This doesn't all add up.

I'm currently visiting with friends and family who are all big OU supporters about Lebby. He is extremely disliked with that fan base as we have discussed before.

This is where I really get confused. Castiglione and Selmon I thought were still close. Castiglione can't stand Lebby and that is known. Castiglione's own son who is a former player even trashes Lebby (as recently as this week) on Twitter. The whole group is hoping he is hired away.

This honestly wreaks of Selmon doing OU a solid but someone that is more in the know please educate me. I'm concerned.

Lebby made his wife happy instead of OU brass. IMO

Been waiting on this narrative.
Not saying you're right or wrong, just saying I knew it was coming because I know OK despises him and has told him to be looking around

Oklahoma offensive ranks nationally...
FEI - 8th
Total offense - 7th
Scoring offense - 4th

Oklahoma has been unbelievable on offense. In fact they're as good as Lincoln Riley's last 2 years at Oklahoma.

Lebby is a solid coach with an unfortunate in law situation. I know he has caused Castiglione and Venables a bunch of headaches this year with the Art stuff. Do I think Selmon is doing OU a solid and taking him off their hands? No. But I do believe they have been pushing probably more than a team usually would for Lebby to get this job and them having an in with Selmon only helps that situation.

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Lebby made his wife happy instead of OU brass. IMO

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Please explain?

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

Lebby is a solid coach with an unfortunate in law situation. I know he has caused Castiglione and Venables a bunch of headaches this year with the Art stuff. Do I think Selmon is doing OU a solid and taking him off their hands? No. But I do believe they have been pushing probably more than a team usually would for Lebby to get this job and them having an in with Selmon only helps that situation.

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Why would that have the fan base hating him? Especially with the offensive numbers?

I just don't think Selmon should hire him if that's true. Seems like to me Selmon is taking this coaching search to easy on his self. not good at all.

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Why would that have the fan base hating him? Especially with the offensive numbers?

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Some things are more important than football to some people.

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Originally Posted by Tater

Some things are more important than football to some people.

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But only once the season is over. Nothing says stick with your morals like let's wait till it won't hurt the team as bad

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I just don't think Selmon should hire him if that's true. Seems like to me Selmon is taking this coaching search to easy on his self. not good at all.

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I?m tired of us taking the high road. Briles got cleared of all wrong doing. Let?s ride

The fans do not care about Briles. They are off the Lebby train because of how they view his play calling - a ton of jet sweeps and screens. Their offense has been fantastic but has struggled some at times, and their fans expect perfection.

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Originally Posted by Cowbell

I'm currently visiting with friends and family who are all big OU supporters about Lebby. He is extremely disliked with that fan base as we have discussed before.

This is where I really get confused. Castiglione and Selmon I thought were still close. Castiglione can't stand Lebby and that is known. Castiglione's own son who is a former player even trashes Lebby (as recently as this week) on Twitter. The whole group is hoping he is hired away.

This honestly wreaks of Selmon doing OU a solid but someone that is more in the know please educate me. I'm concerned.

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You are overthinking it. Selmon is not going to be doing anyone a solid at the expense of his own job.

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But only once the season is over. Nothing says stick with your morals like let's wait till it won't hurt the team as bad

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People with that level of money and influence don't typically get there because they were a good person.

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Please explain?

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His wife is Art Briles daughter. When your employer doesn't want your father in law hanging around it can make things tense back at the house.

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You are overthinking it. Selmon is not going to be doing anyone a solid at the expense of his own job.

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No. But he will grab the easy bar when he's going down for the last time.

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The fans do not care about Briles. They are off the Lebby train because of how they view his play calling - a ton of jet sweeps and screens. Their offense has been fantastic but has struggled some at times, and their fans expect perfection.

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I'm not a paid consultant, but maybe they should worry about this more than a solidly top 10 offense by any measure...

Total defense nationally - 67th
Scoring defense nationally - 30th
FEI defense nationally - 20th

They're solid on D, but the offense is clearly better by every metric. Seems the improvement should be strived for on this side of the ball

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No. But he will grab the easy bar when he's going down for the last time.

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I dont know what this is supposed to mean. Nobody here is sitting on the interviews and know what criteria we are scoring against for a hire. Just because you feel that way does not mean the decision makers do and this is some panic hire.

