The Big 12 Conference is Slipping and Bob Stoops Knows It

During SEC Media days commissioner Mike Slive said that the conference was sitting atop the proverbial mountain top of collegiate athletics. Bob Stoops disagrees.

According to the Tulsa World, Stoops told a crowd on his caravan that yes, the SEC has won the national championship the last 7 seasons, but "that doesn't mean everything else is the best." I must be missing something or perhaps I am listening to all the "propaganda" that has been pumped through the media circuit.

Stoops bragged of the Big 12's ability to place 8 of 10 teams in bowl games, but failed to point out the Southeastern Conference placed 9 of its 14 members in bowl games and finished with 5 teams in the top 10. Meanwhile, the Big 12's highest rated team was Kansas State at 12, followed by Oklahoma at 15.

Perhaps he forgot how those two teams, including his, fared in their bowl games. Its ok, though-I remember. The Oregon Ducks of the Pac 12 beat the Wildcats 35-17 in the Fiesta Bowl, then Johnny Manziel put up over 500 yards of total offense against the Sooners in the Cotton Bowl.Ol' "Big Game" Bob must have selective memory.  No, its not that he has forgotten, Stoops sees the writing on the wall.

He has seen his Sooner's slip and realizes his last BCS victory came against Connecticut. Stoops knows his team, and his league is slipping when it comes to national prestige. Without question in terms of elite conferences in the country the list would likely go:

1) SEC

2) Big 10

3) PAC 12

When you get down to the fourth conference on this list, I think the Big 12 as a whole is neck and neck with the ACC.  Should the ACC's plans to launch their own network come to fruition, I think you would see the ACC slip into the 4th spot, and the Big 12 settle into 5th place, just ahead of the Big East.

On Monday Bob Stoop proclaimed to his audience that we, as mentioned before, have bought into the propaganda the media has fed the masses when it comes to the Southeastern Conference. In reality, it was just a last ditch attempt to try and convince his fan base that the Big 12 was still the power they once were.