Mississippi sophomore defensive kit Ted Laurent underwent arthroscopic knee , the team announced Tuesday.

Laurents method at the Oxford Surgery Center was to darning a torn sideways meniscus in his veracious knee. There is no agenda for his benefit. The 6-foot, 303-pounder appeared in seven games as a true freshman last season and was expected to onset at nose challenge.

We detested the injury happened to Ted, but were glad the surgery has stationary the problem, opening-year Ole Miss head coach Houston Nutt said. We cant wait to have him back on the turf with us.

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A year ago, the week prior to the once yearly Red River Rivalry game, OU traveled to Boulder, Co. to tune up for the Longhorns. Despite presence 23 apex favorites, as most fans know, the Sooners struggled and were upset by the Buffs on a last another topic goal.

This year the Sooners will hit the road again just preceding to their shootout in Dallas, as they take on the Baylor Bears Oct. 4.

While its not the praised thin air of Colorado, the Sooners will need to stay somewhat resolute on the road against a team breezy with excitement over an offseason .

The middle-of-the-road of that excitement from the top where first year head teacher Art Briles looks to bring a new point of view to the lime and gold.

Briles comes to Baylor after payments the last five seasons turning around his alma mater, the Houston Cougars.

A Mike Leach descendant, Briles turned around a Houston team who had won just eight games in three seasons earlier to his advent. In five eons Briles turned the Cougars into one of college balls most powerful offenses, with an overall high of 34-28 and only one losing season.

But that was Conference USA, now Briles is at the big boys chart in the Big 12 and best at Baylor, in a division which returns five bowl teams from last season, have to turn out to be a challenge.

Briles main concern this off season will be finding a man to run his west seashore affront. Junior Blake Szymanski, the Bears quarterback a year ago returns this season, but to say his job is in difficulty would be it meekly.

Shortly after Briles agreed to teacher the Bears, former Miami Hurricane starting Kirby Freeman saw the marks on the wall in Coral Gables and transferred back to his home government of Texas.

Despite the two , Baylor valor be more wound up with the appearance of Robert Griffin, a Texas high university , who now has a Big 12 Championship in after enrolling at Baylor in the Eastertime.

Briles has said he has permanently favorite the one man-quarterback system but did say that hes not contrasting to a two man turning while at Big 12 Media Days in Kansas City last week.

Possibly even more towards on the trot the two-man system, Briles other that its a positive likelihood two of his quarterbacks be on the ground every snap

Currently, around the listing say Freeman is the organizer in the clubhouse with Griffin seriatim a fervent second.

While the position wont be set until two previous to the opening game, one position the Bears do have solidified is wide heritor.

Baylor returns its top pass from a year ago with two tight ends in junior Justin Akers and Brad Taylor along with senior wide handset Thomas White.

The Sooners shut down both tight ends a year ago but had difficulty with White who tallied 117 yards and two touchdowns in week 10 in Norman.

Keep an eye out as well for junior David Gettis, another trace star. He only 31 passes a year ago but another year in college matter with his speed must give him the experience he requests to be a decent No. 2 beneficiary.

Without a doubt, Baylors taste on the aggressive side of the ball will be in the backfield. Last years leading Brandon Whitaker, an Edmond Santa Fe standout, retreat a hole at the in a row back position.

Whittakers backups, Jacoby Jones and Jay Finley profit, but both will be hampered with an odious line that has only moderate experience but even less depth.

Defensively, the Bears are yet another team that will be completely overmatched when the Sooners have the ball. Baylor returns six starters who manned a resistance allowing an average of 461 yards and 37 a game.

Most of the Bears talent will come in the interior with junior Joe Pawelek. The third year starter was the Big 12s Newcomer of the Year as a and garnered succeeding team All-Big 12 honors in his following season.

Graduating only one senior last year, the Bears defensive line will carry a lot of experience to the stall with two seniors and two juniors the front four for Baylor.

With on a line that had a Big 12 poorest sacks, dont look for that experience to overmatch the endowment of OUs impolite line.

In Guy Morriss occupation at Baylor, the Bears some of the wickedest secondaries in coterie memoir.

This season, senior Dwain Crawford and junior Jordan Lake hope to turn that Bears reputation around. Crawford, in nine last season, finished with three interceptions, and Lake, after a succeeding team All Big-12 contender as a freshman, was the teams No. 1 tackler last season with 120.

The Bears will look to add some speed to the secondary as well, affective sophomore Krys Buerck, a six game starter as a true , from wide out to the corner position.

Bottom line, even when Briles resurrected the Houston setting, it took time. In his earliest two seasons commanding the Cougars, Houston went a combined 9-14.

That beginning to his calling at Baylor would have need of a couple of and would be a huge step for this Bears system that hasnt had a prepossessing season since 1995.

An even upset would be beating the Sooners. OU has the Bears plot a current record of 17-0 against the Baptists from Waco.

Posted on July 30th, 2008 by admin
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