Waah! Waah! Just listen to Oklahoma’s Stoops

It would be easy to criticize Oklahoma head coach Bob Stoops for his comment about SEC football’s superiority just being propaganda.

Whiner. Crybaby. Sore loser.

Those are just a few things that come to mind about the guy who in recent years has become known as the coach who can’t win the big one.

In his past four Bowl Championship Series games, he’s 1-3, including the infamous loss to Boise State and a loss to Florida, which has been and still is in the SEC, for the national championship. He’s 7-7 in all bowl games.

So, it would be easy to criticize the guy for saying: “You’re listening to a lot of propaganda that gets fed out to you. You’re more than smart enough to figure it out. Again, you can look at the top two, three, four, five, six teams, and you can look at the bottom six, seven, eight, whatever they are. How well are they all doing?

Obviously, all the major football conferences are envious of the SEC, especially after the announcement last week that it would have its own network that might boost revenue by $6 million to $10 million per school every year.

Has Stoops’ Sooners or anyone else from the Big 12,or for that matter the ACC, Big Ten or Pac 12, won the past seven national championships?

Has any other conference besides the SEC had two member teams play each other for the national championship like when Alabama beat LSU in 2012?

No and no.

Of course, Stoops’ argument was based on teams from top to bottom, and he even said, “Listen, they have the best team in college football, meaning they’ve won the national championship. That doesn’t mean everything else is always the best.”

That is true. Arkansas had a terrible transition season last year. Although it should be pointed out the SEC and the Big 12 had nine teams play inpostseason action, but it was Alabama, still from the SEC, which won the national championship, routing overhyped Notre Dame.

Oklahoma went to the Cotton Bowl, beaten out for a BCS spot by Northern Illinois of the Mid-American Conference, and Stoops cried about that.

Then he went to Dallas and got crushed by Texas A&M, a first-year member of the SEC, 41-13.

That kind of hurts his argument and makes you wonder why he said what he did without considering the most critical fact of all.

At the end of last football season, the SEC had six teams ranked in the top 10. The Big 12 had one.

When the top of your league is that strong, the bottom of the league is going to get beat up pretty bad in conference play.

As for non-conference games, the SEC was 55-12 (.821 winning percentage) last season, the Big 12 was second at 30-9 (.769), and consider one of the major SEC losses was by the Razorbacks to Louisiana-Monroe in a game the Hogs should never have found a way to lose, and probably wouldn’t have if Tyler Wilson hadn’t been knocked out of the game.

Still, the numbers speak for themselves and the SEC, overall, is simply the best football conference in the country and has been for a long time, and probably will continue to be because of Alabama and LSU from the Western Division and Florida, Georgia and South Carolina from the Eastern Division.

All of those schools are good enough to win the Big 12 almost every year, and that doesn’t include the Aggies who might have been the nation’s best team at the end of last season. Remember, A&M beat Alabama during the regular season.

Stoops is a good coach, maybe a great one. He’s won more than 80 percent of his games, just not a big one in a long time, and what he said last week made him look like a whining crybaby.