Last week, dissatisfaction with a plan to air high school games on the Longhorn Network led to reports that Texas A&M and Oklahoma were pondering moves to the SEC. That talk has died down for the moment. But if such moves ever do happen, they would certainly doom the Big 12, and likely lead to further shifts. The Pac-12 would… Read more »
Thought all the conference change drama had finally hit the back burner for awhile? Think again! According to Sporting News, Texas A&M and Oklahoma are so pissed off at the prospect of Texas’s Longhorn Network airing live high school games of potential recruits, they are threatening to jumping ship to the SEC, a move that would all but sink the… Read more »
Today, the Pac-10 officially welcomes the University of Utah and the University of Colorado to the Conference of Champions, and becomes the Pac-12. Utah will be the first Pac-12 team to open play when it takes on Montana State in 62 days, on Thursday, September 1st. Arizona State plays a game later the same evening. USC and Utah will face… Read more »
With less than 12 hours to go before the dawn of the Pac-12, ESPN Pac-10/Pac-12 blogger Ted Miller’s latest post ranks the best teams of the Pac-10 era. Who’s number one? I’ll give you a hint: Woof woof woof.
Let’s review. USC’s football program allegedly allowed agents, proto-agents and/or runners to run rampant (I’ll ignore for the moment that this was not actually proven), and failed to monitor the activities of one “high-profile athlete” (two athletes counting O.J. Mayo, who played basketball, not football), or rather said athlete’s family. An assistant coach supposedly knew about the athlete’s family’s activities… Read more »
So say rumors on the Internets. UPDATE: Here’s the story. Multiple media folks are confirming it. So, no postseason (again) for USC in 2011-12. Any seniors who wish to transfer can (again) do so and play immediately elsewhere. Only shot at a national title is (again) the AP-only version. And the inaugural Pac-12 South will have just five teams competing… Read more »
Harold Camping, the nutjob blasphemer fundamentalist evangelical preacher and radio host whose prediction of a May 21 Rapture launched a thousand snarky tweets, isn’t backing down in the face of the…uh…evident lack of a Rapture over the weekend. Instead, he’s doubling down! Camping says the world will still end on October 21, as he’s predicted all along. Originally, he said… Read more »
Remember how much fun it was last year watching the shakeup of the college conferences? The anticipation of which teams would or wouldn’t move, and to where? The speculation on when it would all end? The talk of superconferences completely reshaping the landscape of major college football? Well, EA Sports does, which is why the upcoming edition of NCAA Football… Read more »
The biggest reason to either scrap or overhaul the BCS is to prevent the nearly annual ritual (only exceptions in the last decade: 2002 and 2005) of some team having a very legitimate claim that it should have had a title shot. But the second-biggest reason is to stop incentivizing scheduling fiascos like this. ESPN has ranked the “toughest” non-conference… Read more »
So much for hope. Gus Johnson is officially out at CBS, and thus will no longer announce NCAA Tournament games. March Madness has lost its Voice. As I tweeted on Thursday when the news broke prematurely, this is the biggest announcing tragedy since another Johnson, Dave Johnson of “And DOWN The Stretch They Come!!!” fame, stopped broadcasting the Triple Crown… Read more »