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Sooners Dominate All-Big 12 Teams

Jubanator14 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:47:56 -0000

More postseason awards come in today as the Sooners produced nine first-team honorees on the 2008 All-Big 12 Conference Football Team.

Sam Bradford won Conference Offensive Player of the Year, Travis Lewis won Defensive Freshman of the Year, and Bob Stoops won his 4th Conference Coach of the year to go along with the 9 first team selections and 6 second team selections.

Surprisingly, Chris Brown was only a honorable mention along with Keenan Clayton and Brandon Walker.

The First and Second teams are after the jump.

2008 ALL-BIG 12 FOOTBALL FIRST TEAM OFFENSE
Pos.	Player	School	Class	Hometown/Previous School(s)
QB	Sam Bradford	Oklahoma	So.	Oklahoma City, Okla./Putnam City North
RB	DeMarco Murray	Oklahoma	So.	Las Vegas, Nev./Bishop Gorman
RB	Kendall Hunter	Oklahoma State	So.	Tyler, Texas/John Tyler
FB	Matt Clapp	Oklahoma	Jr.	Phoenix, Ariz./Paradise Valley
WR	Jeremy Maclin [r1]	Missouri	So.	Kirkwood, Mo./Kirkwood
WR	Dez Bryant	Oklahoma State	So.	Lufkin, Texas/Lufkin
WR	Michael Crabtree** [r1]	Texas Tech	So.	Dallas, Texas/Carter
TE	Jermaine Gresham	Oklahoma	Jr.	Ardmore, Okla./Ardmore
OL	Jason Smith	Baylor	Sr.	Dallas, Texas/W.T. White
OL	Phil Loadholt	Oklahoma	Sr.	Fountain, Colo./Garden City CC
OL	Duke Robinson [r1]	Oklahoma	Sr.	Atlanta, Ga./Washington
OL	Trent Williams	Oklahoma	Jr.	Longview, Texas/Longview
OL	Russell Okung	Oklahoma State	Jr.	Fort Bend, Texas/Bush
OL	Adam Ulatoski	Texas	Jr.	Southlake, Texas/Carroll
PK	Jeff Wolfert	Missouri	Sr.	Overland Park, Kan./Blue Valley West
KR/PR	Dez Bryant	Oklahoma State	So.	Lufkin, Texas/Lufkin

2008 ALL-BIG 12 FOOTBALL FIRST TEAM DEFENSE
Pos.	Player	School	Class	Hometown/Previous School(s)
DL	Ziggy Hood	Missouri	Sr.	Amarillo, Texas/Palo Duro
DL	Gerald McCoy	Oklahoma	So.	Oklahoma City, Okla./Southeast
DL	Roy Miller	Texas	Sr.	Killeen, Texas/Shoemaker
DL	Brian Orakpo	Texas	Sr.	Houston, Texas/Lamar
DL	Brandon Williams	Texas Tech	Jr.	Fort Worth, Texas/South Hills
LB	Joe Pawelek	Baylor	Jr.	San Antonio, Texas/Smithson Valley
LB	Sean Weatherspoon	Missouri	Jr.	Jasper, Texas/Jasper
LB	Sergio Kindle	Texas	Jr.	Dallas, Texas/Woodrow Wilson
DB	Jordan Lake	Baylor	Jr.	Houston, Texas/Memorial
DB	Darrell Stuckey	Kansas	Jr.	Kansas City, Kan./Washington
DB	William Moore**	Missouri	Sr.	Hayti, Mo./Hayti
DB	Nic Harris [r1]	Oklahoma	Sr.	Alexandria, La./Alexandria
DB	Darcel McBath	Texas Tech	Sr.	Gainesville, Texas/Gainesville
P	Justin Brantly	Texas A&M	Sr.	Sealy, Texas/Sealy
A tie in voting created an additional offensive line spot on the first- and second-teams. [r1] - Repeat first team selection from last season **Unanimous Selection

