Preseason All Big 12 team

[jaretac]

OFFENSE

QB: Landry Jones, Oklahoma
RB: Cyrus Gray, Texas A&M
RB: Bryce Brown, Kansas State
RB: Roy Finch, Oklahoma
WR: Justin Blackmon, Oklahoma State
WR: Ryan Broyles, Oklahoma
TE: Michael Egnew, Missouri
OL: Levy Adcock, Oklahoma State
OL: Kelechi Osemele, Iowa State
C: Ben Habern, Oklahoma
OL: Lonnie Edwards, Texas Tech
OL: Luke Joeckel, Texas A&M

DEFENSE

DL: Brad Madison, Missouri
DL: Ronnell Lewis, Oklahoma
DL: Kheeston Randall, Texas
DL: Frank Alexander, Oklahoma
LB: Travis Lewis, Oklahoma
LB: Jake Knott, Iowa State
LB: Keenan Robinson, Texas
DB: Coryell Judie, Texas A&M
DB: Markelle Martin, Oklahoma State
DB: Blake Gideon, Texas
DB: Demontre Hurst, Oklahoma

SPECIALISTS

K: Grant Ressel, Missouri
P: Quinn Sharp, Oklahoma State
KR: Coryell Judie, Texas A&M
PR: Ryan Broyles, Oklahoma

AWARDS

Offensive Player of the Year: Justin Blackmon, WR, OSU

Defensive Player of the Year: Travis Lewis, LB, Oklahoma

Newcomer of the Year: Malcolm Brown, RB, Texas

Selections by team: Oklahoma (9), Oklahoma State (4), Texas A&M (4), Missouri (3), Texas (3), Iowa State (2), Kansas State (1)

[Stumpy]

Eighteen Texans (based on high school) between the offensive and defensive teams. Just insane.

[CYphyllis]

Bryce Brown was named first team without ever playing a down in the B12. Cute.

[ItsCyence]

No one from Baylor or KU. Heck we had more than one. Good job KO and Jake! Keep it goin!

[CYphyllis]

No one from Baylor or KU. Heck we had more than one. Good job KO and Jake! Keep it goin!

+ Tech

[cloneu]

+ Tech

Tech has 1 OL guy. Left off of the team count at the bottom of the post though.

[Cyhart]

Bryce Brown was named first team without ever playing a down in the B12. Cute.

Thats what I was thinking.
Kinda reminds me of a certain basketball player who was named pre-season All American without........ah, you get the picture.

[CycloneErik]

How many times will OSU actually punt? Can their punter get enough action to really "qualify" as a choice?

[Cyrok]

Eighteen Texans (based on high school) between the offensive and defensive teams. Just insane.

I wonder what the ratio of population (Texas/All Big 12 states) versus representation on the first team preseason all big 12 is?

18/26*100 = 75% Texas rep on 1st Team B12
(edit: oops - they have 12 players on the first team offense so the numbers should be: 18/27*100 = 67%)

Using data from Wikipedia:
Texas pop: 25.1 million
Oklahoma 3.7m
Kansas 2.8m
Missouri 6.0m
Iowa 3.0m
(Texas pop)/(Big 12 pop) = 25.1m/40.6m*100 = 62%

So we should expect to see 62%, and observed is 67%. That's seems reasonable. I thought there would be a higher representation from Texas due to the culture that starts kids playing tackle football at a young age.

[CysRage]

What?!? No Nebraska or Colorado?

[Cyrok]

I wonder what the ratio of population (Texas/All Big 12 states) versus representation on the first team preseason all big 12 is?

18/26*100 = 75% Texas rep on 1st Team B12
(edit: oops - they have 12 players on the first team offense so the numbers should be: 18/27*100 = 67%)

Using data from Wikipedia:
Texas pop: 25.1 million
Oklahoma 3.7m
Kansas 2.8m
Missouri 6.0m
Iowa 3.0m
(Texas pop)/(Big 12 pop) = 25.1m/40.6m*100 = 62%

So we should expect to see 62%, and observed is 67%. That's seems reasonable. I thought there would be a higher representation from Texas due to the culture that starts kids playing tackle football at a young age.

A problem with my numbers here is that I'm sure there are kids from states outside the 5 states of the Big12 that made the 1st team. Need some ISU statistic help - does that invalidate my work?

[iowa_wildcat]

Bryce Brown was named first team without ever playing a down in the B12. Cute.

And has landed squarely in Bill Snyder's doghouse for taking the summer off instead of participating in "voluntary" summer drills.

[WalkingCY]

How many times will OSU actually punt? Can their punter get enough action to really "qualify" as a choice?

I was thinking the same thing.