You could have let us know that Trey Sermon was a combo of Walter Payton and Eric Dickerson
He was very good at OU and I really hated to see him leave. He does seem to have taken it up a notch or three over the last several games.
If you noticed the little twitterstorm involving Baker Mayfield and the now (for the moment, anyway) Texas AHC Jay Boulware, here is the back story.
Sermon left OU because of Boulware. I don't know whose fault it was, but when you're the RBs coach, and your bell-cow RB wants to leave because of you, you've probably done something wrong.
Boulware was a Bob Stoops hire. One of the few areas where I think Lincoln Riley has mishandled things is that he kept some of Bob's assistants (including little brother Mikey) on the staff too long. It took him three years to tell Boulware to look for another job. But it took Sermon leaving to make Lincoln notice that something was wrong.
I'm firmly convinced that if we had had Trey Sermon this year, we'd have been unbeaten in the regular season. Of our top 3 RBs from last year, Sermon transferred, Kennedy Brooks opted out due to COVID, and Rhamondre Stevenson was suspended for the first six games.
Stevenson is a lot like Sermon. If he comes back, he could have a monster season in 2021.
BTW, you're welcome for Sermon. And THANK YOU, Ohio State, for Alex Grinch. I'm really looking forward to seeing our D in Grinch Year 3.