2008 ALL-BIG 12 FOOTBALL SECOND TEAM OFFENSE
Pos.	Player	School	Class	Hometown/Previous School(s)
QB	Colt McCoy	Texas	Jr.	Tuscola, Texas/Jim Ned
RB	Derrick Washington	Missouri	So.	Peculiar, Mo./Raymore-Peculiar
RB	Shannon Woods	Texas Tech	Sr.	McKinney, Texas/North
FB	Jorvorskie Lane	Texas A&M	Sr.	Lufkin, Texas/Lufkin
WR	Dezmon Briscoe	Kansas	So.	Dallas, Texas/Cedar Hill
WR	Juaquin Iglesias	Oklahoma	Sr.	Killeen, Texas/Killeen
WR	Jordan Shipley	Texas	Sr.	Burnet, Texas/Burnet
TE	Chase Coffman	Missouri	Sr.	Peculiar, Mo./Raymore-Peculiar
OL	Kurtis Gregory	Missouri	Jr.	Blackburn, Mo./Santa Fe
OL	Matt Slauson	Nebraska	Sr.	Colorado Springs, Colo./Air Force Prep
OL	Jon Cooper	Oklahoma	Sr.	Fort Collins, Colo./Fort Collins
OL	Chris Hall	Texas	Jr.	Irving, Texas/Irving
OL	Louis Vasquez	Texas Tech	Sr.	Corsicana, Texas/Corsicana
OL	Rylan Reed	Texas Tech	Sr.	Dallas, Texas/Crossett (Ark.)
PK	Hunter Lawrence	Texas	Jr.	Boerne, Texas/Boerne
KR/PR	Jordan Shipley	Texas	Jr.	Burnet, Texas/Burnet

2008 ALL-BIG 12 FOOTBALL SECOND TEAM DEFENSE
Pos.	Player	School	Class	Hometown/Previous School(s)
DL	George Hypolite	Colorado	Sr.	Los Angeles, Calif./Loyola
DL	Ian Campbell	Kansas State	Sr.	Cimarron, Kan./Cimarron
DL	Stryker Sulak [r2]	Missouri	Sr.	Rockdale, Texas/Rockdale
DL	Ndamukong Suh	Nebraska	Jr.	Portland, Ore./Grant
DL	Jeremy Beal	Oklahoma	So.	Carrollton, Texas/Creekview
LB	James Holt	Kansas	Sr.	Altus, Okla./Altus
LB	Travis Lewis	Oklahoma	Fr.	San Antonio, Texas/Robert E. Lee
LB	Andre Sexton	Oklahoma State	Jr.	Houston, Texas/Cypress Falls
DB	Dominique Franks	Oklahoma	So.	Tulsa, Okla./Union
DB	Lendy Holmes	Oklahoma	Sr.	Dallas, Texas/South Oak Cliff
DB	Jacob Lacey	Oklahoma State	Sr.	Garland, Texas/Naaman Forest
DB	Ryan Palmer	Texas	Sr.	Arlington, Texas/Bowie
DB	Daniel Charbonnet	Texas Tech	Sr.	The Woodlands, Texas/The Woodlands
P	Matt Fodge	Oklahoma State	Sr.	Garland, Texas/Garland
[r2] - Repeat second team selection from last season

Coaches are not allowed to vote for their own players.

Sam Bradford Named Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year

Jubanator14 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:36:22 -0000

The Big 12 coaches have spoken and they have chosen Sam Bradford as Big 12 Offensive Player of the Year.

Bradford has had an amazing year this season in setting school records for passing yards in a season with 4,080, touchdown passes in a season with 46, career touchdown passes with 82.

Bradford has been the perfect quarterback for the no huddle offense that Kevin Wilson installed and it has led Bradford near the top of all postseason awards lists.

Bradford joins Jason White, 2003 and 2004, and Josh Heupel, 2000, as Sooner players who have won the Offensive player of the Year.

Ask a Sooner

Jubanator14 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:47:12 -0000

Hey guys, I'm Nick and am one of the writers over at the Oklahoma blog on SB Nation, Crimson and Cream Machine.

If there is anything you want to know about the Sooners but didn't have anyone to ask, please feel free to ask me here in this Fan Post.

I personally am nervously confident going into this game since we always seem to struggle when we play in College Station but the way our offense is rolling, it might not be as tough as it as been in the past.

Aggies On The Attack

Jubanator14 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:01:22 -0000

AggieReport.com is a nice website done by a few Texas A&M graduates. Each week this season they have put out a pretty hilarious video for each weeks opponent. Well it's our week to be roasted.

I have to admit, this is a pretty funny video and is a spot on parody of all of the political ads that we are all sick of.

These guys have had some funny videos this season but the Sooners will have the last laugh on Saturday.

Courtney Paris becomes 6th lady ever to be named unanimous Preseason All-American

Jubanator14 — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:10:24 -0000

Courtney Paris becomes 6th lady ever to be named unanimous Preseason All-American

Congrats to Courtney.

