Why Has the Big 12 Not Moved to Add Two More Teams With Colorado and Nebraska Leaving? Good Question! – What About FOUR More Teams to Create the BIG 14! – 2010 Coach and Team Predictions Big 12 South – Nebraska vs. Oklahoma in 2010 Big 12 Championship Game
Below are our predictions for the Big 12 South in 2010 and coupled with our earlier Big 12 North predictions we have…
Nebraska vs. Oklahoma in the 2010 Big 12 Championship Game
Oh, the Sooners and Huskers would be a great one to end an era of the Big 12 conference!
Before we get to our Big 12 South 2010 predictions we have to say that we have been surprised that the Big 12 has not moved to add two or even four more teams to their conference so they could get back to playing a Big 12 title game after Colorado and Nebraska leave. David Barron of the Houston Chronicle wrote an article today, Leach, James: Big 12 needs to find two more, that details that both Mike Leach and Craig James said during his interviews (clearing not at the same time in the same room!) that both of them feel the Big 12 needs to add two more teams. We couldn’t agree more with that sentiment….
There are a lot of biases and misconceptions in the world about universities because of their religious affiliation or perceived quality but when you get right down to it the schools that the Big 12 might consider to add to their conference are not that all different from their post-Colorado/Nebraska members.
Let’s go to the latest US News & World Report National University Rankings: Possible additions to Big 12 in bold
No. 45 – Texas
No. 56 – Southern Methodist
No. 63 – Texas A&M
No. 75 – BYU
No. 93 – Missouri
No. 79 – Baylor
No. 94 – Iowa State
No. 99 – TCU
No. 104 – Kansas
No. 111 – Oklahoma
No. 132 – Oklahoma State
No. 132 – Kansas State
No. 159 – Texas Tech
Tier 2 – Houston
Now, if we were the Big 12 we would be looking to get back to 12 teams at least, but what about the scenario of adding SMU, BYU, TCU and Houston to make the Big 12 the BIG 14! Dan Beebe and his boys and girls in Dallas can figure out the details of how to split up those 14 teams, but the possible BIG 14 looks great to us! If the Big 12 is going to add BYU they better move quickly with that invitation and we can tell the Big 12 folks that they won’t regret adding BYU and their fans which would be a big addition to the conference. The same goes from TCU, Houston and SMU.
2010 Coach and Team Predictions – Big 12
Big 12 North
| Team | Overall Record | Big 12 Record |
| Nebraska | 12 – 0 | 8 – 0 |
| Missouri | 8 – 4 | 4 – 4 |
| Kansas | 5 – 7 | 3 – 5 |
| Colorado | 5 – 7 | 3 – 5 |
| Iowa State | 5 – 7 | 2 – 6 |
| Kansas State | 3 – 9 | 0 – 8 |
2010 Coach and Team Predictions – Big 12 South
Big 12 South
| Team | Overall Record | Big 12 Record |
| Oklahoma | 10 – 2 | 7 – 1 |
| Texas | 10 – 2 | 6 – 2 |
| Texas Tech | 9 – 3 | 5 – 3 |
| Oklahoma State | 8 – 4 | 4 – 4 |
| Baylor | 7 – 5 | 4 – 4 |
| Texas A&M | 5 – 7 | 2 – 6 |
Baylor
Conference: Big 12 – South
Head Coach: Art Briles
Age: 55
Salary: $1,300,000
Head Coaching Years: 7
Overall Record: 42 – 44 (.448)
Years at School: 2
Record at School: 8 – 16
2009 Record: 4 – 8
2009 CHS Prediction: 6 – 6
Baylor 2010 Schedule
| 9 – 4 | Sam Houston State | W |
| 9 – 11 | Buffalo | W |
| 9 – 18 | @ TCU | L |
| 9 – 25 | @ Rice | W |
| 10 – 2 | Kansas | W |
| 10 – 9 | Texas Tech | W |
| 10 – 16 | @ Colorado | L |
| 10 – 23 | Kansas State | W |
| 10 – 30 | @ Texas | L |
| 11 – 6 | @ Oklahoma State | L |
| 11 – 13 | Texas A&M | W |
| 11 – 20 | Oklahoma | L |
CHS Predicted 2010 Record: 7 – 5
CHS Analysis: Everyone here at Coaches Hot Seat was convinced that Baylor was headed for a plus .500 record and postseason bowl game in 2009…that was until their all-star QB Robert Griffin went down against Northwestern State in Week 3. Briles and Baylor ended up with a 4 – 8 record in ’09 and no doubt the Bears will be back in 2010 with a determination to get to that postseason game. Baylor has a manageable out-of-conference schedule not counting the Week 3 tilt at TCU and the Bears should have a least a decent chance of winning 3 or 4 games in the Big 12 which would mean BU would take another step forward under Briles.
