I like Charlie Strong a lot. But he isn't what the Big 12 has been priding themselves about. Stoops, Kingsbury, and Briles all downplayed the SEC defenses, and the Big 12 defenders claimed these high powered spread offenses are products of the Big 12.
Didn't a Longhorn fan on here even claim that part of Brown's own doing was he went away from these offensive schemes, and bought into trying to compete with SEC defenses? that brown panicked after losing to Bama.
He's a great hire, I like him a lot. But, he's one of those things that don't belong with the others in the Big 12. It'll be interesting, mostly because he's the opposite of what the other coaches preach in that conference.