Posted by ccv
on May 22, 2012
in Big 12, Business and Sports, Clay Travis, College football, conference expansion, Mike Slive, SEC
Reverberations of Big 12-SEC bowl ‘alliance’
Last Friday’s announcement that the Big 12 and SEC decided to hook up for a postseason game starting in 2014 was significant on a number of levels.
And, frankly, the game itself is way down the list.
The conferences announced that their champions would meet in a bowl if neither team was in the four-team national championship playoff, which is scheduled to begin in 2014. That the Big 12 and/or SEC champ wouldn’t be in the playoff is hard to fathom: Since the beginning of the BCS in 1998, only twice (in 1999 and 2002) has the title game not included a team from one of those leagues. And at least one of the league champs has been in the top four of the BCS standings each season; indeed, both league champs have been in the top four in seven of the 14 BCS seasons.
read more: sports.yahoo.com
Posted by ccv
on May 22, 2012
in ACC, BCS, Big 12, Big East, Business and Sports, College football, conference expansion, ESPN, Notre Dame
Notre Dame has ‘contingency plans’ if it leaves Big East
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Notre Dame basketball coach Mike Brey said the Fighting Irish’s objective is to remain in the Big East, but admitted the school has “contingency plans” if it needs to join another conference.
“I know right now we’re focused 100 percent on [rebuilding the Big East] but there’s no question contingency plans [about joining another conference] on those pay grades higher than me have been discussed and will be discussed,” Brey told CBSSports.com at Monday’s Big East spring meetings.
When Notre Dame joined the Big East in all sports except football in 1995, the Big East consisted of 13 basketball members: Notre Dame, Boston College, UConn, Georgetown, Providence, St. John’s, Seton Hall, Syracuse, Villanova, Pittsburgh, Miami, Rutgers and West Virginia.
read more: cbssports.com
Posted by ccv
on May 21, 2012
in ACC, Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, BCS, Big 12, Business and Sports, College football, conference expansion, ESPN, Florida, Georgia, Jim Delaney, Mississippi State, Mizzou
New bowl game means football Final Four is coming
In the ever-changing world of college conference realignment, the calm never seems to last very long. Blink, and the paradigm shifts. What appears to be a condemned disaster area one moment can make a miraculous turnaround in a matter of months.
This is the biggest, craziest high-stakes game of musical chairs the college sports world has ever seen. For proof of that, who could have imagined 12 months ago that the creation of a Southeastern Conference-Big 12 bowl game to rival the prestigious Rose Bowl could not only signal that a legitimate football playoff is on the way, but that the ripple effect would also be wildly beneficial to both Mizzou football and St. Louis University basketball?
Read more: stltoday.com
Posted by ccv
on May 21, 2012
in ACC, Alabama, Big 12, College football, ESPN, Jim Delaney, LSU, SEC
SEC, Big 12 agree to bowl matchup; champs will play if not in playoff
With the anticipated arrival of a four-team playoff to determine the national championship in 2014, college football is getting ready to enter a new world order.
The SEC and the Big 12 staked out a big chunk of real estate in that world on Friday by announcing a five-year agreement for their champions to meet in a Jan. 1 bowl game that will be determined at a later date. The first game will be Jan. 1, 2015.
If one or both of the champions are in the four-team playoff, then “another deserving team” from those conferences would get the slot.
In the 14 years of the BCS, either the SEC or the Big 12 champion has been in the title game 11 times. They have met twice for the BCS title — after the 2008 (Florida-Oklahoma) and 2009 (Alabama-Texas) seasons.
read more: cbssports.com
Posted by ccv
on May 21, 2012
in ACC, Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, baseball, Big 12, Business and Sports, Pac-12, SEC
Mike Slive gets the better of Jim Delany again
BIRMINGHAM, Alabama - Mike Slive just sank Jim Delany‘s battleship.
No, wait.
That sounds cute, but it’s not exactly true.
What Slive really did by partnering the SEC with the Big 12 to invent a new made-for-television, money-printing postseason game was build his own battleship.
