Sam Stevens qualified for Oklahoma Stateโs lineup just 18 times in four seasons, including only twice his senior year. He never played more than 24 competitive rounds in a single season or tallied more than four rounds in the 60s.
And yet, he's played four straight seasons on Tour, is ranked top 60 in the world and is currently solo second at this #USOpen.
Texas gains NOTHING by agreeing to this game.
The committee made it CLEAR that big out of conference games would not be rewarded.
Want to improve your strength of schedule? Donโt play in the POVERTY Big 12.
Imagine the defending NCAA D1 Men's National Golf Champs playing against Viktor Hovland, Matt Wolff, Kris Ventra, Zach Bachou, Austin Ekroat and Sam Stevens.
Introducing the BATTLE OF THE COWBOYS: A matchup between the 2025 and 2018 Oklahoma State National Championship teams ๐
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During the College Football Playoff presentation here, Greg Sankey says leaders saw "metrics" that identified the SEC as the strongest league in the country.
"This league stands alone," he said.
New story: College Football Playoff officials explained some strength-of-record metrics to SEC coaches this week. It didn't go well.
"People were not happy."
https://t.co/gzLSBgV4Tq
NEW: Steve Sarkisian took a shot at Texas Tech while discussing how the College Football Playoff Committee factors strength of schedule๐
โThere's a team in our state that plays in another conference that has a schedule that I would argue if I played with our twos and our threes, we could go undefeated, and they'll probably make the CFP this year.โ
(via @AnwarRichardson)
https://t.co/79NGaUwlwU
Lane Kiffin on the addition of the 9th SEC game starting this season:
"I don't think anybody, now that they've seen how (Playoff) selections have gone, thinks that there's value in that."
"10-2 is in, 9-3 is out."
"I was not a fan of it at all."
NEW: The mighty SEC's historic dynasty has officially crumbled. For the first time in nearly a decade, college sports' most dominant conference faces an unprecedented reality that has coaches & ADs scrambling
https://t.co/9lWieDtQs8
NEW: The Big Ten has sent a letter to the NCAA urging it to stop punishing schools for tampering and asking for a complete reevaluation of the rules, per ESPN.
https://t.co/MB07SkDe2D
One cannot begin to explain how bad this would be for college sports/universities/ and communities across the country. If you have paid any attention to the college sports landscape in the last 15 years, you would certainly know that.
Greg Sankeyโs comments at the College Sports Roundtable made it obvious.
Heโs should be appointed as the chairman of this committee & effort.
Itโs clear, the issues of college sports are expansive & complex and need a full time person to head efforts to make it work for all.
College Sports are broken, and those who first made the mess and profit handsomely from the status quo do not want to fix it. Without meaningful change, opportunities for thousands and thousands of talented student athletes will disappear and womenโs and Olympics sports programs will be canceled. A disjointed and disorganized revenue generation system is the root cause, and everybody in college sports knows it - including many members of the Big 10 and SEC, who have recently reported staggering and unsustainable athletic deficits and debts. Ironically, at least one of these two commissioners, who argue that the status quo is โjust fineโ, have simultaneously pursued onerous private equity and debt deals to paper over the overwhelming deficits many of their member institutions face. The situation is even more dire in the lower-revenue conferences, as is well known.
Our primary objective is to provide athletic programs, both big and small, the tools they need to achieve financial sustainability and preserve all of their programs, scholarships, and roster spots. We want to grow the financial pie, and make it work for everybody - doing so in a way that doesnโt not punish or take revenue away from the โbig boysโ. Not only is this the right thing to do, it is also consistent with the Presidentโs โSaving College Sportsโ Executive Order, that was issued last summer.
The posture of these two commissioners indicates that they do not care about the fate of the other conferences or smaller schools, nor do they care about the life-changing opportunity provided to women and to athletes in our Olympic sports. It seems they have chosen to disregard the directives of the President and the will of the American people.
Change is difficult, I get that, especially when it means dismantling a long-held, broken, backwards system. My sincere hope is that, instead of throwing up roadblocks to our congressional momentum, we can work together on solutions that put the student athletes first and preserves the viability of the great American institution of college sports.
NEWS: The SEC would rather keep the College Football Playoff at 12 teams than expand to 24, @Clowfb reports. Greg Sankey is targeting a 16-team field.
Sources tell @Brett_McMurphy the Big Ten has not moved off the idea of expanding to 24๐
https://t.co/GSAKDxoYqX
"I'm not even arguing for another conference right now, I'm just arguing against this narrative that the SEC is a gauntlet, that it has to be rewarded, and that it has to be given the benefit of the doubt."
@joelklatt says the SEC "gauntlet" narrative "needs to die." Thoughts?