CHS Maximum 2010 Upside Record: 8 – 4
CHS Maximum 2010 Downside Record: 4 – 8
Hippopotamus Standard Wins for 2010*: 2 – 10
*How many games the team would win if a HIPPO was their head coach. We here at Coaches Hot Seat believe that many schools have softened up their schedule to such a degree that many coaches are getting credit for piling up wins against mediocre foes. Therefore, Coaches Hot Seat introduces for the 2010 season, the “A HIPPO Would Win….Games in 2010″ Standard. We have been very lenient in our picks, and we think very fair to the coaches, especially because the competition within the conferences is getting so tough, but we do believe that every coach should be held to a minimum standard of games won (and of course they will certainly be on the Coaches Hot Seat if they cannot beat the HIPPO!), and thus we introduce the HIPPOPOTAMUS STANDARDS FOR 2010!
Oklahoma State
Conference: Big 12 – South
Head Coach: Mike Gundy
Age: 43
Salary: $1,900,000
Head Coaching Years: 5
Overall Record: 36 – 27 (.571)
Years at School: 5
Record at School: 36 – 27
2009 Record: 9 – 4
2009 CHS Prediction: 10 – 2
ESPN.com Oklahoma State Webpage
Oklahoma State 2010 Schedule
| 9 – 4 | Washington State | W |
| 9 – 11 | Troy | W |
| 9 – 18 | Tulsa | W |
| 9 – 30 | Texas A&M | W |
| 10 – 8 | @ La. Lafayette | W |
| 10 – 16 | @ Texas Tech | L |
| 10 – 23 | Nebraska | L |
| 10 – 30 | @ Kansas State | W |
| 11 – 6 | Baylor | W |
| 11 – 13 | @ Texas | L |
| 11 – 20 | @ Kansas | W |
| 11 – 27 | Oklahoma | L |
CHS Predicted 2010 Record: 8 – 4
CHS Analysis: For a coach that has put up two straight 9 win seasons, Mike Gundy is a head coach that enters the 2010 football season under increasing pressure as the folks putting up big bucks for Oklahoma State athletics (T. Boone Pickens and others) are getting a little antsy as the Cowboys haven’t made the jump to the top of the Big 12. Not that jumping to the top of the Big 12 would be an easy thing to do with Texas and Oklahoma in your division and the rest of the Big 12 North becoming tougher every year. There are some folks in Oklahoma that believe Mike Gundy is on the Hot Seat already and that another 8 win season will put his job in jeopardy which makes us believe that the bar for acceptable performance in Stillwater is very high indeed. OSU has a solid defense under Bill Young and they have a new OC on the job so the Cowboys might have a chance to break through in 2010, but games at Texas, at Texas Tech and Oklahoma at home are games that OSU must win to have a chance to put a big smile on T. Boone’s face.
CHS Maximum 2010 Upside Record: 10 – 2
CHS Maximum 2010 Downside Record: 6 – 6
Hippopotamus Standard Wins for 2010*: 3 – 9
*How many games the team would win if a HIPPO was their head coach. We here at Coaches Hot Seat believe that many schools have softened up their schedule to such a degree that many coaches are getting credit for piling up wins against mediocre foes. Therefore, Coaches Hot Seat introduces for the 2010 season, the “A HIPPO Would Win….Games in 2010″ Standard. We have been very lenient in our picks, and we think very fair to the coaches, especially because the competition within the conferences is getting so tough, but we do believe that every coach should be held to a minimum standard of games won (and of course they will certainly be on the Coaches Hot Seat if they cannot beat the HIPPO!), and thus we introduce the HIPPOPOTAMUS STANDARDS FOR 2010!
