Need Big 12 advice

OSU - lots of money if you're good enough

OU - same

UT - I have no idea what's going on there

ISU - fair amount of money, good program - I'd look there

KU - money, but haven't done much with it

KSU - good coach, no money, but crawling out of the gutter

TCU - Will take anyone

BU - Don't know

WVU - What're you a girl?

Thanks for the information. Not a girl. Know anything about Texas Tech?

can't be good if I forgot they're even in the conference. Maybe if you're from the rift valley

If i'm just spitballing places to look at, considering you're fast enough to keep up on a D-1 team and have the potential to develop into a conference point-scorer, Iowa State would be good and maybe give you some money, K-State would be great to develop, but wouldn't have the money, at least not right away (cheap school tho) and KU has a lot of resources and tradition, but a history of people leaving early.

heartlandman wrote:

can't be good if I forgot they're even in the conference. Maybe if you're from the rift valley

If i'm just spitballing places to look at, considering you're fast enough to keep up on a D-1 team and have the potential to develop into a conference point-scorer, Iowa State would be good and maybe give you some money, K-State would be great to develop, but wouldn't have the money, at least not right away (cheap school tho) and KU has a lot of resources and tradition, but a history of people leaving early.

Fast enough to have immediate impact. So, OU and OSU are the best then? Thanks.

for sure, OSU is clearly the best team. OU comes and goes, but I think they're #2. UT always had money shooting from their asses, but now I'm not so sure, I've heard they cut most of their distance scholarships.

If you're going on a tour of Oklahoma then, check out Tulsa. They're pretty strong

I ran for OSU, great school, fine facilities, and lots of farm roads to run on. Believe it or not there are some good hills in and around Stillwater. I am from California and my best friends remain my teammates from Oklahoma State. Coach Smith is a good guy.

Igy

Big 12 wrote:

Thanks for the information. Not a girl. Know anything about Texas Tech?

TTU - Most scholarships go to sprint/jumps. Distance gets enough for 1 or 2 good kenyans, the rest are typically walkons guys who ran 4:20 or slower in hs.

Heartlandman wrote:

OSU - lots of money if you're good enough

OU - same

UT - I have no idea what's going on there

ISU - fair amount of money, good program - I'd look there

KU - money, but haven't done much with it

KSU - good coach, no money, but crawling out of the gutter

TCU - Will take anyone

BU - Don't know

WVU - What're you a girl?

Someone answered about Texas Tech, but what about the other 2 schools in the Big 12?

I ran for a different Big 12 school, and I'd concur that OSU is the best school based solely on the desire to develop as a runner (good coaching, training locations, team, etc).

Do NOT go to Texas Tech, the XC coach does not know how to develop runners whatsoever. His only successes are Kithuka and Kipyego, and they both came over great runners, however Kithuka got worse as time went on.

Big XII wrote:

Heartlandman wrote:

OSU - lots of money if you're good enough

OU - same

UT - I have no idea what's going on there

ISU - fair amount of money, good program - I'd look there

KU - money, but haven't done much with it

KSU - good coach, no money, but crawling out of the gutter

TCU - Will take anyone

BU - Don't know

WVU - What're you a girl?

Someone answered about Texas Tech, but what about the other 2 schools in the Big 12?

Also there are only 10 teams in the Big XII amd there are 14 members in the Big Ten

Who do you think Big 12 will add? Houston? Cincy? BYU? None of the above?

Thanks for the advice.

Hold on now wrote:

Who do you think Big 12 will add? Houston? Cincy? BYU? None of the above?

I would think that they would look for the weaker teams (in football) so that drops Houston from getting into the Big 12. I think that Cincy and BYU would be good additions, I have also heard that they are looking at SMU and Rice.

My guess is they need the strong football team to re-legitimize themselves as a big time conference, since they haven't been top-tier in a couple of years.

I think they should add Colorado State or Wichita State or something just to make conferences even make sense geographically. If a basketball player is travelling to West Virginia for a Monday basketball game, how is class on Tuesday going to go? Of course I realize this is impossible because of $$$

Back in my day we had CU, Mizzou, UNL, and A&M. CU and Mizzou leaving were bull****, but the other ones made sense.