Ep. 159 - New Coaches, Recruiting Rants, & Biggest Concerns

In the opening take, Grant's feeling much better after taking a lot of time off from the podcast and he's ready to figure out how OU can finally win the national championship yet again. Then Lee joins to talk briefly about OU's spring practice schedule and the possibility of another night spring game (6:00). Ruffin McNeill is no longer with the program and that's probably for the best (8:20). Jay Boulware is off to Texas and the guys have somewhat differing views of what happened (11:20). DeMarco Murray's job is to bring elite running backs to OU (14:25). We like Jamar Cain's resume and are hopeful that he can bring in some elite LBs and D-linemen (24:25). We take a deep dive into 2020 CB Joshua Eaton and decide he's a project player (29:45). Grant rants about how OU's done a bad job of developing defensive players of late (37:25). 2020 DE Reggie Grimes may be a project as well, but at least he's pretty big (40:25) plus more ranting about how OU is not recruiting the best defensive players (44:00). Inevitably the Peach Bowl domination comes up again (47:00). Lee thinks the biggest concern for OU right now is the secondary. It's like things never change (49:30). Grant is way more concerned about the defensive line (53:30). Time to get to the thing that we're not concerned about: the offense (1:04:15). Spencer Rattler is obviously the key to everything that involves OU being a team that's worth paying attention to or not (1:06:40). What happens if Rattler is as good as Tua was in his first full year as a starter (1:11:10)? Grant bums everybody out (1:14:20). Is it realistic to expect OU to win the national championship in the next 4 years (1:17:20)? We finish up with a couple of listener questions about Charleston Rambo (1:18:30) and the XFL (1:22:25). | Like the show on Facebook: @westofeverest | Follow Grant on Twitter: @GrantBenson25 | Follow Lee on Twitter: @LeeBensonNews9