Posted on 06/15/2010 6:56:12 AM PDT by C19fan
Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott’s background comes from running the Women’s Tennis Association, not working as a college administrator. College athletics is generally run by lifers, folks who came up through the system and learned the same way to think and manage the same way.
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The best source of information, and the best article I found on what happened over the past few days, is here at Orangebloods:
http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1094372
http://www.soonerfans.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=2
In the end, 4 major conferences with playoffs, then a national championship.
The Sons of Liberty wrote:
i suspect this is just a stopgap for a year or two.
Just like the SouthWest Conference; it was bandaided for a year (or two?), then folded, dissolved, and became part of the Big 12, and C-USA.
Utah and TCU. And the MWC gets f’ed again after adding Boise State.
The worst thing about this is that the despicable BCS system gets propped up for another few years.
From what I've heard, it hasn't been that profitable and, besides, the championship game has screwed up some BCS berths in the past for the Big 12, so you have one less hurdle to a Big 12 team making the title game and getting the money that goes along with it.
TCU + Houston.
Nah, they should take the Arizona schools in a case of poetic justice. How’s that boycott working out, Cali?
Doubtful because it drains the finances...makes the TV pie cuts much smaller as they bring little to the table.
They also don’t care about the championship game...some of the schools have hated it.
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