I didn't look at every school, just a few powerhouses. They should be ashamed and other non conference legit D1 teams should only play these Charlatans at home because of this nonsense. I get playing a favorable non conference, but Mercer vs Bama???? Gators hosting a church ??? FLA UMass, North Texas and Presbyterian. Georgia Appalachian ST, Samford (yes with a AM not TA) Missouri where Jordan can play at a higher level MO ST, Idaho, UConn Mighty BAMA Colorado ST, Fresno, Mercer (not a misprint) Mercer Aggie Nichols St and New Mexico Piggie (next to Bama piggie gets the sorry SOB award for this): Florida A&M, New Mexico St and Coastal Carolina Ole Miss South Bama, UT Martin, Bobby Bushea
There goal is to get their teams in bowl games and then be the best conference in America. They achieve this with their "great" out of conference record and number of teams in bowls. Hard to understand Big 12 schedule or any other conference outside of SEC where the SEC teams play a couple of conference games and then a bunch of cream puffs and get everyone in bowls and bragged about on ESPN because of their great records.
Last year the atm's played 9 games in the state of Texas. Including a 23-10 beat down of UTSA in Hooterville and their bowl game where K-State completed it's "Texas Sweep" (beat UT, TCU, Tech, Baylor, atm).
You misunderstood this. They're playing Presbyterian. As in, the entire denomination. At once. Should be interesting.
The Horns used to play the Baptists, Methodists, and Christians every year in the old SWC. Of course that was offset in God's eyes by getting physical with piggys, aggys, and sooners.
Yeah but that's different because they were in Texas, at schools which apparently each loved football even more than God.
Looking at it this way, I'd probably put money on the Presbyterians. That said, most of the Presbyterians I know are pretty chill, so maybe it's close?
Playing in the Big XII is like playing that schedule the whole year. This conference sucks. ****only partial sarcasm intended**** Have any of you taken a gander at the Big XII out of conference schedule? It's littered with names just like this. Texas does a great job of playing up, but seriously stop pretending that this is just an SEC thing. It gets old hearing the blind whining. Last week I was smoking a brisket overnight and listened to the Horn. There was a B1G radio show on and several times they referenced the Texas media bias because we unfairly get ranked in the top 25 regardless of how crappy we have played. I laughed because the FIRST thing I thought about is the SEC media bias and SEC in general obsession on this board. Its borderline comical.
Good points Vol, but the $EC seems to go out of their way to minimize exposure of their conference teams to actual competition. In reality each conference actually has 2/3 strong teams with the rest serving as fodder for the strong teams.
Pretty much agree with this! Big XII has been mostly just OU for the last decade... I don't count Baylor because, well, you know.
What is amazing is that the Aggies were ranked in the top 4 last year with a cup cake resume. Then the annual melt down in the second half of the season. Rinse wash repeat.
My advice is you start strength training and running on your own, then have some organized practices after Wednesday night choir practice. Texanne, do you line up at corner or safety?
Texanne.....just run the damn ball. It ain't rocket science. Line up, run the ball off tackle and you will beat inferior teams every time. Heard Barry Switzer once talking about all the yards and scores et al. "People treated me like i was some sort of offensive genius. Christ, I was there 16 years and only ran 4 plays the whole time". Can you say "Tom Osborne"?
In all fairness, there's not a lot to the wishbone. And when you have Keith Jackson, it's basically fullback dive, option right, option left and play action TE deep.
Please don't mention Keith Jackson, the kid from north Little Rock, who wanted to go to Texas, his mother wanted him to go to Arkansas, and they compromised on Oklahoma.
They perpetuate the myth that the SEC is the toughest conference in all of NCAA D1 football. The problem is, all the sports services buy into that pile of crap.
