Top two-sport schools

[Sooner_Havok]

I thought this was kind of interesting and haven't seen it posted on here so...

Top Two-Sport Schools (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?page=061221two-sportchart)

We are pretty high up there.

[soonerguild]

Makes me happy that the top 4 consists of two big 12 and two SEC teams. But the ACC and Big 10 are such better conferences, or so Im told.

[CatfishSooner]

thats cool, ****es me off that USC is # in football and we're # 2, but its aright

[Sooner_Havok]

Makes me happy that the top 4 consists of two big 12 and two SEC teams. But the ACC and Big 10 are such better conferences, or so Im told.

Stop trying to use stats, rankings, numbers, and other nonsense to say the Big XII doesn't suck ok! :D

[tulsaoilerfan]

Wow, aggie is tied for 17th; never would have thought such a good Hoops ranking would account for that much

[TopDawg]

I bet in 2004 we would've been #1.

Thanks ESPN for waiting until now to do this. If you're going to hate us, at least be more subtle.

[OUmillenium]

We would have been #1 in 1988

[SoonerGators]

I'm glad we were top 5 on this list, I think that's very fair. Oklahoma athletics has a lot to be proud of.

[TopDawg]

We would have been #1 in 1988

I bet ESPN didn't do it then either! :mad:

[Herr Scholz]

Obviously they picked the #1 overall team correctly. ;)

[Luthor]

I thought it was based on 2 sports? So how does Connecticut get in the top 20 with basketball and uh basketball?

[Sooner_Havok]

I thought it was based on 2 sports? So how does Connecticut get in the top 20 with basketball and uh basketball?


There is a reason they are tied with losur :texan:

:D

[AimForCenterMass]

Why not add baseball as a part of the mix and have the big three? Sure, Texas would be up there, but so would OU.

Oklahoma should be proud of the diversity of success. Oklahoma's not just a football school anymore.

[jwlynn64]

Wisconsin is the highest rated Big 10 School! LOL funny....

[Herr Scholz]

Why not add baseball as a part of the mix and have the big three? Sure, Texas would be up there, but so would OU.

Oklahoma should be proud of the diversity of success. Oklahoma's not just a football school anymore.
Definitely true. Wouldn't you say OU's athletic department overall has benifited greatly from the formation of the Big XII and the added tv revenue?

[picasso]

Definitely true. Wouldn't you say OU's athletic department overall has benifited greatly from the formation of the Big XII and the added tv revenue?
hmm, I recall a good Sooner baseball team before the Big 12 formed.

[Herr Scholz]

hmm, I recall a good Sooner baseball team before the Big 12 formed.
Yeah, you guys won in '94 right? I'm talking about your overall athletic department though. Wouldn't you say the level of all OU sports has risen since the Big XII? It seems that way to me. Honest question.

[picasso]

you coulds say so definitely, same for Texas.

[SoonerShark]

Obviously they picked the #1 overall team correctly. ;)

That is unfair. If we were paying our basketball recruits rather than just giving them 510 extra phone calls over 208 weeks we could be number one, too.

[Herr Scholz]

you coulds say so definitely, same for Texas.
Yep.

[SoonerShark]

Definitely true. Wouldn't you say OU's athletic department overall has benifited greatly from the formation of the Big XII and the added tv revenue?

NU, OU and CU from the former Big 8 have won 5 national championships and played for four others in football from 1985 through 2004. KU, UM, OU and OSU from the former Big 8 did pretty well in basketball. Baseball is just one step above a club sport. In this day and age, the Big 8 would have done just fine without the Southwest Conference refugees. The TV landscape and the extension of the Fox, ESPN and other sports networks would have required the Big 8 product and added money to the war chest to the old Big 8 with or without the refugees. Nevertheless, I like A&M, TT and UT more than I like UM, KU and KSU. We should add TCU in the South, and boot OSU to the North or Conference USA. OSU might have won the North or CUSA this year in football.

[jwlynn64]

I think that OU took a step forward in all sports when Joe C. was hired, Big 8 or Big XII.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

This can't be right anyway, since our basketball coach the last 5 years has been beyond ****ty, I mean Kelvin was the worst coach in the history of the school, I mean if his coaching wasn't so boring, we would have had sellouts and donuts flying in from heaven!

[King Crimson]

I bet in 2004 we would've been #1.

Thanks ESPN for waiting until now to do this. If you're going to hate us, at least be more subtle.

easy daug, they did say it was a five year average. could have prolly been #1 in 01 or 02 too as well based on hoops success.

[starclassic tama]

i think the formation of the big 12 was huge for both OU and texas. sure we would continue to play every year, but now the red river game has significant big 12 and national title implications

[King Crimson]

Definitely true. Wouldn't you say OU's athletic department overall has benifited greatly from the formation of the Big XII and the added tv revenue?

i'd say the worst thing about the Big XII is the terrible TV contract. and the Big 8 was never any stranger to national media coverage with OU and NU (and later CU) as title contenders, the SWC was pretty regional. you might not admit the latter, but it was true. no one has benefited more the Texas schools. the Cotton Bowl was clearly the lesser of the old New Years Day bowl games.

and the ESPN's of the world *these days* will market the hell of of UT since it's got the most TV sets per capita in the southwest.....and i think that will be to the detriment of OU. they tried to do it all through the early 00's but we kept beating Mack....now, it's a bit precarious in my opinion since ESPN chooses a favorite and hammers them down the throat of teh consumer public.

and don't think even as devoid of substance as ESPN usually is that it doesn't have an effect on public perception and eventually recruiting.

[Sooner_Havok]

I would say that the Big XII killed nebraska. I know they went to two NC games in the Big XII, but that was pretty early on in the conference. Nebraska needed to play OU every year to keep their name out there.