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The courtship of the Big 12 conference

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The Big 12’s expansion game has become a silly rendition of the Bachelor.

No not the one that is my 84-year-old mom’s favorite show, where some young lady dates a flock of young bucks who profess the charade of love over a two-week span and promise forever commitment.

No , not that one. This Bachelor show is the Big 12 conference being courted by 17 (yes, you have that number right) universities who want to fill one of the expansion slots (how many? two or four?) the conference has floated as a consideration necessary to maintain its existence in this competitive and complicated big time college football landscape.

This is ridiculous, yes. Of course it is. There aren’t probably more than two schools out of that group — which ranges from Arkansas State (Lord save us) to BYU (Lord prefers) and a lot of anemic mid-major programs — that have any business being in a Power 5 conference, which at last look included the Big 12 (thanks to Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas).

But, if we have to expand the league then here goes. My two cents on who to let in:

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My New Orleans Cab Driver

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(April 9, 2016) It was a little past 6 a.m. this morning and I was on the way to the New Orleans airport. Leaving that city on a Saturday morning when a whole weekend could be played there might not make much sense. But, I had a game to go to back home. That’s what I told the cab driver, L.C., from the back seat of his Suburban as we pulled onto I-10 from the French Quarter.

One of your kids’ games? He asked. Nope, I said. College game. Spring game. I’m a big fan, I said.

L.C. told me that his father was too. His dad was the biggest college football fan ever, he said. When he died, he left L.C. the house and to take care of his mom. Then Hurricane Katrina hit. And it was left in ruin. The family had to move to Houston for months. His brother and family went to Birmingham, Alabama. L.C. returned to Louisiana, but his brother stayed in Alabama; said the kids were doing well in school there.

I told L.C. I used to call my dad after every game. And talk. We were passing by Metairie Cemetery when I said that. L.C. said, me too…man I miss him.

He loved his college team, L.C. said. And you know, it wasn’t LSU or any team around New Orleans. It was “Oklahoma,” L.C. said.

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It looks good, but Sooner fans need to be wary of these wounded Longhorns

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Let’s not start the celebration just yet.

There is no doubt there is trouble down in Austinville. The natives there are ready to run second-year coach Charlie Strong out of town. Frankly, his Longhorn team has looked pretty pitiful this year, coming into Saturday’s Red River Shoot Out, Rivalry or Showdown (whatever advertisers want to call it this year) with a 1-4 record (0-2 in the conference); and, more significantly, looking more like Gooberville high school team than the mighty Texas.

Meanwhile, Sooners fans will throw out any reservations they have held about their own team this week — because showing signs of weakness is not what you do this week — and, besides, No. 9 Oklahoma has proven with wins on the road against Tennessee and at home against West Virginia, that a win against Texas isn’t a question of whether it will happen, but rather by how much.

Boomer Sooner baby. Oklahoma should roll.

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