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Yeah. There are too many guys without evals and too many guys with a chance to rise during his senior year to get too hung up on star ratings at this point. I will care more about what the...

Agreed. aggy has never handled success very well. I expect Bama to beat them in College Station and I expect LSU to beat them in Baton Rouge. I wouldn't be surprised if Arky, Auburn, and Ole Miss...

Ohio State vs. Louisville would be a good lead-in to the playoff. The outrage from ESPN and SEC fan would be a great backdrop for the next year going into it.

Yeah. And either way, we're already starting to see Baylor land some better-rated players on the defensive side of the ball. Billings has a chance to be elite at DT. Rockwell could be an elite LB....

2013. Schedule is relatively favorable. Golson will be out for the ND game. Eventually we're due to get lucky and play a team that isn't using deer antler spray in a title game. OU vs. Louisville...

As long as the majority of our inventory is being sold to ESPN or Fox (both of which will carry sports broadcasts in an unbundled era), the B12 will be fine. Casual fans will continue buying from...

I agree with OU, UT, and KU, but I think the culture in our part of the country fits their reasoning. I think in the South, evidence suggests they care as much about the conference as about the...

My post was about the Big 10 and PAC 12. Neither of those conferences play in the Cotton Bowl. So I'm not sure why you brought that up other than the fact you are an aggy troll.

With respect...

You see us falling behind the B1G and PAC? I just don't see it. I think the Big 10 has about one Rose Bowl win since 2000. The last big OOC win in that conference that I can remember was Ohio...

This article is just a troll of B12 fans.

The Big 12 is #2 in national titles, NCG appearances, BCS bowl wins, individual teams with a BCS bowl win (OU, UT, OSU, WVU, TCU, KU), etc.

We agree. I just phrased that poorly. My point is that most of the people who were against Louisville a year ago still think the B12 is too good for Louisville - despite the success UL has had and...

I agree with you, but most of those same people still think the Big 12 is too good for Louisville.

There's a difference between a wrong number that illustrates growth and expansion (the Big 10), and a wrong number that illustrates inept leadership and contraction (the Big 12). If we're serious...

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@theDudeofWV 2h
Color me stupefied. ACC GoR does have an out if no ACC Network. ESPN still resistant.

@theDudeofWV 2h
and Disney, as I've said for months, is telling...

I thought maybe you were going to confirm that the King is actually Bosworth's real father.

^Referring to the Ricketts/Bradford breeding project directly above your post?

Yeah. Schools have got to compete better with the convenience of being able to watch multiple games at once, on your couch, on a high def flat screen, without dealing with traffic. Winning is part...

KU lost a bunch of games last year by a TD or less. If Heaps gives them anything at QB, they could improve to about .500.

^Conspiracy theories about the location of the conference office. Complaints about scheduling practices. Wanting out of another team's shadow. The writer sounds like Nebraska in that article.

I...

Weis did a good job bringing in talent to ND. I don't think he really understood what it meant to build a roster in his first couple of years, but he recruited well. I imagine he'll have success...

This seems like the most relevant portion of the story:

^Agreed that we'll eventually expand and I agree that Cincinnati will probably be #11. It would be an easier sell to fans if Tubs can win the AAC this year. (They were co-champs last year and took...

The B12 got no perception bump at all from A&M's success last year. None at all. It's not going to get any perception help if A&M keeps winning in year 2. Personally, I hope A&M goes 6-6, Johnny...

OU would at least offer Sumlin. He'd probably decline. I think there's a chance we'd see how happy Jimbo Fisher is at FSU, too.

Both RichRod and Todd Graham have the right recruiting...

I see Stoops having a late-career surge. He's moving into the CEO phase of his career, which means he can coach his ****istants a little harder b/c (for the most part) they aren't his peers/buddies...

@MarkBermanFox26
A University of Houston spokesperson said radio report out of Florida concerning UH being in talks with the Big 12 is inaccurate.

Well, that was fun.

I think the problem with KSU's loss was that it happened on the front end of Baylor's tear to end the season, and the fact they lost by four touchdowns. Maybe someone in the media could explain away...

Beale Street in Memphis is a very good time. I hope OU never has to play there, but it will be a fun road trip for the rest of the conference. Very doable drive, too. Sucks to lose the Holiday...

If the conference has to expand (we aren't expanding unless we have to), there isn't ANYONE that won't "hurt the perception of the B12" by the standard being held here. And at least with respect to...

Houston has at least won at a very high level in the (increasingly distant) past, in multiple sports. They had very good teams in the 70s through early 90's in football, including a Heisman Trophy...

What does historically mean in this context? If it has anything to do with the last 15 years, I could venture some speculation about why BU outdraws UH that has nothing to do with enrollment or...

I think if B12 membership were an option, UH's donors would open the wallets. To some degree, they've already done that with the new stadium. Give them a chance to compete at the highest level...

OU shouldn't be competing with U of H for recruits. We should be competing with LSU, UT, and aggy for recruits in the Houston area. If we're fighting UH over 2 and 3 star players in Houston, then...

@DavidBaumann33 10h
Our producer @EricLopezELO acted on some tips & confirmed w/ a Cougars Athletics Dept. source that Houston has had "talks" with Big 12.
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Yeah. But the "new" revenue totals out around $7M per ($5.8Mper from FOX and $1M from Learfield). In addition to that (though I haven't seen this confirmed by a news outlet) we would get to sell...

http://m.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2012/09/17/Media/Oklahoma.aspx




That accounts for about $6.8M per. Not sure about the rest, or whether any of those deals were finalized at a...

lol. Okay. "wins are wins" = playing as good as anyone in the country at the end of the season.

Based on which of their wins was this view built upon? The rest of their schedule was as follows:

5 pt win @ Kentucky, 8 pt win vs. Florida, convincing wins against Ole Miss, Auburn, Georgia...

They lost by four TDs to South Carolina. If Florida hadn't been so beat up in that game, the Dawgs finish 3rd in the East.

Maybe so. But that at least makes it fair to examine the schedule of those "elite" teams and see if there's any way to justify calling them elite, other than the fact they beat each other. It's...

Have a conversation with an SEC fan about conference comparison, and bring up the fact that Texas blew up Ole Miss in Oxford. You'll get a response somewhere along the lines of "that's just Ole...

Eh, I think 5 will be the number. At the end of the current playoff contract, we'll have an 8 team playoff, with 5 automatic qualifiers.

OU beat the hell out of aggy before last year, too. Wasn't very relevant to the discussion in the Cotton Bowl.

Mizzou was awful at QB last year. Not much better on defense.

And they're only "an SEC team" when the SEC member team wins. When Texas goes to Oxford and blows out Ole Miss, then it was just Ole Miss.

The bottom 8 teams in the SEC went winless against the top 6 teams. That's weakness at the bottom.

Yeah. SEC fans get real sensitive about this. It's not mutually exclusive to say 1) you have the best conference in the country and 2) the bottom of your conference was weak last year and inflated...

Mizzou would not have beaten ISU. And neither would have Tennessee before ISU lost their stud LB.

Every SEC team had a 3 game season, essentially? Here's the point: Bama avoided the top 4 SEC East teams during the regular season, and lost a home game. UGA missed the top 4 teams from the SEC...