NIT PICKER......(cause you know he is going to say something) Too much time on your hands at that library security job? Tired of those college kids that keep putting crap in a bag and lighting it on fire just to watch you stomp it out? Maybe its one too many drops of super glue on your night stick when your eating that footlong coney at 2am? Dont you worry only 8 short months until the fair is in town and you get on part time again being the pixey dust speader on the tilt-a-whirl!!

Your Pickerness, couldn't help but notice the following dig: "This pretty funny premise is based on the RPI, the dumbest thing in sports, which gives the same importance to early season games as it does to late season games. This is goofy because the teams are not the same, the players are not the same, the NCAA tournament is not in December, it's in March and April." OK, you're right - let's do it your way. Let's just IGNORE results of games from early in the season. In fact, let's not even play 'em! Let' just wait till January and play conference games only. Better yet, let's just wait till March and play the tournament - brilliant! And why stop there? In football, let's just skip the regular season and go straight to the bowl games, based on preseason polls. Why mess all those games in October and November? Guys could get hurt, for crying out loud! Same thing in Major League Baseball and the NBA - just start the season with an All-Star break, and play a couple of weeks before starting the playoffs. The season's too dang long anyway! And in golf, forget about the Masters in April - who's playing good golf then? Let's just wait till September and have The Tour Championship winner be the fourth major! I mean, that has to be the best golf of the year becuse it's the last tournament, right? And the Daytona 500 in February? Cancel the darn thing - how good can those drivers be running in the first race of the year? Just skip straight to that Race for the Cup or whatever it's called and be done with it! I tell you, I think you're on to something!!

I know how the RPI works... Its a mathematical formula that is so long and complicated and confusing it allows a bunch of suits to go into a room in Indy, close the door, and shove the 7th place team from the Big Televen down our throats each year.

And your list is in error, Mr. Picker. The only thing worse than NBA exhibition is NBA regular season.

RB: The nuttiness of the RPI system is made clear by the fact that OU is STILL considered an NCAA tournament team after scoring 45 twice.

OU was a tournament team in December.

Things changed.

Early games should matter, but not nearly as much as late games; say, a third as much.

Note to RB: Football and basketball are different sports.

World Picker:

Yes, there is something dumber than the RPI in sports: World Picker. But I seem to be repeating myself.

Eric: how many times did you stomp the flaming bag before you figured it out? and how do you know what college kids do? since it is clear you didn't attend college.

World Picker:
Bobby Baldwin, Steve Wynn, et al, have made a lot of $$$ having chumps like you standing in a line at Vegas. How many times do you jump off one team and on another while standing in line?

You are right, though, there is a big world out there. It's summer in Buenos Aires, 85 degrees, sunny.
I'll write if I find work.
Hope you are fired when I get back.

World Picker, congratulations on having the edge in forsight. OU is fading fast while OSU is surging at the right time. The Nebraska game where OU scored 12 points in the first half was matched in futility by Texas A&M's 10-point disaster.

I don't think OU should get too much credit for beating a team at home that is fading faster than the Sooners.

Wednesday's Bedlam rematch will be fun to watch. After watching the Neb - OSU game, I still stand by my pick last week that OSU wins by nine points.

I'm an OU fan, and I wouldn't have been surprised if OU lost by more than that....even before I knew that Blake Griffin was out. I think OU might be NCAA worthy, but the way OSU's playing, I dont know if North Carolina could beat them in Stillwater. (ok maybe that's an exaggeration)

Two comments on this blog:

The media and other, assorted "powers that be" are in lust with the Big XII in nearly all sports. Their W/L is viewed as premiere. OU is considered an automatic pre-season Top-Whatever and has a free pass to the NCAA Tournament. (Along with five more Big XII teams.)

I don't care a bit about NBA. What I DO care about is the wide variety of events being signed for the BOK Center!

There is something for pretty much everyone already, with an eclectic spread of talents and events that should be able to attract everyone with two nickles to rub together to buy a ticket.

I loves me some Tulsa!!! And everything that gets us back in the game!

Did Texas lose to Bob's Kid? If so, the BIG 2 conference should concider itself lucky to get anyone to the tournament. When does football start so we can start caring about sports again?

Bill is correct.

The Big 12 is the most overrated conference in sports history.

It has been number two in the hoop RPI.

That's nuts. Were the Big 12 to hook up with the Big East members, the carnage would be shocking.

Beyond Kansas (no Final Four ever for Self), and Texas, no team is in sight of the top 25!

Why is it so overrated in all sports?

Boomer Sooner.