Bob Stoops and his assistant coaches are downplaying the fact that the humbling defeat handed the Sooners by Clemson a year ago at this time will be a driving motivational force for No. 4-ranked Oklahoma in its national semifinal showdown against the Tigers later this week.
If you buy in to that corporate-speak line of thinking, it is my firm belief that you are either ignoring the patently obvious or your ability to judge human character is severely flawed. I’ll tell you this, I would rather be the team having that extra motivational accelerant than the team on the receiving end.