Tag: Bob Bowlsby

Tom Herman, Sam Ehlinger appreciative of Big 12’s plan to move forward

Texas head coach Tom Herman, quarterback Sam Ehlinger and safety Caden Sterns each released statements on Wednesday.

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Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby discusses the decision to move forward

Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby held a league conference call on Wednesday to discuss the reasoning in moving forward with college football.

It almost feels as if Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby single-handedly saved the college football season. Continue reading “Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby discusses the decision to move forward”

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How Oklahoma players, coaches responded to Big 12 news

The Big 12 conference announced its schedule for the 2020 season on Wednesday, silencing any notion that the conference is preparing to bow

The Big 12 conference announced its revised schedule for the 2020 season on Wednesday, silencing any notion that the conference is preparing to bow out, at least for the time being.

After the Big Ten and Pac-12 postponed their seasons on Tuesday, college football came to a standstill awaiting the Big 12’s decision, which would likely determine the fate of the season.

By aligning with the SEC and ACC and remaining on course to play this fall, the Big 12 kept hopes of a fall football season alive.

Form coaches to current players to former ones, Sooners of every shape and size chimed in on the Big 12’s announcement.

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Oklahoma, Big 12 listen to its athletes in regards to concerns about playing, not playing

Oklahoma, Big 12 listen to its athletes in regards to concerns about playing, not playing

Times are changing for college football.

Players voices across all sports are being heard more, and it was only a matter of time before it made its way to college football.

Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said in a statement Wednesday he gave players a chance to speak on the recent issues surrounding college football.

ā€œWhat we’ve heard from our student-athletes is they’d like to play, but they want to make sure it’s safe. They want to know what the eligibility implications are, and they want to know that their financial aid is secure.”

Players within the Pac-12 have recently made demands regarding their image and likeness, and Clemson QB Trevor Lawrence recently helped form a players’ association.

While it is important to hear the players out, Bowlsby said that ultimately the decision still falls on his and the rest of the conferences shoulders.

“I think it’s my obligation along with our athletic directors and others to try and do what we can to optimize the experience that our young people have. And that certainly includes a postseasonā€ he said.

Oklahoma released their revised nine-game scheduled on Wednesday.Ā The Sooners will kick off their 2020 season against Missouri State on September 12.

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Big 12 commissioner on ACC, SEC: ‘We’re in it togetherā€™

Big 12 commissioner on ACC, SEC: ‘We’re in it togetherā€™

COVID-19 has brought some conferences together, and drove others further apart.

The virus has put an air of uncertainty around college football, and while it has brought certain conferences together to make decisions, it has cause some to make unilateral decisions.

The Big Ten and Pac-12 conferences announced on Tuesday that they would be cancelling their fall slate, and would be attempting to finish their seasons out in the spring.

The Big Ten and Pac-12 were also the first conferences to opt for a conference-only schedules, well ahead of the other three conferences decision.

Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby understands the conferences need to band together.

“I think, de-facto, weā€™re in it together. But weā€™re not locked at the hip. Weā€™ll continue to talk to each other with regularity.ā€

Oklahoma released a nine-game schedule on Wednesday, that included a nonconference matchup with Missouri State.

The Sooners take on the Bears on September 12, and will have a bye week before taking on their Big 12 opponents.

Tuesday Big 12 morning rush: Headlines from around the conference

Each morning LW will share the top stories from around the Big 12. For today’s morning rush, Twitter and Austin Monthly provide headlines.

Each morning Longhorns Wire will share the top stories from around the Big 12 Conference. For this edition of the Big 12 morning rush, Twitter and Austin Monthly provides the headlines.

Conference medical experts to join presidents and athletic directors on a conference call

According to Chuck Carlton of the Dallas Morning News, the Big 12’s medical experts are going to be joining university presidents and athletic directors on a teleconference tomorrow.

Rumors of Big Ten/SEC teams playing in Big 12 “astonishing”

Nebraska head coach Scott Frost stirred the pot Monday afternoon, saying the Cornhuskers are “committed to playing no matter what… We certainly hope it’s in the Big Ten. If it isn’t, I think we’re prepared to look for other options.”

The World According to Matthew McConaughey

If there is a person who represents the University of Texas and the football team, it is Matthew McConaughey. Dubbed ‘The Minister of Culture’, McConaughey has become a major part of Texas’ culture.

