re: Buy or sell over the next 5 years: Texas & Oklahoma football

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If I were a Sooner fan, I'd be really apprehensive right now. When you jump to another conference, a lot of your past history goes out the window with recruits, and they look to see where you fit in with the new group. And unfortunately Lincoln Riley threw a grenade into the program, at the worst possible moment. OU hasn't been this unsettled since before Stoops came in.

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This is obviously made-up nonsense you pulled straight out of your arse in some moronic attempt to dismiss OU's history.

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Penn State entered the Big 10 while on a high note, and competed well against Michigan and Ohio State. They settled into the top tier. Nebraska was beginning to implode when they jumped in, and now they're locked into mediocrity. They have lost all national cred, and have gone into a death spiral.

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Penn State entered the BIG in 1990. Absolutely NOTHING changed for them and they continued to win at their historical pace. They entered a slump from 2000-2004 and re-emerged in 2005 to win 11 games. Under Franklin they've had four 11 win seasons. They currently have four B1G conference champion trophies. Not bad for a team in a tough conference that isn't a national power.

Penn State had a good run in the 70s and through the 80s and then they fell off a little bit. They were never a historical national power so I don't know why you're yammering about them in the first place. Like I said above, they've had four 11 win seasons under Franklin and just won the Rose Bowl last season. That's hardly a "muh death spiral".

As for "Nerbraskee!".......they imploded long before they entered the B1G. They never successfully made the jump from old school option football (their identity) to a more modern style and couldn't recruit for it.

Miami put the final nail in their coffin in the 2001 title game by crushing their old school option football team and sending them into a spiraling identity crisis from which they have yet to recover. They spent the next decade in the BIG XII mired in mediocrity and joined the B1G in 2011 in an already degraded state. Their struggles aren't new, and have nothing to do with them changing conferences.

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I'm glad LSU got Kelly, even though LSU had been established within the SEC already. And I know Kelly may not be the very best, but he's structured, solid and professional- you don't want the Orgeron thing going on when you shuffle the standings.

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Who has an "Orgeron thing" going on?

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Texas also better hope they get their act together; they're not coming in as the longtime favorite and owner of the conference. There's a chance they can get relegated to Aggie level, or worse.

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Sounds like they're already in your head to me, for some reason.