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You are overthinking it. Selmon is not going to be doing anyone a solid at the expense of his own job.

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That is easy to say, but Selmon is thought by many here to be theit next A.D.. He is family here.

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Oklahoma offensive ranks nationally...
FEI - 8th
Total offense - 7th
Scoring offense - 4th

Oklahoma has been unbelievable on offense. In fact they're as good as Lincoln Riley's last 2 years at Oklahoma.

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The overall playcalling and offensive design is not the problem. It's the situational play calling. It is obvious to everyone but him at times. Think Kellen Moore, when he was at Dallas and they would always finish first in offense but he couldn't make adjustments to save his life.

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The overall playcalling and offensive design is not the problem. It's the situational play calling. It is obvious to everyone but him at times. Think Kellen Moore, when he was at Dallas and they would always finish first in offense but he couldn't make adjustments to save his life.

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You don?t have situational play calling issues and have those stats to back it up.

Briles on the other hand does have some of that.

Lebby ain’t my first choice by a mile. But anyone who questions his offensive performance and play calling hasn’t watched an ou game. Period.

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The overall playcalling and offensive design is not the problem. It's the situational play calling. It is obvious to everyone but him at times. Think Kellen Moore, when he was at Dallas and they would always finish first in offense but he couldn't make adjustments to save his life.

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Stop reading the vocal minority on OU boards. That would be like us listening to Edward Drayton for MSU info.

I've done some reading about the case and not only has Briles been cleared I wouldn't be surprised if sues Baylor BIGGLY and wins.

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I've done some reading about the case and not only has Briles been cleared I wouldn't be surprised if sues Baylor BIGGLY and wins.

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I?d welcome Art Briles with open arms. Hugh has been given numerous shots.

Clearly we see who the apologists and the front men are for this dumpster fire.

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Lebby ain’t my first choice by a mile. But anyone who questions his offensive performance and play calling hasn’t watched an ou game. Period.

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This is very fair. Good post.

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I?d welcome Art Briles with open arms. Hugh has been given numerous shots.

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Wow......

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Lebby ain’t my first choice by a mile. But anyone who questions his offensive performance and play calling hasn’t watched an ou game. Period.

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Again. So hire him as OC. All good.

This all just sounds like people wanting to find a reason to be upset about something. If you're upset b/c he has no head coaching experience fine, but anything else is based on basically nothing.

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Again. So hire him as OC. All good.

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Dude, he would never come here to be OC. What in the world.

There hasn?t been an official announcement so I can still hold out hope for Clawson

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Wow......

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Lots of disgusting people on this board.

Sure is quite at 9:30 pm. Their game has been over for hours. If he were on his way, you would think word would be out. You can't keep these things quiet. May not be Lebby.

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Lots of disgusting people on this board.

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Shut up Forrest

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There hasn?t been an official announcement so I can still hold out hope for Clawson

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Gag

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Sure is quite at 9:30 pm. Their game has been over for hours. If he were on his way, you would think word would be out. You can't keep these things quiet. May not be Lebby.

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We were never going to announce today. It will probably start to leak tomorrow with an official news break from Ross Dellenger Monday with a press conference Wednesday.

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Sure is quite at 9:30 pm. Their game has been over for hours. If he were on his way, you would think word would be out. You can't keep these things quiet. May not be Lebby.

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Rumor has Sunday baked into it. I'm thinking today and tomorrow was testing the waters. Seeing if we have serious pushback or not. We don't have a loud mouthpiece against it, so the hire is likely to go through. That's the way this timing makes sense to me. Also for Lebby lets him give the appearance of preparing for Texsa rematch if OU makes title game.

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

We were never going to announce today. It will probably start to leak tomorrow with an official news break from Ross Dellenger Monday with a press conference Wednesday.

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Makes sense

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Rumor has Sunday baked into it. I'm thinking today and tomorrow was testing the waters. Seeing if we have serious pushback or not. We don't have a loud mouthpiece against it, so the hire is likely to go through. That's the way this timing makes sense to me. Also for Lebby lets him give the appearance of preparing for Texsa rematch if OU makes title game.

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I'm holding on until the end