Ranking the Big 12 QBs for the 2012 season

I think they will asked to do less & focus on bubble screen type offense to get their feet wet.

is better than you guys are giving him credit. The guy performed better when Griffin got hurt against Tech than Griffin had. The kid can sling it.

CC how in the world can you have texass at 6??. I can’t for the life of me buy that. Even if some of these teams have unproven qb’s it’s still better than what texass qb’s have proven to be.

I often hear people say Okie State is the Oregon of the Midwest: big offense (though who doesn’t have that these days outside of the SEC), changing uniforms, recent success, wildly wealthy benefactor, etc.

I can see it, I guess. Except that Oregon doesn’t just run a flashy offense – Chip Kelly rewrote the book on it and affected the entire Pac-12 coaching search and recruiting needs; we definitely change unis on a more frequent basis; while the success has been “recent”, we’ve been quite good for nearly 2 decades, and I’m confident in saying we’ve been way better than Okie for a much longer period; and let’s be honest, our wildly wealthy benefactor is way cooler than theirs.

Nonetheless, I see certain similarities. Now if I were to compare this year to any UO year, it would be our 2000-2001 year. While successful to that point, Joey (like Weeden) projected us to our greatest heights in a season that almost mirrors Okie’s: 11 (12) win seasons, inexplicable loss to Stanford (Iowa State), legit Heisman contender in Joey Harrington (Weeden, Blackmon), a Fiesta Bowl win over a powerful Colorado team (Stanford), a probable title game snub against Miami (LSU), and a final #2 ranking. It’s actually kind of crazy how similar the years are.

To my question: while Oregon had been above-average-to-good for a while before that season, 2000-2001 vaulted us into a different realm of college football. All of a sudden, there are wins over the likes of Michigan and Tennessee, multiple Pac-10/12 titles, Heisman contenders, top 15 recruiting classes, nationally televised games, a BCS championship appearance, Rose Bowl representations, countless College Gameday set ups, all-Americans, Doak Walker winners, players like Haloti Ngata, Jonathan Stewart, LaMichael James, and DeAnthony Thomas (who we stole from USC!! Still can’t believe it), and all kinds of other accolades that, up until 1994 (and really, 2001), simply didn’t happen. It’s been a crazy evolution and a fun ride.

So does this year in Oklahoma State propel them to the type of success that Oregon has had? I talked about this with OKstate friend of mine, and he’s pretty sure of it. But I’d love to hear the opinion of their rival. Do you see an upward trend, or was this an outlier? Can you even think about it objectively, being their in-state rival? Haha. I’m just sure that you know a lot about their program and might offer an interesting perspective.

I personally have doubts. As stated here, how do you replace Weeden and Blackmon at a school like Okie State? Does it happen now? Or in the future? I mean, you guys lose Sam Bradford and – boom – hello Landry Jones. We’re losing LaMichael James and here comes Kenjon Barner and De’Anthony Thomas. LSU loses Patrick Peterson, and replace him with Tyran Matthieu. Can OKstate do that? Will this year help them do that? How concerned are you – as in state rivals – with them competing with you (and Texas) in the near or distant future? Obviously, to beat OU and UT, they’re going to have to steal some recruits, much like we had to do to USC and Washington. Let me know what you guys think!