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This is fun. Sagarin keeps track of schools’ records against top 30 teams. You can accumulate conference records against top 30 teams. Checking to see just how good schedules are. So far, the ACC is 3-6 playing top 30 teams. The B1G is 1-5 (we all know who the “1” is). The SEC is 7-7. The AAC is 1-3. The B12, CUSA and MAC are all 0-5. The MW is 0-6. This can be fun to track through the season. (Currently, the B12 has one team-Utah- in sagarin’s top 30).
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I’d love to know more about how conversations went in the B12 office, but I probably never will. I suspect, with Texas in the conference, there was a desire among the other schools to not let the big rich kid get its way all the time (along with resentment over the LHN, which they clearly saw as a thing that was taking away money that should go to them). With Texas gone, this conference of equals can focus on addressing issues of officiating quality. I imagine none of the schools have a problem with that.
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Have you ever considered that maybe this message isn’t something you ought to be doing? You certainly have the right to do so, but is it smart or responsible for the manager of Longhorndom’s most popular site, and a sponsor of NIL, to be doing this?
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Check out the number of times each school made the top 100 viewed games (two seasons). The SEC has six teams with a double digit number. The B1G has four. The B12 has one (CU). The ACC has one. I wonder what the numbers will look like when they are covering 2024 and 2025?
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Observation- lots and lots of talented players in southern California. And a decent amount in the mid-Atlantic
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Ok, I’ll be better. Here goes- Texas Tech is a fantastic institution that has leveraged the resources given by the state into becoming a pre-eminent academic institution. Its football team is legendary for its championships and achievements, but even those accomplishments are surpassed by the class shown by the Red Raiders wherever they go. Is that what you’re looking for?
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More deep dive into OU history. Switzer was forced to resign, as noted in last entry, for fear of further investigations discovering more embarrassing felonies. He wrote an autobiography, “Bootlegger’s Boy”, where he explained that every charge was the result of some unreasonably hostile person having a vendetta against him, and if he did do anything wrong, it wasn’t anything that everyone else wasn’t also doing. This is almost, but not quite, the end of Switzer’s story with Sooner football. Despite his all time leading winning percentage as a coach, no major program contacted the (still relatively young) coach for an open job. He was famously napping in the couch when Jerry Jones offered him the job as coach of the young Cowboys team, recent two time SuperBowl champions. His charter was to keep the team steered forward, changing as little as possible. He fucked up his first season, blowing the NFC CG. The Cowboys won the Super Bowl his second season, as team leaders pulled it back together from a near midseason collapse. They lost in the playoffs his third season and then the franchise collapsed. Troy Aikman did not like Switzer’s slapdash coaching style. Switzer didn’t like that the team’s most important player didn’t like him. Switzer had hired an old crony, John Blake, to be an assistant and running buddy. John Blake decided to prop Switzer up in the locker room by spreading rumors that Aikman was racist and gay. That pissed Aikman off. Luckily, OU needed a coach and Switzer was able to foist Blake off on the Sooners. There is more- criminals arrests, lawsuits, unseemly allegations. Switzer’s SIL formed a financial alliance with Toby Keith and Bob Stoops, where they prey on OKC money, arranging business ventures where the jock sniffing investors carry all the risk. I guess I should mention- Gary Gibbs took over as HC after Switzer. He was a solid coach, but with limited cheating, 8-4 seemed to be his program ceiling. He was fired and replaced by Howard Schnellenberger, who was fired after one season. Then, Blake was hired and finally, a new AD, Joe Castiglione, hired Florida DC Bob Stoops. Stiops was a truly great coach, able to have great success even at the limited level of cheating allowed. He also “wrote” an autobiography, “No Excuses”, the idea being that the secret of his success was his rejection of making excuses for shortcomings and challenges. In the book, he makes an excuse for losing to Florida in the BCS CG (his RB and DT were out injured. He doesn’t mention that they were injured in the B12 CG and he assured the nation’s voters that each would play in the BCS CG, lest they vote for Texas to ascend). He also makes an excuse for Joe Mixon breaking that girl’s face, repeating a debunked allegation that she said something confrontational. it’s not 100% true that Stoops allowed misbehavior or that he proscribed it. The truth is- average and poor players had zero tolerance. Star players were allowed to get away with anything. Oklahoma Sooners football, y’all!
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Me? I’m not being disingenuous. Texas Tech is a pissant school with a pissant program and pissant fanbase. I’m not playing an act.
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Like when Texas agreed to share media revenue equally? Like when Texas said, “Hey guys, we’ve looked into it and think it would be a good idea to have a Big 12 network?”
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Explain to me about this “control” Texas had in the Big XII?
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A way to stop congressional action would be for the blue bloods to exert influence on SEC and B1G, and threaten to reconfigure the conferences (with some current members left out). If this were to happen, ironically, the effort to keep FBS together would actually accelerate its splintering.
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…and what’s going on in the Big 12 is that, left to rely on its own assets, it is fading into a minor status
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I have no idea why y’all come to the “Left Behind” thread looking for comradely positive affirmations for scrappy try-hard programs. It’s on the first page. This thread is for mockery and humiliation of a bunch of free-riders finally, thankfully divorced out of the family.
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They’ll just get paid a lot more for them.
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I still contend the B12 should have quietly let the 2015 Texas-OSU crew go after the season, so they could say to Texas, “We’re not going to criticize the officials, but we took care of this”. Instead, they opted for, “Tough shit. You’re going to put up with this, because there’s nothing you can do. Derp!”
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