Although he credits his outfit to chanceā€”the blind results in a game of closet rouletteā€”it seems an unintentional reminder of simpler times. For several months, our plan was to have me shadow the recently appointed professor of practice in the Moody College of Communication around UTā€™s campus as he inhabited his latest role as mentor and university sage. Iā€™d attend his Script to Screen class that he developed with director Scott Rice in 2015, a practical learning experience that he says ā€œputs some science behind the magic and mystique of making movies.ā€ Weā€™d wander over to the Frank Erwin Center where he acts as Minister of Culture/M.O.C., often donning a burnt orange three-piece suit as he parades the sidelines at basketball games, exhorting fans and players like an unofficial assistant coach. Finally, heā€™d escort me to the six-plus acre site southeast of Darrell K Royalā€“Texas Memorial Stadium, where the new $338 million basketball and events arena is slated to open in 2021ā€” a project in which heā€™s a part-owner.

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Caden Sterns: ‘Worked way too hard for the season to be cancelled’

Texas Longhorns junior safety Caden Sterns went to Twitter to have his voice heard. He feels like he worked too hard for this.

Much like many of the fans are expressing on social media with the reports of a cancelled season, the players are just as upset. Much like Clemson quarterback Trevor Lawrence, other players are taking to Twitter to get their voice heard. Players much like Lawrence feel as if they would be better off on campus around their team than at home. One reason was that often times these athletes are in better situations than home. Football is their way to escape a world and they are given a better opportunity.

One Texas Longhorn has made his voice known. Caden Sterns is no stranger to letting his voice be heard. He took to Twitter shortly after Lawrence to let his frustrations be known.

Caden joined his teammates on Friday in the first day of fall camp as they tried to get ready for the upcoming season. Under new defensive coordinator Chris Ash there was much to be optimistic about. Ash’s defense was going to focus on pressure and taking the ball away. Sterns was pretty good at taking the ball from offenses in his freshman season. It is a craft he was working on early in camp.

After a down year in 2019, Sterns seemed poised to become the ballhawk he was in 2018. He was named Freshman All-American for his efforts and led the team in interceptions that year with four. It is unclear at this moment whether or not the Big 12 Conference and Bob Bowlsby will follow the lead of the Big Ten.

All we know is the players want to do what they do best, play the game they love.

As reports surface about cancelling football, Big 12 sets meeting

SI’s Pat Forde and Ross Dellenger are reporting that the Power Five conferences are looking to cancel the season. Big 12 set Monday meeting.

Over the past several days there has been an uneasy feeling about the possibility of a cancelled 2020 college football season. The NCAA President Mark Emmert recently spoke about the path forward being a rough one. Even CBS Sports writer Dennis Dodd spoke with two anonymous athletic directors that believed it was inevitable.

On Sunday afternoon however, the report that many didn’t want to hear began to make its way to twitter. Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde and Ross Dellenger tweeted out that the Big Ten Conference was set to cancel football for the 2021 season. Again it isn’t surprising but nothing something that one wants to hear.

Shortly afater that report surfaced, Clemson’s quarterback Trevor Lawrence took to Twitter to plead for the opportunity to play. Many athletes have voiced their opinions with hashtag Let Us Play. Here is what Lawrence had to say about it.

People are at just as much, if not more risk, if we donā€™t play. Players will all be sent home to their own communities where social distancing is highly unlikely and medical care and expenses will be placed on the families if they were to contract covid19 (1)

Not to mention the players coming from situations that are not good for them/ their future and having to go back to that. Football is a safe haven for so many people. We are more likely to get the virus in everyday life than playing football. Having a season also incentivizes

Players being safe and taking all of the right precautions to try to avoid contracting covid because the season/ teammates safety is on the line. Without the season, as weā€™ve seen already, people will not social distance or wear masks and take the proper precautions

The former National Championship winning quarterback makes a sound argument for not only his teammates but for players across the nation. While you can argue it could be safer for athletes if they don’t subject themselves to contraction by playing. The players seem to want to play. They don’t feel that they are safer by not playing. You can be the judge on being for or against it. As for the Big 12 Conference, they are set to meet on Monday at 5 p.m. according to Drew Davison of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Nothing has been made official yet but it is quite possible come 6 p.m. on Monday that we will have some finality to this situation. Whether or not the Big 12 follows the Big Ten or they attempt to play on their own.

Sunday Big 12 morning rush: Headlines from around the conference

The latest morning rush headlines from around the Big 12 including a local product heading to Kansas over Texas and Baylor.

