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  1. On 11/15/2023 at 8:39 AM, LTtxfan said:

    Hilarious... 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    The Big 12 could be about to change its tiebreakers in the middle of the season

    What's worse: leaving a poorly-written, illogical tiebreaker rule in place, or changing it with two weeks left in the season?

    ZACH BARNETT       15 HOURS AGO

    Here are the Big 12 standings, as of today:

    Texas -- 6-1
    Oklahoma State -- 5-2
    Oklahoma -- 5-2
    Iowa State -- 5-2
    Kansas State -- 5-2

    If the favorites win out over the season's final two weeks, the final standings would look like this:

    Texas -- 8-1
    Oklahoma State -- 7-2
    Oklahoma -- 7-2
    Kansas State -- 7-2

    Here are two related items to the standings above:

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    Since Oklahoma State owns head-to-head over both of the other tied teams, this seems easy: Oklahoma State advances to the Big 12 Championship. Right? Not necessarily.

    Oklahoma and Kansas State did not play each other, which, as currently written, means Oklahoma State's head-to-head wins over OU and K-State would be thrown out as the conference moves to its next tiebreaker scenario.

    Here are the Big 12 tiebreaker procedures, direct from the conference website:

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    In No. 1, I believe the comma after "If not" is a typo that has somehow gone unnoticed over the years. Or maybe it's supposed to be there? But if it is, what does that even mean? Who can make sense of this?

    I reached out to the Big 12 today to try to make sense of this and have yet to hear back as of this writing.

    However, Sellout Crowd reported Tuesday that the conference expects to "clarify" to conference ADs its 3-way tiebreaker procedures on Wednesday. What's more, it seems the "clarification" was sparked by a conversation between a conference official and the reporter.  😂

     

    I'll let the great Berry Tramel take it from here:

    Last week, I corresponded with a Big 12 source to get clarification on what that tiebreaker meant.

    Our exchange kept confusing me, but I eventually was told that because OU and K-State did not play each other, OSU’s sweep of the Sooners and Wildcats was nullified. OK. Seemed silly. But at least I had confirmation.

    Then Monday, I was told by the Big 12 source that our Saturday night communication caused further discussion in the conference office, leading to the clarification, which is scheduled to be presented to the Big 12 athletic directors in a conference call Wednesday.

    What's worse: not changing your rules to reward the team that obviously should be rewarded, or recognizing your mistake and changing your rules mid-season? 

    This is the first season the Big 12 has had to deal with such a problem. As a 12-team conference from 1996-2010, the conference split into two 6-team divisions where all divisional bunk mates played each other (and that still didn't stop Big 12 rules from lifting Oklahoma over Texas in 2008, when most other conference's rules would've named Texas the South champion). From 2011 through last season, the 10-team Big 12 played a 9-game round-robin.

    Life as a 14-team conference where not everyone plays each other is new to the Big 12... but it's not new to other leagues. As pointed out by Sellout Crowd, here's how the Mountain West adjudicates the exact scenario the Big 12 could face: “Winning percentage of the tied teams are compared in a mini round-robin format. If, within the mini round-robin, any of the tied teams did not play each other, the group of teams shall remain tied, unless one team defeated all other tied teams.”

    The Big 12 botched its first go-round at that same problem. That is beyond dispute. You can't leave a poorly-written, illogical rule in place... but you also can't change your rules mid-season. 

    The question now: In whose direction did they botch it? 

     

    "But, if, it is, what, does, that, even, mean?"
     

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  2. On 11/11/2023 at 9:45 AM, BillyGoatHill said:

    Lubbock is a shithole.

    You aren't missing a thing town wise. Had to spend a weekend, in the middle of February no less, there for work about 10 yrs ago. The city tree is a telephone pole. There must be three, with the accompanying 10 wires for every house there.

    The only thing good about Lubbock is that all the pretty girls (below the 10%, now 6 ?% line) that used to go to UT, are now going there.  The  good looking, beautiful blonde hair, blue eyed girls were everywhere.

    The only trees in Lubbock are the big ones on the tech campus.

    The tech girls are attractive, though too many are dumb as stumps, but it depends on what you're looking for.  Lulz.

  3. 1 hour ago, HornsOverIthaca said:

    Better than the kicker who went to prison for securities fraud or whatever

    Russell Erxleben had god-level punting and placekicking/kickoff ability and showed it often.

    He went to federal prison twice (6 years and then later 7.5 years) for securities fraud, ponzi/Madoff-style schemes, money laundering, and wire/mail fraud, and finally got out in 2019.
     

  4. 1 hour ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    Something also to watch is Blue. 

    After all the offseason shit and the fumble against Wyoming, I think Sark had enough of his bullshit. But he's looked pretty damn explosive in limited opportunities against Baylor, Kansas, BYU, and K-State. 

    Blue looks like the most explosive back out of the 3 if he would just get his shit together. 

     

    Blue's running style reminds me of Tre Newton.

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  5. 56 minutes ago, billy_bats said:

    I work with a ridiculous number of Iowa and Iowa State alumni and I'll just say that the state of Iowa produces an inordinate number of pretty women. They also do craft beer well up there for a state in the proper midwest.

    I worked with an isu grad who married an iowa grad, and she was a doppelrganger for the *young* Shirley MacLaine (like in the Alfred Hitchcock movie, "The Trouble With Harry") who looked like this in that movie:

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  6. 4 hours ago, TexasPride10 said:

    I’d honestly be completely fine with it if Sweat makes sure he gets an unnecessary roughness penalty on the first play against that douche bag. 

    He needs to get his money's worth with an old Deacon Jones style headslap. That would be satisfying.  Lulz.

  7. On 11/14/2023 at 12:19 PM, Park Gothic said:

    Texas is leaving the Big 12 because the conference is full of passionate but unimportant teams, and the gap between Texas and the programs in its peer group is only going to widen as time goes on if Texas doesn't move. I don't even dislike the Big 12 that much, but program like ISU, KSU, OSU, Baylor, and Tech do not have the resources or the fanbases to draw sufficient national attention.

    When you're good, people will say "neat" and immediately forget about it. They don't care that your coaches have great records or that you're "doing more with less" as developers of talent. No one gives a shit and they never will. Texas has nothing to win by beating teams like ISU and everything to lose.

    The writing has been on the wall since Nebraska and A&M left, so bitch at them if you really need to bitch at someone. I would respect your fans more if you didn't, however. I'd rather you just said "thank you" for the years of unearned money and attention that you drew based on proximity to Texas and programs like it. Because Texas didn't kill the Big 12 - shitty programs with shitty fanbases on no resources did. Here's tip: if an employee leaves a company and the company falls apart, you don't blame the employee for killing the company. The employee was the one holding everything together. If you can't stand on your own then you have no one to blame but yourself, and certainly not the person who's been propping you up for almost 30 years. 

    None of this matters though. ISU (or OSU/KSU/Tech whoever) should learn to enjoy being king of a small mountain. You can still watch your team win and lose. You can still have your fun. The Big 12 isn't dying. It's just becoming what it has always been without teams like Texas - a second rate conference with a small audience. 

    This.

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