Former Cowboys and Sooners coach Barry Switzer joined SportsDayDFW's "Ballzy" podcast with hosts Kevin Sherrington and Barry Horn to discuss college football. Here are some highlights:

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On the defenseless Big 12

Switzer: I'm sitting there reading the paper [after OU-TCU] and all the negative that came out of the game. I sat down and tweeted Mike Stoops a tweet. I said, "Mike, I remember coaching in the 60s and 70s and 80s when all offenses lined up tight and defenses could line up tight and we could play man on man, man for man up front and physically play good tough defensive football and control the games and win 7-3, 14-7."

Nobody could score on me. I had one year the most points ever scored on me was 14, in one game.

Those days are over and I pointed out to him: You'll never have those days again because of the skills and talents and everyone ... The population we have out here has created a talent pool of outstanding high school football players [but] Alabama's doing two things I believe in: You play great defense, win with defensive players first and then the running game. That's exactly what they do.

The talent pool in the south, all the way across the board over to Texas, is the best talent pool in the damn country. Go through the [NFL] draft every year...the big-ass linemen are all out of there.

Good players want to go where good things happen. ... That's why I was against Houston being in the damn league. Why do we have to compete against another school south of the Red River?

Why in the hell would I want to support Houston? I want to support Oklahoma. I thought it was a mistake to let TCU in the league and I voiced that opinion.

Back when I was recruiting 30-40 years ago, there were only two programs kids would consider going to: Texas and Oklahoma. They were the only two programs winning 10, 11, 12 games a year, contending for national championships and playing in bowl games.

On what went wrong with Baylor

Switzer: In an athletic program, the coach has got to be held responsible for the actions and behaviors of his players. Even though we can't spend 24 hours a day with the 100 players that are out there...it's our job every day, coaches do do-good talks all the time. The guy who messes up is the guy sitting there thinking you're talking to the guy next to him, not him. I used to have call him into my office: Look to your right, look to your left, look me in the eye. Do you see anybody? He'd say no. So you know I'm talking to your ass. ... It's a hell of a note you have to have individual sessions in some situations but you do. Sometimes that doesn't make a difference. You have kids you give second chances to and people criticize them.

You never hear about the success in second chances coaches give to kids. You don't hear about it because they take advantage of it, go on to become productive citizens, get their degrees and take flight. ...

Michael Irvin [once told me]: Coach we were trying to do the right thing, the wrong way.

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