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Originally Posted by Mizzou B-ball fan
Just for reference, OU is one game better in football (31-10) and four games worse in basketball (66-36) during that same timeframe. So roughly the same level of success between the two programs.
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Using that indicator, sure. I'll go a step further and rely on the 3-0 head-to-head record in football (including two in Big 12 Championship Games at neutral sites) and a 2-1 record in basketball (although both teams won their home games). And I'll raise your Elite Eight by a Final Four. Also, I'll take two BCS games over zero, but you can have your three game men's basketball+football aggregate record advantage. FYI, the period you picked also included the worst season under Bob Stoops and the worst basketball season since the early 1981, but we still came out only three games worse aggregate with more accomplishments to boot.
Again, I'll give you that the past three years have been good for Mizzou. I won't give you that it means you're all of a sudden a big-time player in college athletics. That's something you have to earn over time. OU doesn't have a National Championship in basketball and that hurts our reputation despite going to the Final Four twice in the last decade. Just because we have been a "good" basketball team and sometimes even "very successful" over a three-year period, doesn't mean that we have national respect, or even that we should have earned that respect.