Reasons to be optimistic about OU, Oklahoma State football as season nears

ALERT FORECAST EVERYBODY WELCOME TO THE SHOW TONIGHT. I’M BRIAN KEATING. HE IS ELGIN RUCKER IT IS TIME. FOR CRASHING THE BOARDS. WE’LL TALK PLENTY ABOUT COLLEGE FOOTBALLS WE GET INTO TO TRAINING CAMPS. WE DO HAVE BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT AS OF ABOUT THE LAST 10 MINUTES. YEAH THE ASSISTANT HEAD COACH AT OKLAHOMA THE FOOTBALL PROGRAM KALE GUNDY WHO HAS SPENT HIS QUARTERBACK AT OKLAHOMA ASSISTANT COACH AND IN PART WITH THE PROGRAM FOR THE LAST ALMOST 30 YEARS HAS RESIGNED TONIGHT. HE RELEASED A STATEMENT VIA SOCIAL MEDIA AGAIN IN THE LAST 10 MINUTES, SO I’M GONNA READ A FEW PORTIONS OF THAT IN HIS STATEMENT. HE SAID SAID HE WANTED TO BE TRANSPARENT. HE SAID LAST WEEK DURING A FILM SESSION. I INSTRUCTED MY PLAYERS TO TAKE NOTES. I NOTICED A PLAYER WAS DISTRACTED AND PICKED UP HIS IPAD AND I READ ALOUD THE WORDS THAT WERE WRITTEN ON HIS SCREEN THE WORDS DISPLAYED HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH FOOTBALL ONE PARTICULAR WORD. THAT SHOULD HAVE NEVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE. HAVE UTTERED WAS DISPLAYED ON THAT SCREEN IN THE MOMENT. I DID NOT REALIZE WHAT I WAS READING. AND AS SOON AS I DID I WAS HORRIFIED. HE SAYS I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR THE WORDS. I READ ALOUD FROM THAT SCREEN WERE NOT MY WORDS. WHAT I SAID WAS NOT MALICIOUS. IT WASN’T EVEN INTENTIONAL. STILL I AM MATURE ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT THE WORD I SAID WAS SHAMEFUL AND HURTFUL. NO MATTER MY INTENTIONS. HE GOES ON TO SAY HE WANTS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS MISTAKE. SAYS I APOLOGIZE AND AT THE VERY END SAYS COACHING THIS FOOTBALL TEAM HAS TRULY BEEN MY LIFE’S PASSION, BUT I LEAVE CONFIDENT THAT THE TEAM WILL CONTINUE TO PROSPER AND I LEAVE WITH TREMENDOUS LOVE FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, AND IT’S ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT SOONER BORN SOONER BREAD AND SO ON. BOOMER SO KALE GUNDY HIS STATEMENT HAS RESIGNED JUST RELEASED A FEW MINUTES AGO BRENT VENABLES RELEASED A STATEMENT ESSENTIALLY SAYING THAT HE ACCEPTED ACCEPTS THAT RESIGNATION. I DON’T WANT TO GET INTO THIS A LOT TONIGHT BECAUSE ONE WE DON’T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. WE’LL FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THAT TOMORROW. I ASSUME WE’LL HEAR FROM BRENT VENABLES SO WE WON’T GET INTO THAT BUT WE WILL JUST DO THE BREAKING NEWS THAT KALE GUNDY WHO HAS SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE AT OKLAHOMA UNDER A NUMBER OF HEAD COACHES AND WAS THE QUARTERBACK OF THE SOONERS HAS RESIGNED. AS OF TONIGHT. YEAH AT FACE VALUE. HE’S HOLDING HIMSELF ACCOUNTABLE AGAIN. WE DON’T KNOW ANY MORE THAN WHAT HIS WORD SAY AND SO I WILL HOLD MY OPINION ON ANYTHING ESPECIALLY UNTIL WE HEAR THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE PLAYER AS WELL. BUT FOR NOW WE CAN TAKE HIS WORDS AT FACE VALUE AND WE UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS FOR THAT PROGRAM A LONG TIME PART OF THAT PROGRAM IS LEAVING AND AND WE’LL LEARN MORE SOON ENOUGH. I’M