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News, Discussion and Rumors 4-17-2013
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby sat down with the Longhorn Network today and discussed numerous topics including the playoff system, increasing the stipend of college athletes, and briefly, expansion....
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News, Discussions and Rumors 4-19-2013
This is Christopher “the Dude” Lambert on his radio show on smcradio.com. Of course, he talks conference expansion with a blogger from MrSEC.com. He talks about the revenue model of the SEC in dwarfing...
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News, Discussions and Rumors 4-22-2013
Very interesting article about how the Big Five Conferences could break away from the NCAA and form their own league....
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The Big 12, an Ad Hoc Conference
With the earth-shattering news of the ACC signing a grant of rights, I had to write a piece on this immediately. The Big 12 has been an unstable entity from its very founding. In 1995, four teams from...
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News, Discussions and Rumors 4-24-2013
This is a piece by one of my favorite authors on expansion, Berry Tramel, He evaluates what the grant of rights really means for the ACC and ultimately lists some of the possible expansion...
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A Little Less Talk, A Lot More MACtion
Since its inception since 1948, the Mid-American Conference or the MAC has been a very stable conference. The only defections it has witnessed have been its geographic outliers. Its core members: Ball...
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News, Discussion and Rumors 5-10-2013
Are the Big Five Conferences going down a new path? Nick Saban speaks about what he would like to see....
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The Cupboards are Not Bare
A conclusion that has been beaten to death and then some is that the ACC grant of rights has stopped any significant expansion amongst the Big Five conferences. There is one conference that could...
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The Dude May Be Vindicated, Somewhat
Listening to a podcast from May 22nd, I am astounded but yet fascinated by the commitment of “The Dude” in his hatred for all things ACC. Starting in 2011, he purported that the Big 12 was going to...
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News, Discussions, and Rumors 5-30-2013
Texas AD DeLoss Dodds advocates that the playoff format should be expanded from four teams to eight teams. I know why he wants to do so; it is because he knows that the Big 12 will miss out on the...
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News, Discussion and Rumors 6-29-2013
The Kansas 3rd Tier deal: A glimpse into the future for Conference realignment? http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/college-football/news/20130625/kansas-espn-media-deal/?sct=hp_t2_a6&eref=sihp Filed...
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News, Discussion and Rumors 7-11-2013
Another nice 3rd Tier deal for a Big 12 school. http://www.wvgazette.com/News/201307110039 Filed under: News, Discussion and Rumors
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Falwell’s Flames
In 1971, Jerry Falwell, world-renowned pastor of Thomas Road Baptist Church, A church that boast almost 25,000 members, founded Lynchburg Baptist College, which would be renamed Liberty Baptist...
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Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na, Hey Hey Hey, Goodbye!
By far the best news I have seen for expansion in a while is DeLoss Dodds will leave his job as athletic director of Texas by the end of the calendar year according to a report by Orangebloods.com. I...
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Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYMD_W_r3Fg Dear Readers, Between my studies, work, family and moving, I have totally neglected my role as a blogger on this site. There is one headline that caught my...
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If the Big 12 were to Expand
Every post, because of the ACC grant of rights all but closing the door on major expansion, will be about possibilities. The cupboards are not bare for the Big 12. There are still some potential...
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Presidents and Athletic Directors, For Your Consideration
This bowl season has been quite unpredictable with some shockers that include Oklahoma beating Alabama 35-21 in the Sugar Bowl or Colorado State making a comeback with two minutes remaining in the...
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The Writing is on the Wall
Two days ago, a story broke out on ESPN about the ACC wanting to overhaul the way they pick the schools to play in the conference championship game. Currently, the NCAA stipulates that in order to...
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Go, Bearcat, Go
There has been a lot of internet banter as of late, expectedly so, about possible expansion that the Big 12 may enact. One school that has to factor into any decision made. Cincinnati is a program...
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