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CWSooner

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Re: Big XII Realignment
« Reply #98 on: August 03, 2021, 09:58:10 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 03, 2021, 05:55:37 PM
Hey, for what it's worth on those particular "discussions" I actually always believed that the B12 should have done everything it could to preserve that as an annual rivalry.  If it meant setting up some sort of weird, faux X-div perma-rivals for everyone else, so be it.  At the time, it was suggested that Colorado would have been a logical X-div perma-rival for Texas, and I would have been fine with that, if it meant saving NU-OU as an annual game.

One of you Sooners, either you or Cousin Fred or maybe someone we've lost to time, seemed to suggest that OU was partly to blame for that, by not really wanting to play that juggernaut mid 90s Husker team every year, and seeing the divisions as a way out of that.  I have no idea whether or not there was ever any truth to that.  But I did always like the NU-OU game, watched it whenever I could (back in those days TV wasn't as easily guaranteed), and was sorry to see it go, regardless of how or why it happened.
You know what?  It was Hooky (may he rest in peace) who was always skeptical about that.  Somehow I confused you guys.
I'll channel MDT: All you Horns look alike to me.
It was I who said that OU didn't press for the annual game because the Sooners were getting their asses kicked by Nebraska at the time.  "Short-sighted" is the best spin I can put on that.  But OU's athletic department at the time was in disarray, as the successive hires of Howard Schnellenberger and John Blake soon demonstrated.
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Re: Big XII Realignment
« Reply #99 on: August 04, 2021, 11:13:54 AM »
Yeah, Slick was really annoyed by the idea of faux x-division perm-rivals.  To me, it was an acceptable solution if it helped preserve some college football tradition.  
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Re: Big XII Realignment
« Reply #100 on: August 04, 2021, 12:39:05 PM »
And, I think there were some other old B8ers that didn't love the idea of the faux x-div perma-rivals either.  Maybe the K-State guys like Skicat and Wildcats4Ever.  They didn't think it fair that someone in the North would get paired up with UT or A&M, and somebody would get paired up with Baylor (who was REALLY terrible at the time, of course).
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Re: Big XII Realignment
« Reply #101 on: August 04, 2021, 01:35:10 PM »
why you have smaller conferences and play a round robin

for fairness

unfortunately, the TV networks don't give a damn
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Re: Big XII Realignment
« Reply #102 on: August 04, 2021, 01:45:59 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 04, 2021, 12:39:05 PM
And, I think there were some other old B8ers that didn't love the idea of the faux x-div perma-rivals either.  Maybe the K-State guys like Skicat and Wildcats4Ever.  They didn't think it fair that someone in the North would get paired up with UT or A&M, and somebody would get paired up with Baylor (who was REALLY terrible at the time, of course).
We had some good games with KSU over the years. I think we had a winning record against them overall, or close to it. 

At any rate we played all the XII teams twice every four years. Not quite a rivalry but often enough to generate some hate. 
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Re: Big XII Realignment
« Reply #103 on: August 04, 2021, 01:59:12 PM »
Quote from: Gigem on August 04, 2021, 01:45:59 PM
We had some good games with KSU over the years. I think we had a winning record against them overall, or close to it.

At any rate we played all the XII teams twice every four years. Not quite a rivalry but often enough to generate some hate.
Yeah, and I guess if we'd gone ahead with the x-div perma-rival, the math comes out to playing everyone in the other div at least twice in 6 years rather than 4.  You'd have played everyone exactly 4 times in 10 years.
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Re: Big XII Realignment
« Reply #104 on: August 04, 2021, 02:03:27 PM »
May be an image of football and text
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Re: Big XII Realignment
« Reply #105 on: August 04, 2021, 02:17:15 PM »
I dont think the Big 12 was too much of a cake walk for aggie

or for that matter the old SWC
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« Reply #106 on: August 04, 2021, 02:28:19 PM »
Texas A&M Conference Win% in SEC:  58%
Texas A&M Conference Win% in B12: 53%

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Re: Big XII Realignment
« Reply #107 on: August 04, 2021, 02:30:02 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on August 04, 2021, 02:28:19 PM
Texas A&M Conference Win% in SEC:  58%
Texas A&M Conference Win% in B12: 53%


pretty much what I thought
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Re: Big XII Realignment
« Reply #108 on: August 04, 2021, 02:35:17 PM »
little Johnny wasn't a math whiz
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Re: Big XII Realignment
« Reply #109 on: August 04, 2021, 03:45:33 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on August 03, 2021, 06:27:48 PM
DeTiger sighting

still got that SEC speed or, too old?

Only SEC Speed I ever had was the quickness with which I could get a Texas girl to go out with me.  Then I got married and I really don't have any use for it, so my SEC speed these days is concentrated on how fast I can make it to the bed after I doze off in my recliner at night.  
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Re: Big XII Realignment
« Reply #110 on: August 04, 2021, 03:47:09 PM »
Quote from: Gigem on August 03, 2021, 08:29:09 PM

Apparently we played them in BR like 10 straight years. I have no idea why.

It's because the food is way better.  
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Re: Big XII Realignment
« Reply #111 on: August 04, 2021, 03:49:15 PM »
Quote from: MikeDeTiger on August 04, 2021, 03:47:09 PM
It's because the food is way better. 

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