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 April 26, 2012
in Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, College football, ESPN, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Mizzou, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Texas A&M, Vanderbilt
Post-Spring Storylines to Follow in SEC
Arkansas’ coaching search. With each passing day it becomes more likely that the Razorbacks will keep an “interim” tag on Taver Johnson, use the remainder of the year to find a long-term replacement for Bobby Petrino, and make that decision official following the 2012 regular season. I believe that course of action to be the wisest. While Petrino is a low-down scoundrel and rotten human being, replacing him as a football coach will be difficult and Arkansas needs to find the right coach, not the right-now coach. Not only would a coach hired before the start of the season have an incredibly condensed time frame with which to learn the team and instill his system, looking for a head coach to start immediately would dramatically limit your pool of candidates. I simply can’t imagine a current head coach ditching his program post-spring to take another job. I know there exists little which is ethically “off limits” in major college football, but I don’t see an “A” list coach doing that to his team. Because of that, if you want to hire a permanent replacement to start immediately, you reduce your candidate pool to coaches out of work and assistants – Arkansas can do better.
Read more: chuckoliver.net
Posted by ccv
on April 17, 2012
in Big 12, Kevin Sumlin, Mizzou, SEC, Texas A&M
The anticipated move to the SEC is beginning to show its affects as Texas A&M announced a sell out of season tickets and now has announced a registration plan for students wanting tickets.
A&M sent a press release on Sunday announcing that a registration process has been put in place to “accommodate the anticipated student demand for 2012 Aggie football tickets.”
Texas A&M has the largest allotment of tickets in the nation for their students. The 30,284 ticket allotment has traditionally been a first come first serve process with no problems.
That was until the 2011 football season when A&M suspended sales of the “sports passes” because of the high demand.
read more: collegesportsblog.dallasnews.com
Posted by ccv
on April 17, 2012
in Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, College football, Derek Dooley, ESPN, Florida, Georgia, Hugh Freeze, Kentucky, Kevin Sumlin, Les Miles, LSU, Mark Richt, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Mizzou
Position U. pass catchers: A look at the 2012 draft
While the number of wide receivers drafted basically has held steady over the past five drafts, the number of tight ends has changed drastically.
There have been between 28 and 35 wide receivers selected in each of the past five drafts. But just 12 tight ends were selected last season, a drop-off of eight from 2010 and seven from ’09. Indeed, while there were 55 tight ends drafted from 2008-10, there were just 12 selected in both ’11 and ’07.
Interestingly, though, while there were 35 wide receivers drafted in 2008, there weren’t any first-rounders; that was the first draft without a wide receiver taken in the first round since 1990. Meanwhile, there was no tight end drafted in the first round last year; that was the first time that had happened since 1999.
Read more: sports.yahoo.com
Posted by ccv
on April 13, 2012
in Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Bobby Petrino, College football, Dan Mullen, Derek Dooley, Florida, Hugh Freeze, Kentucky, Kevin Sumlin, Les Miles, LSU, Mark Richt, Mike Slive, Mississippi State, Mizzou, Ole Miss, SEC
Bobby Petrino: How Arkansas firing will affect recruiting vs. SEC rivals
Ole Miss and Missouri are two SEC football programs that often go head-to-head with Arkansas on the recruiting trail.
Coaches from both schools aren’t sure how Bobby Petrino’s firing will impact the competition with Arkansas for future recruits.
“I think it’s too early to tell,” Ole Miss coach Hugh Freeze told the AJC. “I think Arkansas has had some tremendous years recruiting and they have great facilities. I’m not confident enough to say we have a great advantage now. Now I think it could be an advantage but certainly they could go get another great coach in there, which I’m sure they will. Then [Petrino’s firing] would be over in the minds of recruits very fast … so it’s kind of hard for me to say on that.”
read more: blogs.ajc.com
Posted by ccv
on April 13, 2012
in Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Bobby Petrino, Business and Sports, Florida, Gene Chizik, Georgia, Hugh Freeze, Jimbo Fisher, Kentucky, Les Miles, LSU, Mark Richt, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Mizzou, NCAA, SEC
SEC programs, law enforcement have long history
The Bobby Petrino saga has drawn attention to an often overlooked aspect of big-time college football: The relationship between coaches and the police who handle security for them.
