(10-12-2017 07:23 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(10-12-2017 01:44 PM)SMUmustangs Wrote:  

(10-12-2017 01:10 PM)quo vadis Wrote:  

(10-12-2017 10:11 AM)OdinFrigg Wrote:  

(10-12-2017 08:25 AM)quo vadis Wrote:  Arkansas would never switch. This is just Stoops trolling the SEC, one of his favorite pastimes of the past few years.

Exactly. Since Bob Stoops retired from coaching, not sure what his motivation is now to keep up being prickly and petty. Perhaps it is sibling rivalry.

Probably that, but also the SEC probably still sticks in his craw. The SEC dealt Stoops some very stinging defeats, including losses to LSU and Florida in BCS National Championship games, and then plus there was a humiliating humbling at the hands of Texas A&M in the 2013 Cotton Bowl as well.

Stoops got tired of hearing about SEC superiority, particularly over his Sooners, so he hit back in the press about it. To his credit, he also hit back on the field as Oklahoma beat Alabama and Auburn in the 2014 and 2017 Sugar Bowls.

Of course, those game weren't nearly as big as the two National Title games he lost, but it did save some face for him, enough to keep jabbering about the SEC.

Stoops was 6 - 2 against the old SEC teams. 3 - 0 vs Bama and 2 - 0 vs Tennessee, 1 - 0 vs Auburn. A&M was just one year out of the Big 12 where OU had dominated and even humiliated A&M so bad SI wrote an article about it, so I doubt he took that game too hard. He lost to two National Championship teams which is no disgrace. There were no other defeats.

It's no disgrace to lose national title games, but it sure does hurt. Those two losses were far, far, bigger than his wins over other SEC teams, not even close.

It's like losing two super bowls to a team while beating them six times in the regular season, nobody cares about the latter, only the former.

I believe the most recent games are the one most remembered. Sure those two losses hurt, but they were a long time ago. The recent wins against Tennessee and Sugar Bowl victories against Alabama and Auburn fit today's mentality of redemption or "what have you done lately".

However, I just wanted to set the record straight that the SEC did not have superiority over Stoops coached Sooners..... as had been stated.