EXCELLENCE IN LOGISTICS: THE BIG XII

Texas Tech is in Lubbock.

No idea what to call it. However, if I were in charge of scheduling for UGa, I’d do everything I could to get the Cocktail party OUT OF FLORIDA.

Worlds Largest Waste of 3.5 Hours? Just a guess…

Stillwater to Dallas – 266 miles
Lubbock to Dallas – 345 miles
Stillwater to Lubbock – 444 miles

I don’t know, seems like a reasonable alternative to me, but I went to a Big XII school.

Ohio Dawg,

Jacksonville is more South Georgia than it is North Florida. That’s a home game for the Bulldogs.

Athens to Jacksonville: 349 miles
Gainesville to Jacksonville: 71 miles

home game my ass

If you lived in Stillwater, wouldn’t you want to get the hell out of town as often as possible? There’s a reason why Eddie Sutton developed a Mangino-sized drinking problem.

“Cowboys and Red Raiders Shooting J.R.”

And why wouldn’t they just play it in OK City? At least it’s on the road between Lubbock and Stillwater, and as the OU/UT game is played in Texas, they could return the favor to Oklahoma for the OSU/TTU game.

Redneck-a-palooza?

Budweiser, Buckles, and Babes Bash?

In-state also-rans Self-pity Party?

Pokes and Pirates Party?

There’s a reverse cowgirl joke in here somewhere, I know it.

Recruiting

Is there even a big boy sized football stadium in Oklahoma City?

Not that there is one in Stillwater or Lubbock either….

They’ll play it here in Dallas because Jerry Jones’ new stadium (which is were I think it will end up) will seat 100,000 people, which means a big gate for both schools. Plus, if your school is in Stillwater or Lubbock, you probably are going to get a fair amount of your player talent from metropolitan Texas, including Dallas. By scheduling a game in Dallas every year you have an opportunity to let recruits see you, plus the ability to tell them that their family will be able to drive in to see them at least once a season.
And from a fundraising point of view, if a lot of your alumni live in a big city, then having an event there every year gives you an opportunity to do some good fundraising there. And as I recall, a certain very wealthy donor to OSU lives here…

Might as well call it the Red River Rivalry…. It’s not like any other part of this scheme is original anyway.

sigh… leave it to Aggie Lite to fabricate tradition where none exists.

1. Considering OSU cant sell out Boone Pickens (Yep, that’s what it’s really called) Stadium of 50K, I doubt the new Jerryville is going to be full for that game.

I give this deal six years, tops.

let’s see… orange people with guns against red people with guns… call it the Texas Shoot ’em Up.

or call it Spread Em in allas… get it, cause neither of them will play D?

god, those suggestions sucked.

I would assume T. Boone Pickens will be supplying the OSU team with some sort of teleportation device.

I’m a man! Yarrr

The World’s Greatest Excuse to Get Out of Lubbock and Stillwater!

I read somewhere that there is going to be a game between Arkansas and A&M that will also take place in Dallas. That means the Metroplex will now have Oklahoma/Texas, Oklahoma State/Texas Tech, A & M/ Arkansas and SMU/TCU. That is a lot of football.

For years, Texas Tech dragged its feet on moving its game against Texas A&M to Big D. For TTU, the A&M game represents a $6 million injection into the coffers of Lubbock businesses and the Tech athletics department. No matter Tech’s record, the A&M game represents a guaranteed sell out.

The Texas game, which Tech hosts in the off A&M year, represents the second biggest game for Lubbock and Tech.

TTU’s administrators, who occasionally inject themselves in the going-ons of the athletics department, want a game in Big D for three reasons. One, the greatest number of Tech alumni live in Dallas. Two, the metroplex represents fertile recruiting ground for all students (not just the athlete variety). Three, Tech wants to increase enrollment from 30k to 40k in the next five years or so.

Tech has not beaten OSU in Stillwater in the last four or five games. No one wants to travel to Stillwater. No one wants to come to Lubbock to watch the Slow Pokes. Move the game to a city that people, um, actually want to visit. Pick up some alumni donations. Get some new students. Go home hungover.

I can’t imagine that anyone gives enough of a damn to give it a name.

The World’s Largest Outdoor Shit-kicking

1. 10 DC Trojan…reverse number 4 of your suggestions and you’ve got the greatest innuendo possible outside Oregon St. and South Carolina.

Well if you mix brown and orange, you get some sort of brown right? Mexicans populate the majority of those cities. We’ve heard plenty of “shoot out” themed things. How about the Border Patrol Shoot Out?

“what would OSU-TT in Dallas be called?” The same thing it’s called now:

The Battle For Fourth Place In The Big XII South

how about The Worlds Largest Traveling Meth Lab?

My name for this contest is “The World’s Largest Drunk and Disorderly Conduct Soiree”. Maybe there should be a poll on this.

Anonymous IV @ 22 – This multi-game arrangement was originally part of Former Mayor Laura Miller’s “Master Plan” to keep the city-owned Cotton Bowl on life support. This strategy was preferred instead of simply razing the thing and building JerryLand on the site, like she should have done, if not for her ego and desiring a “No Jones Tax” for the city. (It’ll be ironic if this game ends up in JerryLand instead.)

Add to it that DFW is home to the largest contingent of Big 12 Alumni, all ready to write those big checks – most of whom are tired of the monopoly UT and OU have had – and you have what appears to be an unlimited cash-generating bonanza.

(Luckily, CBS carry SEC games, my only escape to sanity from the madness that is the Big 12.)

“*I did zero research to back this up and it may be false, but it sounds like a good point.”

Census figures from 07/01/06:

DFW Metroplex – 6 million (Dallas itself has 1.2 million of this total, including yours truly.)
State of Oklahoma – 3,579,212

So you were correct, Orson. And you almost got Belmont right.

Something Meth Lab Something Something
OR
The Red River Consolation Round

the “thank god we’re not baylor or iowa state classic”

1. - i don’t know what dreamworld you’re living in if you think this game is going to get “big checks” out of OSU alum – outside of boone pickens, there’s not an OSU alum making over $8.50 an hour

as for a name, i’d suggest The World’s Largest Outdoor Small-Town-Girls-Drunkenly-Exploring-Their-Newfound-Sexuality Party, as that’s the one aspect that, in my experience, both OSU and T-Tech share

@ 34 – It doesn’t matter what game it is that is scheduled in DFW. Baylor and Iowa State could play at Richardson High School’s stadium and the same thing will happen. Big 12 folk throw money around here like T. Boone Pickens to the point that the Metroplex want them to play all of their games here.

Honestly guys I think this is the best thing for both these almost there programs. Clearly the majority of you are not from the southern hell of the United States but its pretty boring down here and any chance to grab all the old fraternity brothers and alumni friends who are newly making money, ( in Dallas), is a great time plus the exposure it will get each school. It seems to be working considering it make this SEC and East Coast biased blog-page. I will admit I am an OSU alum but currently attend another midwestern school I will not mention due to the adverse ridicule I might endure after it but give us a chance, in the Big 12 recruiting and competing is hard enough with UT and OU taking anyone worth a star ranking. This may be both the schools only chance to supplant the over-weighed competition. Also sorry about calling out the East Coast and SEC biased, I truly have respect for the southeastern conference and everything it does.