Oklahoma Big 12 Trophy Broken

Submitted by Amaizin' Blue on

Seriously, you can't make this stuff up. Do they have any common sense down there? Look at how they decided to move their Big 12 trophies - a glass bowl with each team in the conference logo etched into it.

http://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2017/1/28/14427052/oklahoma-bi…

 

EDIT: Tried to have some fun with the title but well, I guess it wasn't funny. More descriptive title here.

The Fan in Fargo

January 29th, 2017 at 9:57 AM ^

Wow! At least tape them on the cart with masking tape or something. If NDSU had trophies from a conference like that and I happened to break one, pretty sure the whole town of Fargo would exile me to the bad lands. Yes they are lunatics here. Sad to say I think it rubs off on me.

team126

January 29th, 2017 at 10:07 AM ^

Don't tell me they are irrelevant.

Location? Norman is a village.

University itself? Oklahoma is, well, Oklahoma, slightly better than Oakland University.

Recruiting? They do get a lot from Texas.

Coaching? Perhaps.

 

 

rainingmaize

January 29th, 2017 at 12:28 PM ^

The thing that makes Oklahoma so good and consistent is their stability. They've had the same athletic director since 1998 and Bob Stoops has been there since 1999. Stoops has a history of making great coaching hires.

Oklahoma also has consistently recruited Texas well. There is also a huge alumni base in California which has lead to some recruiting connections over there.

Oklahoma has some pretty decent resources. Texas is the only school in the Big 12 that spends more, and the third place school spends $30 million less than OU.

Oklahoma is not comparable academics wise to Michigan, nor is Norman to Ann Arbor. But Norman is still a fairly nice town to live in outside of Tornado season. OU is also ranked as the 111th best school in the US News and Report which is nothing to scoff at. The reason I went to Oklahoma for grad school over Michigan is that Oklahoma simply had a better program in what I wanted to study.

treetown

January 29th, 2017 at 10:13 AM ^

The college football championship trophy and these others are these ovid bits of crystals - why? Why? The Lombardi trophy is nice solid piece of metal. Other major trophies are substantial cups. WHY CRYSTAL!? Are they just asking to see them fall, crash and shatter into bits?

Was this some outside consultant influence? Or worse, someone's spouse exerting their effect?

drzoidburg

January 30th, 2017 at 2:04 AM ^

I think i read the old BCS trophy was dropped and shaterred by one team

Can't decide which is less valuable - the shitty conference that killed defense, or the mythical award