Changed that there for you Jack, us Iowans know very well what Runza is :hmwink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Heeeere's Olesker!
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Changed that there for you Jack, us Iowans know very well what Runza is :hmwink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Heeeere's Olesker!
Is it just me or are two more teams joining the Big Ten???
Because if my math is right that would make them the Big 14 and the Big Twelve is NOW the Big Ten...:hmconf:
I'm surprised the Big 10 might add Maryland and Rutgers according to rumors. I guess the main reason they want to do it is to add the New York and DC areas to their market, but those are more pro sports towns and those schools are not football powerhouses. If the Big 10 does it, there will be another big domino effect on all the conferences.
That would be interesting for College Basketball as Maryland is quite a heavyweight in that (National Champions in Men and Women Basketball) and the Big 10 has quite a few big names in Ohio State, Michigan, and Michigan StateQuote:
Originally Posted by Firefly
I don't give a hoot about football, but watching some of the UT/Vanderbilt game was embarrassing. I'm almost ashamed to live in Knoxville. I have a feeling the rumors are true and Monday the coach will get the pink slip.
Not this one. But then, I'm not a man of the town.Quote:
Originally Posted by markatisu
I'm just now seeing the news on yahoo.com about maryland and rutgers. I haven't read the local sports page so I don't know if it says anything about it.
Rutgers was rumored to join earlier but that spot was taken by Nebraska.
I kind hope they join less travel for penn st and ohio.
I blame it on Bush.
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Originally Posted by Megalodon
And Midor, Runzas are delicious but anything but a sophisticated deal -- just good Heartland chow for good Heartland folks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runza Lots of restaurant in Nebraska, but the best part is when they set up a mobile kitchen outside Memorial in Lincoln for halftime at the Nebraska games. Unlike the prison-like confinement we endured Northwestern, the fans are allowed out of the stadium at halftime in Lincoln. :hmlol:
UPDATE: Congrats to Notre Dame being at #1. Naturally -- as I told Kim last night -- AP seized on the UCLA win to vault them over Nebraska and to drop -- actually drop -- Nebraska a point after they clubbed Minnesota. Coaches Poll correctly has them at 14. You know, AP used to get me irritated. Now I just realize they're a bunch of prejudiced idiots that demonstrate their bias and lack of understanding of football on a weekly basis. I really thought the day had come in our world that prejudice and biogtry were over. Sadly, it still lives in college football, but at least it's laughable rather than truly devastating. Boneheads.
Thanks. I remember eating something like that for my school lunch. It was loose meat (onl) in a roll. but I just can't remember the name it. I believe I'd open the roll and put ketchup in it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Heeeere's Olesker!
Sounds like Maryland could be hurting money wise. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/marylan...54--ncaaf.html
On a side note In reading about the potential news. I read in one of the articles that Notre Dame's hockey isn't joining their new conference.
UPDATE:
It's official. Maryland is on it's way. 2014. http://sports.yahoo.com/news/marylan...15--ncaaf.html
Now, in the next 24 to 48 hours will Rutgers follow?
With Maryland's departure from the ACC, UConn is expected by many to get their wish to join the ACC. With the possibility of Rutgers and UConn joining the list of defections from the Big East... Boise State, San Diego St. and BYU are in talks to return to the MWC.
With all the recent changes, that leaves:
All-Sports - Current
Louisville
Cincinnati
South Florida
Temple - football-only in 2012, all-sports in 2013
All-Sports - Starting in 2013
SMU
Houston
Memphis
Central Florida
Football-Only - Starting in 2013
Navy - joining in 2015
Boise State
San Diego State
Basketball-Only - Current
Georgetown
Seton Hall
Villanova
DePaul
Marquette
Providence
St. John's
Assuming nothing else changes (unlikely), that gives the Big East only 11 football teams in 2013. Expect them to add one to get to 12 - enough for a lucrative conference title game. Especially with the conference in the middle of open negotiations for their football TV rights.