Oklahoma
Conference: Big 12 – South
Head Coach: Bob Stoops
Age: 50
Salary: $4,100,000
Head Coaching Years: 11
Overall Record: 117 – 29 (.801)
Years at School: 11
Record at School: 117 – 29
2009 Record: 8 – 5
2009 CHS Prediction: 11 – 1
Oklahoma 2010 Schedule
| 9 – 4 | Utah State | W |
| 9 – 11 | Florida State | W |
| 9 – 18 | Air Force | W |
| 9 – 25 | @ Cincinnati | L |
| 10 – 2 | Texas | W |
| 10 – 16 | Iowa State | W |
| 10 – 23 | @ Missouri | L |
| 10 – 30 | Colorado | W |
| 11 – 6 | @ Texas A&M | W |
| 11 – 13 | Texas Tech | W |
| 11 – 20 | @ Baylor | W |
| 11 – 27 | @ Oklahoma State | W |
CHS Predicted 2010 Record: 10 – 2
CHS Analysis: That really was unfortunate that Oklahoma lost QB Sam Bradford in the opening game last season and lost so many other players to injury as well, because the Sooners had the talent to be one of the tops teams in the country in ’09. When one looks at Bob Stoops seasons at Oklahoma….
1999 – 7 – 5
2000 – 13 – 0
2001 – 11 – 2
2002 – 12 – 2
2003 – 12 – 2
2004 – 12 – 1
2005 – 8 – 4
2006 – 11 – 3
2007 – 11 – 3
2008 – 12 – 2
2009 – 8 – 5
One sees that after the first rebuilding year of 7 – 5 Stoops has put up eight 11 plus win seasons but there is that hiccup in 2005 with an 8 – 4 record. We are seeing a pattern here….. 7 – 5 and then 5 straight 11 win plus seasons, 8 – 4 and then 3 straight 11 plus win seasons…..and then in 2009….8 – 4….. Maybe Stoops and Company are about to reel off another series of 10 win plus seasons and send the Sooners back to the top of college football….or…..the competition at the top in the Big 12, in the BCS and non-BCS conferences (Yes, you are incredibly Un-American if you will actually say “non-BCS” or “Non-AQ” but that hasn’t stopped the flat-out communists running the Bogus BCS and their enablers in the media from undermining the basic principles of America on a daily basis….As we all know from history if you lay down a few pieces of silver in front of some people they will defend and act as a PR hack for ANYTHING!) may be so tough now that Oklahoma will have to be satisfied with being one of the top 5 to 10 teams each year in the game of college football. Of course, nothing wrong with being at the top of any sport or game…. Yes, we see Stoops and the Sooners back in a big way in 2010, but this year to Bob and the OU coaching staff how about coaching again like the world is coming to an end if OU loses instead of that sad-sap crap that was so prevalent last season? Maybe get that Oklahoma at Oregon game from a few years ago out where the Sooners got ripped off by the Pac-10 officials and see a coaching staff that was practically fighting for their and their players live in every minute of every game! That is BOB STOOPS AND OKLAHOMA FOOTBALL!
CHS Maximum 2010 Upside Record: 12 – 0
CHS Maximum 2010 Downside Record: 8 – 4
Hippopotamus Standard Wins for 2010*: 4 – 8
*How many games the team would win if a HIPPO was their head coach. We here at Coaches Hot Seat believe that many schools have softened up their schedule to such a degree that many coaches are getting credit for piling up wins against mediocre foes. Therefore, Coaches Hot Seat introduces for the 2010 season, the “A HIPPO Would Win….Games in 2010″ Standard. We have been very lenient in our picks, and we think very fair to the coaches, especially because the competition within the conferences is getting so tough, but we do believe that every coach should be held to a minimum standard of games won (and of course they will certainly be on the Coaches Hot Seat if they cannot beat the HIPPO!), and thus we introduce the HIPPOPOTAMUS STANDARDS FOR 2010!
Texas
Conference: Big 12 – South
Head Coach: Mack Brown
Age: 59
Salary: $5,100,000
Head Coaching Years: 26
Overall Record: 214 – 101 – 1 (.677)
Years at School: 12
Record at School: 128 – 27
2009 Record: 13 – 1
2009 CHS Prediction: 10 – 2
Texas 2010 Schedule
| 9 – 4 | Rice | W |
| 9 – 11 | Wyoming | W |
| 9 – 18 | @ Texas Tech | W |
| 9 – 25 | UCLA | W |
| 10 – 2 | Oklahoma | L |
| 10 – 16 | @ Nebraska | L |
| 10 – 23 | Iowa State | W |
| 10 – 30 | Baylor | W |
| 11 – 6 | @ Kansas State | W |
| 11 – 13 | Oklahoma State | W |
| 11 – 20 | Florida Atlantic | W |
| 11 – 25 | Texas A&M | W |
CHS Predicted 2010 Record: 10 – 2
CHS Analysis: Every once in awhile we will hear someone say that anyone can win in the head coaching position at Texas to which we always say…..
