The Big 12 Has No Black Sheep

The Big 12 Has No Black Sheep

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Shower Thought - July 10, 2025

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Do you know any families where there's no black sheep?

I was talking to a friend the other day we were going through her kids, and one's thriving at Stanford the other's going to law school, the youngest is also excelling somewhere else...and I was like wait where's the one who's a greeter at Chuckie Cheese? Didn't have one!

If you've got a family who loves hunting, at least one is inevitably the in-doorsy type who wants to stay in and read Danielle Steel novels.

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Or if your a sports family and you all love watching sports, there's gonna be one that might like soccer and it just ticks everybody off.

The families that are all in one accord, all like playing music like the Osmunds or playing football like the Mannings are rare! No black sheep! And everything is just smooth...

That's the Big 12 in football.

Every other conference has to deal with black sheep.
The SEC has Vanderbilt who cares about reading and writing and they stink at football.
The rest of the conference is all football all the time.
The Big 10 has black sheep like Maryland who hasn't had a winning season in Big 10 play yet. They're more interested in Men's Lacrosse, than football. They don't fit in the big ten.
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The ACC is a mess with Florida State and Clemson that care about football they have Duke and Carolina that care about basketball and then they have Cal Berkeley who's the weird hippy black sheep who's up in a tree holding a protest sign. They don't fit.
The Big 12 is a rare family that doesn't have a weirdo Vanderbilt, Rutgers, Northwestern type. There's incredible parity...the preseason 16th ranked team last year won the conference.
The NFL has to go to incredible lengths to ensure parity every year. Hard salary cap, unbalanced scheduling that makes it harder for good teams, draft in reverse order of success...the BIG 12's parity comes naturally.
It's so unpredictable they've canceled their preseason conference poll because of how embarrassing it was last year. That's why it's the best league in the country.

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