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SB Nation Big 12 Roundtable - 2009 Season - Week 10

 


This is the tenth installment of the 2009 Big 12 Roundtable, a weekly feature during the season. Each week, an SB Nation Big 12 blogger will host the Roundtable and submit a series of questions to all Big 12 bloggers. This week, the Roundtable is being hosted by Clone Chronicles. Listed below are I Am The 12th Man's answers.

1. Other than texas most likely winning the South, and Baylor likely going 0-fer in the conference, there's a lot of uncertainty with teams jockeying for position in the Big 12.  As the teams head into this 3 or 4 game stretch, what concerns do you have about your team?  What would be considered a good season, and what would be considered a bad season? If you've already decided it's a good season or bad season regardless of what happens down the stretch, what's the storyline you're looking for as we head into the final month of the regular season? 

I think the defense is still a major concern for our team. We've shown improvement this season, especially in the last two games, but we're still not anywhere close to being even an average defensive unit. If we could make some progress stopping the run, that would be a relief.

I think a 6-6 season and a bowl berth was considered the minimum expectation coming into this season, because it would show improvement over last season. I think we will be favored in two of our final four games, against Colorado and against Baylor, so if we can win those two games and guarantee us  7-win season, and possibly win our bowl game, that would be considered a good season. If we can pull an upset against either OU or texas, that would make for a very good season.

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2. We haven't had a chance to talk a lot of about of the individual players. Some have performed as expected, others have had breakout seasons, while others haven't had the greatest season in 2009. By now, you're probably seen a handful of other Big 12 teams play. Pick one player on each side of the ball from another Big 12 team that you've been the most impressed with, and what about them has caught your attention.

Defensively, the guy who has impressed me the most has to be Ndamukong Suh, because he is actually better than advertised. However, since others are probably going to pick Suh, I'll go with texas' strongside defensive end Sam Acho. He has 29 tackles, 7 TFL, 5 sacks, 4 fumble recoveries, and 1 forced fumble so far on the season. He has done all this despite often facing double-teams from the opposing RT and TE, He is a force to be reckoned with, a playmaker on the edge, and the media completely ign ores hm while they fawn over Sergio Kindle, who hasn't accomplished anything close to what Acho has done this season. It's a shame, really.

Offensively, probably the most impressive players I've seen has been center Reggie Stephensof Iowa State. Stephens has been the key player leading the Cyclones' rushing offense, which has been the best in the Big 12 so far this season. State missed Stephens last weekend against A&M.

3. What is your take on the Big 12 TV situation? It seems like every week, we have at least one Big 12 game that gets zero TV coverage, while many games are on stations that not every cable company/satellite carrier picks up (like Fox College Sports and Versus).  As a Big 12 fan, do you think a change of some sort is needed, or are you happy with the coverage? Does it hurt the Big 12 that not every game is televised? 

I am still a big proponent of the Big 12 getting their own television network up and running. There really is no excuse for not having every single Big 12 game televised, similar to the situation the Big Televen and the SEC has. A Big 12 Network would pay for itself during football season alone, when they replay the previous Saturday's games. Right now, schools still have the option of using PPV to show their games, but when you have athletic directors of questionable intelligence like Bill Byrne deciding not to show the games, I think the fans deserve better. Having a separate Big 12 Network would ensure all games are shown, and for those of us who are college football junkies, being able to watch every game for every conference team would be perfect.

I think the more exposure your conference can get on television, the better it is for your conference. If it were up to me, Big 12 games would be televised in every single television market in the country, and all the islands in the Pacific, too. I want every single child to be able to recognize and identify the Texas A&M block A&M logo, and getting out games televised everywhere would help accomplish that goal.

4. Let's say you had a friend that's been living under a rock the past few months, and they want to know how your team's season has gone. You only want to spend a few minutes on it, you don't want to get into the game-by-game details, so you decide to play the song that best describes your team's season thus far. What song are you playing?

Right now: "Break On Through" - The Doors

If we upset OU and/or texas: "It's The End of the World As We Know It" - REM

5. Power Rank the teams! If you find it too difficult, or don't want to participate, rank the teams based on your projected Bowl Selection Order (just make sure you designate what you are doing. Also keep in mind that K-State is the only team in the conference with 2 FCS wins, so they need to get to 7 in order to be bowl eligible).

  1. texas
  2. Oklahoma
  3. Oklahoma State
  4. Kansas State
  5. Texas A&M
  6. Texas Tech
  7. Iowa State
  8. Nebraska
  9. Missouri
  10. Colorado
  11. Kansas
  12. Baylor

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Nice write up. Agreed about Big 12 having their own network. What is taking so long?

by prince8846 on Nov 4, 2009 10:49 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

I love the song question...we should make that a feature- Song of the Week

I liked BGs picks…my choices:
After K-State- Free Falling – Tom Petty
After Texas Tech – Satisfaction Rolling Stones
After Iowa St
I gotta feeling -Black Eyed Peas..

Also for the unexpected player, my vote for a player from our team would be Garric WIlliams. He has been pretty good and I look forward to seeing more from him in the future.

by maroonblood on Nov 4, 2009 11:29 PM CST reply actions   0 recs

Sorry cant stop...

Thunderstruck should be our theme song for the Longhorn game too …

Rode down the highway, broke the limit, we hit the ton
Went through to Texas, yeah Texas!
And we had some fun…

We met some girls, those dancers who gave us good times
Broke all the rulesI Played all the fools!
Yeah, Yeah, they, they blew our minds

You’ve been………….THUNDERSTRUCK!

by maroonblood on Nov 4, 2009 11:46 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

funny

I hate questions that ask for songs, most likely because music isn’t my deal. I’m better at giving movie quotes.

by Beergut on Nov 5, 2009 5:44 AM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I like “staying alive” for the Colorado game.

by YUMC on Nov 5, 2009 9:26 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

I have one more, since it’s colorado, how about “Rocky Mountain High”

by YUMC on Nov 5, 2009 9:32 PM CST up reply actions   0 recs

Right behind you on the Big 12 network. How many times have I missed really damned entertaining A&M/Tech games because it wasn’t on TV? More than once, and once is too damned many.

by HawkeyedFrog on Nov 5, 2009 1:03 AM CST reply actions   0 recs

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