If I had to make a prediction, I would guess the Big East will dissolve after:
- MWC takes back Boise State and San Diego St. to get to 12 teams
- Big 12 adds Cincinnati & Louisville and 2 of SMU/BYU/Houston to get to 12 teams
- The 7 basketball-only schools add one school to get to eight and form a basketball-only conference
Isn't it getting close to the time for the Big 10 to rename the conference? :hmlol:
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Originally Posted by ksensor
I would love to add Cincinnati and Houston to the Big 12, they have great basketball and football programs that I think would fit in well
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Have you never traveled across the border into Omaha? You are missing out then on a unique midwestern food. Think doughy biscuit with meat and cheese :hmlol:Quote:
Originally Posted by midor
The SEC on Saturday:
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Big Ten was wanting Louisville too, I wouldn't be surprised to see them add a couple more teams actually to become a powerhouse conference...We may end up with just a few of them...Big Ten, SEC, PAC 10, ACC.....
So Friday's game -- nationally broadcast on ABC at 11 A.M. CST -- decides if my Huskers are their Big 10 division champs. Then it's on to the Big 10 Conference Championship game and, afterwards, hopefully demolishing Oregon at the Rose Bowl on January 1st and catapulting Nebraska back up into the top ten where they deserve to be! Order restored! :hmlol:
Well, enough fantasy time. The reality is that it's a long, looooooong way to go and anything can happen. But I'll tell you this much: I'm foregoing Thanksgiving dessert in anticipation of a Day After T-day Delight! :hmwink:
GO BIG RED!!!
I was glad Nebraska got the win, but I was hoping it would have been more like the Minnesota game. Unfortunately, two starters got injured and will be out for the Big Ten championship game.
Iowa State lost a close one. The big Austin run and Woody fumble were killers. It will be interesting to see what bowl they land in.
Iowa State was close, I knew they could do it and despite that I am very happy with how the season went. Great things are coming IMHO over the next few years
Once again the biased AP poll laughably has the Huskers at 14, while the Harris and Coaches polls have them at 13 and the BCS correctly has them at 12. These guys are a joke. After Nebraska beats Wisconsin and then Stanford in the Rose Bowl, AP will probably drop them from the ranking.
It's nice not to be angry anymore, but rather to be able to laugh because they just show their single bias week after week after week. And in almost every other ranking I agree with AP. It just must stick in their throat to see the Huskers going to the Rose Bowl. Maybe stubby Napolean complex Sunshine State hack/Nebraska-hater Lee Corso is a secret AP donor. :hmlol:
Anyway, how awesome is this Alabama/Georgia game going to me?
It will be especially awesome knowing full well that the SEC can't screw the National Title picture like they did last year :hmwink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Heeeere's Olesker!
What's this SEC you're talking about? :hmlol:
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Originally Posted by markatisu
With the addition of Tulane and East Carolina and Louisville leaving for the ACC, here's how the Big East now sits:
All Sports - Current
Cincinnati
South Florida
Temple - football-only in 2012, all-sports in 2013
All Sports - Upcoming
SMU - in 2013
Houston - in 2013
Memphis - in 2013
Central Florida - in 2013
Tulane - in 2014
Football Only - Upcoming
Boise State - in 2013
San Diego State - in 2013
East Carolina - in 2014
Navy - joining in 2015
Basketball Only - Current
Georgetown
Seton Hall
Villanova
DePaul
Marquette
Providence
St. John's
Scheduled to Leave Big East
Pitt - leaving July 2013
Syracuse - leaving July 2013
Notre Dame - under negotiation
Rutgers - under negotiation
Louisville - under negotiation
It's possible that Rutgers and Louisville will negotiate a buyout that allows them to leave for the Big10/ACC in time for the 2013 football season, but them leaving prior to the 2014 season is more likely.
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Assuming no incoming schools back out and no other schools leave or are added, 2015 would see a Big East with 12 football teams and 7 more basketball teams.
Here's how the football divisions would look with a north/south split or an east/west split.
