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Executive Director Sorry That The BCS Played Role In Conference Realignment
BCS executive director Bill Hancock is sorry that chasing membership in automatic qualifying conferences was a concern driving conference realignment. He says that a goal of the next BCS agreement (the current one runs out after the 2013 season) will be to provide conference stability. I would...
Reports: West Virginia Mountaineers Headed to Big 12, Missouri Tigers to SEC
The New York Post first reported at 2:39 this morning that West Virginia is set to leave the Big East and join the Big 12. I am honestly not sure about the Post's reporting bona fides (given its tabloid-y nature), which is why I didn't post anything earlier. However, CBS now has a source and Teddy...
TCU Likely to Spurn Big East, Move to Big 12 in 2012
The Big 12 is going to survive as long as the Longhorn Network and Oklahoma have nowhere else they want to go. It will keep its BCS auto-bid as long as the Fiesta Bowl exists and agrees take its champion every year. It's not on completely stable ground, but it's at least stable-ish. The Big East is...
ACC Played Its Cards Correctly, but SEC Still Looms
I don't often compliment the ACC about much other than basketball. It's fun to look down on the conference as the SEC's little brother and relentlessly tease fans of its teams for the conference's perpetual football mediocrity. However, I have nothing but compliments for the way that the ACC...
Texas A&M to the SEC Makes Financial Sense, Texas to the ACC Does Not
Both yesterday's lead story from Sprints and an emailer Garie Ray got me thinking about the economics of conference realignment. The lead story from Sprints was about the marginal value of a team added to a conference. The SEC paid out $220 million this year from TV payouts ($144.1 million), shared...
Report: Big 12 is Done, Texas Has Been Talking to ACC
Kirk Bohls and Alan Trubow of the Austin American-Statesman published a comprehensive report regarding Texas officials' visit to Oklahoma yesterday. The intention of the trip was to convince OU's leadership to give the Big 12 a shot, but they discovered that the Sooners' brass have already decided...
SEC Presidents Meeting Tomorrow to Discuss Expansion
The New York Times' Pete Thamel is reporting that 11 of the 12 SEC presidents will meet tomorrow to discuss conference expansion. His source is a "high ranking SEC official with first-hand knowledge of the talks". In other words, it's solid. This official went to great lengths to try to cool this...
Big Ten, Pac-12 ADs Agree on Plus One BCS Format
The athletics directors of the Big Ten and Pac-12 have agreed on the basics of a plus one playoff format for the BCS. Here's what they came up with: The proposed format the ADs favored in a straw vote calls for adding a BCS bowl, probably the Cotton, and seeding the top four teams, which would...
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