Sooners News Daily 6.11.14
Posted on: June 11, 2014
FOOTBALL
A lot of words about Trevor Knight. (TW)
Evidently Brennan Clay has been showing out for the Broncos during OTAs.
“Oklahoma currently ranks 14th in the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup for the 2013-14 academic year with a score of 844.75 points.” (Sooner Sports)
Interview with former Sooner and current Chiefs offensive lineman, Donald Stephenson. (KC Kingdom)
Time for BYU to go “all out” if they really want in the Big 12. (CBS Sports)
Howard Schnellenberger talks, among other things, about what went wrong at Oklahoma. (Fox Sports)
Still kind of surprised The Wizard didn’t find a way to buy himself out of this game, but K-State vs. Auburn will (not surprisingly) be a sellout. (Twitter)
Who is the most overused ESPN personality? My answer…..all of them. (Deadspin)
BASKETBALL
OU has assigned jersey numbers for their new arrivals. (Twitter)
OTHER
Cool story on OU Track & Field sending three javelin throwers to the NCAA Championships. (Sooner Sports)
Fair warning this is really long, but incredibly well done, IMO. ‘Can Jason Whitlock Save ESPN’s “Black Grantland” From Himself?’ (Deadspin)
Pulling in six figures simply from playing fantasy sports? I want to be this guy. (Yahoo)
Soccer’s version of Uncle Drew
Dumb And Dumber To trailer, enjoy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGXHVlEklgQ
Chappelle’s Show remains one of the greatest television shows of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wTa4lpyz6Q
23 Comments
As far as most over used sports “analyst”. Anytime they roll out a baseball analyst or baseball tonight is on I scramble to find something else. I’m just curious with all the animosity toward espn lately, is it even hurting them?
I dont think I would mind BYU joining, but they would have to play by the Big12’s rules and not their own. Also, who would be the other team to add? BYU would be in the North division (I assume), but if you added another southern team (like USF or UCF) who would move to the north division out of Tex, TTU, TCU, Bay, OU, OSU? Would the florida team be placed in the North? Cincinnati doesn’t sound appealing, UConn would be good for basketball but not so much for football. Who would the other team be?
Why not Cincy? New market. Fits into the north division easily. Has some solid basketball history, and some decent football teams. They’d probably need to improve facilities.
There aren’t many options left if the Big 12 is going to snag 2 more teams. We likely aren’t going to pull them from a power conference, so it’s either add 2, or wait things out and see if the Super Conferences thing comes to life down the road in a few years. I don’t see the harm in adding two schools out of BYU, Cincy, UCF, or USF. Would love a documented guestimate of how much adding those two teams MIGHT end up costing each Big 12 team in terms of league revenues. I’m not so sure, especially with BYU, if it wouldn’t add to them.
I agree on Cincy for the reasons you mentioned plus opens up Ohio ( excellent football state). Also UCF opens up Florida (excellent football state) plus claims to be the 2nd largest in the country for students. I’m sure WVU would prefer both those teams as opposed to BYU (travel costs). On a personal level I would rather travel to Orlando and Cincinnati than Lubbock.
Truth. Lubbock sucks. And traveling to Lubbock sucks! It’s interesting tho that the travel from Texas to Colorado & Nebraska didn’t cause that much bitching. The travel to WVU is flat out asinine. If you haven’t done it, I don’t recc by air.
Deadspin isn’t much better than ESPN, IMO.
Do you think the Big 12 would ever consider adding Tulsa? I know they aren’t a real power but they are a consistently good team, even if it is in a weaker conference.
I am from Tulsa and the market is just not big enough to get them in. Just My opinion though.
Do you have any opinions on who the Big 12 could add besides BYU? I’m personally just not a fan of the idea of them joining the Big 12.
BYU, UConn, Cincinnati, Central Florida, South Florida, any team from the non Power5. I would like to see a Florida market open up in which case I would want UCF over USF (No way FSU leaves the ACC). The only down side to that is if they kept the North/South split, it would make the South even stronger while the North would be pretty tame. Unless the switched it from a East/West split. If I had to add two I would try to get UCF and UConn (mainly for basketball and some football), but I don’t know if they would bring in the money to justify adding the them.
I think it’s a little late for expansion now. I think at this point the big 12 just needs to stay at 10 and hope the PAC, acc, sec and big10 don’t try to get to 16 each. If they do then the big 12 will basically be blown up and you’ll see the schools spread throughout the big10 sec and PAC.
Had all the schools not worried about texas we could have expanded 2 years ago when it looked like the acc and big east were about to fall apart.
What about Fresno State or CSU both can compete and would probably join without a second thought. Also, why do you say it is a little late for expansion at this point? If the Big 12 sits back hoping others don’t expand further then they would just be sitting and waiting on their presumed destruction, which to me makes no sense at all to me personally.
Well I agree that standing still and hoping the others won’t expand would be dumb if the others do expand. But ou texas and osu will land in a conference so there’s not much to worry about there. Right now big 12 teams are making more money splitting just 10 ways than the power conferences are however it may not be a significant amount more and the conference has taken a hit as far as it’s perceived talent.
But the big 12 will still fold if they add teams that bring mediocre competition and a small tv following. Tv contracts are a major issue right now that’s why they should have added the teams in the east (Pitt, Syracuse, uconn, and cincy) more viewers.
The reason I say it’s late is the acc, sec, big 10 and PAC 12 are pretty much locked in they will only add teams at this point so the big 12 cant poach off a good conference.
Probably not a lot of upside for the Big 12 or Tulsa to make that happen.
Just wishful thinking I guess. I think it would be nice to have all of the Oklahoma schools in the same conference and that could set up as a good rivalry for all 3.
As a Tulsa grad, and somebody that lives in Tulsa, I don’t disagree. Just don’t think Tulsa adds much, and it would be tough for them to compete with Big 12 schools, given their size and revenues.
If we don’t hang half a hundred on all these teams this year I’m going to be disappointed.
They will just have to settle with getting beat by OU for 4-5 years
New BIg 12;
North – Wildcats, Jayhawks, Cyclones, Mountaineers and New teams Bearcats and Cardinals
South – SOONERS, pokes, horns, frogs, raiders, and bears
Bearcats and Cardinals add some football and a lot of basketball power to the north. Travel expense would not be as big as if you added BYU or a FL team. Now, if you wanted to add to make it 14 teams you can add BYU to the North and UCF to the South.
Just my thoughts.
I think they only want byu for the TV sets but the new geography with adding West Virginia kind of makes travel difficult if you add teams further west of Lubbock. I really wish they would have made this a super conference a couple years ago when they could have had Pitt, lville, uconn, Syracuse, south Florida and possibly fsu (assuming acc would have fallen apart.) we could have had 16 but the 10 that stayed in the big 12 wanted to only split money with 10 schools.
I understand the reason for wanting BYU but I don’t think adding them will help anything else other than $$$.
I’m all for BYU joining the Big 12, they just need to find a School to bring with them. Heck, I don’t even care who, just get us back to 12 teams.