TU women down 14 in 4Q against UTSA and pull out a 4-point win. Impressive.

Deneric Prince will have a Super Bowl Championship ring.
Happy for him and my KC Chiefs.

We played better than I thought we would, but man, we didn’t get it done when it mattered. We took some bad shots in second half and didn’t make some shots we should. 0-8 in second half from three will kill us every time.

The positives are we played better defense than I thought possible. Nice games by Barnes, Haggerty, and Reed. Garcia had his moments, too. Cobe drives me nuts.

Refs were inconsistent.

PJ needs to make his free throws.

I thought we made odd adjustments to their defense. They were running our old switch defense and it’s like we have no plan at times. They put a big on Haggerty and we didn’t have an automatic play for that. I don’t understand why not.

What happened to the UAB dude in the velour jumpsuit that looked like Jesus in the Big Lebowski?

ITS GAMEDAY!!! Today The men host UAB at 1 p.m at the Reynolds Center. Lets get back on the winning side of things. Little Rock has finally moved to a Q3 so at the moment we do not have a Q4 loss. They are one spot from going back to a Q4.

Last night
USF beat Rice 69-65
ECU beat UTSA 84-73
Oklahoma beat Oklahoma State 66-62
SDSU beat Oral Roberts 83-72.

Today’s games

Tulane at Memphis
Charlotte at Temple
North Texas at SMU
FAU at Wichita State

Full Schedule is below

GO TU!!!

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AAC Games


Rankings


Rest of GOI Teams


Quad Tracker

None of Wednesday Officials thank goodness. Only a 3.5 point underdog.

3-star Trotwood (OH) Madison quarterback Tim Carpenter committed to Tulsa on January 17. The former Indiana commit plans to sign with TU on February 7, bolstering an already impressive 2024 class for the Golden Hurricane. Tulsa will likely add up to three new signees during the regular February signing period.


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Tulsa should be signing Tim Carpenter, Jewlyen Roberts and Issac Covington today.

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I'm sure this isn't good from a retention standpoint, but it's good to see some positive news about TU basketball on a national scale. It has been a while since a TU basketball player made these kind of lists.

Note: This is a combination of an alternate history storytelling plus me playing out the seasons on NCAA Football 2014. I've made many changes to the historical situation, which I'll explain, but if something is amiss (such as a coach being an ahistorical school, that is probably my intention). I hope you enjoy my winter break project.

Prologue

The history of the University of Tulsa Golden Hurricane had truly changed on that day late in 1945 when Paul "Bear" Bryant met oil tycoon William G. Skelly at a cocktail party in Washington, D.C. Fresh out of the Navy, having turned down assistant coach offers at Alabama and Georgia Tech, Bryant was still searching for an opportunity to be a head coach. With a dream of becoming the head coach at the flagship university of his native Arkansas, Bryant listened carefully to Skelly as he talked about the potential of the University of Tulsa. With Tulsa having recently appeared in the Sun Bowl, two Sugar Bowls, and having just won the Orange Bowl, Bryant knew he could build a winning program that would nearly guarantee him his dream job of leading the Razorbacks.

With Coach Henry Frnka departing for Tulane, Bryant took over the Golden Hurricane program for the 1946 season. Bryant sustained Frnka's run of excellence during the post-war years with several additional major bowl appearances before he left to replace Otis Douglas in Fayetteville after the 1952 season. However, during this run of several Top 10 finishes, the Golden Hurricane had turned themselves into a major player on the national football stage. As such, TU was invited to join the then-Big 7 conference, along with Oklahoma A&M to create the Big 9 Conference.

At the same time, Bear Bryant felt like Arkansas was the odd man out in the Southwest Conference and always given second billing to the Texas schools and always on the outside of SWC politics. Additionally, he was angered by the private schools that he felt like limited Arkansas' ability to become a true national power [perhaps because the private schools liked to turn in the public schools for violations]. As such, he engineered the Razorbacks joining the Big 9 Conference. In the years following, to ease scheduling and regional travel, the conference admitted Colorado State University and the University of Wyoming to form the Big 12 Conference. The Razorbacks abandoning a major conference would result in shifted thinking in the SWC, which would aggressively expand in the coming decades.

