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  1. 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.
  2. 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?
  3. 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?
  4. Observation- lots and lots of talented players in southern California. And a decent amount in the mid-Atlantic
  5. 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?
  6. 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!
  7. 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.
  8. 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?”
  9. Explain to me about this “control” Texas had in the Big XII?
  10. 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.
  11. …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
  12. 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.
  13. They’ll just get paid a lot more for them.
  14. 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!”
  15. “Big 12 pulls officiating crew off Week 3 assignment for rules gaffe A Big 12 officiating crew has been reprimanded following a rules violation in Missouri's 42-31 win against Kansas on Saturday, the conference announced on Tuesday. The play occurred in the first quarter after Missouri's first touchdown, when the Tigers were flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. Kansas blocked the extra point attempt, and the ensuing kickoff was illegal. The Big 12 officials allowed a punt to occur on a free kick in violation of Rule 2 Section 16 Article 6 of NCAA Football rules. That Big 12 officiating crew has been removed from its next scheduled assignment on Friday. "We believe we have one of the best officiating programs in college football," Big 12 chief football & competition officer Scott Draper said in a news release. "When the Conference's high standard for officiating is not met, the Big 12 will take action." The controversial call occurred in one of the most-played series in Division I football. The Border Showdown began in 1891 and had been on hiatus since 2011, when Missouri left the Big 12 for the SEC.”
  16. Big 12 crew suspended a week for fucking up Missouri Kansas game Referee Mike McCabe leads the crew, which also includes Kelly Deterding, Rick Ockey, Brandon Wood, Daniel Young, Matt Burks, and Dion Spenard Deterding is the asshole that bumped String and then threw a flag.
  17. The beer truck with all the taps just north of the alumni center (outside the stadium, obviously) is the only place I know.
  18. TT has one ugly home schedule. They hosted Ark-Pine Bluff and Kent State, destroying both. Next is what I think has to be their marquee no -conference game- Oregon State. The Beavers are 0-2, with a lower Sagarin than the shittiest B12 program. Their next home game is Kansas. Next is OSU, which probably looked a lot better on the schedule a couple of years ago. Then, BYU visits, and this will be a well attended game, BYU being the conference’s highest profile team now. Finally, UCF visits. UCF is a big school that doesn’t travel. That is quite a slate.
  19. Is the B12 more similar to the PAC or the SEC? Let’s see- of the original B12 members still in the conference, I count a total of seven conference championships out of 39 years (KSU-3, BU-2…thanks, Art…, OSU-1 and CU-1). The PAC has existed for 57 years, and I count four total conference championships from the original two members still in it. So, the B12 wins that comparison. It is a bad look that, in the SEC, OU by itself has more B12 championships than all the teams still in it.
  20. http://sagarin.com/sports/cfsend.htm Right now, the B12, as a conference, looks to be as close in quality to the Sunbelt as it does to the SEC. There are 12 SEC teams rated higher than TCU, the B12’s best (Texas and OU are two of them). Maybe it will level up a bit over the season, surely it will provide a couple of teams have only a loss or two, but it’s just not a good conference. I can’t believe Yormark rejected two AQs for the CFP.
  21. I ran the Stassen database. From 1995-2023, Texas Tech scheduled three Sunbelt teams, eight WAC, 16 CUSA, 10 AAC, 10 MWC, 11 Big West, five PAC, three ACC, and seven SEC. So, an average of 2.5 FCS and G5 teams, and .5 P5 teams per season. Thats ok, though. The media contract wasn’t valued on the Tech viewer contribution, anyway. Then.
  22. That was a Texas-Missouri game, idiot! No one is questioning Texas’ willingness to have a difficult schedule. You seem to have forgotten- we were in the B12 for 29 years. We saw how the IR8 teams free-rode the contract, using the first month as tune up games, scheduling FCS. It’s only now that ESPN and Fox are letting the league know what a loss leader it is that the conference is asking schools to give a little up in scheduling.
  23. No and it’s not working. Their media “partners” are on Their asses about crappy scheduling, not wanting to subsidize B12 September schedules of unwatchable games. You’re seeing, for the first time, these schools play conference games in week 1. The other thing is the need for revenue, to fund the program competitively. That’s a problem, and it’s going to get worse. That’s why Cody Campbell wants a shared media deal.
  24. Re-read the post. The enabler for the strategy is being a member in a conference with a good media deal. That doesn’t apply to TCU until 2012, and I see a lot of SMU, FCS schools and bottom feeder P5 schools (Sure, throwing an LSU).
  25. Bill Snyder created the model for teams like OSU, ISU, KSU, TT, BU, TCU, etc. ; 1. Get a great coach. 2. Schedule non-conference patsies, at home, so you have a 3-0 or 4-0 baseline to start the season with. 3. Run a program that teaches and develops talent. 4. Build stability by winning 6-8 games per year, and make a run at a conference championship every few years. Snyder wasn’t the first guy with the ability to do this. He was the first one after college football media revenue was upended after the ‘80s OU/UGA lawsuit. After that, media was negotiated by conferences, and weaker programs in major conferences could actually afford to play patsies. Before that, teams like OSU and KSU relied on gate for revenue, and had to play good teams. Really, check out old schedules- non-conference used to be real teams, because they needed the gate. Gundy, like Patterson, Briles, Leach, Mangino, Campbell and Snyder before him, took advantage of this era. Small programs still didn’t have the resources of blue bloods, but if they were in the right conference, they had enough TV revenue to fund closer to the big schools, and were given steady games against their conference’s blue bloods, to stay in the public eye and keep boosters engaged. When they hit on a coaching hire, they made sure they paid well enough to keep him, if he was inclined to consider staying. That era is over. Disparities in revenue once again mean disparities in competitiveness, and by an even greater amount. In (what I’ll call) the Snyder era, teams knew they needed to pay their star coaches top dollar, to keep them. Now, they ask those same coaches to surrender seven figures of salary to fun NIL. It will just get worse for B12 schools, because their next media contract will reflect an even greater discrepancy. It’s a new era, and what worked in the last era for OSU doesn’t necessarily work in the new one.
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