Oklahoma Sooners Football Blog: (9/21) Tech's Knight Chimes in on Call and Oklahoma Articles

Oklahoma Sooner Football Articles and Notes

Tech's Coach Knight speaks about controversial call: Three years ago, Texas Tech basketball coach Bob Knight expressed disgust when Oklahoma refused to forfeit a home game it won under a cloud of controversy. Given the circumstances surrounding last Saturday's OU-Oregon football game in Eugene, the legendary coach couldn't resist revisiting the topic with a telephone call late Wednesday afternoon. "Maybe now those people at Oklahoma understand what I was talking about," an upbeat Knight said. "And you make sure they get this message. I want them to be that much more enamored with me over at that place." On Jan. 20, 2003, the Sooners beat the Red Raiders 69-64 in overtime at Lloyd Noble Center in a contest mired by two clock controversies in the final seconds of regulation. The game clock stopped for a full second when Texas Tech had the ball with 6.7 seconds left, and started .7 seconds late after OU in-bounded the ball with 4.5 seconds remaining. "Had Oklahoma forfeited that game against us like I suggested, they would have gotten far more positive publicity out of that than if they had gone to the Final Four that year," Knight said. "Now I guess the 'duck' is swimming in the other pond." (In part NewsOK.com)

Sooners-Middle Tennessee on PPV: Big 12 Special Order Sports, FSN Southwes's pay-per-view division will produce Oklahoma's Sept. 23 game against Middle Tennessee. The game will be available on participating cable television systems across Oklahoma and Texas and nationwide to DirecTV and Dish Network customers. The game will also be available online in its entirety to O-Zone members three hours after the conclusion of the action on the field in an agreement with the broadcast distributors. Participating cable and satellite TV providers will offer the telecast to their customers on a specially designated pay-per-view channel. Suggested retail price for the 6 p.m. kickoff from Norman, Okla., is $29.95. Kansas City Chiefs radio voice Mitch Holthus (play-by-play), KWTV News 9 Sports Director and former Oklahoma quarterback Dean Blevins (analyst), and Oklahoma City-New Orleans Hornets broadcaster Sean Kelly (sideline reporter) form the announcing team. The game will be replayed on FSN Southwest throughout the network's coverage area (Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, parts of New Mexico) on Monday, Sept. 25 at noon CT. (SoonerSports.com)

Thompson's running game: For those wanting to see more of Paul Thompson in the running game, be patient. "I definitely enjoy running the ball, feel comfortable running the ball," Thompson said. "It puts more pressure on the defense. Oregon had a plan for that. A lot of the reads, I handed it off instead of running it. There were definitely more opportunities I had to run the ball, but they played it well. "I don't think our game plan is for me running the ball 10, 11 times a game or something like that." (NewsOK.com)

Wilson used to not getting calls: One coach not as quick to jump into the melee is offensive coordinator Kevin Wilson. "When you play nine years in the Mid-American Conference playing Big Ten teams, you get used to not getting calls," said Wilson, who coached at Miami (Ohio) and Northwestern from 1990-2001. "And when you're at Northwestern playing big teams, you get used to not getting calls. "So I've always been where you've got to play well enough to overcome that one call and not leave points on the board, get in the scoring zone and execute better or have a better plan or rhythm of plays to get 7s instead of 3s." (Tulsa World)