Snydering

[scottwildcat]

improvement paired with a schedule that set up perfect for this talking point.

we've beaten WVU, ISU, and TTU.

if you switched those games around with when we played TEX, OSU, and BAY, where would we be?

Maybe we wouldv'e beaten TX.  OSU and Baylor are probably still losses but, then again, I don't know if Sams makes the mistakes he made against OSU and Baylor with 4 other conference games under his belt.  Who knows.

we beat both OSU and Baylor if it is later in the year.

Just like we would beat baylor if it were earlier last year?

yup

[EMAWmeister]

We played about as well as we could have against baylor and came up short.  They're also as hot now as they've ever been.

I think we beat UT and OSU though.

[kso_FAN]

We played about as well as we could have against baylor and came up short.  They're also as hot now as they've ever been.

I think we beat UT and OSU though.

Lockett/Thompson tho

[TownieCat]

We played about as well as we could have against baylor and came up short.  They're also as hot now as they've ever been.

I think we beat UT and OSU though.

Lockett/Thompson tho

Tevin Reese tho. Baylor is pretty banged up right now. A lot of '12 K-State parallels with those guys..

[Frankenklein]

  I bet Snyder just goes nuts wondering about this.

[Steffy08]

I think we might be Big 12 champs if we played the schedule in reverse.

This raises a bigger issue, which is the way in which the Big 12 schedules the season.  This year-by-year method is BS.  There are certain types of factors (returning starters/returning QB/who your opponent played the week before/starting season at home) that can be used to set up a more favorable for different teams.  Doing it year by year only increases the ability of the conference to manipulate the schedule.  But, hey, maybe us starting on the road every f'n year is just an accident.

I think the B12's goal in scheduling is to have meaningful matchups late in the season. It's not a coincidence that most of the games involving the league's top 6 teams didn't happen until November. BU vs. OSU has a lot more weight on Nov. 23 than it does on Oct. 5.

FWIW...The big 10 has already released its 2018 schedule.

I disagree.  The Big 12 just lucked into that this year.  (If that was the strategy, why did OU and KSU play in the first conference game of the season last year?)  And, in any event, I don't like that "strategy" because it can become a self-fulfilling prophesy, with agendas within the Big 12 office to boot.  I bet when end up with a better or equivalent record to OU and either OSU/UT.......our game would be the "big game" against Baylor if we were sitting at 7-1 heading into that game.  I think it is much more likely that the powers-that-be (UT, OU) get a schedule that suits them than it is that the conference tries to "create" marquee games at the end of the season.  Either way, I don't like it, and wish that they would come out with a schedule years in advance.  That precludes the conference from even attempting to rig things one way or another.

[ben ji]

I think we might be Big 12 champs if we played the schedule in reverse.

This raises a bigger issue, which is the way in which the Big 12 schedules the season.  This year-by-year method is BS.  There are certain types of factors (returning starters/returning QB/who your opponent played the week before/starting season at home) that can be used to set up a more favorable for different teams.  Doing it year by year only increases the ability of the conference to manipulate the schedule.  But, hey, maybe us starting on the road every f'n year is just an accident.

I think the B12's goal in scheduling is to have meaningful matchups late in the season. It's not a coincidence that most of the games involving the league's top 6 teams didn't happen until November. BU vs. OSU has a lot more weight on Nov. 23 than it does on Oct. 5.

FWIW...The big 10 has already released its 2018 schedule.

I disagree.  The Big 12 just lucked into that this year.  (If that was the strategy, why did OU and KSU play in the first conference game of the season last year?)  And, in any event, I don't like that "strategy" because it can become a self-fulfilling prophesy, with agendas within the Big 12 office to boot.  I bet when end up with a better or equivalent record to OU and either OSU/UT.......our game would be the "big game" against Baylor if we were sitting at 7-1 heading into that game.  I think it is much more likely that the powers-that-be (UT, OU) get a schedule that suits them than it is that the conference tries to "create" marquee games at the end of the season.  Either way, I don't like it, and wish that they would come out with a schedule years in advance.  That precludes the conference from even attempting to rig things one way or another.

People who blame others for their own personal shortcoming's are the worst.

[Ghost of Stan Parrish]

When boats need rowing, wood needs sawing, and days need people getting a little better, this is the guy.

I liked this.

Let's make "Snydering" into a thing where you pose like this



or this



or this

[GoodForAnother]

teach me how to snyder
teach me, teach me how to snyder
all my 2-stars love me
all my, all my 2-stars love me

[Skipper44]

teach me how to snyder
teach me, teach me how to snyder
all my 2-stars love me
all my, all my 2-stars love me

sniff, sniff - I smell another Grammy for one of gE's talented musicians

[hornedfrog86]

improvement paired with a schedule that set up perfect for this talking point.

we've beaten WVU, ISU, and TTU.

if you switched those games around with when we played TEX, OSU, and BAY, where would we be?

Maybe we wouldv'e beaten TX.  OSU and Baylor are probably still losses but, then again, I don't know if Sams makes the mistakes he made against OSU and Baylor with 4 other conference games under his belt.  Who knows.

we beat both OSU and Baylor if it is later in the year.

Just like we would beat baylor if it were earlier last year?

Maybe, we did.

[Fill My Bill]

It would be so awesome if a story broke about Snyder sleeping with like 70 hot college girls

[MakeItRain]

I think we might be Big 12 champs if we played the schedule in reverse.

This raises a bigger issue, which is the way in which the Big 12 schedules the season.  This year-by-year method is BS.  There are certain types of factors (returning starters/returning QB/who your opponent played the week before/starting season at home) that can be used to set up a more favorable for different teams.  Doing it year by year only increases the ability of the conference to manipulate the schedule.  But, hey, maybe us starting on the road every f'n year is just an accident.

First of all I'm pretty sure they don't do it year by year and if they do that only started the last two seasons after conference realignment.  When the Big 12 actually had 12 teams the schedules were done 8 years at a time. They had/have a computer program that they input certain info into like number of home games per team and certain weekends when teams must play and the computer gives them lots and lots of schedules, then the conference football officials poured over the schedules and picked the best one. Not 100% sure on this last part but I believe after a schedule was selected it was voted on by the university presidents.

[mocat]

Hey idiots bitching about the schedule, TCU was supposed to win the conference and oSu was supposed to have a down year. There's no way to schedule it fairly or unfairly. Its just the schedule

[Mr Bread]

Hey idiots bitching about the schedule, TCU was supposed to win the conference and oSu was supposed to have a down year. There's no way to schedule it fairly or unfairly. Its just the schedule

Wrong.  Steffy is correct when she says that the cats had to play some teams earlier and some teams later and that it isn't fair.  The cats should only have to play teams later, but not too much later.  The Big 12 is so corrupt.