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I get it why you show such disdain for college basketball, similar to the reason why my dog is finally starting to learn to avoid skunks. He doesn't like the outcome.
But looking at the Mizzou football accomplishments, makes me wonder why you are so pro NCAA Football? |
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09-23-2011, 10:42 AM | #1188 | |
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Has any of that affected how you view college bball?
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Interesting take from an OU guy:
http://blog.newsok.com/berrytramel/2...ad_story_title At the same time David Boren and OU were proclaiming the stability of the Big 12, Missouri chancellor Brady Deaton was saying he hopes the conference can stabilize. The vaunted granting of rights? Which theoretically “handcuffs” schools to their league? Deaton made no mention of it. So something’s up and maybe rotten. Here’s the good theory: Missouri has assumed the role of tough guy. Mizzou, with apparent interest from the SEC to be its 14th member, has a little leverage. Missouri leaving wouldn’t kill the Big 12; as I wrote the other day, I’m convinced nothing can kill this league, with the exception of an Obama jobs bill (that’s a shoutout to my pal Ross, who supplied me with that line too late to use in the paper). But Missouri leaving would signal to the world that Big 12 stability is a joke. It would signal to prospective members that stability is all hat, no cattle. Just Longhorns in this league. Anyway, maybe Missouri is the school now holding Texas’ feet to the fire, and Mizzou just might be the school fired up enough to do it. You know who’s been overlooked in all this stuff? Gary Pinkel. The Mizzou football coach twice has spoken up about the problems in this conference. He hasn’t called Texas by name, but everyone knows who he’s talking about. “I don’t know what’s going to happen,” Pinkel said Wednesday on St. Louis radio station KFNS . “Next year is it going to start brewing up again? I don’t know. It’s unbelievable. We’ve got problems in our league. OK? And we all know what most of them are. But we don’t solve them. We’ve lost three really good members in a year and a half and we think we’d maybe wake up and try and fix the problems so we can have a great league. Because until the problems are fixed, this stuff’s going to be happening and it’s going to go on and on. And it’s not a whole lot of fun to be a part of.” Pinkel is not all that fun in a press conference. He’s not witty. He’s not gregarious. He’s not charming. But if you need someone to talk straight, he seems like your guy. Those comments mirrored something Pinkel said a few weeks ago. Sounds like he — and thus Missouri — are fed up. So maybe OU stepped aside and Missouri assumed the mantle of telling Texas how the Longhorn ate the cabbage. OK, now here’s the bad theory. Boren and OU jumped the gun, trying to save its own face. Not its skin. Its face. The Sooners come out looking bad this week. Let’s review: 1. Monday, OU empowers Boren to decide upon conference membership, and all signs point to the Pac-12. 2. Tuesday, an OU source tells me the requirements for OU to stay in the Big 12, including the removal of commissioner Dan Beebe and some Texas concessions, else the Sooners will go West. 3. Tuesday night, the Pac-12 says it’s not expanding. 4. Wednesday, OU says it decided not to go to the Pac and believes concessions are forthcoming. 5. Thursday, OU announces the league has signed over its first born and will be handcuffed together, concessions to be named later. 6. Simultaneous Thursday, Missouri says the league might stabilize. So who knows? What a mess. Maybe Missouri told OU, you guys have run the relay this far, let us take it home. Or maybe Missouri said, uh, let’s not dismiss the SEC quite just yet.
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09-23-2011, 10:53 AM | #1192 | |
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I think it would be best for Missouri to move on to (hopefully) greener pastures. What becomes of the Big Texas League afterward doesn't really concern me. If Missouri and Kansas do find themselves in separate conferences I'm sure they'll work something out to continue to play the Border War game at Arrowhead - it'll just start the season as a non-conference game instead of end it. Same with basketball, for those who care. |
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This is where I think the NBA is wrong, and NFL is right. I much prefer to watch College Hoops than College Football, but that may be due to the fact that Kansas teams haven't had as much success as you would like to see in football. The K-State run was fun, and the short KU run was fun. I went to a few WSU football games before they quit, eeewwwwwwwwww. But the Shocker BB games at the roundhouse rock! |
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09-23-2011, 11:11 AM | #1194 |
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I'm no Missouri fan, but if I were I'd be rooting hard for a move to the SEC.
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09-23-2011, 11:18 AM | #1196 | |
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I remember as a little kid I learned college hoops going to Iowa bball games when Lute Olson was our coach and watching us play Indiana with Bobby Knight, Michigan State with Judd Heathcote, Purdue with Gene Keady, Illinois with Lou Henson, Michigan with Johnny Orr, etc. We are in agreement on one-and-done players. I too would like to see it more like the NFL than current NBA policy.
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If you can guarantee that we won't be looking at status quo, I might listen. But too much of what I am seeing now makes me nervouse that Texas has let OU look under her skirt in return for being an accomplice. |
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Got to see your Coach, Lute Olsen bring his Iowa team to WSU against the Shockers at the 1981 regional. That was a very special day, as I had honestly found the ticket on the floor at Dillards an hour before the game started. NO ****ing way could I have afforded to gone, especially those seats. Carr and the Shockers came back from 15 down at half to win. The Jayhawk game was second, and anti-climatic, many of us left, we were worn out. |
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However, if we all get that, then there's not much of a reason, other than emotion, to leave the conference for the SEC. The Big 12 TV contracts are temporarily low and will be comparable to everyone else in a few years. Tier 3 money isn't enough to complain about and the SEC also does not share Tier 3 money anyway, so you gain nothing there. "stability" is an artificial fake complaint since you can force stability if everyone really wants it, and once we get a new contract in 2015 there wont be any financial reason to leave anyway. All you really get is long pain-in-the-ass road trips, and a smaller chance of ever making it into a BCS bowl. Its a somewhat more realistic option for Texas schools due to geography and culture.
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Nah, the error was made clear back when they brought those Texas teams into the Big 8/12. Losing Nebraska sucked the big one, and Oklahoma would be the only other one that would hurt that bad. I am probably one of the least informed posters in this thread on this subject, but I get the impression that doom is lurking for the conference, no matter what happens short term. |
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