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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:26 PM
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Hauser named interim head coach.
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:28 PM
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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
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:29 PM
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No clue, but I think we know what comes next.
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:33 PM
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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.
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:35 PM
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Did he enter his name in the transfer portal?
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:35 PM
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Another sick dog?!?!
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:36 PM
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Oh what the hell
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:36 PM
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Why can’t we have anything nice
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:39 PM
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Smith has been "put on leave" so perhaps it's a personal matter?
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:40 PM
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colobobcat66 wrote:expand_more
Hauser named interim head coach.
Maybe it’s personal as in health reasons. Who knows?
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:42 PM
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"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.
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:43 PM
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I hate to say I told You So but….


I TOLD YOU AND ALL I GOT WAS WISE CRACKS.
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:44 PM
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STVCastle wrote:expand_more
"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.
Yeah, it would be an odd move to be put on leave for an undetermined time only to accept another HC position somewhere else.
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:44 PM
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Bobcatzblitz wrote:expand_more
I hate to say I told You So but….


I TOLD YOU AND ALL I GOT WAS WISE CRACKS.
!!!
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:47 PM
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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
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:49 PM
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I assume our previous AD was mean to him.
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:49 PM
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Bobcatzblitz wrote:expand_more
I hate to say I told You So but….


I TOLD YOU AND ALL I GOT WAS WISE CRACKS.
Small minded Athenian.
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:56 PM
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Looks like OCF was correct on his major blowup
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:57 PM
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Bobcatzblitz wrote:expand_more
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.
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Posted: 12/1/2025 5:57 PM
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BillyTheCat wrote:expand_more
Looks like OCF was correct on his major blowup
Explain?
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Posted: 12/1/2025 6:00 PM
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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.
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Posted: 12/1/2025 6:01 PM
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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.
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Posted: 12/1/2025 6:03 PM
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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
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Posted: 12/1/2025 6:08 PM
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Don't post unsubstantiated rumors about this.
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Posted: 12/1/2025 6:10 PM
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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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