From Al.com by Paul FinebaumA year ago, Urban Meyer was the chosen one. The debate over who was the best head football coach in the SEC had seemingly ended a few months earlier at the Georgia Dome. Some in the news media were pushing Meyer as perhaps, the greatest coach ever. Today, a new (but familiar) man sits atop my annual rankings of SEC coaches: 1. Nick Saban (Alabama): From No. 2 to Meyer a year ago to No. 1, not only in the SEC but in all of college football. With two national titles [Comment or Read the Rest...]
From Al.com by Paul Finebaum Whether the conference expansion chaos has died down for good remains to be seen. But in Texas, the dust has finally settled. With any major story, there is an immediate rush to judgment. This is one man’s opinion on the winners and losers: Texas: Winner . . . There’s no getting around Texas winning the biggest pot at the end of the poker game. But will it turn out to be Pyrrhic victory for Bevo? Texas was already the power in the Big 12 and nothing has changed. The other [Comment or Read the Rest...]
From UabSports.cstv.com PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -Former UAB men’s golfer Graeme McDowell came from three strokes behind entering the final round and captured the 2010 U.S. Open on Sunday. In doing so, McDowell became the first UAB golfer to win a major championship. McDowell seized control after a shocking collapse by third round leader Dustin Johnson, then failed to get flustered with Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Ernie Els lined up behind him. He closed with a 3-over 74 to finish with an even par 284. In doing so, he became the first European in 40 [Comment or Read the Rest...]
Jun 182010
From OaNow.com by Andrew Gribble MONTGOMERY — The Auburn board of trustees this morning approved the immediate construction of a $16.5 million, 92,000-square-foot indoor practice facility that will help the Auburn football team keep up with its SEC counterparts not only on the practice field, but on the recruiting trail as well. The building’s main attraction is a 100-yard football field, something that has been desired for years. Auburn will become the seventh school in the SEC to acquire a full-sized, indoor practice facility, joining Alabama, Ole Miss, Mississippi State, Arkansas, LSU and Kentucky. Inifinity [Comment or Read the Rest...]
From NbcSports.com by John TaylorWhat would your morning be without at least one expansion rumor to chew on over breakfast? Downright un-American, that’s what it’d be. The latest round of expansion speculation involves the Big East, and not in the usual it’s-about-to-be-eaten-alive way either. According to the sports director at WKMG-TV in Orlando, David Pingalore, both Memphis and Central Florida could be invited to join the Big East conference as early as next week. Pingalore’s “multiple college football sources” go so far as to say that the two current Conference USA members moving to the [Comment or Read the Rest...]
From Al.com The Birmingham News, Mobile Press-Register and The Huntsville Times announced Wednesday they will coordinate some political and sports coverage through the creation of shared bureaus. The three papers’ four statehouse reporters and two Washington, D.C., reporters will report to a new bureau chief based in the papers’ shared Montgomery bureau. The three papers’ editors will jointly hire a new bureau chief, with The News overseeing its day-to-day operation. “We already have a tremendous group of reporters who specialize in covering some of the most interesting and challenging political stories in the country,” said [Comment or Read the Rest...]
From FanHouse.com by Clay Travis Conference realignment died because the Texas football program is made up of cowards who are aware that the Longhorns program can’t compete at the top levels of the SEC or the Pac-10. That’s what your takeaway from the past two weeks of conference realignment really needs to be. Yep, the state that values masculine swagger more than any other in the nation features a top football program that is yella.All hat, no cattle. The Longhorns had offers to move on to compete with top echelon talent in the SEC and the [Comment or Read the Rest...]
Video From Statesman.com posted by Ken HermanT. Boone Pickens’ “straight-shooting” comments on Missouri, Nebraska, Texas Christian, and Texas A&M.
