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The New Big Ten division alignments and solving the Ohio State-Michigan Problem
Everyone’s doing it. After months of discussing every possible conference realignment option, and even getting some things right, the college landscape saw four programs switch conferences: Nebraska joined the Big 10, Colorado and Utah joined the Pacific Ten, and Boise… Read More ›
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The Winners and Losers in a Historical Week in College Football
While this logo has the ring of truth to it, my guess is that the Big 12 lite probably goes in a different direction. Years from now, this last two weeks will be remembered as the moment that everything changed… Read More ›
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Texas Hold ’em: What will the Longhorns do?
While Bevo ropes himself a Sooner here, will some conference rope in the Longhorns? Around the poker table, the faces are familiar: Jim Delaney, commissioner of the Big 10 (reigning poker champion who could be on the verge of losing… Read More ›
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A history Lesson: The case against a 16 team Super-Conference
The SWC disbanded after the WAC raided their conference ultimately forming college football’s first super-conference. They say that those who can not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Let’s hope Delaney and the boys were not ditching second period… Read More ›
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Notre Dame and NBC: A Marriage Made in Heaven (If the Year Was 1953)
In thinking about the recent success of the Big 10 Network, generating already almost a quarter of a billion dollars in revenue in only its third year, I got to thinking about the future of television and what this means… Read More ›
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Fixing the BcS, AKA “The Bowl Conspiracy Series”
I don’t know why it has taken me so long to address this topic since I’ve been an outspoken critic of the BcS almost since its inception. After doing hours of research reading dozens of articles, I have integrated the… Read More ›
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Cardinal Rule; Why Stanford May Be the Key to Conference Expansion.
I’ll admit it; the possibility of conference expansion is a full blown obsession for me at this point. After maligning the Big 10 and the Pac 10 for thoughts of expansion and a conference championship game money grab, I’ve moved through my own twelve step recovery plan that included denial (the Big 10 will stick with tradition), to acceptance (this thing is going to happen) to a fanatical detachment from reality (Texas is joining the Big Ten as part of a 16 team super-conference) to anger (time to beat a dead horse in the form of a little green leprechaun), to a return full circle to plausible deniability (my spell checker says that this is not a word, but I don’t believe her).
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An Open Letter to Notre Dame Fan; Please Check Your Arrogance at the Door.
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Notre Dame. The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same.
March 19, 2010. A liberal friend of mine once suggested that the difference between liberals and conservatives is that “conservatives stubbornly refuse to change with the times, clinging to ideas that once made sense a century ago.” While this is… Read More ›
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