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.












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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.
Comment by osupike4 — March 24, 2008 @ 11:40 pm
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@ 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.
Comment by Studley — March 24, 2008 @ 6:28 pm
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#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
Comment by okiedomer — March 24, 2008 @ 9:19 am
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the “thank god we’re not baylor or iowa state classic”
Comment by yoyofutbawl — March 23, 2008 @ 8:46 pm
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Something Meth Lab Something Something
OR
The Red River Consolation Round
Comment by Big Jon — March 22, 2008 @ 11:02 am
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“*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.
Comment by Studley — March 22, 2008 @ 10:45 am
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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.)
Comment by Studley — March 22, 2008 @ 10:28 am
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how about The Worlds Largest Traveling Meth Lab?
Comment by Joe T. — March 22, 2008 @ 9:49 am
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“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
Comment by Soonertruth — March 21, 2008 @ 11:14 pm
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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?
Comment by formerlyanonymous — March 21, 2008 @ 9:50 pm
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# 10 DC Trojan…reverse number 4 of your suggestions and you’ve got the greatest innuendo possible outside Oregon St. and South Carolina.
Comment by Doc — March 21, 2008 @ 8:14 pm