Berry Tramel   Oklahoma football: Coming in on a load of wood
By Berry Tramel Modified: January 10, 2014 at 2:20 pm • 
Published: January 10, 2014  Bob Stoops didn't think the Sooners
weren't destitute coming into the Sugar Bowl against Alabama.
Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman  Bob Stoops likes to defy
convention. Likes to swim upstream against common perception.
Likes to pretend that things aren’t as they really are.  For
instance, the idea that OU football was reeling after that loss
to Baylor. Stoops won’t give in to that. Everything was fine,
everything was solid, the Sooners just kept plugging away.  The
truth is something different. The Sooners kept plugging away,
but the idea that OU was on calm seas is silly. Everything was
on the table if the Sooner slide had continued. Staff changes.
Philosophical changes. Uniform changes. I wouldn’t put anything
past possible change.  But OU did turn it around. Three great
wins to end the season. At K-State. At Stillwater. Alabama in
the Sugar Bowl. And now t