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Posted on 6/15/10 at 3:55 pm
Posted by NorthshoreTiger76
Pelicans, Saints, & LSU Fan
Member since May 2009
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Posted on 6/15/10 at 3:55 pm
i thought they were a power but they layed down too
Posted by rollthatback
Member since Jun 2008
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Posted on 6/15/10 at 3:57 pm to
Oklahoma population- 3.6 million

Texas population- 24.8 million

This should mostly explain it for you.
Posted by LSUROXS
Texas
Member since Sep 2006
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Posted on 6/15/10 at 3:59 pm to
You are wrong. The majority of players at OU come from Where? that's right TEXAS, so if Texas stays OU has to stay otherwise OU recruiting will go under. Kids go to OU because they can go back to Texas to play every year. If OU stay OSU stays because of the same reasons.

Now, If I'm running OU football, I tell the Big XII the pie is to be shared equally because OU stayed as did OSU.
Posted by NorthshoreTiger76
Pelicans, Saints, & LSU Fan
Member since May 2009
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Posted on 6/15/10 at 4:00 pm to
ummmmm OU was not always in Texas conference
Posted by LSUJuice
Back in Houston
Member since Apr 2004
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Posted on 6/15/10 at 4:01 pm to
quote:

if Texas stays OU has to stay otherwise OU recruiting will go under.

Do you really believe this?
Posted by LSUROXS
Texas
Member since Sep 2006
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Posted on 6/15/10 at 4:04 pm to
quote:

Do you really believe this?

I think it would impact OU recruiting because Stoops can go to recruits with the guarantee that they will play in front of home-town folks and family. Yes I think it is a selling point to recruits.
Posted by LSUJuice
Back in Houston
Member since Apr 2004
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Posted on 6/15/10 at 4:10 pm to
Oklahoma did fine recruiting all those years in the Big 8. And they'd probably keep the rivalry with Texas going. I think the recruiting angle (advantages and disadvantages) in all of this is overrated.
Posted by DocBugbear
Arlington, Texas
Member since Mar 2008
8140 posts
Posted on 6/15/10 at 4:21 pm to
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i thought they were a power but they layed down too


Disagree! I think that if OU would have gone to the PAC-10 the PAC-16 would have happened without TAMU. OU was going to go to the SEC which destroyed the whole PAC-16 plan.
Posted by wrlakers
Member since Sep 2007
5901 posts
Posted on 6/15/10 at 4:25 pm to
quote:

I think it would impact OU recruiting because Stoops can go to recruits with the guarantee that they will play in front of home-town folks and family. Yes I think it is a selling point to recruits.


OU and Texas have been playing in Dallas since 1912 (with only a couple of years off). Being in the same conference (or even division) has had nothing to do with it.
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