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Assuming move to the SEC, which Big 12 opponent would you like to keep playing regularly?  

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  1. 1. Assuming move to the SEC, which Big 12 opponent would you like to keep playing regularly?

    • Texas Tech
      58
    • Baylor
      3
    • TCU
      5
    • Oklahoma State
      15
    • Kansas State
      3
    • Kansas
      4
    • Iowa State
      16
    • West Virginia
      4


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Posted

It is a fun and heated rivalry and we have been playing them for a long time, makes sense to keep the game. Personally have a lot of friends that went there and I've made a lot of fun trips to Lubbock (rivalry is a bit lopsided, sure). Who would you want to keep playing?

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I don't really want to keep playing Tech every year. A future home and home is fine but not an every year thing. I'd imagine we will though to placate the vaginas in the Lege. 

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Posted (edited)

Would go with none if that was a choice. Would rather rotate a big OOC opponent like USC, Michigan, etc. regularly instead. Sporadic home-and-homes with any of these teams except Baylor would be fine too.

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8 minutes ago, texifornia said:

I said OSU. Their fans are good natured and we both hate OU.

Tech fans are a lot spikier online, though the girls are fun.

I said ISU - I also like their fans.  But only as long as they have Campbell.  If they don't get that B1G or Pac invite, he won't stay.  And they won't be fun to play anymore. 

Posted (edited)

I don't ever want to play Tech again, but I would like to hack their televisions and force them to watch every single second of Chris Beard's career at UT.

I plan to never even think about Baylor for the rest of my life.

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1 hour ago, texifornia said:

I said OSU. Their fans are good natured and we both hate OU.

Tech fans are a lot spikier online, though the girls are fun.

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Posted (edited)

With regard to OOC scheduling, I seem to recall a poster (?Scipio) who once accurately advocated for either (A) you play home-and-home with a blue blood like USC, Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame. ***or** (B) you play a patsy -- maybe in a 2-for-1 series -- with a. regional team like Rice or Tulane, so that your team gets a few wins and your alums get some home games (or de facto home games), and the players get to play in front of their families at Rice stadium or wherever.  

But as I recall, and I think this was the phrase used, "Don't mess with Mr In-between."  i.e. don't travel far away to play mid-level teams who aren't marquee opponents, yet they're still good enough to beat you.

And though I like a lot of those fan bases (Oklahoma State, Iowa State), playing those teams 5 years from now really does nothing to sell your program to recruits ("Hey, Johnny Five Star!   If you come here, you'll get to be on TV when we go to AMES/STILLWATER/ETC!!!!!!").  

And those schools might have a proven head coach (Patterson, Gundy), who will fucking hang an out-of-conference "L" on you in a night-time, biggest-home-game-of-their-year upset.

Outside of nostalgia, there would be very little upside to playing almost all the teams in your poll.  

 

 

Edited by Paul Wesley
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40 minutes ago, Paul Wesley said:

With regard to OOC scheduling, I seem to recall a poster (?Scipio) who once accurately advocated for either (A) you play home-and-home with a blue blood like USC, Michigan, Ohio State, Notre Dame. ***or** (B) you play a patsy -- maybe in a 2-for-1 series -- with a. regional team like Rice or Tulane, so that your team gets a few wins and your alums get some home games (or de facto home games), and the players get to play in front of their families at Rice stadium or wherever.  

But as I recall, and I think this was the phrase used, "Don't mess with Mr In-between."  i.e. don't travel far away to play mid-level teams who aren't marquee opponents, yet they're still good enough to beat you.

And though I like a lot of those fan bases (Oklahoma State, Iowa State), playing those teams 5 years from now really does nothing to sell your program to recruits ("Hey, Johnny Five Star!   If you come here, you'll get to be on TV when we go to AMES/STILLWATER/ETC!!!!!!").  

And those schools might have a proven head coach (Patterson, Gundy), who will fucking hang an out-of-conference "L" on you in a night-time, biggest-home-game-of-their-year upset.

Outside of nostalgia, there would be very little upside to playing almost all the teams in your poll.  

 

 

You mean like Maryland?

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Posted (edited)
11 minutes ago, DFW Horn said:

You mean like Maryland?

Haha.  I was actually going to reference Maryland and BYU.  
 

We played Arkansas for purely nostalgic reasons (?2003), and they came in here and whipped our ass.

I’m certainly not advocating for Incarnate Word or Chattanooga State, but our SOS in this theoretical new SEC won’t need any marginal lifts by going back to the altar to flirt with a jilted Stillwater, Ames, or Manhattan (as opposed to playing regional teams like Tulane, Rice, or *maybe* SMU).

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1 hour ago, Ghost of Stevie Ray said:

I agree with OP.  I want that game the same reason I wanted aggy game back.  There’s history there and I have a lot of family that went there.  Lots of good memories of attending games together in Lubbock and Austin.  

Same here. Lots of family and friends that went to Tech. Regional rivalries are dead, unfortunately. I couldn't care less about playing Florida or Tennessee regularly.

Posted

OP the problem with your poll is that any team you choose will turn it into their annual Super Bowl with a Texas Hate Week and steer fries and other stupid shit. They'll try desperately to turn it into a rivalry game that makes or breaks their season. Imagine if we put Nebraska on our schedule after they left for the Big Ten.

OOC games aren't really supposed to be important with some notable of exceptions of Florida State - Florida and South Carolina - Clemson. 

Posted

Definitely need to add the none of the above button. I don't care to play any of these teams again for a good long while. Let them do a "only in DKR" deal that Texas tends to do with schools like UNM & Wyoming if/when we ever play any of them again.

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Just now, Victorious1 said:

Based on the OOC past scheduling of the SEC I  just assumed we would have to schedule the littlest sisters of the poors

Then you aren't looking at how Alabama, LSU, and Georgia have been scheduling for a while now. We'll do 1-2 regional Texas/Louisiana teams and 1 marquee OOC each year. 

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