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Chris Landry on Oklahoma and Texas in the SEC · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Landry on your radio Mondays four to four thirty. We will move this
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  segment after the first or after the fourth, we'll move that to the five
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  o'clock hour to accommodate Chris. But from now until the fourth we'll have him
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  on. Gracious enough to join us at four o'clock. Landry football dot Com
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  is the site Landry Football on next Chris, welcome, man. How are
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  you? I'm good Jack. How you doing man? We're doing good.
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  We're just talking through you know. Obviously, tonight's the last night of college
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  baseball with Tennessee and Texas A and M taking on each other for the national
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  championship, and then is full go. All attention moves straight to football,
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  which is I think it's kind of already there. I want to start with.
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  I was just looking at some numbers, and I don't know that you
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  can equate these numbers to anything moving forward. But you know, a lot
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  of people, and I say a lot of people, there's a segment of
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  the SEC fan base that feels like Texas and Oklahoma's in for a rout awakening.
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  They've played in the Big Twelve, and of course they don't play defense,
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  which I tend to lean. Does the SEC really play defense like it
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  did twenty years ago? I mean, obviously Georgia does. Bama has played
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  good defense. We've seen some good defenses at other places, but all time.
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  You know, you look at Texas's numbers, fifty six and twenty three
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  all time against Arkansas. They have winning records against Florida, Ole, Miss,
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  Tennessee, Alabama. They're eight and two for and one against Georgia.
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  I don't know that you're six seventy six and thirty seven against D A and
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  M, which is which is crazy. All that to say is I think
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  Texas is going to be just fine in the SEC. I think they will
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  as well. And I think the reason is that you can look at Texas
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  historically and say they're inconsistency, and I can see how fans and maybe some
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  media would come to that conclusion. But you have to look and pay attention
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  to which Steve Sarkeesian has done in recruiting and what he's done on the field
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  in developing his program. And yes, he's a great offensive mind, but
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  he's got good offensive balance, a good level of toughness defensively. Look at
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  the talent they've had, looked like everybody else. There's going to be years
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  in which they're better and they have to rebuild. They're fine. They're good
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  now. Oklahoma, I think they've got the background in pedigree to also be
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  really good. I don't think they're as progressed as Texas at this point,
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  but I think they can be. And so look, I think they're fine.
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  I mean, this is not I will look at it and say that
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  when Arkansas in South Carolina and then when Missouri and A and M came in.
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  I think Oklahoma and Texas has the historical background, the resources, the
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  tradition, the facilities, everything to be successful, and I think they will
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  be going forward. In other words, their success is not a byproduct of
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  just being in an inferior league. That's not the case. Does that mean
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  they're going to come and you know, be the top one of the top
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  two to three programs in the conference. No, I'm not saying that.
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  I think that they could be in the mix, but they're absolutely are in
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  that mix, and not necessarily someone that always going to be in the middle
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  of the pack. I mean, you mentioned it. Everyone's chasing Georgia.
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  We'll see what Alabama can do. But I would throw them in with most
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  of the rest of the programs on the year in the year on basis