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West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast

Lee and Grant Benson

Opinion and analysis of Oklahoma Sooners football from the viewpoints of a former local media member and an OU fan living outside The Sooner State. Two new episodes per week during football season previewing and recapping each game.

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01:58:31

Ep. 326 - Two Players Arrested & We Evaluate the...

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/06/16

The guys begin the show talking about Deion Burks and Makari Vickers recently getting arrested. What does this mean for both of them? What kind of punishment can we expect? Lee looks back at how Dabo Swinney has punished Clemson players for getting arrested over the years. We talked about this story way longer than we expected (1:20). We received more clarity on upcoming OU kickoff times. This is terrific for planning purposes. Do SEC teams ever play cold night games (34:50)? We continue evaluating

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01:25:10

Ep. 325 - OU Secondary Deep Dive & Josh Heupel's HoF...

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/06/09

The guys open the show talking about how they're not interested in really any type of summer camp, and provide an update on plans for SEC Football Media Days. Three former Sooners are on the ballot for the College Football Hall of Fame. Rocky Calmus should be a lock, but what about Josh Heupel (6:35)? The guys continue evaluating the Sooners' roster by placing each player into 1 of 6 categories. This week we're doing the secondary. There's a bunch of 4's. Lee is not as high on Kendel Dolby, while

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01:15:02

Ep. 324 - Riley Tries to Duck LSU & We Evaluate OU's...

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/06/05

The guys open the show with some brief talk about the OU softball team beating Florida and advancing to the WCWS. It leads to Lee admitting that he does not care much at all for the spring sports, so if you want in depth baseball/softball analysis -- go somewhere else (1:30). We've recently learned new kickoff times for OU games this fall. None of them are at 11am. Isn't this what we were waiting for? Grant really wants to go to the LSU game late in the year (7:00). Let's all laugh at Lincoln Riley

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01:10:35

Ep. 323 - NCAA Football 25 Reveal & Categorizing the...

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/05/26

The guys open the show celebrating the anniversary of a very good movie being release, before talking about the full reveal of the NCAA Football 25 video game. Grant also admits that he's already bought the game (2:20). The guys continue their evaluation of the OU roster. This week we are putting the offensive linemen into 1 of 6 categories (18:10). We finish up the show by going to the WoE Facebook page. There's a comment/question about OU's opening Friday night game. Plus what should be our

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00:59:30

Ep. 322 - Tawee Walker's Side of the Story Sounds...

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2024/05/24

A large portion of this show is us revisiting the Tawee Walker/DeMarco Murray story from the regular season. Walker recently talked about his reasons for leaving OU. The guys play three different clips from Walker and provide reactions to each clip. We go over all the pertinent facts from the 2023 season. Many other running backs catch strays. Hopefully we find out the RB issues were all a Jeff Lebby thing (3:30). General Booty has found a new home. Would it have been better if he somehow ended up

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01:10:36

Ep. 321 - Lole Spurns Sooners for Texas & We Assess...

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/05/12

Grant is playing injured during this episode as the guys reminisce about the time Hugh Freeze coached a game from a hospital bed. After a brief intro, the guys talk about Jermayne Lole flipping his commitment to OU over to Texas (4:20). Reggie Grimes has found a new team (12:00). We continue our evaluation of the OU roster by putting each player into one of six different categories. We start with the WRs. This part of the show includes some wild Grant conspiracy theories, ripping on Big Ten QBs,

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01:25:39

Ep. 320 - The Significance of OU Landing Damonic...

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/05/05

After some brief Cinco de Mayo talk, the guys jump into the significance of OU picking up Damonic Williams out of the transfer portal (3:25). General Booty and Gavin Freeman both entered the portal this week. Freeman has committed to OSU. We talk about the numbers and go over once again why Freeman's time with the Sooners was frustrating (30:20). The guys take a look at the QBs and RBs on the OU roster and put them all into 6 different categories: Top Player/Good, solid starter/Average/Need to see

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01:41:30

Ep. 319 - OU Adds Two From the Portal. Who's Next?

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/04/28

We have quickly jumped into the true offseason of college football with the spring behind us. OU got some good news this past week with a couple of players committing out of the transfer portal at two positions of need (2:50). TCU's Damonic Williams still has not made his decision. Looks like there's a few other DT targets that OU could look at aside from Williams. Plus Grant thinks Lee's crazy for comparing Rondell Bothroyd's play last season to Reggie Grimes' play from 2022 (16:50). Jasiah Wagoner

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01:45:35

Ep. 318 - Burks Looks Awesome in Encouraging OU...

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/04/21

Grant was bored by the spring game while Lee explains why the spring game was pretty interesting to him (1:25). We get into the breakdown beginning with Jackson Arnold and his play (8:30). Lee wants to talk about Michael Hawkins because there was a spring narrative about him looking really good, yet we didn't see much evidence of that in the spring game (23:15). The offensive line with Jackson Arnold played really well. Overall we're encouraged by what we saw from the OL (25:35). Deion Burks was

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01:38:27

Ep. 317 - Spring Game Preview & Who Do We *Not* Want...

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2024/04/14

The guys open the show talking about OU's season opener vs. Temple being moved up to Friday, August 30. We also go over some of the other matchups on Labor Day weekend, as well as even more premiere matchups in Week 2 (1:10). Jumping into the Spring Game preview. We're still waiting on a format for the game. Lee wants Jackson Arnold to look really good, but Grant reminds people that sometimes the starting QB doesn't look good in this game. We also talk about the possibility of Arnold throwing a

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01:12:25

Ep. 316 - The Starting Center is Hurt, But Everything...