What the Hell?
In fact, before Mack Brown showed up in Austin in 1999 from North Carolina he was preceded by two coaches that didn’t quite match what Brown has been able to achieve with the Longhorns. Let’s go to the numbers:
John Mackovic (1992 – 1997) – 41 – 28 – 2
David Williams (1987 – 1991) – 31 – 26
By our back of the envelope math the records of Mackovic and Williams adds up to….
72 – 54 – 2 (.578)
Mack Brown’s record at Texas:
Mack Brown (1998 – 2009) – 128 – 27 (.825)
No, everyone can’t win at Texas. Mack Brown now has 9 straight 10 plus winning seasons and the Longhorns have won 4 of the last five games against Oklahoma. No, just anyone can’t win at Texas and anyone that believes that Mack Brown is not putting up epic numbers in Austin doesn’t know anything about the game of college football.
Again in 2010 Texas is loaded with talent everywhere one looks and we fully expect the Longhorns to have a good chance to win every game they play in and the two games that stand out to us as possible stumbles are the Week 5 game against OU and the Week 6 game at Nebraska. If Texas can win those two games they will more than likely be 12-0 again but we have no doubt Brown and the ‘Horns will be back at the top of the game again in 2010.
CHS Maximum 2010 Upside Record: 12 – 0
CHS Maximum 2010 Downside Record: 8 – 4
Hippopotamus Standard Wins for 2010*: 3 – 9
*How many games the team would win if a HIPPO was their head coach. We here at Coaches Hot Seat believe that many schools have softened up their schedule to such a degree that many coaches are getting credit for piling up wins against mediocre foes. Therefore, Coaches Hot Seat introduces for the 2010 season, the “A HIPPO Would Win….Games in 2010″ Standard. We have been very lenient in our picks, and we think very fair to the coaches, especially because the competition within the conferences is getting so tough, but we do believe that every coach should be held to a minimum standard of games won (and of course they will certainly be on the Coaches Hot Seat if they cannot beat the HIPPO!), and thus we introduce the HIPPOPOTAMUS STANDARDS FOR 2010!
Texas A&M
Conference: Big 12 – South
Head Coach: Mike Sherman
Age: 56
Salary: $1,950,000
Head Coaching Years: 2
Overall Record: 10 – 15 (.400)
Years at School: 2
Record at School: 10 – 15
2009 Record: 6 – 7
2009 CHS Prediction: 5 – 7
Texas A&M 2010 Schedule
| 9 – 4 | Stephen F. Austin | W |
| 9 – 11 | La. Tech | W |
| 9 – 18 | FIU | W |
| 9 – 30 | @ Oklahoma State | L |
| 10 – 9 | Arkansas | L |
| 10 – 16 | Missouri | W |
| 10 – 23 | @ Kansas | L |
| 10 – 30 | Texas Tech | W |
| 11 – 6 | Oklahoma | L |
| 11 – 13 | @ Baylor | L |
| 11 – 20 | Nebraska | L |
| 11 – 25 | @ Texas | L |
CHS Predicted 2010 Record: 5 – 7
CHS Analysis: We have made it very clear here at Coaches Hot Seat that we didn’t think much of A&M’s decision to hire Mike Sherman as their head coach, but we really thought it was a bad decision to give such a massive contract to a guy had not ever been a head coach in college football. In Sherman’s first two years on the job at A&M he has put up a record of 10 – 15 and his 10 wins have come against…
2008
New Mexico
Army
Iowa State
Colorado
2009
New Mexico
Utah State
UAB
Texas Tech
Iowa State
Baylor
Take Texas Tech out of the above list of wins for Sherman at A&M and Sherman has beaten…
NO ONE!
Now look forward to the 2010 A&M football season and see a schedule that starts out with…
Stephen F. Austin
La. Tech
FIU
…and we cannot help but wonder if Pee Wee Herman is putting together the Texas A&M football schedules! Remember, we are talking about TEXAS A&M FOOTBALL here, not Podunk U and for the Aggies to start off the 2010 season with the above three teams is beyond an embarrassment and any Aggie worth his salt has already delivered his outrage to the folks in College Station that such a schedule was ever created in the first place.
Since a drunken stumblebum could have the A&M football at 3 – 0 after the first three games we will spot Mike Sherman those 3 wins to start the season, but what will come after is the question….