A Rose Bowl by another name.
read more: al.com
Posted by ccv
on May 17, 2012
in Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, BCS, Big 12, Big Ten, Bob Stoops, Bobby Petrino, Bret Bielema, Business and Sports, Charlie Weiss, Chip Kelly, Chris Peterson, Coaching, College football
College football coach rankings: Alabama’s Nick Saban tops list of 124 coachesSporting News has ranked the 124 FBS head coaches by conference. Now it’s time to see how they rate overall.
First, some notes about our list:
— The Big 12 coaches have by far the best average ranking: 27.2, which crushes the second-best SEC’s average ranking of 43.3. Next in line: the Pac-12 (43.8), ACC (45.6) and Big Ten (46.8).
— Of course, the Big 12 has only 10 teams. Compared with the top 10 rankings by conference, it falls slightly below the SEC’s average of 26.6. The Pac-12 still ranks third at 34.5, followed by the Big Ten (35.9) and the ACC (37.0).
— The SEC is the only league other than the Big 12 whose lowest-ranked coach isn’t in the 100s. Tennessee’s Derek Dooley, the No. 14 SEC coach on our list, ranks 99th overall.
Read more: aol.sportingnews.com
Posted by ccv
on May 17, 2012
in ACC, BCS, Big 12, Big Ten, Business and Sports, Clay Travis, College football, conference expansion, ESPN, NCAA, Pac-12, SEC
COLLEGE FOOTBALL NEEDS A COMMISSIONER
College football is the most nakedly self-interested of all the sports we love.
That’s why it’s failings are the most human, the most susceptible to special interest capture, the least logical, a banana football republic.
Most sports have a common interest that unites them in pursuit of a common pot of championship gold, college football does not.
read more: outkickthecoverage.com
Posted by ccv
on May 16, 2012
in Big 12, Big Ten, Business and Sports, Charlie Weiss, Coaching, College football
Irish payout to Weis keeps piling up
While it played football in 2010, Notre Dame paid men who ran the program a total of $4,949,867 — one to coach the team and one not to coach it.
That figure includes the first look at compensation for Irish coach Brian Kelly and continued payments in the buyout for former coach Charlie Weis — a sum now approaching $8.7 million and counting, according to federal tax documents the Tribune obtained Tuesday.
The totals for Kelly and Weis are revealed on Notre Dame’s Form 990 it must submit to the Internal Revenue Service that was made available to the Tribune upon request. In essence, Notre Dame paid in excess of $618,000 for each of its eight victories in the 2010 season.
read more: chicagotribune.com
Posted by ccv
on May 16, 2012
in ACC, Alabama, BCS, Big 12, Big Ten, Bob Stoops, Bret Bielema, Business and Sports, College football, conference expansion, ESPN, fanaticism, SEC
WHAT IF TELEVISION EXECUTIVES COULD SET UP A 16 TEAM FOOTBALL SUPER CONFERENCE?
Television is driving all of conference realignment.
Whether it’s the Longhorn Network that precipitated last year’s slate of realignment or the massive rights deal recently inked by the SEC that set rights fees soaring into the stratosphere, television is the driving force behind the seismic shifts in college athletics.
But most of these shifts are relatively small, that is, most conferences have plenty of anchor teams that clearly aren’t going to relocate for a bigger paycheck.
read more: outkickthecoverage.com
Posted by ccv
on May 16, 2012
in ACC, Big 12, Business and Sports, College football, conference expansion
President Barron memo lists negatives of Big 12 move
Late on Saturday evening Florida State president Eric Barron issued a statement in response to rumors of the University’s interest in leaving the ACC for the Big 12, saying FSU was committed to its current conference.
On Monday afternoon he reiterated that stance in an email to those that have contacted his office with concerns over the ACC. Below is the full email:
I want to assure you that any decision made about FSU athletics will be reasoned and thoughtful and based on athletics, finances and academics. Allow me to provide you with some of the issues we are facing:
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