While Tulsa never won a national championship, the Golden Hurricane retained their winning ways throughout the 1950s and into the early 1960s. Nevertheless, by the mid 1960s, the Golden Hurricane were floundering and barely noticeable as a competitor in the Big 12, which was increasingly dominated by Oklahoma, Nebraska, Arkansas, and Colorado. With mostly losing records throughout the 1980s, the TU leadership were looking for a new answer come the mid-90s. Recognizing the need to innovate in order to compete with the large, rich programs like OU and Nebraska, TU scoured the country looking for a coach who could bring Tulsa an advantage on the football field. With desperation following three straight 2-win seasons, TU settled on a Division II coach with a relatively light resume but an exciting offense: Hal Mumme. Mumme came to Tulsa in 1993 and proceeded to reel off winning seasons in 1993 and 1994 followed by a conference runner-up in 1995 to #1 Nebraska and an appearance in the Cotton Bowl. Mumme was hired to replace the retiring Hayden Fry at Iowa following the 1995 season, and TU chose continuity by hiring his offensive coordinator, 34-year old Mike Leach as the head coach for the 1996 season.

The College Football Landscape

[Note: One of the approaches I took in realigning was to experiment with other conferences acting more like the SWC and being focused on in-state schools. I also had some other schools and conferences make different decisions throughout history. And I added in some non-FBS schools to create a good narrative. There's no specific reason for these things, other than I thought it would make things interesting. I have, however, tried to keep things at least somewhat plausible...mostly changes that could have occurred pre-WW2.]

As the Bowl Championship Series comes into being, these are conference lineups:

Atlantic Coast Conference

1. Maryland
2. Virginia
3. Virginia Tech
4. William & Mary
5. Duke
6. North Carolina
7. NC State
8. Wake Forest
9. East Carolina
10. Clemson
11. South Carolina
12. Emory

Big East Conference

1. Boston College
2. Syracuse
3. Connecticut
4. Rutgers
5. Temple
6. Penn State
7. Pittsburgh
8. West Virginia
9. Michigan State
10. Cincinnati
11. Florida State
12. Miami

Big Ten Conference

1. Ohio State
2. Miami Univ.
3. Michigan
4. Notre Dame
5. Indiana
6. Purdue
7. Illinois
8. Northwestern
9. Chicago
10. Wisconsin
11. Minnesota
12. Iowa

Big 12 Conference

1. Arkansas
2. Tulsa
3. Oklahoma
4. Oklahoma State
5. Missouri
6. Iowa State
7. Kansas
8. Kansas State
9. Nebraska
10. Colorado
11. Colorado State
12. Wyoming

PAC-12 Conference

1. Washington
2. Washington State
3. Oregon
4. Oregon State
5. California
6. Stanford
7. San Jose State
8. Southern California
9. UCLA
10. Fresno State
11. San Diego State
12. Hawaii

[Note: I would have liked to have had Pacific or Long Beach State instead of Hawaii, but the EA Create-A-Team function no longer works, so I was stuck with the schools I could find to download. This was also true on some other conferences.]

Southeastern Conference

1. Georgia
2. Georgia Tech
3. Florida
4. Tennessee
5. Vanderbilt
6. Kentucky
7. Alabama
8. Auburn
9. Louisiana State
10. Tulane
11. Ole Miss
12. Mississippi State

Southwest Conference

1. Baylor
2. Houston
3. Rice
4. Texas A&M
5. SMU
6. TCU
7. Texas
8. Texas Tech
9. UTEP
10. New Mexico
11. Arizona
12. Arizona State

And the non-BCS conferences:

Conference USA: Marshall, UCF, USF, FAU, Stetson, Florida A&M, Louisville, UAB, Memphis, Southern Miss, Louisiana Tech, Troy State
Mid-American Conference: Buffalo, Akron, Kent State, Ohio, Bowling Green, Western Kentucky, Middle Tennessee, Toledo, Eastern Michigan, Central Michigan, Western Michigan, Ball State
Western Athletic Conference: BYU, Utah, Utah State, Boise State, Nevada, UNLV, Air Force, North Texas, West Texas A&M, Southwest Texas State, North Dakota State, South Dakota State
Independents: Army, Navy, Arkansas State, Southwest Louisiana, Northeast Louisiana

An extremely disappointing collapse by TU down the stretch turned a winnable game into a forgettable ending. Tulsa played well for much of the game, but UAB took care of business, defeating Tulsa 70-63 Sunday afternoon in front of 3,124 fans at the Reynolds Center.

An extremely disappointing collapse by TU down the stretch turned a winnable game into a forgettable ending. Tulsa played well for much of the game, but UAB took care of business, defeating Tulsa 70-63 Sunday afternoon in front of 3,124 fans at the Reynolds Center.

They are as good or better than North Texas and beat FAU last night. It will take our best effort to stay in this game, especially in the rebounding area which is the key.

“On Wednesday, Tulsa put the finishing touches on Kevin Wilson's first full recruiting class as the leader of the Golden Hurricane.

A 27-man class populated primarily by guys from Texas and Oklahoma, the algorithm behind the 247Sports composite rated the group of 26 3-stars and a lone 2-star as the 54th best in the nation -- one spot below Iowa State, and one spot above Cal.

