First chink in Big 12’s armor with Colorado’s exit

Cedar Rapids Gazette ^ | 06/11/2010 | Mike Hlas

[Nervous Tick]

>> Missouri, another possible Big Ten candidate, is worried. Missouri curator Warren Erdman told the Associated Press the school has not been asked to join the Big Ten.

I don’t know what the Big Ten is. Don’t they mean “Big Eleven”?

Maybe they can get FIVE more new teams (plus Nebraska), hire a bunch of gay coaches, and call themselves the “Sweet Sixteen”.

[RightFighter]

“It’s interesting that those who are always going after the long arm of the federal government, that the federal government is too intrusive, the federal government is too big, now they are calling on the federal government to get involved in sports.”

What's interesting is that the federal government always wants to stick its neck into places where it doesn't belong, like regulating our state-by-state health insurance systems, yet when a clear case of collusion and antitrust violations across state lines presents itself, as seems to be the case with the BCS in general and with these conference shakeups as well, politicians like Tom Harkin want to point back to separation of powers.

[iowamark]

The Big 10 may become the new Big 12 today when Nebraska joins.

[Bad~Rodeo]

“The University of Colorado is a perfect match — academically and athletically — with the Pac-10,” said Colorado President Bruce Benson

Oh really?....hmmmm

Colorado, Syracuse penalized for poor academics

[Nervous Tick]

“I likes me some college football” (Go Horns!), but this whole Division 1 teevee-driven thing has gotten way out of hand, IMHO.

[Nervous Tick]

>> “The University of Colorado is a perfect match — academically and athletically — with the Pac-10,”

Well, I see his point. Boulder is about two-thirds Californicators as it is.

[Non-Sequitur]

Maybe they can get FIVE more new teams (plus Nebraska), hire a bunch of gay coaches, and call themselves the “Sweet Sixteen”.

I think that was patented by the basketball semi-finals.

[Bad~Rodeo]

AH! of course, silly me

[Non-Sequitur]

The Texas teams are going to swagger into the Pac 10 and expect to be able to run the show. It'll be interesting to watch the California folks deal with those egos.

[Nervous Tick]

>> I think that was patented by the basketball semi-finals.

Maybe the NCAA can convince them to use “Sixteen Gangsta Posse” (which is more accurate for basketball anyway), and buy for themselves the use of “Sweet Sixteen”.

Or, what the heck, use “Thweet Thixteen”. That would work too. Pink-accented uniforms, Perez Hilton calling games, the whole nine yards.

[Non-Sequitur]

“The citizens of Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma and all of the Big 12 all ought to get together and say we have a good Big 12 Conference and we want to keep it that way,” he said.

The least important consideration in any of this is the desire of the fans. The schools automatically assume they'll come along no matter what, and unfortunately they're probably right.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

If Nebraska and Missouri join, it will still be the Big 10.

So let it be written...

[Nervous Tick]

The Texas teams are going to swagger into the Pac 10 and expect to be able to run the show.

;-)

As we say here in the Lone Star State, "No brag, just fact".

[Bad~Rodeo]

The Rose Bowl will be re-named, “Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium-West, LOL~

[ken21]

whatta laugh!

colorado hasn’t had a winning season in years.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium-West

ROFL!

[Non-Sequitur]

As we say here in the Lone Star State, "No brag, just fact".

And as you also say down there, "All hat, no cattle."

[Nervous Tick]

>> So let it be written...

Those little conference campus vignettes that run during halftime will be interesting...

“Brought to you by the twelve universities of the Big Ten conference, where excellence in athletics and academics abound... and we’re working on the remedial kindergarten math.”

[Nervous Tick]

Let the trash talking begin! Why not, it’s only four short months until the season gets underway...

FRegards