Big 12 lunch links: Bob Stoops talks about painting houses
July, 24, 2009
Jul 24
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Posted by ESPN.com's Tim Griffin
Happy Friday.
Here are some links to push you into the weekend.
- Bob Stoops talks to the Tulsa World's John Hoover about his new contract, his team's strength and his college job of painting houses. His checks then had a lot fewer zeroes than they do now.
- Football purist Steve Sipple of the Lincoln Journal-Star writes about advancing technology with the new scoreboards and ribbon boards at Nebraska's Memorial Stadium.
- The Boulder Camera's Neill Woelk opines about the benefits of providing five years of eligibility for college football scholarships.
- Mike Sherman tells the San Antonio Express-News/Houston Chronicle's Brent Zwerneman he wants to find players who have "tears in their eyes" when they lose games.
- The St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Vahe Gregorian has interesting profiles of new Missouri offensive coordinator David Yost and new defensive coordinator Dave Steckel.
- The Oklahoman's Jake Trotter analyzes the tie in the media balloting between Oklahoma and Texas in the Big 12's preseason South Division poll.
- Maxim Magazine's Danny Sheridan isn't drinking the green and gold Kool-Aid. He lists Baylor, along with Texas A&M and Iowa State, among his 10 worst teams in BCS-affiliated conferences for the upcoming season.
- Tulsa World sports editor Mike Strain dismisses several recent media pronouncements that Mack Brown is a better coach than Bob Stoops.
- The Bryan Eagle's Robert Cessna reflects on Texas A&M's first-ever pick as the South Division's preseason cellar-dweller.
- Omaha World-Herald columnist Tom Shatel lists the reasons why Nebraska is the default favorite in the Big 12 North this season.
- The Iowa Corn Growers have signed up to be the title sponsor of Paul Rhoads' weekly coaches' show, along with Iowa's Kirk Ferentz's program.
- Georgia coach Mark Richt has been impressed with what he's seen in Oklahoma State as he prepares for his Sept. 5 game against the Cowboys, the Tulsa World's Bill Haisten reports.
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