It’s time for the new home of Sports Treatise to host it’s first Big 12-focused Twitter-bag. If it wasn’t obvious, that’d be where I take questions from all my fellow Twitter-bags and try to answer them in this space. Let’s begin… @Ian_A_Boyd do you think a 34 can work in the big 12? — Matt … [Read more…]
One of the big early stories of Big 12 spring practice is that Iowa State’s Joel Lanning is going to get some work in at linebacker this spring. You can check out the story with quotes from Matt Campbell here and tucked away at the end of the article is this additional note: Redshirt freshman defensive … [Read more…]
Now that we’ve gone through every Big 12 recruiting class, I guess it makes sense to grade them all in comparison. This is a little tricky since each team has different goals for their program and different approaches to getting it done, but I’m basically going to rank each class on how likely it is … [Read more…]
This was the first full class for new head coach Matt Campbell and a good glimpse at whether he’s aiming to make Iowa State “the midwestern program” of the Big 12 and how he plans to get after the rest of the league. The class includes 12 midwestern kids of the 24 signed and then … [Read more…]
I’m slowly starting to begin my breakdowns of every 2017 Big 12 recruiting class. Normally I haven’t even begun it yet so we’re ahead of schedule so far. There’s often a lot of late movement and additions but JUCO signing day is over and early enrollees are increasingly prevalent so many teams have already made … [Read more…]
Our examination of the Big 12 2017 units continues with the 6-10th place finishers from 2016. The second biggest question with this back half is whether one of these teams can climb up and out of the bottom half and the biggest question is whether that will be Tom Herman’s Texas squad. Here we go… … [Read more…]