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Why did Texas Tech ever let Mike Leach get away??

True, but Nubs was AAU when they entered the B1G...they weren't gonna kick them out because of that, but its probably easy to offset Nubs with University of Chicago and their AAU and B1G agreement. Still think KU will be in the B1G when its all said and done--the AAU thing is huge to the B1G since they get most of their money from research funding. They can get KU very easily and they add in a nice TV market, to boot. Maybe ISU can get in, too, but the rest look like they are gonna have to hope the Pac-12 somehow wants Tech/OSU/KSU/ and ISU or TCU. Baylor is completely effed, which is poetic, TCU probably is done, too. TBH, they rest of these schools not named KU are probably going to completely disappointed, too. KU and ISU may also, but they have a lot more to offer the B1G, PAC or ACC than anyone else.

And Bennie Anders

And some of the coaches you listed didn’t have to win 6 games in a row to get their title, either. The tournament is a fickle bitch—she can put out and she can be ice cold...

KU fits that description as well. Look, this conference will never get love in anything if f’ing Baylor carries the water. It didn’t when they won in football and it won’t in men’s basketball. Nobody cares about women’s basketball except them.

He has millions of reasons to counter the arguments you listed above. Dude ain’t going anywhere...

Man, who could’ve guessed this would happen?

It’ll be interesting—the Big 12 has been known to really fall apart come tournament time. I don’t see OU making any noise. Not looking real solid for KU, WVU or Tech for making noise either. I’d peg Texas and Baylor as best bets, but have OSU as a true wild card as Sweet 16 and farther teams. The other four look too beat up or just not as good as they had been at certain points this season. Usually, that makes teams ripe for upsets by mid majors.

Extension? Just kidding...

OSU’s win gives KU the 2 seed...

I’ll never understand Greg Brown always shooting from behind the arc...

I still like the idea of the Pac-12 getting the best of the Big XII and becoming the Pac-18. You get three time zones to have at your control. UT/Tech, OU/OSU, KU/ISU make up a division where everyone plays each other annually. Keep the current Pac-12 divisions as is. Each division plays 2 teams from the other two divisions, so you have 9 conference games. No kickoff after 7pm CST or before noon PST. Then, for football, the two best division winners play each other for the conference title. In hoops, each divisional team plays each other twice, then play the other 12 teams once for a 22 game conference schedule.

Why not look at Tim Jankovich at SMU?

The reason that the PAC is the better option to join with relatively big names not called Baylor or TCU. No lawsuits to fight. And join a better league with much better name recognition and better bowls connections. Join with OU, OSU, Tech, KU, and ISU.

I was told by the $9.95ers that Herman was gone for sure after that loss to ISU. It’s as if they really don’t have any contacts that are better than surly.

I disagree on OU getting into the B1G. Since Nebraska is no longer AAU, that precedent has been set. And they will just pimp out that they take in more National Merit Scholars than anyone else to help ease in. The worst kept secret is the idea that OU and KU are the B1G's next combo to get to 16.

Viruses always spread faster in Lubbock...#raiderrash

2020 Indiana is the BIG's new darling, see 2019 Minnesota. They'll fall back next year.

I think KU has to have David McCormack be their next big guy to become a dominant force inside, like they usually do, or they will not be as good as predicted. It will help them to have Garrett back, the best defender in the country on the perimeter.

Hell, UNC just making the playoffs should cause everyone to melt down around here. But Clemson ain't losing to them.

UNC ranked 8th now...no doubt he needed to go, but damn, Mack. We haven't seen you coach like this since about 1996.

This was the game where the sideline printer that would print out the details of each possession of the game burned up because the action was too fast...

Hated them so much that I rooted for Duke when they played in the final in 1994. That said, this game was so great--especially since UNLV whipped that Arky ass that day.

I know he went second in the NBA draft after LeBron...so I guess you are correct, on that part. I know that after this, it just became one and done...

Couldn't stand him or Georgetown. And as great as his teams were, how he only won one title is really amazing. That said, he represents a big part of the golden era of college basketball--the Tournament became huge when CBS took it over in 1982, and we had great coaches AND players we all knew. Ewing and Thompson, Dean Smith and Michael Jordan, Phi Slamma Jamma, Bobby Knight and Steve Alford, Larry Brown and Danny Manning, Denny Crum and his Cardinals, Tark the Shark and UNLV with Larry Johnson and his crew, Coach K and Laettner/Hurley/Grant Hill, The Fab Five, Nolan Richardson and 40 Minutes of Hell, Lute Olson and Miles Simon/Mike Bibby, Pitino's UK teams that were just stacked, then led into Uconn and Jim Calhoun's crew, and Tom Izzo/Mateen Cleaves. For those two decades, we had champions with kids we got to know and coaches who were larger than life. Then we got Carmelo Anthony as the first big one-and done, as the NBA wouldn't take kids straight from high school anymore. Nothing has messed up college basketball, in my opinion, than teams building around one-and-dones, which hasn't helped build any real fans to stick with the game. Instead, it just added to following the sport in March, at best.