EXCELLENCE IN LOGISTICS: THE BIG XII
This is Stillwater. It’s in the northern part of Oklahoma. Oklahoma State plays there. Amarillo Lubbock**, the home of Texas Tech, is scarcely farther south.
Naturally, the two schools have agreed to start playing their games in… wait for it… Dallas. Because really, why make one fanbase travel hundreds of miles a year when you can make both instead?
Of course, there is the fact that more people live in Dallas than the entire state of Oklahoma* and there’s probably as many fans of each team in Dallas as there are in their home cities, but still, Dallas is not, how you say, close. Stillwater is 266 miles away, and that’s the closer of the two cities; it’s about 100 more miles from Amarillo Lubbock.***
So the question is, dear readers, if the UGA-UF game in Jacksonville is the world’s largest jorts cocktail party, what would OSU-TT in Dallas be called?
*I did zero research to back this up and it may be false, but it sounds like a good point.
**whoops a daisy.
***ditto.
Loading ...
1
The Birddog says:
Texas Tech is in Lubbock.
March 21st, 2008 at 1:59 pm
2
OhioDawg says:
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.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:02 pm
3
CLTDawg says:
Worlds Largest Waste of 3.5 Hours? Just a guess…
March 21st, 2008 at 2:03 pm
4
Chuckles says:
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.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:11 pm
5
Brandon Lang says:
Ohio Dawg,
Jacksonville is more South Georgia than it is North Florida. That’s a home game for the Bulldogs.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:12 pm
6
RedDawg says:
Athens to Jacksonville: 349 miles
Gainesville to Jacksonville: 71 miles
home game my ass
March 21st, 2008 at 2:17 pm
7
them oklahoma says:
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.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:18 pm
8
WarCardinals says:
“Cowboys and Red Raiders Shooting J.R.”
March 21st, 2008 at 2:21 pm
9
WarCardinals says:
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.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:25 pm
10
DC Trojan says:
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.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:27 pm
11
King Harvest says:
Recruiting
March 21st, 2008 at 2:27 pm
12
Chuckles says:
Is there even a big boy sized football stadium in Oklahoma City?
Not that there is one in Stillwater or Lubbock either….
March 21st, 2008 at 2:33 pm
13
baconboy says:
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…
March 21st, 2008 at 2:33 pm
14
texxucks says:
Might as well call it the Red River Rivalry…. It’s not like any other part of this scheme is original anyway.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:33 pm
15
CincySooner says:
sigh… leave it to Aggie Lite to fabricate tradition where none exists.
#13 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.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:56 pm
16
Adam says:
let’s see… orange people with guns against red people with guns… call it the Texas Shoot ‘em Up.
March 21st, 2008 at 2:59 pm
17
Adam says:
or call it Spread Em in allas… get it, cause neither of them will play D?
March 21st, 2008 at 3:00 pm
18
Adam says:
god, those suggestions sucked.
March 21st, 2008 at 3:01 pm
19
jbob says:
I would assume T. Boone Pickens will be supplying the OSU team with some sort of teleportation device.
March 21st, 2008 at 3:01 pm
20
Brian O'Blivion says:
I’m a man! Yarrr!1!!1!
March 21st, 2008 at 3:10 pm
21
beast in bama says:
The World’s Greatest Excuse to Get Out of Lubbock and Stillwater!
March 21st, 2008 at 3:11 pm
22
Anonymous IV says:
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.
March 21st, 2008 at 3:35 pm
23
bevo says:
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.
March 21st, 2008 at 3:56 pm
24
samuri javacoder says:
I can’t imagine that anyone gives enough of a damn to give it a name.
March 21st, 2008 at 4:58 pm
25
thehakujin says:
The World’s Largest Outdoor Shit-kicking
March 21st, 2008 at 5:30 pm
26
Doc says:
# 10 DC Trojan…reverse number 4 of your suggestions and you’ve got the greatest innuendo possible outside Oregon St. and South Carolina.
March 21st, 2008 at 8:14 pm
27
formerlyanonymous says:
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?
March 21st, 2008 at 9:50 pm
28
Soonertruth says:
“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
March 21st, 2008 at 11:14 pm
29
Joe T. says:
how about The Worlds Largest Traveling Meth Lab?
March 22nd, 2008 at 9:49 am
30
Studley says:
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.)
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:28 am
31
Studley says:
“*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.
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:45 am
32
Big Jon says:
Something Meth Lab Something Something
OR
The Red River Consolation Round
March 22nd, 2008 at 11:02 am
33
yoyofutbawl says:
the “thank god we’re not baylor or iowa state classic”
March 23rd, 2008 at 8:46 pm
34
okiedomer says:
#30 – 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
March 24th, 2008 at 9:19 am
35
Studley says:
@ 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.
March 24th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
36
osupike4 says:
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.
March 24th, 2008 at 11:40 pm