At Oklahoma State, Arkansas in Dallas, Missouri at home, Kansas on the road….and the rest of the Big 12 schedule is what comes next.
Remembering now that this is TEXAS A&M FOOTBALL and that this is Mike Sherman’s third year at A&M it is our opinion that any random person picked off any street in America could win 7 games with the above schedule which would be going 3-1 at worst in the out-of-conference schedule and going at least 4-4 in the Big 12. If Mike Sherman cannot at a minimum do that he should not be the Texas A&M’s head coach when the 2011 football season opens, but our friends down in Houston tell us that if the Aggies are not challenging or if not outright win the Big 12 South in 2010 that lots of people in College Station are going to be looking for jobs come January 2011. No, it is never a good idea to piss off Aggies, but is especially a bad idea to piss off wealthy Aggies and eating the dust of Texas and Oklahoma really pisses off every Aggie we have every run into! No, College Station, Texas will not be a very pleasant place to be this season if a mediocre football season starts to unfold and big buyout or not the Aggies we talk to are not going to tolerate mediocrity for very much longer.
CHS Maximum 2010 Upside Record: 9 – 32
CHS Maximum 2010 Downside Record: 4 – 8
Hippopotamus Standard Wins for 2010*: 3 – 9
*How many games the team would win if a HIPPO was their head coach. We here at Coaches Hot Seat believe that many schools have softened up their schedule to such a degree that many coaches are getting credit for piling up wins against mediocre foes. Therefore, Coaches Hot Seat introduces for the 2010 season, the “A HIPPO Would Win….Games in 2010″ Standard. We have been very lenient in our picks, and we think very fair to the coaches, especially because the competition within the conferences is getting so tough, but we do believe that every coach should be held to a minimum standard of games won (and of course they will certainly be on the Coaches Hot Seat if they cannot beat the HIPPO!), and thus we introduce the HIPPOPOTAMUS STANDARDS FOR 2010!
Texas Tech
Conference: Big 12 – South
Head Coach: Tommy Tuberville
Age: 56
Salary: $1,650,000
Head Coaching Years: 14
Overall Record: 110 – 60 (.647)
Years at School: 1
Record at School: 0 – 0
2009 Record: N/A
2009 CHS Prediction: N/A
Texas Tech 2010 Schedule
| 9 – 5 | SMU | W |
| 9 – 11 | @ New Mexico | W |
| 9 – 18 | Texas | L |
| 10 – 2 | @ Iowa State | W |
| 10 – 9 | Baylor | W |
| 10 – 16 | Oklahoma State | W |
| 10 – 23 | @ Colorado | W |
| 10 – 30 | @ Texas A&M | L |
| 11 – 6 | Missouri | W |
| 11 – 13 | @ Oklahoma | L |
| 11 – 20 | Weber State | W |
| 11 – 27 | Houston | W |
CHS Predicted 2010 Record: 9 – 3
CHS Analysis: Tommy Tuberville taking over at Texas Tech will give college football fans a great opportunity to see what really is the difference in coaching between the Big 12 and SEC and for more than just a bogus and meaningless exhibition bowl game where two of those conference teams have met in the past. Mike Leach recruited some very good football players to Tech and if Tuberville and his staff can transition those players to their new systems, especially on defense, Texas Tech is going to be a force in the Big 12 in 2010. Tech has a very big challenge in the first game against SMU and June Jones’ run-and-shoot offense and if the Red Raiders can get by that game and at New Mexico in Week 2 they might be able to build some momentum that could wreak some havoc in the Big 12. Can Tommy Tuberville win the Big 12 conference title at Texas Tech? Was Paul Newman a helluva actor? Yes to both of those questions!
CHS Maximum 2010 Upside Record: 10 – 2
CHS Maximum 2010 Downside Record: 6 – 6
Hippopotamus Standard Wins for 2010*: 2 – 10
*How many games the team would win if a HIPPO was their head coach. We here at Coaches Hot Seat believe that many schools have softened up their schedule to such a degree that many coaches are getting credit for piling up wins against mediocre foes. Therefore, Coaches Hot Seat introduces for the 2010 season, the “A HIPPO Would Win….Games in 2010″ Standard. We have been very lenient in our picks, and we think very fair to the coaches, especially because the competition within the conferences is getting so tough, but we do believe that every coach should be held to a minimum standard of games won (and of course they will certainly be on the Coaches Hot Seat if they cannot beat the HIPPO!), and thus we introduce the HIPPOPOTAMUS STANDARDS FOR 2010!
