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And why shouldn’t they? Their rep as the best conference in the country lets them schedule non-conference games at home against cupcakes while using how they chew each other up in conference play as the main reason for keeping their position as the best conference in the BCS. They sure don’t stray too far from home for out of conference games. Since 1998, the SEC is 40-39 in nonconference road games. That mark drops to 24-31 at schools from BCS conferences. Thanks to the Wiz of Odds for the heads up.
Georgia heads out to Arizona St. later this month, and it blows their entire travel budget for the decade. The Bulldogs traveled exactly 358 miles over the last 10 years for non-conference games — most of that mileage to go to Atlanta every other year to play Georgia Tech.
So this year Tennessee loses at UCLA, and later this season, Arkansas plays here against Texas, Auburn is at West Virginia, and as mentioned, Georgia travels to Arizona State.
Don’t expect to see even this small selection of road games from the SEC any time soon after this season. The multi-million dollar contract with ESPN covers only home games for SEC teams, which means that they will be more than happy to schedule 3 or 4 non-conference games at home — even if that means getting more D-1AA (excuse me, Football Championshp Series teams) on the schedule.
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 51 minutes ago
Nordberg,
Ironic indeed……teachable moment, I guess….
NY Horn,
I hope your drunk, because Izzo ain’t coming to Texas……Why don’t we just get Coach K. I mean Coach G came from Duke, they have to be dying to get out of Durham….
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 55 minutes ago
Egg, that’s fine, but at what point do you blame Barnes? Seriously, man. You’ve thrown players under the bus left and right, but at a certain point, doesn’t the buck stop somewhere. I know you’re more of an NBA guy so it begins and ends with players there, but we need fucking
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 55 minutes ago
Egg, that’s fine, but at what point do you blame Barnes? Seriously, man. You’ve thrown players under the bus left and right, but at a certain point, doesn’t the buck stop somewhere. I know you’re more of an NBA guy so it begins and ends with players there, but we need fucking
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 56 minutes ago
Trips,
I hear ya. I’m frustrated as well. I guess I just don’t prescribe to such a black and white characterization of the situation. I do know that no matter what happened in the huddle, JCB made a dumb play. If Rick didn’t explain or remind him of the situation, then I
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
Pat, know I don’t, but I’ve had coaches draw up plays to free up the best foul shooter and then tell that guy they’d put their foot up his ass if they passed the ball. It’s funny, but as a fans of football we nitpick blitz pickup and shit like that. Shit that’s
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
Pat, you know I don’t, but I’ve had coaches draw up plays to free up the best foul shooter and then tell that guy they’d put their foot up his ass if they passed the ball. It’s funny, but as a fans of football we nitpick blitz pickup and shit like that. Shit
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 4 minutes ago
Pat, you know I don’t, but I’ve had coaches draw up plays to free up the best foul shooter and then tell that guy they’d put their foot up his ass if they passed the ball. It’s funny, but as fans of football we nitpick blitz pickup and shit like that. Shit that’s
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 7 minutes ago
Shitty season…..Rick needs to hire some offensive help and someone needs to say it to him. Deloss?
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 9 minutes ago
Trips,
Do you know that he didn’t? JCB has made bad decision all season, why would this be any different. Barnes coached a shitastic game, but on the teams I was the best FT shooter, I never game up the ball unless it was an uncontested layup…..It’s not hard and it doesn’t take a
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 9 minutes ago
mcpayne, yes, you don’t leave that shit to chance. You don’t let your guys break the huddle or dead ball not knowing precisely what’s expected from them. Barnes doesn’t get 2 mil for coaching PE where he’s hoping the right guy gets fouled.
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uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 11 minutes ago
mpayne, I’d agree with you if J’Covan had been playing all season and had been in situations to make that decision. Like, you know, against Baylor, when he played all of 3 fucking minutes thanks to rick.
So yes, it is rick’s fault.
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 11 minutes ago
With 15 seconds left, out of a dead ball, most coaches would make it perfectly clear who they wanted to be fouled.
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uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
Stupid decisions by Brown are one of the reasons he sat on the bench for most of the season…lack of coaching maybe, or just a lack of basketball IQ?