Around the Southeastern Conference, providing sideline security for SEC programs is considered coveted duty. Some officers travel to away games, a cost paid for mostly by the schools. It can range from volunteer duty to part of the officer’s regular schedule.
Arkansas State Police Capt. Lance King, who provided security for Petrino at Razorback games, got the call from the coach when he wrecked his motorcycle.
Posted by ccv
on March 7, 2012
in Mizzou
Lines are biggest questions for Pinkel, Missouri
Missouri is coming off, by far, the best five-year run in school history.
The goal now for coach Gary Pinkel and his Tigers is to continue playing at a high level while residing at a new address.
Mizzou has left the Big 12 an will be in the SEC this fall, and one of the more interesting storylines in college football this season will be whether the Tigers can continue their success. Missouri has won 48 games in the past five seasons; included in that span were just the second, third and fourth double-digit win totals in school history.
Read more from YahooSports.com
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Posted by ccv
on February 29, 2012
in Mizzou, SEC
MU, Big 12 settle over move to SEC
COLUMBIA – Missouri has cleared a final hurdle before it joins the Southeastern Conference on July 1.
The Big 12 Conference announced Tuesday that it had reached financial exit settlements with Missouri and Texas A&M, who are withdrawing their Big 12 membership to join the SEC next season. Both schools will have an estimated $12.41 million withheld from the revenue they were scheduled to receive this fiscal year from the Big 12.
The amounts are based on what is expected to be distributed by the conference, primarily revenue from football television contracts, plus bowl game and NCAA Tournament appearances.
“This agreement was accomplished through a collegial, respectful process among the conference, its institutions, and the University of Missouri that led to a resolution that all parties believe is fair,” Big 12 commissioner Chuck Neinas said in a statement. He issued a similar statement regarding Texas A&M.
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Posted by ccv
on February 9, 2012
in Mizzou, Texas A&M
Missouri, Texas A&M enter SEC’s world
Remember SEC commissioner Mike Slive’s patented line whenever somebody would ask him about expansion back when the college football landscape was changing before our very eyes?
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AP Photo/Gerald HerbertMike Slive was able to extend the SEC’s reach by adding Texas A&M and Missouri.
“We’re going to be strategic and thoughtful,” Slive would repeat when quizzed about the SEC’s interest in broadening its horizons.
All the while, Nebraska was in the process of changing addresses from the Big 12 to the Big Ten. The Pac-12 (then the Pac-10) was reportedly on the verge of becoming a super-conference with the addition of Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
There were more expansion rumors and more possible new configurations thrown out there for conferences than the number of touchdowns Alabama’s defense allowed this past season.
The SEC didn’t bury its head in the sand.
Slive remains coy when asked with whom the SEC had discussions and how everything played out, but he was discreetly in the middle of the expansion fray.
Read more from ESPN.com
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Posted by ccv
on February 8, 2012
in Mizzou
Burwell: Pinkel looks forward to next big step in SEC
Anyone who knows him well will tell you that Gary Pinkel always has been one of those here-and-now kind of guys. He hates reflecting on the past, always preferring to live in the moment or continually press ahead. It’s always the next play, next game, next season, next achievement.
“I just don’t look back,” the square-jawed Mizzou football coach said. “I’ve lived my whole professional life like that.”
But here he was doing just that and he couldn’t help himself. A room full of giddy boosters were upstairs at a private dinner inside the Edward Jones building in Des Peres, and they couldn’t wait to hear Pinkel reflect on one of the seminal moments in Mizzou football history. What does it all mean when MU football is good enough to go big-game hunting on the high school recruiting trail and come away with the biggest prize of them all? What does it mean when his primary professional life’s mission — making Missouri football stand for something special — is so close he can almost taste it?
Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/sports/columns/bryan-burwell/burwell-pinkel-looks-forward-to-next-big-step-in-sec/article_c411f6cd-9228-5964-a0d6-3d924dd2edf9.html#ixzz1lnB5CRQd
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