(02-10-2013 05:01 PM)rabidTU Wrote: My apologies if you live in OKC.
I wasn't trying to demean or defame the city or paper. My thoughts and observations about the Daily Oklahoman were arrived at by living in the state most of my life and reading both major newspapers here for decades. I also resided in OKC for about 2 1/2 years and took what a famous Oklahoma editorial writer once called the "Daily Disappointment".
I have discussed this very subject with people in OKC on several occasions and its a prevailing mindset there that somehow the Tulsa area HS teams cheat or get advantages over them because the Tulsa HS teams just dominate. An example is the 6A state championship between Jenks and an OKC area team when the halftime score was something in the neighborhood of 42-14. No contest.
And if you're trying to say that my post was inferring that OK HS football is even or better than Texas, that isn't so. There are about 10 times the number of players in Texas compared to Oklahoma, so no its not comparable.
Lastly, this is the individual "TU" CSNbbs site and most of the people that visit it are rightly so - biased to the Nth degree for TU. I'm sure yours is too. Shouldn't we be?
No apology necessary. I have spent most of my life moving back and forth between Oklahoma and Texas. I grew up in Tulsa area and I have lived in OKC and a couple of places in Texas. I do not now live in Oklahoma, but I too have read the Oklahoman and the Tulsa World for decades. My two brothers live in the Tulsa and OKC areas. So I keep up with sports in Oklahoma.
The Oklahoman is a very good, but conservative paper and so some Liberals are disappointed in it. I think Frosy Troy probably made that comment, but I would not call him famous.
When I lived in Tulsa, the World was also a conservative paper, but as Steve Largent, one of your alums pointed out, it is now very liberal. He has also complimented the Oklahoman.
The Tulsa area schools do dominate high school foootball, but I never heard any animosty or jealously in OKC toward the Tulsa schools. I certainly never mentioned anything about that. So why bring it up. Who really cares. It is just kids. However, I do think it is common knowledge even in Tulsa that Jenks and Union recruit players.
I have no idea where you got the idea that I compared Oklahoma schools to Texas high school football. I said nothing and I care nothing about that.
All of this is to reply to your comments, even though they have nothing to do with the original discussion.....which was about bias in the Oklahoman towards TU. I suspect you are somewhat of a politician, by the way you change the subject and go off on tangents when you have no rebuttal to the original topic.
I realize this is on the TU Individual CSNbbssite. However my first post in this thread was in reply to a Tallgrass link on the realignment board. Then you responded to my post. I was just pointing out the failure of some of your comments.
If you will notice the point of my post, was that most fans are biased. However, it seems TU fans, as you say, carry it to the Nth degree.
By the way I am a half hearted Tulsa fan. Once an Okie always an Okie.