So all of us headed over to the stadium at 3:15 Thursday afternoon. The you-know-what had hit the fan and Bob Stoops was going to talk about it and Joe Castiglione after him.

Most of the questions they wouldn’t answer, some they would.

Who knew there was a team meal Wednesday night, complete with Karaoke and Stoops couldn’t get the microphone away from his charges long enough to tell everybody to go home?

“We had a great day yesterday,” Stoops said.

So maybe the few holdouts who never lost sight of the fact Paul Thompson was never given a real chance last season aren’t the only ones excited about the fifth-year senior’s chance to finally play quarterback. Maybe the whole team feels that way. And maybe that will make all the difference.

A subject for a later day.

Thursday’s story, the day after Wednesday’s story, the biggest story to hit the Sooner Nation since Jason White proved you can come back from reconstructive knee surgery on both knees as the nation’s best quarterback, was Castiglione, on his way out of the stadium, speaking to a few straggling reporters.

This is what he said.

“People know the rules.”

This is how he said it.

“PEOPLE … KNOW … THE … RULES.”

His head was bobbing with each word, not too unlike the way the lead singer, lead guitarist and bassist from your basic hair metal band will their noggins around on stage.

At one point, Castiglione said a word like “frustration” was too tame to describe his feelings.

“I’m hardly keeping it together,” he said.

That went along with something Stoops had said about 45 minutes earlier.