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Topic: What’s up with Smith?

Topic: What’s up with Smith?

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colobobcat66
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What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:26:35 PM

Hauser named interim head coach.

Alan Swank
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:28:45 PM

Just saw this posted at 5:20 on 740 Sports. OU website said Smith is on leave for an undetermined period of time.

Last Edited: 12/1/2025 5:32:34 PM by Alan Swank

LuckySparrow
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:29:37 PM

No clue, but I think we know what comes next.

What a day at the Convo.....Wow!

colobobcat66
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:33:59 PM

I have no idea what comes next but it won’t be good I’m guessing.

College football is in a totally chaotic place right now and we might as well join in, I suppose.

RufusCat09
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:35:25 PM

Did he enter his name in the transfer portal?

spongeBOB CATpants
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:35:59 PM

Another sick dog?!?!

JHSbobcat08
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:36:17 PM

Oh what the hell

Cats5
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:36:59 PM

Why can’t we have anything nice

LuckySparrow
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:39:02 PM

Smith has been "put on leave" so perhaps it's a personal matter?

What a day at the Convo.....Wow!

World B. Freeman
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:40:14 PM

colobobcat66 wrote:

Hauser named interim head coach.

Maybe it’s personal as in health reasons. Who knows?

STVCastle
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:42:54 PM

"Head Coach Brian Smith will be on leave for an undetermined period of time beginning December 1."

^ It doesn't say Smith has been fired. It also doesn't say Smith has been hired by another school to be their HC.

My only guess is there must be personal matters that Smith has to attend to, and he won't be able to focus on coaching the bowl game.

Bobcatzblitz
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:43:01 PM

I hate to say I told You So but….

I TOLD YOU AND ALL I GOT WAS WISE CRACKS.

RufusCat09
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:44:31 PM

STVCastle wrote:

Yeah, it would be an odd move to be put on leave for an undetermined time only to accept another HC position somewhere else.

spongeBOB CATpants
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:44:38 PM

Bobcatzblitz wrote:

I hate to say I told You So but….

I TOLD YOU AND ALL I GOT WAS WISE CRACKS.

!!!

Buckeye to Bobcat
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:47:17 PM

What the heck is going on?

Only thing I hope is it is nothing medically serious for him or his family.

Last Edited: 12/1/2025 6:03:24 PM by Buckeye to Bobcat

SBH
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:49:10 PM

I assume our previous AD was mean to him.

SBH
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:49:55 PM

Bobcatzblitz wrote:

I hate to say I told You So but….

I TOLD YOU AND ALL I GOT WAS WISE CRACKS.

Small minded Athenian.

BillyTheCat
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:56:46 PM

Looks like OCF was correct on his major blowup

GoCats105
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:57:09 PM

Bobcatzblitz wrote:

I hate to say I told You So but….

I TOLD YOU AND ALL I GOT WAS WISE CRACKS.

If you were the sports reporter for the Athens News this would matter, but you're not so it doesn't.

RufusCat09
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 5:57:28 PM

BillyTheCat wrote:

Looks like OCF was correct on his major blowup

Explain?

STVCastle
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 6:00:08 PM

Guys, let's stay calm here.

If the OU staff were going to fire Smith (after an 8-4 season?), or if another school interviewed and hired Smith, reporters would've just come out and say it. No need to make it a mystery.

The feeling I get right now is that it's related to personal matters (family), and nothing's really wrong.

Victory
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 6:01:51 PM

When I read this I thought that it was more likely to just be coach Smith having something personal to deal with. I sounds like others think they have inside information into something else.

Victory
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 6:03:55 PM

My worst fear would be that some sort of scandal is brewing, but that isn't what I am thinking that it actually is.

Last Edited: 12/1/2025 6:11:48 PM by Victory

Jeff McKinney
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 6:08:36 PM

Don't post unsubstantiated rumors about this.

Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame
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RE: What’s up with Smith?

Posted: 12/1/2025 6:10:02 PM

There was a thread a while back with the title "Worrying Situation" -- the contents of which were deleted for violating board posting policy. Basically, a poster passed on a bunch of second hand rumors about personal life things re: Smith and suggested something along these lines would happen.

I don't remember the details and the post didn't have enough details to make anything clear anyhow.

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