Sweetest OU Girl
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Here are the facts. By the way, it is much, much, much harder to win on the road than at home as everyone reading this knows. So if you want to have a lousier record, just schedule more road games. Of course the Big-12 decision makers have not done us any favors by making us - once again - play so many road games at the start of the conference season. But we also decided to damage our kids by non-conference scheduling - which we control 100%
Team................# Of Home Games.....# Of Road Games
Iowa State...................17.............................7
Texas Tech...................15.............................8
West Virginia................14.............................7
TCU.............................14.............................9
Okla State....................13.............................8
Kan State.....................13............................11
Texas...........................13............................11
Kansas.........................13.............................8
OU................................9............................12
Baylor............................8............................11
Now just suppose we had played 8 more home games and 5 fewer road games than we did (like Iowa State). We would probably have at least 11 or 12 games won already and need just 5 or 6 or so more wins to have a pretty respectable record at the end of the year.
1. Everything would look more positive at this point.
2. Our players would have better feelings about the year
3. The fans would feel more positive.
4. Likely the attendance would be a bit better.
5. Even this board would feel a bit better about things.
6. And most important, recruits would feel more positive about considering us.
Playing all the road games like we have been doing the past few years is dumb - and self destructive.
Team................# Of Home Games.....# Of Road Games
Iowa State...................17.............................7
Texas Tech...................15.............................8
West Virginia................14.............................7
TCU.............................14.............................9
Okla State....................13.............................8
Kan State.....................13............................11
Texas...........................13............................11
Kansas.........................13.............................8
OU................................9............................12
Baylor............................8............................11
Now just suppose we had played 8 more home games and 5 fewer road games than we did (like Iowa State). We would probably have at least 11 or 12 games won already and need just 5 or 6 or so more wins to have a pretty respectable record at the end of the year.
1. Everything would look more positive at this point.
2. Our players would have better feelings about the year
3. The fans would feel more positive.
4. Likely the attendance would be a bit better.
5. Even this board would feel a bit better about things.
6. And most important, recruits would feel more positive about considering us.
Playing all the road games like we have been doing the past few years is dumb - and self destructive.
