One of the great things about college football is the rivalry games—those clashes between fanbases and teams that plain old don’t like each other. The intensity on the field (and occasionally in the stands or the parking lot) can get ugly from time to time, but if the two teams are evenly matched, they can... Continue Reading →
Running the numbers: Big 12 since 1996
Lately, as I've been driving around town, I've heard a promo for Colin Cowherd's radio show. I'm not the biggest fan of Cowherd (I find him to be condescending, pompous and arrogant) but the premise of the promo is interesting.Cowherd was asking, based on the fact that Colorado and Nebraska are soon departing the Big... Continue Reading →
Brain Trauma and Football: Reform Of Some Kind Is Needed
My son was born on September 8, 2007, which I remember not just for his birth, but also because it was the day that Dennis Dixon ran wild against Michigan in the Big House on the heels of Appalachian State stunning the Wolverines a week earlier. Now, in 2007 most of us football fans hadn’t... Continue Reading →
Only One Winner in the Expansion Game
The 2010 expansion race ended not with the cataclysmic change that was expected, but instead with a small whimper.The expected galvanization of the college athletics landscape never materialized in the manner many thought it would.Instead of mega conferences, we had:1) Colorado bolting to the Pac-10, where they seem to be quite happy with each other... Continue Reading →
The Bell Starts Tolling for Big 12: A Rare Fan’s eye view post
It’s a muggy, typical late summer night in Missouri.It’s August 31, 1996. I’m about a week or two into the start of my undergraduate career at the University of Missouri. I’m sitting in the lounge in the basement of my residence hall because I didn’t have a television in my room.I’m watching history as the... Continue Reading →
NCAA sanctions USC Football
Read the entire report here.One word:Damning.
An Ultimatum? That’s the best you can do?
(Update: 12:08pm PDT) According to the Austin American Statesman, it was the Big 12 presidents who delievered this ultimatum to Nebraska and Missouri. My original sentiment still stands, though, that the conference commissioner has to have something to do with this ultimatum. Oh, and I still think the ultimatum is bullshit.)I rarely use this space... Continue Reading →
Even with context, Ireland in the Wrong
The question du semaine as the fallout from the 2010 NFL Draft settles on the landscape deals with the scandal of why Dez Bryant, the talented wide receiver formerly of the Oklahoma State Cowboys, fell as precipitously as he did from a top-10 talent to the Dallas Cowboys late in the first round.Bryant, who was... Continue Reading →
NCAA Tournament Expansion: 68 is a magic number (For Now)
And up with the puff of white smoke, there is expansion news in college sports.But it's the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament expansion that is the news of the day before the NFL Draft consumes all sports news like Galactus.The men's tournament will expand to 68 teams next year, getting to a number that is at... Continue Reading →
NCAA Tempting Fate With New Taunting Rule
The good thing about writing a weekly column is that I have time to review the news of the week and reflect on it before commenting.The worst feeling, though, is when you’ve written what you think is a solid piece, and then news happens after you’ve hit “send.”Because the NCAA decided last week that college... Continue Reading →
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