(I have been working on the preview since the day after I posted the Big 10 preview. It is not my best work and I really am starting to get heavy on the boys from Stillwater. I think that have a real shot to win the conference and make a run at the national title. Knowing my luck they will lose to the Dawgs. But I wrote a lot and want to move on so here it is. The only thing that I want you take away from this is that I love Big 12 offensive football, I think their TV deal sucks and if I have to watch any more of their games in nonHD I am going to flip, and finally sell short on UT's DC/HDCinwaiting Will Muschamp)
South
1. Oklahoma
2. Texas
3. Oklahoma State
4. Texas Tech
5. Baylor
6. Texas A&M
North
1. Kansas
2. Colorado
3. Nebraska
4. Missouri
5. Kansas State
6. Iowa State
The big question heading into the season is who is going to play Timmy
and the Gators on January 7th in Pasadena, Texas or Oklahoma? (For
right now I am going to forgo an angry rant about how Fox should never
be allowed into Pasadena and I will be watching the game on mute
because looking at the Rose Bowl while hearing Thom Brennaman and
Charles Davis wax idiotic, will either make me cry or induce a rage
blackout). I love both the QBs, fell back in love with McCoy in the
2nd half of last years game and even in the loss to Leach last year my
feelings only grew. But I still don’t trust his HBC and the DC as much
as I trust Stoops, Venables, and Kevin Wilson.
Oklahoma’s shotgun and Bradford’s command of the offense will mitigate
any negative effect of the rebuilt offense line and I have finally
decided on the Sooners.
But we even if the Longhorns can win the Red River Shootout, another
tough road game awaits them just like last year in Lubbock. On Halloween, the Longhorns travel to see T. Boone, Gundy, and the triplets in Stillwater. They
will be favored, but right now I think that game is a toss up
factoring in the 3 for home field. Working in Oklahoma State’s favor is that they lost a coach that was stupid enough to hire Dumb on his new staff, and replaced him with a coach who is smart enough not to put Dumb in charge of his secondary.
Not a believer in anybody in the North except Todd Reesing. Kansas has
a brutal conference schedule, they get Sooners/Horns/Raiders from the
South, but I don’t see Colorado or Nebraska winning enough games to stop the fat baby from winning the division.
Coaching Rankings
1. Stoops
2. Mack Brown
3. Leach
4. Gundy
5. Pinkel
6. Mangino
7. Hawkins
8. Briles
9. Pelini
10. Snyder
11. Sherman
12. Rhoads
The HBCs with National Titles have to be on top. More Big 12 titles
gives Stoops the edge.
The most important thing to take away from this section is that the Big 12 is the greatest collection of offensive minds (Bradford, McCoy, Reesing as coaches on the field) I can remember in any conference. Wilson/Bradford, McCoy/Davis/Applewhite, Gundy, Leach, Reesing/Fat Baby and Briles, all have to be considered in the top ten of offensive braintrusts in the nation.
I think Pinkel is moron for taking Husky money and heading to Seattle.
I was a huge fan of the Hawk hiring in Boulder, its starting to look like my endorsement of Dan Hawkins is going to go down with Billy Gillispe in Lexington in my Hall of Fame of Bad Decisions as a shadow Athletic Director. (Can I put that on my resume? I have been doing that job for about 20-25 schools for a month after football season and a month after basketball season consistently for 11 years or so.)
Coaching musings
There are two important things about the Big 12 coaching situation……
1) Gary Patterson is still at TCU. If the Aggie and Buffalo boosters don’t have reservation for private jet meetings in Ft. Worth in early December, they should be sued by their fan base for malpractice.
2) Will Muschamp (photo above). He has been designated the Longhorns coach in waiting. I have been on the record (In Fork and Stockstill’s ear) that I am 100% opposed to that move by Brown, Earl Campbell and Deloss Dodd to name Muschamp coach in waiting. Everybody loves him because he has a Saban, SEC pedigree and he looks like every proper southern boy that had Heather Nichols for Math. But he is an absolute buffoon on the sidelines and has the temperament of a Strength or “Get Back Coach” not the HBC (Head Ball Coach) of a 100 million dollar program. I call Darin Horn the “Will Muschamp of SEC basketball” and it is absolutely not a complement. I still can’t believe the Cocks didn’t hire Anthony Grant.
Were they really so afraid of losing Muschamp to Allbarn (Auburn) that they had to make this leap? That slapdick from Syracuse was going to get his assed canned, they could have just brought him back as DC and he would have done a better job. I think there is a chance that this turns into a disfunctional situation, and ends up with Muschamp taking another job before Mack Brown retires with Texas kids flooding the plains of Norman, OK creating depth charts similar to the Pete Carroll.
Finally, I am huge believer in their Asst. HBC running back coach, old #11 Major Applewhite. Loved him as QB1 and was really impressed with his playing calling at Rice and in the first year at Bama, eventhough they were B…R…UTAL. I think he can win the Sears, while I think Stoops will end up pantsing Muschamp like Tressel did to Lloyd Carr.
Must See TV
While the SEC has the most “must see tv” teams/games, the Big 12 has the most “must see tv” individuals.
