Berry Tramel

Tulsa World Sports Columnist

Prophets walk among us. In 2017, Rodger Sherman, writing for the Ringer, asked this question about football.

“Let’s say a team huddled with 11 players, and one lackadaisically jogged to the sideline and waited,” Sherman wrote. “Would that qualify as ‘simulating a substitution?’ Would it be the offense’s fault if the defense was dumb enough to buy it? Does any player walking toward the sideline under any circumstance constitute a ‘tactic of substitution?’”

You know where I’m going. Where Sherman was going. The 2025 OU-Auburn game, September 20 in Norman, and the Sooners’ “hideout tactic” (the Southeastern Conference’s words).

If you want to call Brent Venables unethical, knock yourself out. Unsportsmanlike? He doesn’t care, even though Venables

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