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  1. Ian Boyd posted that the surgery stabilizes the thumb, and that there really isn’t much risk of worsening the injury after a couple of weeks. It comes down to whether he can grip and throw the football. That may take more time. Or not. Mateer also has a sprained knee. That could use some rest, too. I think there is a good chance Mateer can play. I don’t know how much of a chance there is that he doesn’t play. In2009, the Sooners rushed Bradford back from a first week knee sprain to play in the RRS. He worsened the injury, missed the rest of the season and still went 1-1 in the draft. OU needed to win that game to have a hope of making the BCS CG. This year, they can make the CFP with a loss to Texas, but would need Mateer in good shape for their stretch run. But they really, really want to beat Texas. Maybe it depends on who makes the decision- Nagy or Venables?
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    Evidently, the 30 day portal for a head coach firing opens even during the season, with the caveat that although players can “drop out” of school during the season, they still can’t pick back up at a new school in the same season. That is an incentive for a program with a good roster (like Florida) to fire the head guy during the season and then work roster retention as the season plays out. (That has to be weighed against a possible lower buyout figure if the firing happens after the season)
  3. Two things: 1. who you root for doesn’t affect the game, unless you’re on the officiating crew. So, why pull for OU? 2. Tech could win, and lose to Missouri in the B12 CG and Texas could be voted into the BCS CG above them.
  4. When the Baylor Rape Scandal hit, Texas made a motion at the B12 meeting for Baylor to submit the Pepper Hamilton report (which was supposedly only oral). The league approved the motion. Baylor ignored it. Texas had a legit reason for the request. Baylor players had an initiation for new players where they would roofie a coed, and run a train on her while she was functionally unconscious. When Texas hosted Baylor For games, Baylor could have had sexual predators in its retinue. So, yeah, Texas is within its rights to ask questions about Briles and even Lebby. I imagine how MSU receives them depends upon the Bulldog’s record.
  5. Well, technically, I think Sankey made TAMU’s vote for them.
  6. So many Gundy memories. A good one is from the 2009 game, Saturday night in Stillwater. A lot of people thought the Cowboys would upset Texas the way Tech did the year before. Nope, the defense wasn’t having it. By the third quarter, Earl Thomas had Texas’ second pick six, giving Texas a 20 point lead. The camera showed Gundy on the sideline, calmly discussing it with QB Zack Robinson. I’m sure he asked what coaches always ask, “Tell me what you were seeing”. Whatever Robinson told him convinced Gundy to only call running plays and get the game over.
  7. He has been a HC for 21 years and I don’t even know what his politics are. I can’t think of any coach whose politics I know.
  8. “Hideout” plays were a point of emphasis for SEC officials this past offseason. so, one of these apply: 1. OU described what they would do in a way that really didn’t communicate to the SEC officials. 2. OU is lying about coordinating with the officials. 3. Those officials slept through their offseason training.
  9. I’m hopeful that the SEC refs realize OU is playing them for fools (PIing as a strategy) and call a good RRS
  10. Question- googling shows the Pickens foundation still giving to OSU athletics. Maybe not Phil Knight money, but still something significant. Does the foundation limit how it’s used?
  11. Things need to be done in a certain order, or failure is almost guaranteed. They need the AD position to be stable first. (That said, Texas honored this in 2013 and screwed up totally by hiring Steve Patterson).
  12. No, that’s what AI told me. I’ll wait for another source to see if the quoted viewership was right. I should have known better. I forgot that the B12 games ESPN sold were dumped on TNT, not CW.
  13. The TT-Oregon State game drew a little over 500K viewers on the CW. The week prior, Fresno State Oregon State drew 680k on the CW. Ha-ha-ha-ha! We’re going to see five years of B12 games on Friday night, B12 conference games on streaming, ESPN offloading games in an attempt to get value of any sort, no B12 network (because when tier 1 and 2 content has little value, tier 3 has none),and B12 lobbying for the P4 conferences to be on one media contract. There will be craziness- B12 teams desperately chasing any chance to get into the SEC or B1G, B12 seeking any way to sex up the games. Then, reality will hit. B12: understand that your contract is as good as it is now due to the need for Texas to leave early. Y’all are welcome.
  14. 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).
  15. 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.
  16. 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?
  17. 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?
  18. Observation- lots and lots of talented players in southern California. And a decent amount in the mid-Atlantic
  19. 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?
  20. 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!
  21. 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.
  22. 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?”
  23. Explain to me about this “control” Texas had in the Big XII?
  24. 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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