explain please. I'm making a good point about how OU will be competitive based on the talent they have now, and the historical success they have enjoyed over most p5 programs.
You’ve been winning against a 9 game P5 conference schedule where only 1 team has talent equal to yours. The other 8 don’t even appear on your list and are probably man for man 20 or more men deficient on an 85 man roster based solely on recruiting “blue chips”
Go back and look at your list. Now add Tennessee who is recruiting better and Ole’ Miss. currently your list has 7 teams in your new conf who are recruiting better or within 10 players on an 85 man roster of uo. Add Tennessee and Ole’ Miss and you have 9 teams with talent better than or within 10 players of uo.
Now look at the big12. Aside from Texas which has always been on your schedule and Nebraska, there are and have never been (outside of 1 or 2 yrs and never w consistency) Any conference teams in the big12/8 w talent within 20 players of uo.
On top of that there are no venues (outside of BPS the last 7 or so years) in the big12 where you have to compete w the atmosphere.
Sure you’ve won conf championships but outside of a magical run in 2000 that was really no different than our 2011 run it’s been damn near 40 yrs since you can say you could line up across from anybody and out talent them.
You’ve won conf championships the last 50 years bc your talent has been far superior than any team save 1 team (Nebraska then Texas). You’ve had the advantage of playing that 1 team (Texas) on a neutral field unlike any other team in the Big12 who every other yr has had to go to Texas.
Your own list proves you no longer have the talent edge over 7 teams and another 3 are within 10 players of being equal. And you have to go to LSU, Bama, Tenn, Oxford, Auburn, College Station, Athens, Gainesville. Those are way different than Stillwater, Ames, Lawerence, Lubbock, Manhattan and Waco.