Hate In College Football

TexasA&M: This team under achieves more than their in-state rival the Texass Shortwhorns.  The weirdest part about the Aggies is that for the tremendous fan support, facilities and general football crazy state that Texas is, you would think they’d put a better product on the field.  And by that I mean a more consistent winning team.  And trust me, as a Nebraska fan, I learned first hand about mediocrity and under achieving-especially the past four years.  Maybe your new coach Mike Sherman will get you guys to that next level.  However, if I was a betting kind of gal I’d say don’t place any money on it because you’re bound to lose.  Very few coaches come from the NFL and achieve great success.  For every Pete Carroll of the University of Spoiled Children, USC, there are many failures; Bill Callahan, Charlie “Fat Ass” Weiss, Dave Wannstedt-or however his name is spelled, Bill Walsh, etc.  Bottom line Aggie fans the chances are you’ve just hired another version of Bill Callahan.

Texas Tech: This is a team which will never seriously compete for the Big 12 title until they start running the football consistently and effectively.  Sure they went 9-4 last year throwing the ball 90 times a game but they ranked dead last, 119^th, in rushing the football and not coincidentally finished 4-4 in the Big 12.  Head coach Mike Leach is doing an okay job in Lubbock but to all Red Raider fans: If you guys want to win the Big 12, you have to; a) run the football and b) stop the run.  Put it this way, as long as TTU finishes 40^th or lower in rushing offense they’ll never win the Big 12 title and they certainly won’t ever even come close to winning a national title.  To prove my point look at Hawaii last year, they went 12-0 due to an incredibly soft schedule but when they played Georgia in the Sugar Bowl they couldn’t run and the Bulldogs absolutely smashed the Warrior’s passing attack.

2^nd Tier of Apathy: Iowa State.

Iowa State: Their head coach, Gene Chizik has an incredibly hard and steep uphill climb to get the Cyclones back to winning even at a level matching former head coach Dan McCarney.  The ‘Clones are just east of the rock and west of the hard place.  They get the crumbs of recruiting leftovers from every team in the Big 12 and Big 10+1 and to put the cherry on top of this pooh sundae they’re in a crappy location, Ames, Iowa-which is just above Manhattan, Kansas as one of the worst places on the planet.  Oh sure they can be “competitive” for a while, sure they may scare, or possibly even knock off a top team once in a blue moon but that’ll be it.  

Who Cares: Baylor.

Baylor: Honestly I don’t care enough about these guys to even write a decent slam.

Which brings me to the final team in the Big 12-and I purposefully saved these guys for last; Oklahoma.

Oklahoma: Much respect to the Sooner nation.  Bob Stoops can be, at times, a real jackass but he’s a fantastic football coach, recent bowl game losses aside, and is generally an all-around good guy.  The Sooners are the only team in the Big 12, and from the old Big 8, that I respect.  The Sooner fans mostly treat visiting Nebraskafans with courtesy, dignity and respect-the recent ugliness with Bill Callahan and his infamous f’ing hillbillies reference notwithstanding.  The games between Nebraska and Oklahoma are always intense, hard-hitting and most importantly played cleanly between two teams which share a mutual respect for each other.  The NU-OU rivalry has taken a beating since the formation of the Big 12, but it’s still there, simmering on the back burner.  Now, with the hiring of Bo Pelini at Nebraska look for a renewed intensity from this rivalry-especially since both Stoops and Pelini are from Youngstown, Ohio and have known each other practically their whole lives.

In summary friends, Colorado, Kansas State and Missouri are far and away the most hated teams in the Big 12 followed closely by Kansas and Texas.   The other teams really haven’t done much recently to warrant a spot on the hate list but with the fluidity of this list things can change from year to year so stay tuned. 

Bottom line, this has been one of the most painful and longest off-seasons this Husker Fanatic can ever remember.  The previous coaching staff is gone, along with their absurd and mind-numbing incompetence-good riddance to bad rubbish.

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