Big East - North
Boise State
Cincinnati
Temple
Navy
Memphis
East Carolina
Big East - South
San Diego State
SMU
Houston
Central Florida
South Florida
Tulane
Big East - East
Cincinnati
Temple
Navy
East Carolina
Central Florida
South Florida
Big East - West
Boise State
San Diego State
SMU
Houston
Tulane
Memphis
Back in 1959, when I was a kid, there were eight teams in Major League Baseball's National Division and eight teams in their American League Division. Players pretty m:hmgrin:uch stayed with one team for life, guys like Mickey Mantle and Ted Williams would gladly come over to a kid like me and autograph our baseball before the game without first having to call their business manager and the only scandal I can remember is the Chicago Chief of Police setting off the air raid sirens after the Sox clinched the American League pennant, throwing a lot of people in the Windy City into a panic. (My upstairs neighbor's mom ran down to our floor screaming, "THE RUSSIANS HAVE LAUNCHED THE MISSILES!!!" :hmlol:) Things in sports, and in life, were simpler back then -- not necessarily better, although in a lot of ways they were, but certainly simpler.
Nowadays I headache just trying to keep up with all the changes in sports. Maybe it's really all about my getting older,but I long for the day when I can just kick back with a beer and watch a game for the pure pleasure of it rather than worrying if the team or player I support will be there next season or the coach I admire will end up in a scandal or the rules are going to get changed or a 'professional' basketball player can choke his coach and still get an athletic shoe named after him.
I get these latest realignments are about the money, but I'll sure be happy when at least college football settles down a bit. I guess that's about all the stability in sports I can hope for at this point in my life.
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Originally Posted by ksensor
At this point it would probably be easier if we had 4 major conferences and that was it
One for the West, One for the Central Midwest, One for the Upper Midwest/East, One of the South
I still maintain it's fine to have as many conferences as they want; just have a true playoff 'season', with the winners of each conference battling each other. Why shouldn't a team like Kent State have a Cinderella shot at it all? And imagine the electricity if they knocked Alabama out in an early round! The way things are presently stacked, we'll never get to see that match-up and Kent State will never have their Rocky Balboa chance.
I'm not a big college basketball fan, but I love March Madness because anything can happen. To me a true playoff season for college football would make post season a lot more exciting and it would extend a sports season that is over way too soon, imo. I think we're starting to very slowly move in that direction and I'll be patient. To use the line from CONTACT, "Small moves, Ellie...small moves." :hmwink:
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Originally Posted by markatisu
I've joked with a buddy at work about expansion that there are only going to be 4 conferences. and each conference will be based on the time zones.Quote:
Originally Posted by markatisu
I'm in the middle of reading about Louisville joining and thought this was interesting. From a Big 10 perspective.
The ACC's overall stability has been questioned since Maryland's startling defection, with rumors percolating about Virginia and North Carolina being the Big Ten's next targets for expansion. But the athletic directors of both schools, Craig Littlepage of Virginia and Bubba Cunningham of North Carolina, issued statements Wednesday saying their schools are committed to the ACC.
I'm all for talk of expansion. that's exciting. so is waiting for teams to come in but 16 is to much.
Do I wish the big ten was back at 10. yes. but times have change and the big ten must change with them.
So Stanford has defeated UCLA. As an aside, imo it's shameful that Stanford was playing a home game in front of what si.com calls "A sparse audience" and its second smallest crowd at 37,000. What kind of football fans do they have there? Of course Nebraska has the longest sell-out crowds record in college football history -- and yes, I know all that Nebraska has is beef, corn, insurance companies, dropdead red-haired Irish gals and football, so maybe that's part of the reason for all of those sell-out crowds, but I like to think it's also fan loyalty -- but I can assure you that if they were playing a game in Lincoln that would decide whether or not the Huskers went to the Rose Bowl you'd have blimps rented out by fans circling sold-out Memorial Stadium for the entire game. :hmlol:
Anyway, Kim and I are really pumped for tonight's Nebraska game, hoping our boys leave Indy with roses. Buffalo Wild Wings, here we come. I sure hope they've got plenty of Guinness. :hmlol:
GO BIG RED!!!