But How is The Big 12 the WAC?

RoadDawg55

I was talking to my buddy about the SEC compared to the rest of college football. We both agreed that the SEC is the best, but the QB play is mind bogglingly atrocious, year after year. It's really strange how bad the QB play is down there considering how strong the conference is. When a team had a good QB (Newton, Tebow), they roll over the conference because almost every good team in that conference has a good defense and running game. Then we started talking about how bad the Big 12 was.

Anyways, we started looking at NFL players by conference.

Players drafted in 2015

SEC: 50
ACC: 47
Pac 12: 38
Big Ten: 32
Big 12: 24

TL, DR: The Big 12 sucks. The committee got it right.

godawgst

For whatever reason, the Big 12 decided as a conference that they wanted to become the Midwest version of Arena Football where the first team to 50 wins. Good news for them they succeeded. Bad news for them is the football gods have punished them accordingly.

I am sure it's just a fluke that of the power 5 conferences, the ones that have longest streak since winning the NC (Pac 12/Big 12) have both adapted that philosophy (minus Stanford)

Football gods still exist and will punish you for going against the basic tenants of the game.

RaceBannon

The PAC 12 used to be closer to the SEC

dhdawg

Big-12 defense-optional football is atrocious. When Texas and Oklahoma suck the conference sucks

RoadDawg55

dhdawg said:

Big-12 defense-optional football is atrocious. When Texas and Oklahoma suck the conference sucks

You nailed it. I felt the same about the SEC last year when the Mississippi schools were both ranked in the top 5. When they are, it means the conference is down.

doogsinparadise

RoadDawg55 said:

dhdawg said:

Big-12 defense-optional football is atrocious. When Texas and Oklahoma suck the conference sucks

You nailed it. I felt the same about the SEC last year when the Mississippi schools were both ranked in the top 5. When they are, it means the conference is down.

I don't know if I'd go that far, it just meant that Ole Miss had been recruiting the sort of dudes that used to end up at UT, UF and UGA. Texas still has players, they just have a shitty coach that can't work with what he has.

Fire_Marshall_Bill

Nebraska, aTm, Missouri, and Colorado were ripped out and replaced with TCU and West Virginia, and Texas has been down for five years.

It's not like Colorado was good, but the other three were part of the backbone of the conference.

Texas Tech, Iowa State, and the Kansas schools probably aren't producing much NFL talent. I really hope Baylor isn't producing many defensive players. TCU struggled until big boy talent was recruited.

Plus there are stupid people in the NFL. Ditka thought Derek Anderson was an awesome q.b. People thought Locker was a number one pick. People listen to ESPN and CBS and hear that the Alabama and LSU lines were 4 notches above the Big Tens, when it's really more like half a notch now, and it might have been one five years ago. nobody goes in depth.