You can check out my preseason list here. I like to use different categories than the official ballot when I make my own team. The goal of the media/coaches selections is primarily to recognize the best players in the conference in a given year. I like to make designations that reflect the sorts of roles … [Read more…]
The league released their All-B12 team already, I was surprised to see that they did so before the B12 championship game evidently counting that strictly as a postseason event and unrelated to the B12 season. Obviously there’s some sense in that but I wanted to see how the Red River Rematch played out before I … [Read more…]
I had a few brief interactions at B12 media days with Jalen McCleskey, Dana Holgorsen, and Justin Phillips I’ve transcribed here. We’ll start with Dana Holgorsen, who seemed bored and irritated by the time I headed over to his booth at the breakout session. Holgorsen What did you make of some of the dime defenses … [Read more…]
I came to peace a year or so ago with the fact that All-Big 12 teams don’t reflect the actual positions and roles in the league in a given period of history but just try to stuff in all of the guys that had a major impact that season. With a few exceptions like the … [Read more…]
My assumption about Oklahoma State this coming season was that they’d recover from losing Mason Rudolph and James Washington just fine since those two have been starting for three years now, giving OSU plenty of time to develop back-ups. The WR situation this past year year was insane for OSU because in addition to returning … [Read more…]
I just got a look at the coach’s selections for the All-B12 team, it was pretty solid. I mean they list like six DL or something silly like that to make sure that everyone who had a standout season is recognized which is reasonable. The main purpose of a list like that is to give … [Read more…]
It’s about that time of the year, time to make up my preseason All-B12 list and rank where I think the league’s top players are likely to finish at the end of the year. You can see my projections for the 2015 season or the 2016 season and gauge for yourself my prognostication skills if … [Read more…]
(I’m reposting and updating this article from its original placement). While writing up a post recently about Kavontae Turpin and the role he’ll play in the TCU offense in 2016, I decided to track the Big 12’s history of fantastically productive little guys. There have been so many, that it seemed about time that we … [Read more…]