I can’t really blame Lincoln Riley for what happened in that exchange on the radio with Danny Kannell where the young Sooner coach gave the SEC some bulletin board material (however mild) by embracing the opportunity to compare playing defense in the Big 12 and doing so in the SEC. You can read the full … [Read more…]
Not all of the Ds in the second Mike Stoops era have been bad. The 2012 unit gets a bad wrap because Tavon Austin ate their hearts on primetime television… …and they had some other games in which they got torched on the ground by good spread concepts like the Baylor O, OSU, and Manziel’s … [Read more…]
So the Oklahoma Sooners’ prospective starting QB has been selected no. 9 in the MLB draft. #Athletics select OF Kyler Murray with 9th overall selection of 2018 MLB First-Year Player Draft out of the University of Oklahoma. Details: https://t.co/deAc94Qhyh pic.twitter.com/ofSBCi3TtC — Oakland Athletics ??⚾️ (@Athletics) June 5, 2018 However, reporting by Jake Trotter suggests that … [Read more…]
I’ve spent a lot of time breaking down the state of the Oklahoma defense on this blog which should be pretty important to the story of the 2018 Big 12 season. I’m highly skeptical of the post-Mayfield Sooners in general but I’m not an insane Texas homer that think they’ll be terrible on offense with all … [Read more…]
Oklahoma was abjectly terrible on defense in 2017. I recently had a fun debate with Allen Kenney and Rufus Alexander over what went wrong and why but there wasn’t any debate over whether the defense played at an acceptable level. The 2015 Oklahoma defense was one of the better units they’ve had of late, which … [Read more…]
Over at Football Study Hall I did a post explaining how West Virginia is tapping into market inefficiencies in recruiting by taking program guys from the Midwest while leaning on the transfer market for their feature talent. You’ll notice that there are some team angles here that are the same as for the legendary Nebraska … [Read more…]
It happens basically every other year for someone. The league is driven by QB play and everyone is always either at the heights of being led by a star junior or freshman signal caller or waiting for the next guy to grab the reins. I looked back at the league’s history of replacing top QBs … [Read more…]
The internet is a strange place sometimes. Yesterday I threw out the contention that the 2017 Texas defensive backfield was the fastest in Big 12 history… Contention: The 2017 Texas defensive backfield (secondary and LBs) was the fastest the Big 12 has ever seen. Keep in mind that they played a dime package and the … [Read more…]
If you haven’t heard from fans of other conferences, the Big 12 hasn’t been doing so well in the NFL draft of late. This was a big story in 2017 when only one player (Pat Mahomes, Texas Tech) was drafted from the conference into the first round. I figured that the league would rebound strongly … [Read more…]
The old “Mack Brown wanted prospect X as a safety” meme is pretty much dead and gone now that Texas is on their second post-Mack coach, but the ultimate example of Mack’s QB eval problems just went no. 1 in the NFL draft. Back in the day before that meme got going things were chugging … [Read more…]