🏈 News/Notes Tulsa mentioned in USA Today's College Football Misery Index
- By Chris Harmon
- Hurricane Alley
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Decade of decline: Clemson, Dabo Swinney top Misery Index after Week 9 loss to NC State
Clemson and Dabo Swinney slumped to their fourth ACC loss, putting them at the top of the Misery Index after Week 9 of the college football season.
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Tulsa
There was a very obvious coaching hire for Tulsa last December. Though he had only been a head coach for one year, former Golden Hurricane quarterback G.J. Kinne had led Incarnate Word to the FCS semifinals and was ready to make the jump to an FBS program. But Tulsa – an athletic program with a shaky administration and financial limitations – let Texas State beat them to the punch. That was probably a blessing for the 34-year old Kinne, who is 5-3 with a win over Baylor. His career seems headed for big things. It hasn’t been so great for Tulsa, which settled on 62-year old retread Kevin Wilson after a stint as Ohio State’s offensive coordinator. Wilson is a top-notch play-caller when he has talent, but he was 26-47 in his only head coaching gig at Indiana. Tulsa is an even tougher job, and it has shown in his first year. The last two weeks, Tulsa has been outscored by a combined 111-20 — not by Alabama and Georgia but by Rice and SMU.
📝 Larry Lewis GAME PREVIEW: Tulsa faces tough task at SMU
- By Chris Harmon
- Hurricane Alley
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After laying an egg last week in a performance everyone would agree was awful, Tulsa has the chance to prove that was a fluke. Is Tulsa going to be a team that has a chance of going to a bowl? Or is TU just not very good?
When Tulsa (3-4, 1-2 AAC) plays at SMU at 11 a.m. in Dallas Saturday, the Golden Hurricane isn't expected to win. When the oddsmakers have you as a 21-point underdog, that usually isn't a good thing. But don't tell that to running back Anthony Watkins, who hails from the metroplex in Fort Worth.
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When Tulsa (3-4, 1-2 AAC) plays at SMU at 11 a.m. in Dallas Saturday, the Golden Hurricane isn't expected to win. When the oddsmakers have you as a 21-point underdog, that usually isn't a good thing. But don't tell that to running back Anthony Watkins, who hails from the metroplex in Fort Worth.
InsideTulsaSports - Tulsa faces tough task at SMU
Still with the goal of making a bowl game, Tulsa needs to get back on the winning track, but SMU provides a stiff test.
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Army to American
- By drboobay
- TU Football
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Army to join AAC in 2024 as football-only member as conference tabs Black Knights to replace SMU
Army has operated as an independent program since the 2004 season
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📝 Larry Lewis Preview -- Tulsa faces tough task at SMU
- By Chris Harmon
- TU Football
- 3 Replies
After laying an egg last week in a performance everyone would agree was awful, Tulsa has the chance to prove that was a fluke. Is Tulsa going to be a team that has a chance of going to a bowl? Or is TU just not very good?
When Tulsa (3-4, 1-2 AAC) plays at SMU at 11 a.m. in Dallas Saturday, the Golden Hurricane isn't expected to win. When the oddsmakers have you as a 21-point underdog, that usually isn't a good thing. But don't tell that to running back Anthony Watkins, who hails from the metroplex in Fort Worth.
tulsa.rivals.com
When Tulsa (3-4, 1-2 AAC) plays at SMU at 11 a.m. in Dallas Saturday, the Golden Hurricane isn't expected to win. When the oddsmakers have you as a 21-point underdog, that usually isn't a good thing. But don't tell that to running back Anthony Watkins, who hails from the metroplex in Fort Worth.
InsideTulsaSports - Tulsa faces tough task at SMU
Still with the goal of making a bowl game, Tulsa needs to get back on the winning track, but SMU provides a stiff test.
tulsa.rivals.com
AAC & Conference Realignment
- By Chris Harmon
- Hurricane Alley
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Article from our old buddy Eric Prisbell, who wrote for the Fresno Bee back when Courtney Alexander was playing for Fresno State around 2000.
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The American Athletic Conference is interested in adding any or all of the four remaining Pac-12 Conference schools, sources with direct knowledge of the league’s strategy told On3 on Monday.
If California, Stanford, Oregon State and Washington State are looking for a stable new home, the AAC believes it would be an ideal league for the so-called Pac-4. The AAC is interested in adding as many as all four of the schools, a source said, which would expand its membership to 18.
“We would be a good landing spot for those schools given our existing ESPN deal, which has a strong linear component, along with our major cities and institutional profiles,” one source said.
The conversations that are ensuing now are likely between the remaining Pac-12 schools and schools in the AAC, rather than between conference offices. A merger is not said to be in play at the moment; it would entail a variety of complicating factors. Instead, the AAC is focused on potentially adding Pac-12 schools.
Friday’s mass exodus of five Pac-12 schools – Oregon and Washington to the Big Ten Conference; Arizona, Arizona State and Utah to the Big 12 Conference – opened a range of possibilities for the remaining Pac-12 schools. And there’s no indication, much less certainty, that the four will act as one bloc.
California’s Board of Regents has scheduled a call for Tuesday morning at 7 a.m. PST. A closed session, the agenda is a discussion on “UC Berkeley Pac-12 Conference Membership.”
Will Pac-12 schools find landing spot elsewhere?
A merger of some sort with the Mountain West Conference is also on the table, as is Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff moving swiftly to try to poach schools from the AAC and MWC.
Prior to the Pac-12 disintegrating, Kliavkoff was expected to secure a media rights deal for his league and then immediately turn to expansion. The top targets were – and perhaps still are – SMU of the AAC and San Diego State of the MWC. SMU is a much more feasible addition because its $10 million exit fee and 27-month notice would likely be subject to negotiation.
