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The Future Lies in Texas
By admin at 20 January, 2011, 4:13 am
Remember all that talk about Texas demanding an unfair share of Big XII revenue?
It was a load of bull.
Texas has signed a deal for 1 football, 8 men’s basketball and a bunch of games in the “other sports” that will pay Texas more money each year than their unfair share of the Big XII TV [...]
Listin to what they say (BCS)
By admin at 28 December, 2010, 5:20 pm
Sometimes the best clues about the future of intercollegiate athletics lie within the words said by the leaders. They aren’t going to lay it out there for us in black and white but they will talk around the edge enough to let us take a decent guess.
One of my favorite blogs on these matters is [...]
BCS sucks… but it’s not that bad.
By admin at 10 December, 2010, 4:09 pm
The funny thing about the “tactful” comments of Big 10 commissioner Jim Delany is that he has a great point.
The Big 10 and SEC are giving up a lot for “the good of the game”. Yeah they get two teams in the BCS every year (Big 10) or nearly every year (SEC), but the way [...]
The Standard for Disappointment has Moved
By admin at 6 December, 2010, 4:15 pm
Reading the FIU board and the comments of FIU athletic director Pete Garcia over the bowl situation set my teeth on edge.
Garcia told the Miami Herald, “We’re in this league, and they’re the ones that dictate the rules. We have to live with them. But going forward, we’re always going to leave all our options [...]
Contrarian Thoughts of a Devil’s Advocate
By admin at 20 August, 2010, 11:28 am
I’ve been whooping it up in favor of quick expansion and have agreed with pretty much all the thoughts of Jay Walker.
Now I’m going to lay out the case for why Jay and I may well be wrong.
If the WAC survives it will be because they add two or three FCS programs. With the loss [...]
And Maybe This Time Reality Sets In
By admin at 19 August, 2010, 1:37 pm
Over the past few years our neighbors in the WAC have had high aspirations and I commend that. They’ve had some high achievement and I recognize that. What they have lacked is a realistic grasp on where they are in the college football jungle.
The WAC holds the world pipe dream record. There is a difference [...]
It Ain’t Easy Being A Bastard Step-Child
By admin at 20 July, 2010, 8:00 pm
Every Sun Belt fan has had that thought.
Most of us keep our frustration under wraps but you see it come out from time to time.
Want to see an excitement frenzy? Let ASU or UALR fans learn that one of their coaches or their AD will be on one of the local sports radio shows. It’s [...]
BCS 2014
By admin at 6 July, 2010, 2:07 pm
It’s not the solution that most fans want.
It’s not the solution most sports columnists want.
It is a solution that is realistic.
Right now the BCS is built around four games, with an additional rotating game that pits 1-2.
History is huge in the format. The Rose gets preference for Big 10 vs. Pac-10, Sugar gets preference for [...]
Patches! We need patches!
By admin at 29 June, 2010, 5:01 pm
As the realignment storm clouds gathered I went from site to site to see if I could glean any meaningful information. While it was in short supply, I did discover that there are a lot of fans that want to change leagues and most used logic that was far off-base.
Get a BCS berth.
Improve their program.
Those [...]
Did Everyone Get It Wrong?
By admin at 21 June, 2010, 2:29 pm
When the Big XII came back from the brink of extinction, there were many sighs of relief. It had been feared that the mass exodus to the Pac-10, and SEC would have set off a chain of events that would have ended with the Big XII gone as an elite conference, the Big East likely [...]
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