*RUMOR* why is Park taking a leave of absence?

norcalcy

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This staff, early in its SECOND year, inherited a flaming dumpster from the previous dysfunctional regime. I am amazed that people are talking about "losing faith" and "hot seats" at this point. I get it that we've experienced 4+ years of very bad football. Campbell and Co. are only responsible for 1.33 years of that. Their talent upgrades and coaching/teaching gap over the previous staff is evident and will show again tomorrow. One clunker of an outing against Texas doesn't change that. Similar game game to ISU/Texas last week was Duke and Miami. Duke looked like crap at home. Doesn't mean Cutliffe forgot how to coach and gameplan. Sometimes **** happens. The collective psychodrama produced by our fanbase sometimes is something to behold.
 

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Guys -

I haven't had a chance to read through this entire thread but as of last night, Campbell was still in the decision making process as to how exactly this would play out. Based off of what I know, there's a ton of smoke behind Park not playing tomorrow and possibly not even making the trip.

IF that happens, and that still a big IF as I haven't been able to confirm anything on the record, my GUESS is that we see some sort of a quarterback combination in Norman. Not sure how fair it is to start Zeb in Norman. It's gonna get wild if this thing plays out the way I think it might.

Again, I want to reiterate that I'm not "reporting" any of just. Just what I am hearing. We'll see. Should know more when the team leaves here in a few hours.
I imagine CW talking to Campbell and the conversation going down like any Trump conversation:

CW: I'm hearing rumors about Jacob Park. Can you comment on those?
Campbell: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
CW: I don't know what that means.
Campbell: Things are going to get wild.
CW: Again, no idea what that is supposed to mean.
Campbell: You'll find out.
 

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This staff, early in its SECOND year, inherited a flaming dumpster from the previous dysfunctional regime. I am amazed that people are talking about "losing faith" and "hot seats" at this point. I get it that we've experienced 4+ years of very bad football. Campbell and Co. are only responsible for 1.33 years of that. Their talent upgrades and coaching/teaching gap over the previous staff is evident and will show again tomorrow. One clunker of an outing against Texas doesn't change that. Similar game game to ISU/Texas last week was Duke and Miami. Duke looked like crap at home. Doesn't mean Cutliffe forgot how to coach and gameplan. Sometimes **** happens. The collective psychodrama produced by our fanbase sometimes is something to behold.
Largely true.
Last week was a horrible job by the offensive staff and Park, though.
 

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Largely true.
Last week was a horrible job by the offensive staff and Park, though.

It is hard to ignore what a complete crap fest was presented at JTS last week in a big opportunity game. Combine that with the choke against Iowa, and the giving away leads last year, ugh. If we now have discipline issues on the team from a captain, hard to find much going right.
 

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Similar game game to ISU/Texas last week was Duke and Miami. Duke looked like crap at home. Doesn't mean Cutliffe forgot how to coach and gameplan.
That's a really bad analogy. Cutliffe has won a lot of big games at Duke and is highly respected nationally. He's rebuilt that program into a solid P5 team.
 

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What does this even mean, exactly?


Back around 2012 or so (before the bottom fell out on the CPR era), a poster started a thread about football recruiting and posed the question, "Has CPR run out of gas?" The poster was mostly mocked because we were all a bunch of optimisitc idiots, but they ended up being right. Recruiting took a nosedive and everything started falling apart not long after that. "Out of gas" has been a long running joke since then.