When did OU play the top team in the nation in regular season (LSU did numerous times, playing Alabama, Auburn, Florida, and Georgia during the regular season when they won the national championships, and every year, when they are ranked in the top 3, top 5, and top 10, etc.).

Don’t get me wrong. I have respect for the legacy and history of OU football, as I do Notre Dame. But you are claiming playing the Irish this year and TCU in non-conference games is a big deal? The Irish haven’t been anything in how many years? Understand…my father, my uncle, cousin, and other relatives are grads of N. Dame and were lifelong fans, but switched their allegiances in the past few years.

Notre Dame over the past decades has been most over ranked, under-performing team in football. Sometime, when I have more time, I will give you the words from the previous Irish AD in the 7os when LSU beat them badly at Baton Rouge.

That would be a good idea, but UT may have their own problems by that time to deal with as well. These things are happening in just about every program, especially the better ones, and can happen at any time. It is a sad reality that most programs deal with every year. I hope neither UT or the Sooners will have to dismiss their best player because of idiotic choices he makes, as we had to.

By the way, the Sooners finally came to table with acceptable dates (though in 2018 and 19) for reciprocal games with LSU. LSU had pursued that for about 5 years while the Sooners were saying they had enough hard matches with their fellow Big 12 teams, so they would not schedule another hard game with LSU. Finally, LSU asked them to rank their schedule with LSU’s in the SEC and OOC and see if Oklahoma’s schedule was the stronger. They found a way to schedule LSU the next year, but put it off into the distant future.

This environment is from which the colleges recruit. Rather than society and individual cultures in greater society emphasize education, they emphasize athletics, which only a small percentage of those who play sports ever make a living from it. The remainder who never make a living at sports often fall back into the culture they came from and we see them on arrest reports. This is a sad cycle.