(02-22-2012 09:44 AM)GO Coogs GO!!! Wrote:  It’s just chicken (insert you know what here).

You can say the same thing about quality schools that are not of Texas and A&M's level of "prestige......."

The problem is these "big" schools choose the easier path and at the same time use the argument "who have you played?"

You can't have it both ways.

I will use LaTech for us as a comparable example (UH to UT is similar to LaTech to UH). We played these guys and nearly lost. You know what LaTech is a good program but we would have heard the same BS from misinformed and uneducated college sports fans like yourself.

How do teams become "programs"?

You challenge yourself. You wonder why Texas is crap now? Well they only play a few quality games a year and are always underprepared for them due to the level of competition that they play OOC and in the patsy portion of the Big 12.

Schools like Texas continue to live off their sense of entitlement based on ego and not results. I will give SEC schools a pass due to the insane level of competition in conference. If the Big 12 approached that level of competition then (as much as it would pain me) I would give them pass as well. The thing is you only need to look at how the conference does not want to play a conference championship game so a potential Big 12 national champ contender would not get tripped up by say K-State or a Kansas...

Would we have been better off if we didn't have a championship game in CUSA this year? Of course but props to USM for taking advantage of a team far from focused thanks to our head coach. But you know what any given Saturday even if we were prepared they could have beaten us. They were a GOOD team. I don't feel like CUSA, USM, or having a championship game screwed us. I blame our former coach job shopping but that is a whole other rant I will avoid here.

Fear is fear no matter how you try and spin it.

I don't think it's fair to lump in Texas as a school that avoids tough schedules. They have a 9-game conference schedule and are playing Ole Miss home-and-home in 2012-13, BYU home-and-home in 2013-14, ND and Cal in 2015-16, and USC and Maryland in 2017-18. It's rare for any BCS conference school with an 8-game conference schedule to schedule 2 non-conference BCS opponents per year, much less when it has a 9-game conference schedule. Sorry - I don't see any issues at all with the Texas non-conference scheduling.