Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News added a late night update to his blog with some new info on the MWC/WAC conference shakeup and BYU’s next moves. First, there is the news that BYU has reached out to the West Coast Conference. The WCC doesn’t have football, so this would be the destination for BYU’s other sports if… Read more »
Over at SI.com, Stewart Mandel and Andy Staples have joined forces to make 10 bold (and not so bold) predictions on the directions college football will take over the next decade. The whole thing is a great read, but here are some of the highlights: First, looking back, Mandel and Staples note that, at the beginning of the last decade,… Read more »
Clearly, based on the picture below, taken at Pac-10 media day, we can see how the new divisons are going to shake out (with Colorado and Utah split between the two): Division A: Arizona, ASU, Cal, Oregon, Oregon State Division B: Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State What do you mean, it’s insane to base my conclusions on this completely… Read more »
An article in the Denver Post today mentions comments from Big 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe indicating that Colorado will depart after this year and join the Pac-10 in 2011 rather than 2012. I’ve gotta admit, the Pac-12 starting in 2012 had a nice symmetry to it, but it’s probably better for all involved that it happen sooner rather than later.
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ESPN.com’s Pac-10 blogger Ted Miller has been having some fun with some best case/worst case scenarios for each of the confernence teams in his blog recently, but today’s take on Oregon was the most hilarious by far, finishing with this gem for their worst case scenario: Oregon loses the Las Vegas Bowl to Utah and finishes 8-5. Phil Knight converts… Read more »
Today’s XKCD reminds us that the biggest rip off is not texting fees, baggage fees, or even the price of gasoline. It’s graphing calculators:
Bob Condotta’s Husky Blog for the Seattle Times continues to be a great source of information on Pac-12 expansion. He was the one who posted the link to updated information on the possibility of the zipper expansion that led to my post earlier in the week. Earlier today he posted another link to an article by fellow Seattle Times writer… Read more »
Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News has a new blog post with updates on the Pac-10/Pac-12 realignment and other conference issues. Particularly interesting are the following: The “zipper” plan is gaining traction thanks to a number of factors, including: – The Northwest schools’ reluctance to give up games in the L.A. area – The California schools’ desire to… Read more »
Well it’s official, folks, the 12-team Big Ten will continue with its tradition of not knowing how to count. Maybe they could just say they only count the ten best teams each year, and the other two are on probation or something?