HOWARD sCHNELLENBERGER

I know you felloow Sooners out their are going to hate it when i say this. If Schnellenberger was such a bad coach and drunk like most of you have said in the past, then tell me why if Schnellenberger is so bad why is he coaching the game today. The Texas vs the nation.

Bad coach, yeah right. 

whats wrong cat got your tongue.

Oh, Shel, your man-crush on ol' Schnellenberger is very humorous.  


You apparently have never really listened to anything most of us here have said.  Schnellenberger did a great job at Miami and Louisville.  Mostly because he was building programs.  He was taking programs that had nothing, that were not historically football schools, and doing something with them.  


That is NOT Oklahoma.  Schnellenberger came in to a program that was just mediocre.  Gibbs has a winning percentage of 65%, some good years and some not so good,   But the program has a history, did not need building but rebuilding.  Schnellenberger didn't get that.  I, to this day, was more about his attitude toward the players and the program than his record. (Blake, your other boyfriend, WAS about record.)  


Schnellenberger has not been relevant since he left Louisville.  His skills at program building are gone, as Florida Atlantic has showed.  


Coaching a college all star game is not something that top of the line head coaches are fighting to do.  If it was Saban, Stoops, Meyer and others would be on the sidelines.  Not Schnellenberger.   

And no, I don't think the cat has anyone's tongue.  I just don't think anyone here sees coaching a mostly invisible football game as a huge honor that great coaches are fighting to be a part of.  

Howard Pass-The-Bourbon-Please Schnellenberger rubbed many OU fans the wrong way by changing the uniforms. He puts those dopey stripes on the sleeves, and he did not embrace the history. He declared that books would be written about his time at Oklahoma like he was the greatest thing since sliced bread, and also stated that he would be so great, people would forget about Bud Wilkinson and Barry Switzer.

Stoops, Blake, and Gibbs all had deep respect for the OU tradition and realize it's "feeding the monster" like The King still says. Schnelly thought he was bigger than the program. Once he found that he was not, he resigned.  

Well your right. Schnellenberger did come to OU with the wrong attitude, but that was his  ego. Heck i bet he thought he was a Genious

I don't want him back or Blake or Gibbs........Bob will make a come back and everyone will be as happy as a possum eatin' ****!

I don't want him back or Blake or Gibbs........Bob will make a come back and everyone will be as happy as a possum eatin' ****!




Except for 1999 i don't think Bob has been down. I don't get what you point is.    

Oh, Shel, your man-crush on ol' Schnellenberger is very humorous. 


You apparently have never really listened to anything most of us here have said.  Schnellenberger did a great job at Miami and Louisville.  Mostly because he was building programs.  He was taking programs that had nothing, that were not historically football schools, and doing something with them. 




SoonerAlum you must be gay. You seem to get on the man crush thing everytime i talk about Schnellenberger.



So SoonerAlum you full of it. you saying there are two types of coachs, one that builds up worthless prgrams and the one that coachs established   programs.  BULL--**. Their are 3 types of coachs, Great ones, good ones and bad ones.   

Well SoonerAlum I should of said it this why. Your only going to be as good as the players you recruit. If you can build a program up from crapy to a national champion,  and he could have won more had he not walked away from miami you can coach. Schnellenberger is also the one that made jimmy johnson the coach he was at miami by getting so much talent to goto miami.

I think if you go back and read, Shel, I never ever said there are two kinds of coaches, etc.  What I said was Schnellenberger was great at building programs.  And he might have been great at OU had he rolled in here understanding that he didn't have to build anything here.  The building was done.  Just needed some minor repairs and some light cleaning.  Instead, he rolled in and basically said that OU's past meant nothing and he was going to be the guy who created greatness.  Ummm...that's not going to sit well with anyone at OU.  

Well your right, Schnellenberger should not og come to Norman running his mouth about for grtting what OU had accomplished in the past. You all made it sound like Howard was not a good enough of a  coach to be on the same field, or even coaching the Sooners. With alot of booster and regent help and money Howard and others built a great program in the 80's.

Well your right. Schnellenberger did come to OU with the wrong attitude, but that was his  ego.


no, he came to OU as a drunk/alcoholic. Had nothing to do with his attitude or ego..........

Instead, he rolled in and basically said that OU's past meant nothing and he was going to be the guy who created greatness.  Ummm...that's not going to sit well with anyone at OU.  

Books will be written......

Movies will be made.......

God, I get ill just thinking about those days. 

pompous and arrogant are just 2 of words that come to mind about ol Smells of Bourbon.........

Do we have to have this conversation every year? He and Blake both sucked at OU bottom line. Blake was a good recruiter but a cheat. Smells was living off his reputation from days gone by. Let's discuss the recruiting class? Starting to shap up better than I thought. This might be an interesting off season.

Do we have to have this conversation every year? He and Blake both sucked at OU bottom line. Blake was a good recruiter but a cheat. Smells was living off his reputation from days gone by. Let's discuss the recruiting class? Starting to shap up better than I thought. This might be an interesting off season.

Unless there is a surprise tomorrow, it looks like OU will finish with a class ranked about #13 or so.  Better than it looked 6 weeks ago to be sure, but still no big name commit since then.  What concerns me most is that OU doesn't even appear to be in the running for any of the remaining big names on signing day.  But, maybe there will be a surprise on that front tomorrow.  Who knows?

I get that rankings aren't everything and no guarantee that a 5* recruit will always pan out.......but that said, there was a pretty interesting article on the subject earlier today.  Kind of an eye opener.   

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefoo
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no, he came to OU as a drunk/alcoholic. Had nothing to do with his attitude or ego..........




Well Wheat when someone comes on the campus of OU and says he is going to change things enought to make Sooners fans forget about past, and that the past doesn't matter. I would says thats the wrong attitude to have if your going to coach Oklahoma.

If Schnellenberger was a alcoholic i don't think any schools would want him coach but yet they have.      

shel, if somebody can make you money, people tend to look the other way.


OU made a mistake, a huge mistake with Smells of Bourbon and you won't find many who would disagree with that......


damn son, are you the love child of Howard and Boo or something??????

 

Sooner Schnellenberger? Is that your true alias?

The guy is literally 80 years old now. His coaching days are over. He is wondering what brand of Depends to wear. In fact, his days were over a long time ago. As someone else said, he capitalized on his rep from the early 80's at Miami when he had every gang member known to man with good athletic ability on his roster, but he did absolutely and positively nothing ever since.

Why you pine away for this senior citizen is a tad puzzling. Why not have a 53-year old guy (or thereabouts) with one NC under his belt and 8 BCS appearances leading the program? For better or worse, Stoops is far better than Mr. Bourbon, John Blake, or Gary Gibbs. 

You won't win a NC every year. And surely Schnelly wouldn't have given his stupidity. It's one thing to say on national TV when OU is getting blown out in the Copper Bowl (to what team I don't remember) "These guys are fat and out of shape." Anyone can say that, especially when the team is getting steamrolled. It's another thing to lead a program. Bob Stoops is definitely the right guy. Perhaps you ought to remember the Schnelly era like I do when I was a student at OU. Or the Gibbs era. The present is far better than the 1990-1998 time frame. Just look at the wins and losses, NC's, Big XII titles, NCG appearances. 

And when the meirda hit the fan, the guy just bailed. That sums it up right there. No commitment to the program. More of a politician spewing a bunch of gibberish.

That ought to tell you all you need to know about Howie.