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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MikeRafone" data-source="post: 129621461" data-attributes="member: 1482681">Looks like I've hooked the legendary loudmothed Jacob's Bass, Wareez! He's easier than Courtney Love on the purple drank and almost as smart. Let's stick him in the live well.Greggy-Boy, climate matters. It's why NFL coaches in Southern cities don't want to head north after the first of November and coaches in Northern markets don't want to head south after the end of September. They've whined about the 'competitive advantage' one gives the other for decades. If it's true there, it's surely true on the college level.You may not have noticed,Greggy, but football is an outdoor sport. Climate plays a huge factor. If your kids aren't acclimated to the hotter weather of the Deep South and Southwest, it's going to play Hell on them after they've gotten used to the cool fall weather at home. They have to head south to play in what would be considered summer heat in the north. The human body needs about three weeks to acclimate to a new temperature regimen.  That doesn't happen on a day and half trip to play a football game after practicing and residing in a place where upper forties are the norm in the fall and the occasional sixty degree day is a regular heat wave.Yep, Ohio State has to play Oklahoma this year. Did you happen to notice the game is scheduled early, while the OSU kids are still used dealing with hot weather? OSU wouldn't be heading anywhere near Oklahoma or Texas in November because the heat would wear them out more than the game. You're not going to see Urban take his team to Gainesville for the traditional late November SEC OOC game for the same reason. The heat and humidity would hand the game to Florida.That's why OSU would have hard time dominating in the Big 12 year in and year out, and would be chopped liver in the SEC. They would have to travel far for road games in the regular season that starts the first week October, which means playing in the heat on a regular basis after a damned long trip to get there.  It's not rocket science.OSU would likely be a top three team in the Big-12 most seasons and possibly twice a decade the top dog. Travel and that lovely heat will cost you about two games a year over the norm as a northern team in the Big-12.It works both ways. You don't see LSU or Alabama schedule a school north of Central Kentucky home and home after late October, do you? And they have the late OOC game to play with. WVU has had to twist arms to get the conference to force the Texas teams to travel north after the 1st of November. The Texas schools don't want a thing to do with the travel and the weather that late in the year as they know it puts them at a largedisadvantage.If college football does go to super-conferences, the northern tier teams are going to be in for a very rude awakening when they start to have to go south late in the year. WVU fans saw it play out just once every two years for two decades in a stretched out BE. They didn't really notice it with Miami, as UM held a huge talent advantage over the rest of the league. When Miami left and USF moved in, fans couldn't understand the struggles with them on the road. They never factored in the heat, as they couldn't see it as playing in for years due to all those big fast UM kids running up and down the field at the Orange Bowl.They're now seeing it multiple times a year in the Big-12 and many still can't figure out what is going on, pointing ten fingers twenty different ways trying to explain it. It is what it is. You want in the game, you get the cards that are dealt you. There's no point in bitching about it.If you travel 1200 miles for road games where it's hotter than your guys have seen in a month and half, you drop games. You could resurrect Bear Bryant, put him on WVU's sideline, recruit four and five stars, and it's not going to get much better than it is now.Why do you think Nebraska fled the Big 12?  It wasn't the tale of woe they told about bad ol' UT picking on them. It was having to make long trips south and sucking air playing Texas teams in the heat on a regular basis. The losses mounted and they bailed the first chance they got. As they say, 'If you can't handle the heat....' , Nebraska couldn't.BTW, if you need me to explain any of the big words, just ask, I'm here to help. Let me know if you're getting enough air in the live well, we don't want you to lose any more brain cells.</blockquote>

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