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/04/07

There were a lot of positive vibes flowing at OU spring practice this week, but unfortunately the biggest news is that center Troy Everett is injured and will be out until at least the beginning of the season (1:30). The offensive line and the defensive line have the most question marks on the team going into 2024. Venables did have a lot of positive things to say about the DL this week at practice (10:30). We continue to hear great things about Jayden Jackson and David Stone (17:25). The LBs are in

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01:29:48

Ep. 315 - What the Heck is Going on With Jovantae...

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/03/31

Brent Venables opened up practice for quite a long time to the media this week. Plus many players conducted interviews, including Jovantae Barnes. We begin the show by jumping into Barnes and what the heck is going on with his foot and his potential availability for the 2024 season. Lee goes through the timeline of his foot injury dating back to last spring and we try to figure out if he's ever going to be healthy--or maybe Barnes just simply isn't very good (3:00). Grant points out that the two

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01:24:28

Ep. 314 - DeMarco Murray is Staying at OU & Cleaning...

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/03/24

After some opening pleasnatries, we jump into the story of DeMarco Murray staying at OU after getting courted by Ohio State. The guys have been critical of Murray in the past, so what did they think when this story broke? We recall all the reasons why we've been critical of Murray and it all comes back to Tawee Walker (2:30). Lee reads from a story published in August of last year that may help shine some light on the relationship between Murray and Tawee Walker (22:10). Lee goes through the four

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02:01:15

Ep. 313 - Sharp Grades on New & Current Head Coaches...

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/03/18

We start the show with the breaking news that OU men's basketball has missed the NCAA Tournament yet again. The Sooners were the first team out. All the upsets in the conference tournaments ended up pushing OU out of the tourney. Grant has plenty of thoughts on Porter Moser and the program (1:10). Moving over to football by checking in with the official OU spring roster. Lee appreciates the pronunciation guide. The guys go over some players gaining and losing weight, and maybe a little fun with new

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01:42:28

Ep. 312 - Venables and the Gang Are Here for Spring Ball

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/03/10

We open the show by talking about what's coming up, plus Daylight Savings Time. We move on to Brent Venables' pre-Spring press conference where we learned that Justin Harrington won his appeal with the NCAA. Also some thoughts on Andrel Anthony (5:00). We've learned how to pronounce some new names, OU's hired a new offensive analyst, Venables had some thoughts on new co-DC Zac Alley, and Venables has improved as a speaker since becoming OU's head coach (9:40). There seems to be quite a bit of

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01:38:28

Ep. 311 - A Blow to OU's D-Line & the Top 80 QBs of...

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/03/03

No opening take as Lee highlights Baker Mayfield in the show intro. After some brief talk about where the month of March ranks on the calendar, the guys jump into some bad news involving one important OU defensive lineman (5:40). Gentry Williams won't practice this spring as he recovers from surgery. Some guys are just injury prone, some are not (13:30). We dip into some football movies to talk about how we think OU should handle injuries moving forward (20:15). More news from the recent Venables

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01:37:43

Ep. 310 - Behind the Scenes Shake Ups & Revisiting...

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/02/25

No opening take as Lee asks Grant if he'd heard the latest sports betting related news coming out of Ohio (1:40). OU's hiring a new Special Teams Analyst to replace Jay Nunez. How much does this matter (3:20)? OU's made some behind the scenes moves recently that involve recruiting and personnel decisions (13:10). The NCAA can't punish athletes or boosters for negotiating NIL deals when they're being recruited or in the portal. This is another sign that college sports continues to change and there's

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01:37:30

Ep. 309 - Winter SP+ Rankings & NCAA Football 25 is...

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/02/19

The guys take a look at Bill Connelly's winter SP+ projections where OU comes in at No. 14. Seeing these rankings put into perspective why FanDuel has set the Sooners' season win total at 7.5 for 2024. Grant can make a case for why certain teams ahead of OU could falter. Doesn't this all come down to Jackson Arnold? This will be a theme of the entire offseason (2:20). Both guys are skeptical of Michigan and Florida State. Shoud Texas A&M fans be excited about the upcoming season (18:20)? OU very

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01:40:26

Ep. 308 - Oklahoma and NIL + OU's Surprising 2024...

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/02/11

No opening take as the guys begin the show talking about the uncomfortable feeling of being sick. Lee has a possible remedy (01:10). The guys get into NIL and how it pertains to Oklahoma. We start with the background of NIL and how it works (04:30). What's the deal with all these NIL collectives? How do OU's collectives compare to other schools (09:50)? Gabe Ikard is directly involved with one of OU's collectives and he provided some interesting information about NIL in a recent podcast (21:10). Is

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01:33:23

Ep. 307 - "Way Too Early" Talk & Alex Grinch is On to...

West of Everest: An Oklahoma Football Podcast ·

2024/01/28

No opening take, as the guys jump into some Danny Stutsman talk. Chris Low's got Stutsman as an All-American for 2024 (2:45). Billy Bowman's not on Chris Low's list. Maybe OU won't have the best safety in the SEC. What other OU defensive player would you like see make an All-American team in 2024 (12:30)? Dillon Gabriel's listed as the 2nd team QB on Chris Low's list. What else stands out from this "way too early" team (21:50)? Zac Alley's bringing a friend with him from Jax State (31:20). Alex

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