If you’ve been following the Mountain West-WAC drama of recent days, you really need to check out the Mountain West’s Facebook feed. (What’s below is just a small sample.) Funny stuff.
It’s been a crazy day for conference realignment, and I mean really, really crazy — we’ve been through basically the entire cycle of the Pac-16 / Big 12 drama, except with the mid-majors, and in the course of like 12 hours instead of a week-plus. Absolutely insane. I don’t know how it will all shake out, but I just want… 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 »
As a Trojan, I generally have no particular interest in revisiting December 2, 2006 more often than necessary. It is truly a date which will live in infamy. ESPN ranks it #42 on the all-time list of most painful college football losses, but for me personally, it’s #1, trailing only a certain basketball game on my all-sports list of most… 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.
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 »
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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 »