OUtlander

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ou’re correct about counter run concepts. It’s called a Trey Counter. I hate the term air raid because Riley is beyond air raid. He does mix two different types of offenses. He’s simply ahead of everyone one in regards to creativity.

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Well no. Riley runs a GT (Guard/Tackle) Counter. Some of the ideas this scheme is based on did come from the Counter Tre that Joe Gibbs ran with the 'Skins, but it's a distinct system with a lot more variations. The Gibbs system's success largely came from the high experience/talent level of his offensive lines that practiced the scheme year in/year out with running backs that were perfectly suited to that run game. Obviously, Gibbs ran a variety of plays and wrinkles in the Tre, but the modern GT features far more flexibility than what was run in the 70's-80s. Especially in play action options.

From a geographic and economic POV the merging of the Big 8 and SWC made sense at the time. Bringing in Baylor was acceptable for much the same reason that Vandy has always been a completely valid (and needed) inclusion in the SEC. The conference was on pretty good footing until texsa and Deloss Dodds went ape on greed and alienated just about everyone else. While COL could have been replaced, losing NEB, MO and aTm was a hit to the conference identity that couldn't be accounted for and was the beginning of the end.
Geographically and culturally, bringing in WVA was a head scratcher to begin with and made moreso by not bringing in CIN and/or LOU to extend something like a geographic continuity (a kind of pod if you will) to the conference footprint. The fact that they were 'city schools' was not overly appealing to the state Universities and they chose to pass while keeping the 'Neers in the fold. Not a smart choice.
That said - being a conference named the Big XII and having only 10 teams was laughable all along, but pretty summed up the dysfunction of the situation.

"I am not a Conservative"
F.A Hayek
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You're right. We all thought it was 'unusual' but scheduling conflicts can result in off-the-wall pairings. Either way it's a scrimmage albeit on the road - which might be worthwhile.

There isn't a significant sports media outlet in the US that doesn't cover OU football frequently. On a national scale, eyeballs and clicks abound for the Sooners. As CFB heads into the post-NCAA, four mega conference era, for the SEC - bringing in OU and texsa is a no-brainer.

No Manning would touch San Francisco-in-Austin with a ten foot pole.

So much for the Wilkinson-Bryant OU/Bama cordiality.


yawn.

I was writing code on Cray's before you ever heard of the internet.

A fair summation. But there is a lot of 'southern' in NE OK as well. Hunting, fishing and overall cultural activities that are common in the south are equally prevalent in NE OK.
An earlier poster on this thread identified OK as a 'country' state i.e. not necessarily a 'southern' state, which has some truth to it. Roy Clark, Reba McEntire, Toby Keith, Garth Brooks, Carrie Underwood, Vince Gill, Blake Shelton, Ronnie Dunn, Mel McDaniel, Hoyt Axton, Roger Miller and many other Country musicians all either hail from OK or developed lifelong ties to the state.
p.s. the nickname 'Little Dixie' has never applied to the whole state of OK - just the SE corner.