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Now that Louisville has pulled in the highest prize in college basketball (and it looks like their women's team might do the same), does the Big XII brass/leadership (Commissioner and University Presidents) have egg on their face for not taking Louisville at the same time we brought in West Virginia?
I know basketball programs make nowhere near what football programs do, but one can't help but think that the Big XII had a major misstep by missing out on Louisville, which appears to be a school with winning athletic programs on the rise.
Now that Louisville has pulled in the highest prize in college basketball (and it looks like their women's team might do the same), does the Big XII brass/leadership (Commissioner and University Presidents) have egg on their face for not taking Louisville at the same time we brought in West Virginia?
I know basketball programs make nowhere near what football programs do, but one can't help but think that the Big XII had a major misstep by missing out on Louisville, which appears to be a school with winning athletic programs on the rise.
The Big 12's loss is the ACC's gain. They now will have the premiere basketball conference once Syracuse, Pitt and Louisville join up. Not to mention a Louisville football program that appears to be on the up and up.
Stoops has the highest winning percentage of active coaches. It's hard to argue with 1 natty, 8 conference titles (Tejas has 3), 8 Big 12 South titles, one of four other Sooner coaches to win over a 100 games, two heisman trophy winners (with two others finishing in the top 3 Peterson/Heupel), a 39 game win-streak at home, more top 10 finishes and top 5 finishes than any other program, a solid 8-5 overall record against arch rival Tejas, and more assistant coaches on his staff to become D1 head coaches in comparison to any other major program.
Although speculation, most Sooners and many pundits feel that we would have won at least one other national title had Mike Stoops stayed (certainly given the close score late into the LSU game and the Florida game come to mind). Also, in the Florida game, as you might remember, DeMarco did not play. No doubt that hurt us bigtime. (Not to mention we played both games in the other team's backyard. I know, I Know....."excuses are like *ssholes, everybody has one and they all stink.") If Stoops would have won at least just one other title (LSU game/UF game perhaps) then the monkey would be off his back, still possessing the similar/same cache as Saban. As it stands now, Saban is in a coaching echelon all his own.
I think what is inexplicable with Bob Stoops is that sometimes he just gets blown out. It appears he allows his players to give up sometimes.....BCS games USC/West Virginia and also 2011's Oklahoma State game and now our latest game against former favorite punching bag A&M. Certainly, losing is acceptable. All great coaches lose. But the very best coaches never get blown out, certainly not with the talent (down the last 2-3 years) Stoops has had over the years. With Stoops the multiple blowout losses are a head scratcher and something that Sooner Nation will not tolerate more than a few more years. He'll be gone in 3-4 if he gets blown out a few more times.
Well, as I said before...Mack Brown missed two, possibly three more nattys by a hair, a whiff, & a freak nerve pinch.
But those KSU Wildcats have a better record against the Horns than y'all do.
The institutions are just worried about milking the conference for every last penny in the present time, with very little foresight for what could happen in the future.
As long as the Big XII has OU/Tejas/OSU/TCU/KSU/WVU it will be a better and more powerful football conference than the ACC. However, the Big XII, without 12 members and no conference championship game will fall way behind the B1G, SEC, and PAC.
With FSU/V-Tech/NC State/Clemson/Miami off the table, there are no truly good/viable expansion candidates. The Big XII is going to get left in the dust if it doesn't pull off another expansion miracle before the new playoff system.
And the following link.....about the ridiculous notion that Oklahoma would ever go to the B1G, The Midwest Conference. The poll that the writer posted shows that Sooner Fans are over 60% against the notion that the Sooners would go to the B1G. Give us two more teams, the Big 12 South back, and a championship game. Let's get it done.
And the following link.....about the ridiculous notion that Oklahoma would ever go to the B1G, The Midwest Conference. The poll that the writer posted shows that Sooner Fans are over 60% against the notion that the Sooners would go to the B1G. Give us two more teams, the Big 12 South back, and a championship game. Let's get it done.
*around 20% of Sooner Fans said go to the B1G ONLY if Texas and OSU come along.
*a very miniscule amount of fans said they wanted OU to the B1G regardless if any Big XII South members or Kansas goes with them.
*around 20% of Sooner Fans said go to the B1G ONLY if Texas and OSU come along.
*a very miniscule amount of fans said they wanted OU to the B1G regardless if any Big XII South members or Kansas goes with them.
Fans don't get any say in what conference a school joins.
'Cept for Notre Dame. Alumni donations would dry up significantly if they joined a conference.
Last edited by OhioRules; 04-28-2013 at 08:27 AM..
If we see conferences move to 16 teams, it's going to really ruin things. 14 teams is too many.
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The poll that the writer posted shows that Sooner Fans are over 60% against the notion that the Sooners would go to the B1G. Give us two more teams, the Big 12 South back, and a championship game. Let's get it done.