PRETTY SURE. ALL RIGHT. LET’S TALK COLLEGE FOOTBALL AND LET’S GO INTO WHAT WE HAD PLANNED AND THAT’S TRAINING CAMPS THAT STARTED THIS WEEK. AND SO BRENT VENABLES. GOING THROUGH HIS FIRST TRAINING CAMP IN THE FALL AND THE EXPECTATIONS AT OKLAHOMA. JUST DOESN’T MATTER WHO YOU GOT AND QUARTERBACK GETS TO WIN THE BIG TAIL CHAMPIONSHIP AND TO TRY TO PLAY FOR THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. SO LET’S LOOK AT THIS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF YOU ARE OPTIMISTIC ABOUT OKLAHOMA GOING INTO 22 BECAUSE OF WHAT ESPECIALLY FROM FANS PERSPECTIVE YOUR OPTIMISTIC AND YOUR HAPPY BECAUSE YOU GOT YOUR GUY YOU HAVE A QUARTERBACK. YOU HAVE A LEGIT QUARTERBACK OF LEGIT NUMBER ONE IN A SITUATION WHERE NOT EVERYONE GETS TO BE SO FORTUNATE WHEN YOU HAVE GUYS PREVIOUSLY IN THE PROGRAM SPENCER RATTLER CALEB WILLIAMS, YOU KNOW HOW THAT SAGA? YOU KNOW PLAY IT OUT. NOW. YOU GOT A GUY LIKE DYLAN GABRIEL WHO CAN COME IN AND FILL THAT VOID AND HOPEFULLY FEEL IT. EMPHATICALLY. WE’VE TALKED AT LENTZ ABOUT THE NUMBERS THAT HE’S PUT UP AT UCF NOW COMING TO A BIGGER PROGRAM A BIGGER SITUATION MORE TRADITION ALL THESE DIFFERENT THINGS. HE’S GONNA HAVE TO TO DEAL WITH THE WEIGHT OF THE PRESSURE OF BEING THE QUARTERBACK AT OKLAHOMA AND THAT’S NOT EASY FOR ANYONE BUT I THINK DYLAN GABRIEL HAVING HAD THE EXPERIENCE HAVING THE ANNUITY WITH THE OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR JEFF LEVY BEING THE HIS OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR AND QUARTERBACKS COACH AT UCF WHEN HE HAD ARGUABLY HIS BEST SEASON OF COLLEGE FOOTBALL HIS FRESHMAN YEAR UCF, WHICH WAS VERY IMPRESSIVE. HE’S DONE NOTHING BUT GET BETTER SINCE THEN. I THINK HE’S READY AND PRIME FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY. SO IF YOU’RE A FAN YOU WENT THROUGH ALL THE OFFSEASON DRAMA WITH YOUR PREVIOUS HEAD COACH YOU GOT THAT GUY AS WELL, BUT THIS TEAM ONLY GOES AS FAR AS THE QUARTERBACK CAN TAKE THEM AND YOU GOT A GUY WHO CAN WHO POSSIBLY CAN TAKE YOU FAR. SO YEAH, LOOK, I THINK THERE’S BE A LOT OF WEIGHT AND EXPECTATIONAL GABRIEL THAT THAT’S FOR SURE, BUT I THINK IT’S BRENT’S DEFENSE THAT GIVES ME SOME REASON FOR OPTIMISM AND YOU KNOW, OKLAHOMA WASN’T GREAT ON DEFENSE LAST YEAR. THEY WERE SIX IN THE BIG 12 AND SCORING DEFENSE ABOUT 25 AND A HALF POINTS A GAME. THEY ALLOWED YOU KNOW, THEY STILL GO 11 AND 2 AND I GET THE CALEB WILLIAMS IS A SENSATIONAL QUARTERBACK AND HEISMAN TROPHY GUY. THEY’RE GOING TO BE OUT THERE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA NOW, BUT CLEMSON WHO DIDN’T HAVE THEIR BEST YEAR WASN’T ONE OF CLEMSON’S. YOU KNOW PROLIFIC DEFENSES WHEN THEY GAVE UP 14.8 POINTS A GAME LAST YEAR IN THE ACC. SO IF OU CAN DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT ANYTHING LIKE THAT CREATE SOME TURNOVERS. I THINK THEY’RE GOING TO BE REALLY GOOD. SO IT’S BRENT’S DEFENSE. YEAH, THAT GIVES ME REASON FOR OPTIMISM IF I’M A SOONER’S FAN. LET’S GO FROM OKLAHOMA TO OKLAHOMA STATE AND THE REASON THAT YOU MIGHT BE OPTIMISTIC FOR OSU BECAUSE LOOK THEY GOT A LOT OF PIECES COMING BACK. I KNOW SOME OF THAT DEFENSE IS GOING TO CHANGE FACES AND ALL THOSE KINDS OF THINGS