After we highlighted Teddy Greenstein's Chicago Tribune piece about Big Ten expansion possibilities the other day, I came across this piece by the San Jose Mercury News' Jon Wilner looking at Pac-10 expansion.Some interesting notes from Wilner's blog (which is a must read):* Voting on expansion will have to be unanimous. All of the schools... Continue Reading →
Myron Rolle’s a Grown Ass Man. He can make his own decisions
I do have to say that I was completely flabbergasted when I read this Clark Judge piece from over the weekend.In it, Judge argues that Myron Rolle, the former Florida State safety and Rhodes Scholar, should give up on football and go on to medical school because he has a better chance of making an... Continue Reading →
March Madness: The Jerome Picks
The what?The Jerome.Okay, so I am not in an official Jerome Pool. As of about 2:40 PST, I was entered into the official Jerome Pool.As a matter of fact, to be frank, I didn't even know what the Jerome was until about half an hour ago.Read these stories by Dan Wetzel and Pete Thamel to... Continue Reading →
As The Tebow Spins, Day 341: What is a college coaches job?
Okay, it hasn't really been that long.But it certainly feels like it.I will come right out and admit I am somewhere between neutral and negative on Tim Tebow, and that's a visceral reaction more than anything else.I have only been able to observe him through magazine articles and television interviews but my gut reaction is... Continue Reading →
Big Ten Expansion Sidebar: A preliminary list?
The company that the Big Ten hired to help them determine whether or not to expand and who to look at has come back and said, "Yep. Expand."Interesting piece by Teddy Greenstein in the Chicago Tribune today with his thoughts about who would be the best fit for the conference.Teddy cites the following factors as... Continue Reading →
Guess What? Maybe Your Team Isn’t That Good
So March Madness is upon us with the flipping of the calendar page yesterday, and with the change of the month comes the annual rites of Spring:1) Conference Tournaments2) The CBS Selection Show3) The Filling Out Of The Brackets and Entering Of The Pools4) The Bitchfest Of SnubbingActually, the bitching usually starts well before the... Continue Reading →
Celebrate good times…or not
Canada loves hockey.Okay, that actually might be a bit of an understatement.Hockey is to Canada what football is to America.That might be a better analogy.Of course, American football is not in the Olympics. But hockey is.Last night, the Canadian women's ice hockey team beat the United States, 2-0 to win the gold medal at the... Continue Reading →
Someone in the NBA offices in New York must have been bored
With a lockout impending, it's good to see that the NBA front office is addressing the issues that are critical to on-court performance.No, they're not looking at hiring better officials.Apparently, they are too focused on Caron Butler's straw chewing habit.The NBA has ordered Butler, now with the Dallas Mavericks, to stop chewing on straws during... Continue Reading →
Big Ten Expansion Round 3: C.R.E.A.M.
(For previous installments on Big Ten Expansion, visit here and here).One thing that I found interesting about the Pac-10 analysis was how few of the athletic departments ran overall surpluses. Football made money and was in the black, but the departments were balanced.In the Big Ten? Not so much.Big Ten Financial AnalysisI would say that... Continue Reading →
Pac-10 Expansion Round 3: C.R.E.A.M.
(For previous installments on Pac-10 Expansion, visit here and here.)Round three of Pac-10 expansion talk has us looking at some financial information about the current membership of the conference and the contenders.The information looked at in this exercise is taken from reports that the colleges and universities across this land submitted to the U.S. Department... Continue Reading →
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