Oh well, if Brown doesn’t go off in the 2nd half, we aren’t even playing in OT. Too bad he didn’t get much of a chance
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
Pat, if you were making 2 million a year, would you leave that up to chance?
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 15 minutes ago
Actually, if your a PG and the best FT shooter on the team and played basketball your entire life, you’d pretty much know not to give up the ball if you had any brains…..Such a dumb play…..
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D W commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
Oh, and a stupid decision by Brown in giving up the ball to Johnson.
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
Be nice if we’d coached our 90 percent foul shooter not to give the ball up.
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
Ransom,
1 for 2, that was not shitty defense……
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Mister Mike commented on the blog post State of the Union – NU Basketball, Part 1 (or Why We Are Where We Are) 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
Well if you had read it all the way, you would’ve noticed this little tidbit:
In the second part I’ll do my best to give an outline of what exactly is wrong with the program, what we can do to fix it, and then what will probably happen TO fix it.
So to answer your question:
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uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
The line kills us, as it should have.
Fuck Rick Barnes, as this was the worst coaching I have seen in all my years of watching UT sports.
This saved us from Kentucky, but I feel bad for Damo, he was a hell of a Longhorn.
Hook ‘em!
And FUCK RICK BARNES!
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
Feel bad for Damion…..Dexter and Mason, not so much….
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D W commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 17 minutes ago
So the season ends with missed free throws and shitty defense by Bradley. Pretty fitting.
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 18 minutes ago
Yup……We knew that FTs would get us….
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
F’n Gary’s been awful tonight….
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uthookem commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
GJ at the line…big heart needed!
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
Why does Brown give it up there?
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
Bilas explaining why we’re not a smart team…Oh good, I want Gary at the line…
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 20 minutes ago
The good news is that now I know to fill out the census, so i’m not going to jail…not for that anyway.
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Trips Right commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 21 minutes ago
Holy shit
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Patrick Bateman commented on the blog post Texas Hoops vs. Wake Forest Open thread 1 hour, 22 minutes ago
F’n A…..WTF….
DrkBgrk said:
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:51 pm
at least the strategy makes for plenty of good televisnzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
Huckleberry said:
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
I’m just hoping they lose every one of those listed games. Not likely, of course, but I also didn’t think even Fulmer could lose at UCLA.
Texas_Dawg said:
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Fwiw,
Georgia has scheduled home/away with:
Oklahoma State (’07/’09)
Arizona State (’08/’09)
Louisville (’11/’12)
Clemson (’13/’14)
Oregon (’15/’16)
Texas_Dawg said:
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:09 pm
I’m just hoping they lose every one of those listed games. Not likely, of course, but I also didn’t think even Fulmer could lose at UCLA
@Huckleberry:
I would have said the SEC goes 2-2 before the UCLA/UT game. Now I’d say 1-3.
UGA won’t lose to Arizona State. We may lose somewhere else, but we won’t lose to a team with that OL (more fat Hawaiians… been there, done that). The game won’t even be close.
srr50 said:
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Kudos to Georgia for radically changing their schedules. They more than likely will be the Lone Ranger in the SEC when it comes to away non-conference games.
Black Scholes said:
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Those UGA – ASU tickets are hard to get. Should be a good one.
FisheriesDawg said:
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:47 pm
On top of that, Georgia plays 3 of its 4 nonconference games next season against BCS conference teams in 2009. @ Oklahoma State, vs. Arizona State and @ Georgia Tech. Show me a team from any conference in America who will have a nonconference schedule comparable to that.
meh said:
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
most of the future OOC schedules of the SEC powers are comparable to, or tougher than, Texas’
dedfischer said:
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Georgia will steamroll ASU by 20+.
BRAGGonUT said:
September 4th, 2008 at 4:45 am
I’d like Texas and Georgia to play a home and home. It looks like ‘17 and ‘18 would work.
BatesHorn said:
September 4th, 2008 at 4:56 am
‘17 and ‘18? Are we talking football or the Battle of Verdun?
HenryJames said:
September 4th, 2008 at 5:17 am
Ha. They should be there at our game in Oxford in 2012.
Crazy Joe Clark said:
September 4th, 2008 at 5:20 am
LSU played at Arizona a few years back.
