I don't buy that for one minute. OU does not have elite talent at the moment, but the talent is commensurate or still better than what Kansas State and TCU have. There is no excuse for this team to get embarrassed the way they did the past two games.
You're dreaming. And you're buying into the false impression of stars on a high school player's value. And it's at key positions where we are short. Anybody think White is a great college player? They haven't seen him play.
I've read that TCU's OLine was suspect. But they played great yesterday. After week one, I wrote here that OU was short of difference makers on both sides of the ball. That is showing up glaringly. With Dillon at quarterback, we have not had an advantage at quarterback for more than one game this season. Nebraska. It was close to a wash in game one and game two.
Yesterday, the Frogs were better at quarterback at the start, and ridiculously better after Gabriel go cheap shotted. They were better at running back. Their receiving corps was way better. The OLine was at best a push.
Against KState, they had by far the best running back, and were way way way better at quarterback.
I think the coaches do bear more than a little responsibility. But yesterday, we lost our most important offensive player on offense in the first half, and our best playing defensive player on defense in the first three minutes of the game. A lot of teams are going to struggle when that happens, especially when our quarterback room has been decimated by transfers.
This might be as bad a season as we saw under John Blake. But I'm seeing a repeat of 1969. We didn't go to a bowl game that year, either.