Blake Griffin Named Preseason All-American

Jubanator14 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:37:05 -0000

Blake Griffin Named Preseason All-American

Griffin, who received 45 votes, surprised many when he decided to return to the Sooners for his sophomore season. The 6-10, 250-pound Griffin averaged 14.7 points and 9.1 rebounds last season in leading Oklahoma through a rough Big 12 schedule and into the NCAA tournament.

Basketball Season Is Almost Upon Us

Jubanator14 — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:20:30 -0000

Basketball season tipoffs a mere 15 days from today and I for one couldn't be more excited. Yes the football team is 7-1 but basketball is my favorite sport and this team is loaded this season.

So in the next couple of weeks, I will try and give you a player by player preview and then a season preview with some predictions. This post is for you, the loyal readers, to ask me something you'd like me to preview during the next two weeks. So have it and of course...Boomer Sooner!

Sooners Check In At #4 In Inagural BCS Standings

Jubanator14 — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:35:34 -0000

Rk	Team	BCS Avg.
1	Texas	0.997
2	Alabama	0.948
3	Penn State	0.866
4	Oklahoma	0.831
5	USC	0.775
6	Oklahoma St.	0.772
7	Georgia	0.720
8	Texas Tech	0.712
9	Ohio St.	0.702
10	Florida	0.699
11	Utah	0.634
12	Boise St.	0.587
13	LSU	0.498
14	TCU	0.419
15	Missouri	0.368
16	South Florida	0.329
17	Pittsburgh	0.283
18	Georgia Tech	0.240
19	Tulsa	0.236
20	Ball St.	0.234
21	BYU	0.217
22	Northwestern	0.162
23	Kansas	0.148
24	Minnesota	0.142
25	Florida St.	0.112

The first BCS standing came out a mere minutes ago and there are very few surprises.

Texas and Alabama are the overwhelming 1 & 2 in the polls. The surprise is how close that Oklahoma is to Penn St. I am chalking that up to the fact that Penn St. hasn't really played anyone while Oklahoma has wins over two of the teams currently in the BCS poll.

Florida being all the way at 10 means that the computer are really punishing them for losing at home to Ole Miss.

Also we have three potential teams from non BCS conferences that could make it to the big games in #11 Utah, #12 Boise St., and even 1-loss #14 TCU.

So here are the first standings but there is a lot of season left to play with several matchups between highly ranked BCS teams this weekend, these standings are sure to shake up several more times.

Longhorns secure top spot in opening BCS Standings [BCSfootball.org]

Oklahoma Defeats Kansas 45-31

Jubanator14 — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:39:28 -0000

Bob Stoops improves to 10-0 in the game that follows the Red River Shootout as Sam Bradford throws for a school record 486 yards and the Sooners roll 45-31.

With linebacker Ryan Reynolds out, Coach Stoops moved Nic Harris to middle linebacker and Quinton Carter got his first start at Safety, but this game was all about offense. Here are some numbers from both teams:

Sam Bradford 36/53 (53! was Mike Leech back and calling plays!?) for a school record 486 yards, 3 scores and no picks.
Juaquin Iglesias broke school records with 10 receptions for 178 yards in the first half, ending the game with 12 catches for 191 yards.
DeMarco Murray and Chris Brown got back on track with 175 yards on 28 carries and 3 scores. Murray really seemed to have that pop that he had last season, even though he didn't break a big run, he ran fast and hard. I hope him and Brown can keep that up.
Dezmon Briscoe broke KU receiving records with 269 yards on 12 catches.
Oklahoma had 674 yards of offense, surprisingly not a record, and Kansas had 491 yards of offense. The combined 1165 yards isn't a record (I don't think) but it is a ton of yards.

Oklahoma was able to play ball control with a time of possession of 34:13 and 206 yards on the ground, but they were also able to strike quick with the pass as they have all season.

One bad thing about the game was the loss of Manny Johnson early in the 1st quarter with an apparent elbow injury. X-Ray's were negative but Johnson did not return. Thankfully, Quentin Chaney stepped up, as he has in the past two Fiesta Bowls, with 6 catches for 105 yards.

Oklahoma also increased their nation long home winning streak to 21 wins in a row.

Now that we seem to have our run attack back on track, it is time to turn our attention to our second true road game against Josh Freeman and the Kansas St. Wildcats.

Blake Griffin Picked As Unanimous Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year; Willie Warren Named Unanimous Preseason Freshman of the Year

Jubanator14 — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:27:06 -0000

Blake Griffin Picked As Unanimous Big 12 Preseason Player of the Year; Willie Warren Named Unanimous Preseason Freshman of the Year

More great news for the Sooner basketball squad. This season could be a very special one for the Sooner men.