I think he meant John Blake. A beloved former player who replaced Gary Gibbs who was also a former player. Gibbs was decent as a head coach, but he replaced the King…Barry Switzer…so he had a tough act to follow. After he was fired, OU hired Blake. He was a dismal failure. He nearly killed the OU program. But then we got Bob Stoops. And he turned it around fast. Our current HFC is Brent Venables…but I wouldn’t call him a prodigal son. He did not play at Oklahoma. He was an assistant under Stoops.
Bama was a dumpster fire before Saban.