We wanted to make sure that you good folks knew about the newest developments on PJ Hairston’s excellent adventure to Durham and had a place to voice your thoughts on the matter. You can refresh a little by reading this quick piece… UNC’s top scorer P.J. Hairston charged with possession of marijuana (USAToday.com) According to [...]
Sunday Expansion Thoughts
I’ve long-believed expansion/re-alignment wouldn’t end until there were four 14- or 16-team superconferences controlling the football universe, i.e., TV/BCS revenue. The proliferation of college football on TV over the past 20 years has shifted the landscape such that traditional cultural and geographical alliances simply don’t matter, and conference names have little to do with affiliated [...]
SEC unanimously accepts A&M; Big XII blocking move? (Updated 8pm)
Now that it’s official that A&M will become the 13th member, it’s absolutely certain the SEC will at least add a 14th member, and probably soon (ESPN): The member presidents of the Southeastern Conference unanimously voted to accept Texas A&M Tuesday night as the league’s 13th member, but the Aggies’ official acceptance has been delayed [...]
The ACC should raid Big XII, not Big East
With sources reporting that Oklahoma and Texas (along with Oklahoma State and Texas Tech) are in discussions to soon turn the Pac-12 into the Pac-16, it looks like the Big XII will soon become extinct. It’s hard to believe that one of the two original superconferences will become irrelevant sooner than the ACC or Big [...]
Evaluating ACC Expansion Part II: Measuring Success
To most of us, the ACC is inherent to our culture, and we’ve seen it go through exceptional changes over the past twenty years. Following is the second of a two-part discussion (Part I: Evolution) focusing on how college football, and the ACC in particular, has changed and how this recent evolution of college football [...]
Evaluating ACC Expansion Part I: Evolution
There is no question that the college football we all enjoy now is not the same college football we enjoyed as kids, evidenced primarily by the excessive number of bowls and the intense debate over the need for a playoff system. Personally, my favorite football season as an 11-year old kid was the ridiculous 1990: [...]