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oSuJeff97

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  1. No. It was fucking ridiculous. His kid sucks but Rangel was a legit potential starter. He’s a RS sophomore and was a decent recruit from Frisco. I would have been fine with giving him the full-time gig this year for development purposes since Bowman is gone after this year, but Bowman was the clear and obvious choice from day 1 to give us the best chance this year. So yeah the rotation thing was dumb as shit.
  2. Yeah with the unbalanced schedule and no divisions I have NO IDEA what will happen if there are multiple 1-loss teams at the top of the standings... there's also a decent possibility of a 1-loss team at the top and then like 3 or 4 two-loss teams tied for the #2 spot. (I could see like a 1-loss OU at the the top and then, say, OSU, Texas, K-State and Iowa State all with two losses... not sure if that's even possible with schedules but it feels like it could happen?) Who knows how that will get sorted out but I'm sure it'll be a shit show, lol.
  3. Yes with all of the "Gundy shits the bed against OU all the time" talk forgets is that they have just flat been better than us for the vast, vast majority of the time. In Gundy's 15+ years as OSU's coach, there really only was one Bedlam game that he lost that we had absolutely, positively no business losing - the 2013 game. But then he also won one that we had absolutely positively no business winning (2014). Outside of that, you have 2011 when we were a prohibitive favorite and absolutely curb-stomped them. Every other game in the series during his tenure, OU was either the prohibitive favorite or the game could be classified as a "toss-up" at best. On the whole you could say that he maybe should have won maybe 1 or 2 more of the "toss-up" games (I'd consider the 2021 win to be more or less a "toss up"); but it's not like he's constantly losing to them as a favorite. They have just regularly beaten EVERYONE. WE didn't "drop them from the schedule." THEY left for the SEC, effectively ending the series for the foreseeable future. As for scheduling them in the non-conference, we already have several non-conference series against P5 scheduled way into the future at this point, including series with Arkansas, Alabama, Oregon and Nebraska. Those series take us into the mid/late 2030s. I don't think anyone would say it's a great idea to throw OU in as a non-conference game with those games already scheduled. That said, I think we will eventually start playing them as a non-conference game; it will just take a while to get it scheduled. We also had a home-and-home scheduled with Colorado in the late 2030 that will obviously need to be filled now. I think there's a decent chance that Bedlam will take their place; and if not then probably in the 2040s.
  4. Prediction: there will be a “Fuck SEC refs” thread on this site before the end of next season.
  5. Sonny Dykes and Kendall Briles can eat an enormous bag of dicks. I hope EMAW wins 75-3.
  6. Looking forward to Utah in the new Big 12, even though their fans seems like a bunch of bitch-made pussies on social media.
  7. Ah cool thanks. If it's really cheaper in the long-term, I wonder why (seemingly) the vast majority of colleges use the artificial stuff? And every 5-10 years seems way more regular than just my anecdotal recall of how often OSU has replaced theirs. I feel like we just replaced a few years ago and the time before that was a LONG time ago... like before Gundy took over so at least 12-15 years, but I definitely may be wrong about that. And man - it just seems like "lightly" used grass fields would be hella expensive to maintain year after year with water (especially in this part of the country), fertilizer, weed control, seeding/re-seeding/over-seeding, etc.; plus the fact that you need to employ a full-time grounds crew.. (or maybe they farm it out?). I do wish we had grass just because I think it looks better and "feels" more like the football I grew up with.
  8. Throw in those lumberjack competitions too. Those were the shit.
  9. Well again, I know there's a contingent here that thinks nobody will watch the Big 12, ever, but FOX and ESPN are writing the checks and they disagree. I'll just leave it at that.
  10. "Every" time? You're telling me that either OU or Texas is going to play in the 2:30 slot every single week? Not noon or 7 p.m. ever? There have been plenty of times that a Big 12 game has been going on when, say, Texas A&M or Arkansas were playing... or just another "big" SEC or B1G game that draws significant national interest. Again, the networks are the one writing the checks and I'm pretty sure they have the data and know what they are doing.
  11. Pretty interesting article, but it would have been nice to get into the exact economics of grass vs. turf. Of course the grass guy claimed that it "wasn't as expensive" because of the up-front cost of turf, but I can't imagine that's true. He didn't mention how much they spend annually on water, fertilizer, weed control and then of course the expense of have a full-time grounds crew on staff. The market tends to speak for itself in this case and so I can't imagine that grass is actually cheaper or on-par with turf, otherwise the vast majority of schools would have grass instead of it being the other way around.
