Dallas Morning News quick preview

isuarch80 · 07-08-2008, 11:25 AM

The Dallas Morning News puts out a daily paper called "Quick DFW" which condenses the full newspaper down to about 20-24 pages... they had a quick Big XII football preview in it today so I thought I'd share. Doesn't seem to be too out of line with what most people are saying... surprised they picked Tech over Texas (I'm used to homerism in the DMN paper)... Just one person's opinions:
BigXII Preview.pdf

isuarch80 · 07-08-2008, 11:26 AM

And the jpeg version if someone can't read the PDF:
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cstrunk · 07-08-2008, 11:28 AM

I don't mind being a team no one expects to do anything. That can easily lead to surprises... unless we do worse than last year, which would only be another surprise (which won't happen).

4429 mcc · 07-08-2008, 11:32 AM

Mizzou 12-0. I dont see it everthing else looks about right I have us with one more win...ok two more wins. Agree with them on the rest especially the 'skers

Thanks for posting

BryceC · 07-08-2008, 11:33 AM

Awesome job on the PDF.

jj-cyclones · 07-08-2008, 11:36 AM

Bottom line....yes we have a new quarterback and we shouldn't be rated higher than 5th in the north...i agree

jbhtexas · 07-08-2008, 11:39 AM

I could see some fans of kNowledgeWorld being a little upset with that ranking, especially the loss to KSU...

d4nim4l · 07-08-2008, 12:03 PM

Definitely biased towards the South (expected), but a pretty good write up. I think 4-8 is a very fair prediction for us.

CyinCo · 07-08-2008, 12:10 PM

I'd say that Mizzou is shaping up to be the media darling this year. Eveyone will love to talk about how Pinkel was nearly out of a job and now has things turned around. They'll love to talk about Chase Daniel for Heisman. And of couse the build up to an OU vs MU BigXII title game.

jdoggivjc · 07-08-2008, 12:22 PM

Originally Posted by CyinCo

I'd say that Mizzou is shaping up to be the media darling this year. Eveyone will love to talk about how Pinkel was nearly out of a job and now has things turned around. They'll love to talk about Chase Daniel for Heisman. And of couse the build up to an OU vs MU BigXII title game.

The reason why it's being talked about is because it's the most likely thing to happen. Is anyone from the North going to challenge Missouri? Kansas maybe, but that's it. Is anyone going to challenge Oklahoma? Maybe Texas, maybe Tech, but that's it. Will Missouri be 12-0? Maybe, maybe not. But as far as the top 4-5 in conference this year, that ascertation is pretty easy. It's picking the order of the next 8 teams that's the bigger challenge.

4429 mcc · 07-08-2008, 12:25 PM

Originally Posted by jdoggivjc

The reason why it's being talked about is because it's the most likely thing to happen. Is anyone from the North going to challenge Missouri? Kansas maybe, but that's it. Is anyone going to challenge Oklahoma? Maybe Texas, maybe Tech, but that's it. Will Missouri be 12-0? Maybe, maybe not. But as far as the top 4-5 in conference this year, that ascertation is pretty easy. It's picking the order of the next 8 teams that's the bigger challenge.

Look at the big 12 north last year...it was K-State's and Nebraska's to win and looked whate played out.

And ISU did a pretty good job at Mizzou last year..just saying you never know.

Tornado man · 07-08-2008, 12:26 PM

Picking Mizzou to beat Oklahoma in the Big XII title game is really a stretch. There is still a huge difference in talent between the two teams - last year's Big XII championship game between the two wasn't even close...

CyinCo · 07-08-2008, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by jdoggivjc

The reason why it's being talked about is because it's the most likely thing to happen. Is anyone from the North going to challenge Missouri? Kansas maybe, but that's it. Is anyone going to challenge Oklahoma? Maybe Texas, maybe Tech, but that's it. Will Missouri be 12-0? Maybe, maybe not. But as far as the top 4-5 in conference this year, that ascertation is pretty easy. It's picking the order of the next 8 teams that's the bigger challenge.

Yep. I'm not doubting how good they are.

cardinal&gold · 07-08-2008, 12:32 PM

I think we have a great shot at taking out Missouri in Ames this year. We played surprisingly well down there last season, I think our guys are confident against them. And Gary Pinkel is still their coach. Yes, I know they're tuff as rain, but I'm not scared. I doubt our players are, either.

cycloneworld · 07-08-2008, 12:32 PM

They have some strange predictions. They predict our only Big 12 win will be at K-State but also predict K-State will beat Nebraksa. And only 1 team in the south will be worse than 8-4...I don't see that happening.

But overall, for just a 1 page writeup...seems fair with a little bit of expected South bias.