From Statesman.com, A Commentary by Kirk Bohls Finally, the music stopped. And surprisingly there were still enough chairs to go around for everybody to find a seat. And a future dance partner. For now. In the most unlikely scenario of all, the Big 12 survived. A new, slimmed-down, cornless version, but a Big 12 nevertheless. But for how long? How long until Missouri hears the drumbeat of a distant shore and has those feelings of wanderlust again? How long until Texas thinks it really needed to jump to a mega-conference sooner than later? How long until [Comment or Read the Rest...]
From SI.com by Andy Staples AUSTIN, Texas — A week before his conference stood on the brink of annihilation and two weeks before the 11th-hour gambit that saved it, Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe sent an e-mail to the presidents of the league’s 12 member schools. “The attached confidential ‘white paper’ was distributed to the other governance groups today,” Beebe wrote on June 1. “As I was listing the reasons for the Big 12 for myself, I decided it would be appropriate to share my thoughts with the leadership groups of the conference.” The attached white [Comment or Read the Rest...]
From Al.com By Paul Finebaum Would I be out of order to ask a simple but nagging question: Who died and made the University of Texas king of the college football universe? This is a school with one national championship in the last 40 years. And some of the biggest boys in college football — yeah, that includes you Oklahoma — are following the Longhorns like lambs to slaughter as if they don’t have an alternative in the world. Thank goodness for Texas A&M. Thank goodness a school in the rough and tumble, hard-scrabbled world [Comment or Read the Rest...]
From Orangebloods.com By Chip Brown In a bombshell development that could bring a halt to seismic changes in college realignment, sources tell Orangebloods.com Texas is at the table with the 10 remaining Big 12 schools working on a TV deal put forth by commissioner Dan Beebe that would hold the conference together. If there’s consensus to the deal, and it appears there is, it could be announced as early as Monday, sources said. According to sources familiar with the deal, Texas stands to earn between $20 million and $25 million in television revenue, including money [Comment or Read the Rest...]
The NCAA’s report on USC, which totals 67 pages, was released to the public today at 12:00 P.M. PST. Read or download the entire NCAA University of Southern California Public Infractions Report here.
UT, A&M to meet today to discuss their course; SEC is option From Chron.com by Brent Zwerneman COLLEGE STATION — “Go Huskers” suddenly has new meaning — and its latest connotation likely means the end of the Big 12 Conference. Nebraska has accepted an invitation to join the Big Ten and will announce its intentions Friday, two people with knowledge of the situation said Wednesday. Colorado, meanwhile, is preparing to announce that it will join the Pacific-10, insiders said, as a pre-emptive strike to Baylor’s making a push through Texas lawmakers to join the other five [Comment or Read the Rest...]
Joining the Pac-10 in 2012 would be Oklahoma, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma State and Colorado.
The new Pac-16 would divide into divisions, with the original Pac-8 schools aligned in one division and Arizona and Arizona State joining the six Big 12 schools in the other division.
Finebaum — he’s well regarded as the best at pot-stirring, and the Tennessee grad as smart as all get out — conveniently leaves out a few facts in saying the SEC missed out on Texas and Florida State while landing Arkansas and South Carolina and getting nothing out of them for the past 18 years.
From Orangebloods.com By Chip BrownColorado is expected to have a major announcement on Wednesday, sources said. If the specualation is true, Colorado could be preparing to accept a bid from the Pac-10 Conference, which has targeted the Buffaloes for expansion. There is growing speculation from other Big 12 members that Tuesday night’s meeting among Colorado University leaders is to discuss the legality of bolting the Big 12 right now to accept an invitation from another conference, two sources told Orangebloods.com. The move would undercut an attempt by Baylor to sway the Texas Legislature into helping [Comment or Read the Rest...]
Jun 072010
From Orangebloods.com By Chip Brown Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott is not wasting any time. According to multiple sources, Scott will start extending formal invitations to six Big 12 schools this week, although the sixth invitation still appears to be up in the air. Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State are getting invitations. But sources say Scott is still gauging the seriousness of a push in the Texas Legislature to keep Baylor with its Big 12 South brothers. Initially, the Pac-10′s list of invitations included Colorado. And the Pac-10 may still invite Colorado, the [Comment or Read the Rest...]
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