  12. Yep we will. We can also see this week when OSU plays at West Virginia at 2:30 on ESPN. It's against some heavy competition but I'm guessing it will pull a good number.
  13. Well I mean there has been quite a bit of data posted in this very thread over the past several years that shows there's a pretty big difference, adjusted for time slots and networks. I wouldn't read too much into a particular game selected in one random week.
  14. I mean... yeah those teams are in the league, but I'm not sure they are "representative" of what the Big 12 will be putting forward. In terms of football brands/interest, both of them are in the bottom third of the league. KU certainly has the chance to improve going forward if they keep it going, but for now they are still at the bottom. You see that with the OSU/K-State number. Those two, plus TCU, Baylor, Tech, 4 Corners (especially w/ Coach Prime), WVU and Iowa State are going to consistently draw way more eyeballs than KU/UCF.
  15. There's definitely something to this. I've brought this up when OSU fans bring up how Iowa State or Kansas State has been able to knock off OU more consistently... yeah, because when that's happened it's typically been in early-to-mid October when everyone is still pretty healthy. Teams like OSU/Iowa State/K-State may be able to compete with elite teams with its starters but there's a BIG drop-off when starters start getting injured (see OSU last year). So by playing OU at the end of the year pretty much every year, we are dealing not only with them "rounding into form" but also the normal attrition of a football season. We are almost always down a few key starters by the time Bedlam rolls around... or like last year basically 3/4 of the starters.
  16. If you're talking about FOX OTA then I think the answer is yes: the 2:30 slot and the prime time slot. Obviously they can farm out other games to various slots on FS1. I'm not sure how the game selection goes, in terms of whether ESPN/ABC of FOX gets first "dibs" on games, but it seem like, in a given week, if ESPN gets first pick then the Big 12 game will go in the noon slot on either ABC or ESPN and if FOX gets first pick it's going in the 230 or 700 slot, depending on if baseball is going on. But I don't know for sure - just guessing.
  17. Gundy does some madding things sometimes (the stupid fucking QB rotation this year) but he certainly has proven time and again that he absolutely squeezes every bit of performance out of the talent he has on the team. Yeah we'll see on Bedlam - I put this in another thread, but I'm still waiting to see OU put together a really good performance in a true road game before I write that game off. So far they have looked pretty mediocre in their only two true road games (@ Cincy and @ SMU). Of course, as it typically happens, I'm sure they'll put it all together in Stillwater, lol.
  18. That's simply a function fewer of the legacy teams being ranked this year. It ebbs and flows. Last year multiple were ranked and they were on the primary networks pulling good numbers. It's also a function of how the schedule has broken out... there honestly hasn't been a ton of compelling match-ups between legacy schools yet... when there has been (OSU/K-State, e.g.) they have pulled good numbers. I expect OSU-WVU will pull a good number on ESPN this weekend too.
  19. That's an FS1 issue, not a Big 12 issue. OSU-Kansas State drew like 2.3mm on ESPN on a Friday night two weeks ago. The legacy Big 12 schools draw fine when they are on ESPN/ABC or regular FOX.
  20. Agreed, but I do think Kansas is significantly better than both Cincy and SMU and OU didn't have an easy time with either of them on the road, that's all I'm saying.
  21. Ok yeah that's fine. The Iowa State game was at home, RRS is neutral, and they had significant turnover margins in both games. They have played two teams with a pulse on the road and scored 20 (Cincy) and 28 (SMU). It's not like they are some unstoppable force. KU might be worse on defense than those two, but they are significantly better on offense. OU may very well blow KU out, but I'm just saying that playing them in Lawrence coming off a bye will be no easy task.
  22. Perhaps. But OU also only managed to score 20 against a Cincinnati team that Iowa State completely took apart, so we'll see. Every week is different.
  23. Yeah I mean they have been going like 1-11 or 2-10 just about every year since Mangino left up until last year. And kudos to Texas for handling them, but it certainly helped that Bean didn't know he was going to start until right before the game. They aren't some great team by any stretch, but they are more than capable on offense with quite a few weapons. It will be very interesting to see how they do with two weeks to prepare for OU at home.... especially if Daniels is back by then.
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