NCAA 2012, SEC Uber Alles

[Eddie Teach]

Dang, they're scheduling games for 2031 already. 

[grumbler]

Oregon has scheduled a home and home with Michigan state in 2013(Eugene) and 2014(East Lansing).  I like it, the Ducks continue to put together a pretty good OOC schedule, except for this year.

That's a smart move on Oregon's part.  They should win those games, but MSU won't be patsies.

Could be the clash of awful uniforms, though.

[MadBurgerMaker]

The WAC is doomed, the only way the Mtn West survives is by joining with another has-been conference and this new group invites some other wannabes to come play.

I lurk on the Scout WAC message board.  Currently, or at least semi recently since I haven't been there in a while, the school they seem want to bring in to be the savior of the conference is....Lamar, which will cause a bunch of other FCS schools to suddenly want to move up or something.  However it works, there are lists on there of this huge conference made up of a bunch of former FCS schools.  I don't know why they would all suddenly want to move up because of Lamar, or why they would want to join the WAC at this point anyway.  The Big West, or wherever they all come from, is probably better. 

There's also some poster who insists that Lamar delivers the "Southeastern Texas" market, something that apparently doesn't include the city of Houston itself, because Texas and Texas A&M are too far away.    It's great.

Anyway, back in reality (where Lamar probably doesn't even deliver Beaumont), I hope UTSA and Texas State get invites to the Sunbelt.  And take them.

[MadImmortalMan]

Wow, what a bunch of nonsense.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Well, to be fair, not everyone there is completely delusional or even all that interested in schools like Lamar except simply for numbers.  They're mostly just looking for ways to have the WAC survive instead of basically folding with two or three teams going to the Sunbelt, a couple going to Mount USA, and a couple just....getting fucked? 

Some of the ideas are at least very original, like the one where the WAC (or the schools that don't get picked up or whatever) merges with the Big Sky, and somehow turns into a hybrid FCS/FBS conference.  Others are just standard stuff that's actually possible like the WAC and Belt merging after some schools from each get invites elsewhere. 

[FunkMonk]

I just want to know when my UTSA Roadrunners can face my UT Longhorns in a good ole fashioned Texas Two-step slobberknockin' on the Grid Iron. 

[MadBurgerMaker]

I just want to know when my UTSA Roadrunners can face my UT Longhorns in a good ole fashioned Texas Two-step slobberknockin' on the Grid Iron. 

The Runners are going to need a few years to get their shit together.  Say...10?     I just don't want them murdered too badly.

[CountDeMoney]

I just want to know when my UTSA Roadrunners can face my UT Longhorns in a good ole fashioned Texas Two-step slobberknockin' on the Grid Iron. 

"You're looking live at the Roadrunner massacre, only on CBS!"

[MadBurgerMaker]

"You're looking live at the Roadrunner massacre, only on CBS!"

The Roadrunners are on the Longhorn Network. 

(it's because of the whining about Texas high school games being on there, so they found lower level football they could cram into some Saturday afternoon timeslots with no complaining.. ..still a good deal for UTSA)

[Valmy]

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7723700/why-taken-143-years-four-team-college-football-playoff-seem-real

The argument commenced on a fall afternoon in 1869, on a grassy pitch near the state university of New Jersey. What they played back then wasn't quite football, but a hybrid of rugby and soccer and The Hunger Games — 25 players per side, the ball advanced only by beating or kicking it with fists and feet and heads. The two teams whaled on each other until a total of 10 goals were scored, and after their 6-4 loss, Princeton's players were literally run out of town by Rutgers students, leaping into their carriages and wagons and hastening the 20 miles back to campus.

Nine days later, on the Princeton campus: a rematch, and an 8-0 victory for the home team, under slightly different rules. A third game was scheduled, but after protestations by the faculty of both schools that the games were interfering with student studies, it was canceled. Retroactively, a pollster and mathematician named Richard Billingsley declared Princeton the winner of the national championship, because its victory came later in the season; retroactively, a historian named Parke Davis named Rutgers and Princeton co-champions. The entire 1869 college football season consisted of two games, and yet there is no consensus national champion.

The beginning of a proud tradition.

[sbr]

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-bcsmeeting

BCS: 'Host of intricate details' being discussed

DALLAS (AP)—BCS leaders say they are sorting through a "host of intricate details" about how college football's postseason would work if major changes are made to the current format.

A statement released by the 11 conference commissioners and Notre Dame's athletic director after a meeting in Dallas on Monday said: "While no decisions have been made about the overall structure, our talks have entered the `brass tacks' level."

No specific mention of four-team playoff was made in the statement, but all the commissioners have acknowledged that option is being discussed.

The statement says that if the format is changed, where and when games will be played and how the teams will be selected have to be worked out.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Bobby Petrino is a colossal dumbass.  I can't believe he might get himself fired over side ass. 

E:  Oh right:

[Valmy]

It is pretty amazing to see a coach with his record eagerly burning all his bridges.   The idiotic part was that he allegedly was having an affair with her and then got her a job in the department.  So he may have taken something that was no big deal and turned it into a sexual harrasment lawsuit/job termination type situation.  Brilliant.

[MadBurgerMaker]

It is pretty amazing to see a coach with his record eagerly burning all his bridges.   The idiotic part was that he allegedly was having an affair with her and then got her a job in the department.  So he may have taken something that was no big deal and turned it into a sexual harrasment lawsuit/job termination type situation.  Brilliant.

http://www.arkansasrazorbacks.com/SportSelect.dbml?&DB_OEM_ID=6100&SPID=2419&SPSID=30722

Right side just above Veltkamp (like she's difficult to spot on that page or something).  Hired her last Tuesday.

[Valmy]

While it is encouraging to see women getting opportunities to be on coaching staffs in men's athletics this is probably not the right way to go about it