But Wilson rated his class first, and he has his own criteria for doing so. In Wilson's view, it was the best class in the country signed without the promise of a single NIL dollar.”

Rice fan outnumbered by TU fans.

Shooting too many 3s so far. Rice up 14-11 with 2 minutes left first quarter.

ITS GAMEDAY!!!!! Tulsa hosts North Texas who is coming off three straight losses. Tulsa is trying to rebound by a thorough beating by Florida Atlantic last weekend. This will be a tough game for TU. Glad to see it is in Tulsa. North Texas does do fairly well on the road.

Todays Games

UTSA at Wichita State
SMU at Rice

Full Schedule is below.

GO TU!!!

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AAC Games


Other Games of Interest (Expansion Teams, Possible Teams and TU Women)


Rankings


Rest of GOI Teams


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In an extremely physical game with few whistles, especially early, young Tulsa was no match for mature, experienced North Texas. Reigning NIT Champion North Texas, with mostly upperclassmen, shoved and pushed Tulsa around, and was the much tougher team. TU had no answer, as Tulsa fell 68-55 to North Texas on Wednesday night in front of a crowd of 4,054 at the Reynolds Center.

If you think you think the ref is within earshot on a no call yell out, “Hey refs! Watch green 12/watch blue 3!” Or whoever on the other team is fouling and not getting fouls called on them.

If they hear that vs insult, they typically will start paying attention to whoever it is and start calling the fouls.

Keep yelling it until they call a foul on them..

Just a little thing that has worked for me , many times as a fan.

GO TU!

Coach Wilson and most of coaches staff are believers. Next most are family men and have been around successful programs and the NFL. Players and family respect the coaches. Most of the signees quote the Bible and seem to like the idea of a team filled with like minded men. Finally the school and the city. Great class it's been a long time coming.

We lost for several reasons. First, that team played great defense. They were fast and physical. Their coach is a bigger douche than Wojcik. It works?

Second, our team kind of quit at times. I liked the lineup with Archie out there, but we had a deer in headlights look often. We looked slow and disinterested. We missed a lot of shots. I’m currently watching our team saunter around the court when they should be fouling the hell out of these idiots.

Third, this was disgraceful officiating. Completely inconsistent, stupid, unaccountable, moronic. The bad officiating is killing this sport. There are many issues, but the completely random and incoherent calls make it impossible to understand. I mean that. Everybody in my area complained tonight. They know they suck. That the one guy is considered a good officials is the problem. These refs were all pathetic and no better at their job than a crew of Pokenmike1, Zelton, and Keith Burns, all doing a hit of some bad street drug before the game. It was all time bad.

Fourth, Konkol. Bruh. Do something. I heard his speech. It was basically “play like you mean it.” That’s not going to get it done. He needed to get thrown out of this one. The officials were that bad. He needed to agree to the fine for calling them out. This board should have fronted it. That one ref hated Wojcik. We needed that tonight. Make that the issue. Get the fans into the game.

We are nowhere near where we should be. There are some positives (we aren’t a five win team) but this is overall a really bad product. Sorry.

In an extremely physical game with few whistles, especially early, young Tulsa was no match for mature, experienced North Texas. Reigning NIT Champion North Texas, with mostly upperclassmen, shoved and pushed Tulsa around, and was the much tougher team. TU had no answer, as Tulsa fell 68-55 to North Texas on Wednesday night in front of a crowd of 4,054 at the Reynolds Center.

He was planning to walk in at Michigan Dystr but must be still looking.

Michigan State football added another player from the transfer portal on Friday, this time, a walk-on. Long snapper Aiden DeCorte will join the Spartans.

DeCorte spent last season with Central Michigan. He was rated as a 4-star long snapper when at Jackson High School. He entered the portal on December 1st.

I have officially been accepted into Michigan State University for the Spring semester and will be a walk on transfer from Central Michigan University. Go Green!!💚🤍

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2023

As a freshman offensive lineman, did not see any action.

HIGH SCHOOL

A 2023 graduate of Jackson High School, where he played three years of varsity football for head coaches Scott Farley and Tone Parker … Named a Dream All-American …Named to the Legacy All-Star Game as the starting center … Academic All-Conference honoree … Detroit Free Press preseason All-State selection … USA Football All-Star … Played center on offense and served as a long snapper … Accumulated over 300-plus pancakes in his four-year career … Helped guide the Vikings to their third playoff win in 108 years of football … Rated as a four-star long snapper … Also competed in track and field as a sophomore and junior … Four-year Honor Roll student … Competed in the throws in track and field … Involved in a variety of community service activities, including helping to supply youth with clothes and food.

Women off to a good start.

Let’s put them away.