recovery of Dominique Whaley who played in only 7 games in 2011 before suffering a season ending injury but averaged 89.6 yards a game and also ran in 9 TDs.

       Oklahoma's offense is set for success and with the addition of Mike Stoops to the defensive staff I believe the defense is set for success as well. In 2011 OU ranked 79th in passing defense and gave up a lot of huge plays in their 3 losses. When Mike Stoops was the DC at OU his passing defense was ranked 2nd in the country. The talent is most certainly  there on defense.With Brent Venables' energy and Mike Stoops play calling and discipline I think OU has a really good shot of winning the Big12, and possibly making a run for a National championship. The pieces are all coming together in Norman now it's time for them to capitalize on it.

BCS Championship

So after watching the national championship game last night I have to agree with coach Mike Gundy who said that his OSU cowboys would have put up some points if they would have played last night. Not only does OSU have one of the best scoring offenses in the country but they also have an amazing kicker so even if they were kept out of the endzone I am almost 100 percent positive that OSU could have at the very least put up a couple of field goals on that suffocating Alabama defense. This game was a disaster for LSU with the worst QB play I have ever seen in a Championship game. Less than 100 offensive yards is simply pathetic for any elite college football team.

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