Bama went to OU (and lost w/ Fran)
Florida already has to play FSU, and this year Miami
Georgia Tech is no cupcake for Georgia (even if it isnt really a “road” game. This year they are going to ASU.
Auburn played at USC
Arkansas played at USC
Ole Miss, Miss State, Vandy, Kentucy, South Carolina havent played anybody of note that I remember.
Who has the Big 12 played? Aside from Colorado?
OU hasnt gone on the road (but did lose to TCU at home)
Texas has gone to Arkansas and Ohio State
A&M played at Miami and Virginia Tech (both losses)
ISU went all the way to Iowa
Ok State did go to Georgia, and also played at Troy (both losses)
Mizzou went all the way to St Louis
Nebraska went to USC and Wake Forest (both losses)
Baylor ????Tech????Kansas???
Point being, its a trend across the BCS conferences…not just the SEC.
kuelguapo said:
September 4th, 2008 at 5:41 am
well, KU finishes their home and home with USF this year… had SMU in ‘00, UCLA in ‘01, home/home with Northwestern ‘03/’04 (hey i think they were decent then…ish)…
um… UNLV? Wyoming? yah ok never mind…
bear in mind KU has been basking in mediocrity until last year. with the tough south swing next year too, i’m fine with the non-con on ‘09 (N. Colo, @ UTEP, Duke and S. Miss)… i would like to see a decent non-con from a BCS in ‘10 and ‘11 though.
coach Callahan said:
September 4th, 2008 at 5:48 am
Not to confuse your rant with facts or anything Joe but NU beat wake on their home turf last year.
ftf said:
September 4th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Crazy Joe, One correction. OU travels quite a bit. At Bama, UCLA and Oregon (Gordon Riese debacle) in the last five years or so. At Washington this year and Miami next.
coach Callahan said:
September 4th, 2008 at 6:02 am
Last year we played Wake in winston-salem(a win) and USC (an embarrassing loss) in 06 it was USC in LA also a loss.
in 05 we had wake and pitt (both wins). In 04 we beat Pitt in Pittsburgh. This decade we have played home and away with Penn State, USC and Notre Dame and managed to find time to give Arizona state a pounding in Lincoln. The teams we play on next years schedule i am embarrassed about but I think most NU fans are and the person responsible for that is now doing his best to destroy Pitt football.
eric said:
September 4th, 2008 at 6:31 am
Ole Miss went to Columbia the year before last. Of course, we weren’t that good.
eric said:
September 4th, 2008 at 6:32 am
Also, last year, yes Mizzou went “all the way to St. Louis”, but Mizzou also went to Oxford to play Old Miss.
Tiger Fan said:
September 4th, 2008 at 7:48 am
I miss the good old days. In 1976 Mizzou opened at USC (a 46-25 win and USC’s only loss of the year), came home to lose to a bad Illinois team 31-6 before turning around and going to Ohio State to beat them 22-21 (one of only two losses for the Buckeyes that year). Now we play one real non-conference game a year agaisnt Illinois and fill in with cupcakes. Times have changed.
Crazy Joe Clark said:
September 4th, 2008 at 11:14 am
Forgot about OU going to Oregon and Mizzou going to Ole Miss.
Man, I coulda sworn Nebraska lost to Wake.
ChrisApplewhite said:
September 4th, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I support buying cupcake games, mostly because those games make up like 33% of those teams revenue for the year or something silly like that.
I’d also like to see at least one even game per year, per team.
John Bigbooty said:
September 4th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
“Man, I coulda sworn Nebraska lost to Wake.”
It *is* surprising. Then again, Grobe was worn out from fighting with, and then against, the Mujahideen while editing Suetonius and working on his overthruster in his spare time.
steven said:
September 4th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
does anybody play a more patsy schedule than the big twelve, texas’s typical out of conference schedule is nothing to brag about and it happens to be one of the better ones in the conference, the sec is clearly heads and shoulders better than the big12 presently, not even close, the limiting factor for the big12 teams to even a caual observer is the obvious lack of athleticism on the defensive side of the ball, an indication that there just are not enough athletes to go around in the big12 region, at least not enough of them to even get within shouting distance of the sec,