Each morning Longhorns Wire will share the top stories from around the Big 12 Conference. For this edition of the Big 12 Morning Twitter, Sports Illustrated, and 247Sports provide the headlines.

Austin native K.J. Adams chooses Kansas over staying home

Austin Westlake power forward K.J. Adams decided to stay somewhat close to home and play basketball in the Big 12 conference. However, he didn’t choose to stay in his hometown of Austin, Texas. Instead he chose Kansas over Georgetown, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Baylor and yes Texas. The 2021 power forward is the 16th ranked power forward in the country and is set to play for the Jayhawks and Bill Self.

How Bringing in BYU Solves Every Big 12 Scheduling Dilemma

It was recently reported by Matt Mosely that the Big 12 wouldn’t consider bringing in Brigham Young University. However, desperate times call for desperate measures right? AllSooners of Sports Illustrated highlighted how adding BYU even for one season would fix their scheduling woes in 2020.

Start with the numbers: 10 games spread over 15 Saturdays, from Week 0 (Aug. 29) to Week 14 (Dec. 5), although thereā€™s been much discussion about adding yet another week and pushing the regular-season finales to Dec. 12 ā€” 16 weeks in all.

Try to keep the Thursday and Friday matchups where they are for TV purposes, and build around that if possible. With the final games on Dec. 12 and the Big 12 championship game pushed back to Dec. 19 (essentially what the Pac-12 announced on Friday), that would give every Big 12 team seven open dates to cope with positive COVID-19 test results if they happen, and thus manage rosters.

To start, do away with all existing non-conference games. Simple as that. Let the FCS and Group of 5 opponents figure out their own schedules.

Report: Big 12 closing in on preferred scheduling model for 2020

The Big 12 Conference is the last man standing so to speak. Commissioner Bob Bowlsby and the conference have yet to announce their 2020 schedule plans unlike their Power Five brothers. Jeff Howe of Horns 247 says that the announcement is coming in the next couple of days.

Texas has two Group of Five opponents left on the schedule, both of which are to be played at Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium: USF on Sept. 5 and UTEP on Sept. 19. If the league is planning on beginning league play in late September and goes to a plus-one scheduling model, the likely scenario would be the Miners coming to Austin to play the Longhorns before Texas opens conference play Oct. 3 with a road trip to K-State.

In theory,Ā thereā€™s a way Texas could play a full 12-game schedule. The Longhorns have the option to move their season opener to Aug. 29 (Kansas and Oklahoma are both due to kick off on the last Saturday in August) and they could potentially add an in-state opponent to fill the void created by the LSU cancelation, likely from Conference USA if Texas went down that road (the Jayhawks added a game with FCS Southern Illinois while the Sooners merely moved their game with Missouri State from September to August, which allowed them to begin preseason practice Friday).

Big 12: Split on schedule options, Presidents to decide Monday

The Big 12 Conference has yet to decide on their schedule for the upcoming season but clarity is coming on Monday.

On Thursday afternoon the Southeastern Conference announced they would be going to a conference only schedule in 2020. This created a domino effect for the Big 12 as they cancelled their media day. It was also reported that an emergency meeting was called to determine how the conference would proceed with the 2020 football season.

Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports reported on Friday that the league was split with what the season would look like.

The Big 12’s athletic directors were split Friday while meeting to recommend which scheduling model the conference should use in a 2020 season that remains in flux amid the coronavirus pandemic. The conference is currently considering two primary options: a complete 12-game season or a 10-game schedule including one nonconference opponent, several league sources tell CBS Sports.

In the 12-game model, the Big 12 would play its nine league opponents in its traditional round-robin format along with three nonconference opponents. In the 10-game model, it is believed the Big 12 would play its conference schedule along with one nonconference game that would take place before the league slate begins, likely on Sept. 19 or Sept. 26.

The other Power Five conferences are set to begin on September 26th, so it would make sense for the Big 12 to follow suit. The question remains now if they will be the only conference to attempt to play a full 12-game schedule amid the pandemic.

The Pac-12 Conference was the latest to announce their schedule starting on September 26th. If the Big 12 decides on a 12-game schedule it would likely start earlier. It remains to be seen what Monday’s meeting could bring for the conference. Oklahoma and KansasĀ  have already moved up their opening game to week zero in an attempt to jumpstart the season.

If the Big 12 goes with a conference-only schedule, it would play the fewest games (nine) of any Power Five league. That could potentially leave the conference at a competitive disadvantage in regard to theĀ College FootballĀ Playoff.