BUT SPENCER SANDERS IS BACK WHAT COMES AFTER SPENCER SANDERS IF SOMETHING WERE TO HAPPEN AND SOMEBODY GO DOWN, WHO KNOWS BUT THAT GUY’S GIVES YOU A STABLE PLACE AT QUARTERBACK, EVEN IF YOU MIGHT NOT BE YOUR FAVORITE. YEAH QUARTERBACK. SO YOUR REASON FOR OPTIMISM IN STILLWATER, I LIKE WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT SPENCER SANDERS ONE OF THE BEST RETURNING QUARTERBACKS IN THE CONFERENCE THAT DEFENSE BE PRETTY GOOD AS WELL. BUT IF YOU’RE A FAN AND YOU’RE THINKING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED LAST SEASON, IT’S INCHES. YOU’RE INCHES AWAY FROM A BIG 12 TITLE. SO IF YOU’RE A FAN THAT’S GOING TO BE BURNED ETCHED ENGRAVED INTO YOUR MIND THAT YOU WERE SO CLOSE AND IT GIVES YOU HOPE AND IT ALSO PROVES THAT THEY CAN GET TO A BIG 12 TITLE GAME AND THEY WERE THIS CLOSE LITERALLY FROM WINNING A BIG 12 TIED AGAIN, SO FOR ME IF I’M A FAN THAT’S THAT’S GONNA BE MY CALLING CARD AS FAR AS OPTIMISM AND AND RALLYING THE TROOPS AND AND STAYING POSITIVE. EVEN IF THERE IS A ROUGH PATCH BECAUSE YOU KNOW FOR A FACT THAT THIS TEAM IS RESILIENT. THEY WENT THROUGH A LOT OF ADVERSITY IN THE FIRST COUPLE OF GAMES NOT BEING COMPLETELY HEALTHY PLAYING YOUNG GUYS ON YOUR OFFENSE THAT OFFENSE TAKES A STEP FORWARD SPENCER SANDERS TAKES A STEP FORWARD IF THAT’S IF THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED IS THEN YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR YOUR TEAM IS WELL AS THEY WERE LAST. YEAR WITH THE STRUGGLES THAT THEY HAD ON OFFENSE THAT THEY CAN TURN THAT AROUND AND FIND A WAY TO GET THOSE INCHES. I THINK THEY’RE GONNA BE GOOD. YEAH. I THINK IT’S SENIOR SANDERS. I THINK YEAH MY GUNDY CALLED HIM A MAGICIAN THE OFFENSE. I’M NOT GOING ANYWHERE NEAR MAGICIAN, BUT I THINK YOU DON’T LIKE THE MAGIC I LOOK I THINK HE’S A GOOD PLAYER. HE’S A TALENTED PLAYER. YOU CAN WIN AT A VERY HIGH LEVEL WITH HIM AS YOUR QUARTERBACK. THEY WON THE FIESTA BOWL. THEY’RE YOU KNOW, THEY’RE VERY CLOSE TO ONE OF THE BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP. YOU CAN DO THAT WITH HIM. I THINK THEY’RE GONNA LET HIM GO A LITTLE BIT MORE. DEFENSIVELY THEY’RE GOING TO BE AWESOME UP FRONT THE VERY YOUNG AT LINEBACKER. THEY’RE GONNA BE PLAYING A BUNCH OF GUYS WHO HAVEN’T PLAYED A LOT OF FOOTBALL ON THE BACK END. I ASSUME THEY’LL TAKE A COUPLE OF STEPS BACKWARD. I THINK THEY’LL BE SOLID ON DEFENSE. I THINK THEY HAVE A CHANCE TO BE VERY GOOD ON ALL MUCH BETTER THAN LAST BECAUSE OF SENIOR SANDERS LOOK WE WERE ALL SET TO TALK ABOUT TEXAS TONIGHT. YEAH THE NEWS ABOUT KALE GUNDY TOOK THAT APART, BUT THAT IS THE NEWS KALE GUNDY HAS RESIGNED

Crashing the Boards: Reasons to be optimistic about OU, Oklahoma State football as season nears

Updated: 10:54 AM CDT Aug 8, 2022

On the newest version of Crashing the Boards, Sports Director Bryan Keating and Elgin Rucker talk about the varied the reason why OU and Oklahoma State followers ought to be optimistic as football season nears.

On the newest version of Crashing the Boards, Sports Director Bryan Keating and Elgin Rucker talk about the varied the reason why OU and Oklahoma State followers ought to be optimistic as football season nears.