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Who should Baylor blame?
Posted on 12/8/14 at 9:23 am
Posted on 12/8/14 at 9:23 am
Maybe Deloss Dodds?
The whole "we play everyone" mantra about the Big 12 falls apart when you look at who "everybody" is. 3 teams with losing records...and TCU and Baylor, because they don't have divisional play, is guaranteed to play each one of them every year. By comparison, OSU only had two conference games vs. teams with losing records. So the 9th conference game kills their strength of schedule. Not having divisional play ensures that you get to play every shitty team in your conference...and there aren't enough good teams in the conference to compensate for a shitty OOC schedule...and Baylor failed to take care of that. In contrast, Alabama played zero SEC teams with losing schedules.
And this issue has its roots in Austin...and Waco, by extension. Texas treats aTm, Missouri, and Nebraska like poor stepchildren for long enough, so they leave the conference. If those teams were still there, there would have been a Big 12 championship game last weekend. And TCU and Baylor would have had Nebraska, Missouri, and aTm on their schedules. So they can blame Texas, and maybe Baylor can also blame themselves for following along. Granted, TCU came along afterwards, though.
The whole "we play everyone" mantra about the Big 12 falls apart when you look at who "everybody" is. 3 teams with losing records...and TCU and Baylor, because they don't have divisional play, is guaranteed to play each one of them every year. By comparison, OSU only had two conference games vs. teams with losing records. So the 9th conference game kills their strength of schedule. Not having divisional play ensures that you get to play every shitty team in your conference...and there aren't enough good teams in the conference to compensate for a shitty OOC schedule...and Baylor failed to take care of that. In contrast, Alabama played zero SEC teams with losing schedules.
And this issue has its roots in Austin...and Waco, by extension. Texas treats aTm, Missouri, and Nebraska like poor stepchildren for long enough, so they leave the conference. If those teams were still there, there would have been a Big 12 championship game last weekend. And TCU and Baylor would have had Nebraska, Missouri, and aTm on their schedules. So they can blame Texas, and maybe Baylor can also blame themselves for following along. Granted, TCU came along afterwards, though.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 9:26 am to BamaGradinTn
Do you take this blame mentail try into your job?
Posted on 12/8/14 at 9:55 am to BamaGradinTn
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Who should Baylor blame?
Sack that PR Firm for not getting the job done.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 9:56 am to BamaGradinTn
They should blame themselves. They had the opportunity to go undefeated and make it in but they didn't. You shouldn't leave it up to the committee to decide.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:07 pm to BamaGradinTn
Baylor should blame Baylor for being Baylor.
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:11 pm to BamaGradinTn
Why should they blame the man who kept them out of the conference usa?
Posted on 12/8/14 at 12:16 pm to BamaGradinTn
We don't care about Baylor on the SECR.
I see where the confusion came into play.
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BamaGrad
I see where the confusion came into play.
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