For San Diego State as well as fellow MWC schools Colorado State and UNLV, the price tag to join the Pac-12 next year is $34 million. If those schools wish to join in 2025, the cost drops to $17 million.
All that said, there’s a huge caveat: The Pac-12 was viewed to be attractive to SMU and San Diego State before the league crumbled. One source said that the schools would “crawl over glass” to gain entry into a Power 5 league.
But the landscape has changed dramatically in the last few days. The Pac-12 is in tatters and still lacks a rights deal after July 1, 2024. And now the AAC is looking to add schools from the Pac-12.
As some sources suggested, it may make more sense for the remaining Pac-12 schools to find a landing spot in the AAC or MWC.
In 2019, the AAC secured a 12-year, $1 billion rights deal with ESPN. The lack of a linear TV network component in the Apple TV+ rights deal proposed to Pac-12 members is believed to be among the leading factors that spurred schools to scramble for the exits. The underwhelming Apple proposal fell short in dollars and brand visibility.
The 14-member AAC rallied well after losing UCF, Cincinnati and Houston to the Big 12. It added Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, UAB, North Texas, UTSA and Rice from Conference USA.
AAC Commissioner Mike Aresco is no stranger to realignment dynamics and how swiftly fortunes can change.
“I’m pretty sanguine about realignments; I’ve been through it so many times,” Aresco, who also was the last commissioner of the original Big East in 2012-13, told On3 during the Pac-12 negotiations. “I don’t know if there’s another commissioner who has been through it as much as I have.”
Sources: AAC interested in adding the four remaining Pac-12 schools
The AAC is interested in adding any or all of the remaining four Pac-12 schools: California, Stanford, Washington State and Oregon State.
The American Athletic Conference is interested in adding any or all of the four remaining Pac-12 Conference schools, sources with direct knowledge of the league’s strategy told On3 on Monday.
If California, Stanford, Oregon State and Washington State are looking for a stable new home, the AAC believes it would be an ideal league for the so-called Pac-4. The AAC is interested in adding as many as all four of the schools, a source said, which would expand its membership to 18.
“We would be a good landing spot for those schools given our existing ESPN deal, which has a strong linear component, along with our major cities and institutional profiles,” one source said.
The conversations that are ensuing now are likely between the remaining Pac-12 schools and schools in the AAC, rather than between conference offices. A merger is not said to be in play at the moment; it would entail a variety of complicating factors. Instead, the AAC is focused on potentially adding Pac-12 schools.
Friday’s mass exodus of five Pac-12 schools – Oregon and Washington to the Big Ten Conference; Arizona, Arizona State and Utah to the Big 12 Conference – opened a range of possibilities for the remaining Pac-12 schools. And there’s no indication, much less certainty, that the four will act as one bloc.
California’s Board of Regents has scheduled a call for Tuesday morning at 7 a.m. PST. A closed session, the agenda is a discussion on “UC Berkeley Pac-12 Conference Membership.”
Will Pac-12 schools find landing spot elsewhere?
A merger of some sort with the Mountain West Conference is also on the table, as is Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff moving swiftly to try to poach schools from the AAC and MWC.
Prior to the Pac-12 disintegrating, Kliavkoff was expected to secure a media rights deal for his league and then immediately turn to expansion. The top targets were – and perhaps still are – SMU of the AAC and San Diego State of the MWC. SMU is a much more feasible addition because its $10 million exit fee and 27-month notice would likely be subject to negotiation.
For San Diego State as well as fellow MWC schools Colorado State and UNLV, the price tag to join the Pac-12 next year is $34 million. If those schools wish to join in 2025, the cost drops to $17 million.
All that said, there’s a huge caveat: The Pac-12 was viewed to be attractive to SMU and San Diego State before the league crumbled. One source said that the schools would “crawl over glass” to gain entry into a Power 5 league.
But the landscape has changed dramatically in the last few days. The Pac-12 is in tatters and still lacks a rights deal after July 1, 2024. And now the AAC is looking to add schools from the Pac-12.
As some sources suggested, it may make more sense for the remaining Pac-12 schools to find a landing spot in the AAC or MWC.
In 2019, the AAC secured a 12-year, $1 billion rights deal with ESPN. The lack of a linear TV network component in the Apple TV+ rights deal proposed to Pac-12 members is believed to be among the leading factors that spurred schools to scramble for the exits. The underwhelming Apple proposal fell short in dollars and brand visibility.
The 14-member AAC rallied well after losing UCF, Cincinnati and Houston to the Big 12. It added Charlotte, Florida Atlantic, UAB, North Texas, UTSA and Rice from Conference USA.
AAC Commissioner Mike Aresco is no stranger to realignment dynamics and how swiftly fortunes can change.
“I’m pretty sanguine about realignments; I’ve been through it so many times,” Aresco, who also was the last commissioner of the original Big East in 2012-13, told On3 during the Pac-12 negotiations. “I don’t know if there’s another commissioner who has been through it as much as I have.”
🏈 Recruiting Another successful week for TU Football Commits
- By Chris Harmon
- Hurricane Alley
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Several of Tulsa's current football commitments in the 2024 class turned in impressive performances last week.
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InsideTulsaSports - Another successful week for Tulsa football commits
Several of Tulsa's current football commitments in the 2024 class turned in impressive performances last week.
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🏈 Recruiting TU Commit stats for week 9
- By Chris Harmon
- TU Football
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Several of Tulsa's current football commitments in the 2024 class turned in impressive performances last week.
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InsideTulsaSports - Another successful week for Tulsa football commits
Several of Tulsa's current football commitments in the 2024 class turned in impressive performances last week.
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