The Oklahoma Drill

Alex, Nathan, and Ryan do their best to explain what just happened and why they're kinda ok with it.

Alex, Ryan, and Nathan talk about how OU football's summer has been going.

Alex and Ryan overreact to Chet Holmgren's astonishing summer league debut.

Alex and Ryan talk about how the draft went for the Thunder (and some other teams, too).

Alex, Ryan, and Sam talk about Thursday's NBA draft, reflect on how their basketball opinions have changed since last year's draft, and run through a mock draft for the lottery spots.

Alex and Ryan are overjoyed at the Thunder's lottery luck and talk through their hopes and dreams for the 2022 NBA draft.

Alex and Ryan are joined by Nathan as we talk more about the Venables hire, the Alamo bowl, the assembled staff, and also we dump on Lincoln some more (as a treat).

Alex and Ryan reflect on the OU football season, Lincoln Riley's Departure, Brent Venables' arrival, and the nature of trying to predict sports outcomes.

Alex, Ryan, and Nathan bring you our preview episode for the seventh proper season of this podcast. What are the stories this OU football team is bringing you this year? Listen and find out.

Much more reasonable discussion this time around with Alex, Ryan, and Sam looking back at the Thunder's draft, summer league, and free agency.

Alex and Ryan discuss the Thunder's draft, which Alex hated and Ryan thought was really funny.   Notes: Audio is gonna be worse than usual at points in this one, so be warned. Also, this was recorded before the Derrick Favors news, so no reactions from us on that.

Alex, Ryan, and Sam share their final takes heading into Thursday's NBA draft.

The full house of Alex, Sam, Nathan, and Ryan talk through the week's breaking news regarding OU and Texas's move to the SEC, which seems both imminent and inevitable (it's good actually)

Alex and Ryan talk the finals and then dive into dream, realistic, and nightmare scenarios for the Thunder in this year's draft.

everything is terrible and we want to die! join Alex, Ryan, and Sam as they break down the ramifications of the Thunder hitting on essentially the worst-case draft night scenario.

Alex and Ryan talk about what meaningful takeaways existed in the wake of the first round of the NBA playoffs.

Alex, Ryan, and Sam analyze the fruits of the Thunder's first losing season since 2009 to decide if tanking was good (spoiler it: yes, obviously).

Alex, Nathan, and Ryan look back on a very stupid OU football season.

Alex and Nathan finish up signing day talk.

Wow, we really did have a football season after all. That was kinda dumb! Here's part one of our year-end special, focusing on offensive recruits for 2021.

Actually, during the podcast we decided that calling Paul George "the Lebron James of Khris Middletons" was unfair to Khris Middleton.

Two topics covered today: The recent union of the player-led #WeAreUnited and #WeWantToPlay movements and why this ultimately doesn't affect what happens to the college football season, and a lengthy check-in regarding the status of each NBA bubble team.

These are the days of miracle and wonder (Alex, Ryan and Sam preview the NBA Bubble) This is the long distance call (The return of basketball is the only thing keeping us sane) The way the camera follows us in slo-mo (We talk about the players making the best of their accomodations) he way we look to us all (And the teams that could benefit from the bubble setting) The way we look to a distant constellation (we try to trade Chris Paul again) That's dying in a corner of the sky (To the Sixers, again) These are the days of miracle and wonder (there is also a cheap throwaway reference to this Paul Simon song) And don't cry, baby, don't cry Don't cry

Alex, Ryan, and Nathan become the bearers of bad news for those who were still hoping for a fall season for college football.

Alex and Ryan reflect on the protests surrounding the murder of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade, among others, at the hands of police, how they intersect with sports, what we think of the OU coaching staff's response, and how white dudes like us should be behaving in this moment. After that, we talk through the NBA's plan to reopen its season in Orlando and the implications it has for the Thunder before launching into a discussion about the Thunder's long-term strategy.

Alex, Ryan, and Sam take on a two-hour odyssey examining the top-20 players in the NBA.

Alex, Nathan, and Ryan talk about the only sports thing happening right now: the 1992 Olympics, and how to approach the question of who can be called the Greatest of All Time.

Alex, Nathan, and Sam talk through the NFL draft, a sports thing. They are precious and few.

ALL HANDS ON DECK for a podcast about nothing. Time has lost all meaning. We call Bob Stoops overrated in this one.

There are no sports, on account of a pandemic for which our society was woefully unprepared. Alex and Ryan discuss:

Alex, Nathan, and Ryan talk (At some length) about the final 2020 OU football class and what little was gleaned from Lincoln's Monday presser.

Alex and Ryan go through the OU coaching news of the week before tackling the death and legacy of Kobe Bryant.

The Thunder are good! Somehow we're here. Alex and Ryan talk through the Thunder's improbable (but also pretty inevitable?) success this season.

Alex, Ryan, Nathan, and Sam are sad. Wallow with us in disappointment..

Alex, Ryan, and Nathan come bearing bad news: We do not think the Sooners have this one, y'all. But the good news is that ESD wasn't as bad as last week's sadpod might have made it seem.

Recorded on the eve of ESD, Alex, Nathan, and Sam discuss the rocky straits OU football has come across in the past few days.

Alex, Ryan, and Sam bask in the glory of a back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back Big XII championship run, and talk through what to expect going into the playoffs.

Ryan and Nathan deliver a tight under-an-hour overview of the lay of the college football land going into conference championship weekend.

Alex, Ryan, and Nathan talk through the too-close TCU game, the upcoming Bedlam game, and what to make of Oklahoma's playoff odds.

Alex, Ryan, and Sam decided it was about the right time in the NBA calendar to talk through some potential trades, so we did that.

Alex, Ryan, Nathan, and Sam talk through the triumphant return of an OU football team we can believe in. Plus, true to our word, we spend thirty minutes explaining Pokemon to Alex.

Everyone take a deep breath and let Alex and Nathan remind you where this team is coming from.

So OU lost. Who cares? Basketball time.

Alex and Ryan recount OU's expected dominance of WVU, as well as preview OU's expected dominance of KSU, and talk a little bit about what that feels like and what it might mean for college football moving forward. Also, we laugh at Texas. A lot.

Alex, Ryan, Nathan, and Sam are delirious with the power of a Texas victory.

Alex, Ryan, and Sam search for new angles on the inescapable conclusion that Texas sucks.

Ryan, Sam, and Nathan preview Kansas as best they can, but it's hard to be too interested in this game. Also features a smorgasbord of national college football tidbits.

Alex, Ryan, and Sam have nothing substantial to say about a Texas Tech game that promises to be thoroughly uninteresting, so they instead go lightning round on topics across the world of college football. See us tackle questions like "Is Kansas State good or just weird?" and "Why won't Georgia just play football like the rest of us?"

Alex, Ryan, and Nathan take a moment before the relaxation of the bye week to go over OU's trouncing of UCLA in Los Angeles.

Alex, Ryan, and Sam preview the UCLA game and walk through the state of the college football landscape.