These are a few things one must realize when covering, analyzing, and just plain being a fan of college football in today's world. These are grossly opinionated, and I may be wrong, and it would be a terrible tragedy...but if you agree, show me some love.
5. It takes three years to build a program
That's incorrect, and the first year does not count. I do not care if you are Michigan or New Mexico State. You cannot be given three years and expect to turn around a program.
In the first year, whatever you do as far as wins go is great. That's where Notre Dame screwed up in re-signing Weis after just one season, and that's where Michigan fans are being wrong in judging Rich Rodriguez.
How many years? Five. You give the coach a chance to get his own freshmen in and graduate them. If he can't win with his program in five years, get rid of him. If he is winning, re-sign him. Simple as that.
Four years is just one short. This is not the NFL where you can buy and sell players up the river whenever you please. You have to recruit them, train them, groom them, and help them mature.
4. Oklahoma is always best of the best
I am going to catch a lot of flak here, but there is no secret the BCS loves OU. They are the WORST of the best and, with stats, it is easy to say.
It is evident again this year. It is yet to be seen what happens in the Big 12 championship and probably inevitable national championship appearance. Since Bob Stoops arrived, the Sooners have dominated the Big 12 and the BCS charts. But their results stop looking impressive there.
In the nine years that Stoops has been at Oklahoma, he has taken them to nine bowls, and is 4-5 overall in those games. Six of the bowl games were BCS bowls, where the Sooners have been 2-4. Three were national championships, and the Sooners have been 1-2 overall there.
The record shows that maybe Stoops can't handle the pressure on top of the hill, since the last four BCS games (in five years) were all losses. (College football's Marty Schottenheimer, anyone?)
So the argument doesn't begin and end there; let's compare them to a primary rival and similarly successful opponent in Big 12 play, Texas, the last nine years. Texas vs. OU head to head in the last 10 is 6-4, OU with the advantage. Texas has also been to a bowl every year and amassed a 6-3 record.
It took Texas two tries to equal Oklahoma's BCS wins, going 2-0. It took Texas one trip to the national championship to take the trophy home, 1-0.
This rivalry will be argued to the depths of eternity, but the last nine years, Stoops has the edge on Brown, but Brown beats everybody else on the main stage. The BCS loves OU, plain and simple. But maybe the BCS and the media need to re-work that.
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Jonny Solovy 7 months ago
Great article and I agree with you on all points!!! Especially USC... people hate on them year in and year out but who do other teams schedule, Florida scheduled Citadel for their 11th game, please!!! People east f the mississippi just hate on the west because we have the girls, the sunshine and weather, best beaches and surfing and we're laid back... they obsess over trying to make us look bad in some way.
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