You mean our funny looking current coach.
Jury is still out on him but the SEC move has soured me on OU totally.
I think he meant John Blake. A beloved former player who replaced Gary Gibbs who was also a former player. Gibbs was decent as a head coach, but he replaced the King…Barry Switzer…so he had a tough act to follow. After he was fired, OU hired Blake. He was a dismal failure. He nearly killed the OU program. But then we got Bob Stoops. And he turned it around fast. Our current HFC is Brent Venables…but I wouldn’t call him a prodigal son. He did not play at Oklahoma. He was an assistant under Stoops.
Uh no I meant Blake. I’m not a fan of all the moving but we didn’t start it either.
I thought about how eventually College Football will be restructured into essentially two conferences.
The Big Ten merges with the Pac-12, and the ACC and SEC merge, with Big 12 having their teams split between the two.
I worked it out, to where the two conferences would consist of 5 divisions each, with each division with 6 or 7 teams, more or less based on traditional conference rivalries.
From that you have the playoffs with the top-two finishers in each division for the conference playoffs with 10 teams, seeded by ranking, so even a second-place finisher can be seeded ahead of a division winner. The top six seeds get a bye, with the lower 4 seeds playing the first round for the round of 8 in the conference. Then the two conference winners meet in the National Championship Game.
The twist I would add is incorporating a "subdivision" with the non Power 5 teams, that would be tied to division, such that one team from the subdivision plays at the top-level in a given season, with a playoff game at the end of the regular season determining who gets to be 'promoted' the next season. That would basically replace all those other meaningless bowl games in December.