1) McCoy
2) Usain Bolt at Baylor
3) Heisman
4) Reesing
5) Zac Attack
6) Dez
7) Gundy
8) Leach
9) Kindle
10) Gerald McCoy
11) Demarco
12) Gresham
13) Darnell Scott
14) Poor Man’s Vince Young in College Station
1. Oklahoma
2. Texas
3. Oklahoma State
4. Texas Tech
5. Baylor
6. Texas A&M
North
1. Kansas
2. Colorado
3. Nebraska
4. Missouri
5. Kansas State
6. Iowa State
The big question heading into the season is who is going to play Timmy
and the Gators on January 7th in Pasadena, Texas or Oklahoma? (For
right now I am going to forgo an angry rant about how Fox should never
be allowed into Pasadena and I will be watching the game on mute
because looking at the Rose Bowl while hearing Thom Brennaman and
Charles Davis wax idiotic, will either make me cry or induce a rage
blackout). I love both the QBs, fell back in love with McCoy in the
2nd half of last years game and even in the loss to Leach last year my
feelings only grew. But I still don’t trust his HBC and the DC as much
as I trust Stoops, Venables, and Kevin Wilson.
Oklahoma’s shotgun and Bradford’s command of the offense will mitigate
any negative effect of the rebuilt offense line and I have finally
decided on the Sooners.
But we even if the Longhorns can win the Red River Shootout, another
tough road game awaits them just like last year in Lubbock. On Halloween, the Longhorns travel to see T. Boone, Gundy, and the triplets in Stillwater. They
will be favored, but right now I think that game is a toss up
factoring in the 3 for home field. Working in Oklahoma State’s favor is that they lost a coach that was stupid enough to hire Dumb on his new staff, and replaced him with a coach who is smart enough not to put Dumb in charge of his secondary.
Not a believer in anybody in the North except Todd Reesing. Kansas has
a brutal conference schedule, they get Sooners/Horns/Raiders from the
South, but I don’t see Colorado or Nebraska winning enough games to stop the fat baby from winning the division.
Coaching Rankings
1. Stoops
2. Mack Brown
3. Leach
4. Gundy
5. Pinkel
6. Mangino
7. Hawkins
8. Briles
9. Pelini
10. Snyder
11. Sherman
12. Rhoads
The HBCs with National Titles have to be on top. More Big 12 titles
gives Stoops the edge.
The most important thing to take away from this section is that the Big 12 is the greatest collection of offensive minds (Bradford, McCoy, Reesing as coaches on the field) I can remember in any conference. Wilson/Bradford, McCoy/Davis/Applewhite, Gundy, Leach, Reesing/Fat Baby and Briles, all have to be considered in the top ten of offensive braintrusts in the nation.
I think Pinkel is moron for taking Husky money and heading to Seattle.
I was a huge fan of the Hawk hiring in Boulder, its starting to look like my endorsement of Dan Hawkins is going to go down with Billy Gillispe in Lexington in my Hall of Fame of Bad Decisions as a shadow Athletic Director. (Can I put that on my resume? I have been doing that job for about 20-25 schools for a month after football season and a month after basketball season consistently for 11 years or so.)
Coaching musings
There are two important things about the Big 12 coaching situation……
1) Gary Patterson is still at TCU. If the Aggie and Buffalo boosters don’t have reservation for private jet meetings in Ft. Worth in early December, they should be sued by their fan base for malpractice.
2) Will Muschamp (photo above). He has been designated the Longhorns coach in waiting. I have been on the record (In Fork and Stockstill’s ear) that I am 100% opposed to that move by Brown, Earl Campbell and Deloss Dodd to name Muschamp coach in waiting. Everybody loves him because he has a Saban, SEC pedigree and he looks like every proper southern boy that had Heather Nichols for Math. But he is an absolute buffoon on the sidelines and has the temperament of a Strength or “Get Back Coach” not the HBC (Head Ball Coach) of a 100 million dollar program. I call Darin Horn the “Will Muschamp of SEC basketball” and it is absolutely not a complement. I still can’t believe the Cocks didn’t hire Anthony Grant.
Were they really so afraid of losing Muschamp to Allbarn (Auburn) that they had to make this leap? That slapdick from Syracuse was going to get his assed canned, they could have just brought him back as DC and he would have done a better job. I think there is a chance that this turns into a disfunctional situation, and ends up with Muschamp taking another job before Mack Brown retires with Texas kids flooding the plains of Norman, OK creating depth charts similar to the Pete Carroll.
Finally, I am huge believer in their Asst. HBC running back coach, old #11 Major Applewhite. Loved him as QB1 and was really impressed with his playing calling at Rice and in the first year at Bama, eventhough they were B…R…UTAL. I think he can win the Sears, while I think Stoops will end up pantsing Muschamp like Tressel did to Lloyd Carr.
Must See TV
While the SEC has the most “must see tv” teams/games, the Big 12 has the most “must see tv” individuals.
1) McCoy
2) Usain Bolt at Baylor
3) Heisman
4) Reesing
5) Zac Attack
6) Dez
7) Gundy
8) Leach
9) Kindle
10) Gerald McCoy
11) Demarco
12) Gresham
13) Darnell Scott
14) Poor Man’s Vince Young in College Station
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