All-Big 12: Did Landry get a fair shake?

Notably absent from the first or second teams was sophomore quarterback Landry Jones, who was an honorable-mention selection. Before you agree or disagree that Jones should at least be second team, Bob Stoops dropped the revelation Tuesday that the All-Big 12 Coaches team is voted on before the last game of the season.

“I find it odd that the voting was done before our Oklahoma State game, one of the more important games of the year,” Stoops said. “That all of the votes are in before that game doesn’t seem to be right.”

It’s not right, and goes against logic. How hard would it be for the coaches, 10 who have little to do on the Sundays following the last game of the season, to wait until after the Thanksgiving Weekend games to turn in their votes?

I vote for the AP All-Big 12 team, which also comes out this week, and Saturday’s results impacted my ballot (which I waited to turn in Sunday) in at least a couple of cases. Not dramatically. But I admit it had some impact. And if you watched Von Miller or Daniel Thomas or Landry Jones over the weekend, you’re left wondering how the coaches could just discount those performances.

But back to the all-conference quarterback discussion.

Below is an anonymous statistical comparison of the league’s top five quarterbacks (using Big 12 games only):

QB Comp-Att-Int      Yds          TD          Avg/G     Pct.

1. A        239-358-7               2726        25            340.8       66.7

2. B         214-322-9                2711        16            338.9       66.4

3. C        199-286-6                2224        13            278.0       69.6

4. D        217-338-8                2060        17            257.5       64.7