It was some hellish nightmare that we brought upon ourselves to let them become in the early 2000s what we were in the 1980s and 90s. We let our guard down.

I’ve always felt like it was our fault they became confident.

But as soon as we started beating them there was order restored in the universe and the balance of power as corrected. They lost their way. And look who got invited to big 12? Us and not them. And we thrashed them the year prior to that invite in an epic way… and I think it was important that we did that at that time.