Big 12 Champions!

We're in the dog days of blogging now, when there seems to be nothing going on, with the exception of the Fulmer Cup tourney, where Alabama recently blew away the field. Fortunately, the Collegiate Bass Anglers Association is there to save the day.

Seems the Sooners won yet another Big 12 Championship last weekend, this time in the CBAA tournament at Lake Eufaula. For the uninformed out there, Eufaula is the childhood hometown of Sooner greats J.C. Watts, Lucius, Lee Roy and Dewey Selmon, so it's been a good spot for us for 35 years or so now. Pardon me, I digress. Back to the fishing. The Sooners, ranked #6 in the country, took advantage of the 2nd ranked Texas A&M team's absence from the tourney. The Aggies "did not send a team primarily due to sky-rocketing fuel costs". Surely Coach Fran could spare some loose change from his settlement to help the boys out. I spoke to Reveille VII about this, and he was too mad for comment. I'm sure this would not have happened on his watch.

The BassZone also provided coverage of the event. SoonersSports.com failed to mention the event. As noted in the BassZone's excellent coverage by Gene Gilliland, "Baylor and Missouri do not yet have fishing teams...". Seems like this would be an opportunity for those underutilized Baylor QBs to break into the starting lineup.