College Football Smack Talk

[Parks 788]

I'm still not convinced that UT and OU moving to the SEC is going to bode well for them. More money? Sure. Does money help? Sometimes. What I'm trying to find an answer to is that OU currently is raking in many top TX high school players because they have historically been the top dog in the Big 12 where all major TX programs are apart of. When OU, and UT for that matter, moves to the SEC and does mediocre (this is my guess) will these same 5 Star Texas recruits want to attend OU or will they rather go to one of the SEC schools that already has a strong record of winning in that conference. Reality is that some of the SEC schools and others in the South will be filling some open coaching positions with some well known coaches (Reilly possibly included) that the recruits will flock to over a mediocre OU team, espcially if Reilly is no longer there. Will the additional revenue in the SEC bring better recruits to OU, more so than they already are getting? I don't see it.

 

[1911Sooner]

OU is probably the only team that compete with Alabama and Georgia. OU beat Florida in the Sugar Bowl last year. They beat Auburn in the Sugar Bowl 3 years ago. And they beat Alabama in the Sugar Bowl with Trevor Knight. Texas even beat Georgia in a bowl game a couple years ago. We will see how big and bad the SEC really is and maybe how underrated the Big 12 is.

 

[crrcboatz]

If we were a "4" why are OSU fans crying to have us back? We've dominated the conference. Hell, OSU has never won a Big 12 Championship game, much less played in one.

Thank you for proving my point though. Hint: Maybe it wasn't that good?

Don’t know a single OSU fan “ crying to get OU and its ugly fans back! What a presumption on your part!lol

 

[crrcboatz]

OU is probably the only team that compete with Alabama and Georgia. OU beat Florida in the Sugar Bowl last year. They beat Auburn in the Sugar Bowl 3 years ago. And they beat Alabama in the Sugar Bowl with Trevor Knight. Texas even beat Georgia in a bowl game a couple years ago. We will see how big and bad the SEC really is and maybe how underrated the Big 12 is.

 

[crrcboatz]

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Cry baby like some kid!

 

[1911Sooner]

Are you laughing that OU beat all these great SEC teams as an underdog? Congrats to Gundy on getting his 3rd win vs OU in almost 20 years.

 

[El Pablo]

Conference revenues are shared evenly so they'll make more money. Nebraska, Colorado, and Mizzu were shells of their former selves before they left the Big12. A&M has done ok, but you notice how bad Texas got after an SEC school was in their backyard? The kids will want to go where they get the most exposure and 11am marquee games aren't it. NIL changed everything.

It’s all cyclical. SEC hasn’t always been the big dog. It will change again. Big 12/Big 8, Big 10, acc, pac10/12 have all had their ups and downs too of being the conference.

$ also comes from donations, endowments, which has proven to go up and down based on performance other than for a few very select schools like the Ivy League and Stanford.

Texas got bad from poor coaching choices. Same thing happened to OU, Alabama, Georgia, Clemson, LSU, Florida, Michigan, Ohio State (the list goes on)

 

[El Pablo]

Are you laughing that OU beat all these great SEC teams as an underdog? Congrats to Gundy on getting his 3rd win vs OU in almost 20 years.

It explains all those games they were beat in the bcs championship game or in the cfp playoffs since they won it all 20 years ago. A lot of losses to USC or SEC schools in those games.

Really, who cares though. I watch for enjoyment. If it’s not entertaining, I don’t watch. Example, the style of play in the SEC was a snooze fest until a few years ago. I’m finding sports in general to be less enjoyable due to the insane fans.

I expect conferences to not be very important really soon as NCAA power weakens. There is going to be a super league. May as well just make college football the minor leagues of the nfl while they are at it. Besides, All the other conferences may just black ball them. Who knows.

 

[El Pablo]

Are you laughing that OU beat all these great SEC teams as an underdog? Congrats to Gundy on getting his 3rd win vs OU in almost 20 years.

Not many schools have beat ou in the past 20 years…

 

[1911Sooner]

It explains all those games they were beat in the bcs championship game or in the cfb playoffs since they won it all 20 years ago. A lot of losses to USC or SEC schools in those games.

Really, who cares though. I watch for enjoyment. If it’s not entertaining, I don’t watch. Example, the style of play in the SEC was a snooze fest until a few years ago. I’m finding sports in general to be less enjoyable due to the insane fans.

I expect conferences to not be very important really soon as NCAA power weakens. There is going to be a super league. May as well just make college football the minor leagues of the nfl while they are at it. Besides, All the other conferences may just black ball them. Who knows.

That was the thing that bugged me about the SEC is that the Big 12 played no defense and the SEC played great defense. Now that the Big 12 brand of offense has made it to the SEC they say they are now playing great offense. You can't have it both ways.