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This week, it’s Big 12 basketball coach searching season, let’s discuss ‘super-early Texas-OU buyout, Big 12 softball, more Pac-12 fun and a moment of zen from West Virginia.
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Is it Big 12 Basketball Coach Poaching Season?
Mike Brey’s retirement announcement received me occupied with whether or not the Big 12 may lose a head coach to the Fighting Irish.
Yes, the Texas job is technically open, too. But I really feel the Longhorns are going to search for a rent that has expertise with the SEC, which is why somebody like Kentucky’s John Calipari is a pure coach to pursue (I wrote about that recently as a result of I’m right here to serve all of your basketball wants. I’m a giver).
Notre Dame is completely different. It doesn’t have fairly as a lot basketball custom, however when it’s good — because it has been beneath Brey — it may be actually good. They have nice services and also you’ll by no means need for assets.
Pursuing a coach in the Big 12 could be a pure thought for the Irish. It’s the finest convention in basketball and options a few of the finest coaches in the recreation. Of course, a few of these coaches are, I believe, unattainable. Baylor’s Scott Drew, Kansas’ Bill Self, TCU’s Jamie Dixon, Texas Tech’s Mark Adams and West Virginia’s Bob Huggins aren’t strolling by means of that door. Three of them (Dixon, Adams and Huggins) have their dream jobs. The different two have received nationwide titles and there’s no motive for them to depart.
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That leaves Iowa State’s T.J. Otzelberger, Kansas State’s Jerome Tang, Oklahoma’s Porter Moser, Oklahoma State’s Mike Boynton Jr. and Texas interim coach Rodney Terry.
Otz mainly has his dream job. Tang is in his first season and whereas he’ll be a coach search du jour this offseason, I believe he’s extra serious about increase in Manhattan. Moser and the Sooners are transitioning to the SEC and that has extra pull. If Boynton wasn’t going to move again to his alma mater (South Carolina) after Frank Martin left, then what job would he take? And Terry? As a head coach earlier than Texas he was simply over .500.
Oh, and there’s a buyout concern with Moser, as Stadium’s Jeff Goodman factors out.
Sure, Notre Dame can strive if it likes. But the Big 12 coaches know the future is forward of this league. Plus, they’ve assets and so they all make good cash.
Katie doesn’t must bar the door … this time.
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The $250 Million Question
Supposedly, we could have a Big 12 soccer schedule by the finish of the month. We’ll see. I believe we’re all pondering why that is taking so lengthy, particularly as Oklahoma and Texas attempt to exit one yr early. But an innocuous query posed by my boss, Pete Mundo, throughout our basketball podcast earlier this week led me to articulate a query I’ve been pondering for a bit now:
Could OU and Texas be attempting to get out two years early?
Sounds insane, I do know. But I put some thought into it and figured out how it COULD be done. I’m getting my ‘tin foil hat’ second out of the approach early for 2023.
Portraits in Courage
Someone was fairly sad with the officiating throughout Baylor’s win over Texas Tech earlier this week.
I’d say you pay for flooring seats to yell at officers, however apparently we additionally pay for flooring seats to jaw with NBA gamers and the fathers of NBA gamers, as evidenced by Shannon Sharpe.
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The Pac-12 Had an Audit and … Uh Oh
So, whereas Big 12 followers are ready for a soccer schedule, Pac-12 followers are ready for a tv contract. And the league kinda wants one because it lapses after the 2023-24 athletic yr, and that’s when USC and UCLA head to the Big Ten.
One has to marvel if this news complicates issues in any respect?
The Pac-12 statement goes into the nuts and bolts of it. When you think about it’s a convention launch, it’s surprisingly clear about what occurred. It’s additionally the sort of factor you DON’T need while you’re attempting to get a brand new TV deal.
Where Big 12 Will Miss Texas, OU
The previous two years have proven that the Big 12 can area a aggressive convention in soccer with out Oklahoma and Texas. When the two groups depart for basketball, I believe the identical holds true there, too.
But one sport the place the Big 12 will miss each OU and Texas is softball.
The All-Big 12 preseason team came out this week and eight of the 12 picks have been both Sooners or Longhorns (seven of them have been Sooners, who simply occur to be the defending nationwide champions). Oklahoma State received two of the picks, whereas Baylor and Kansas received one every.
As one may count on, the Sooners were No. 1 in the preseason softball poll. Oklahoma State was second and Texas was third.
All three went to the Women’s College World Series final season. And, when OU and Texas depart the convention Oklahoma State turns into the pure option to be the dominant program. The query is which faculties will elevate to provide the Cowgirls a run for his or her cash.
A Moment of Zen
Is that also a factor? If so, then let’s shut with a photograph of West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins and Baby Dog.
Oh, and the Governor of West Virginia, Jim Justice, and WVU athletic director Wren Baker are in there too. But its Huggs and a canine, so we’re gonna concentrate on that.Â
You can discover Matthew Postins on Twitter @PostinsPostcard
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