BCS leagues expanding - yeah?

You know what, forget everything I wrote above. Five hours for the freaking NBA draft. What a disgrace.

 

how long should it be?

theres 60 picks and just the time for them is three and a half hours.

throw in analysis, trades and commercials and that seems reasonable

 

The Big 12 has autonomy as a Power 5 conference at the moment. The American does not. Given that, American members should want to join the Big 12, not the other way around, if there were to be a merger.

No reason for the Big 12 schools to join a lesser conference until Texas and Oklahoma have paid every dime the conference requires them to on their way out the door sooner than later, because they won’t wait until 2025.

Whether other schools (Kansas to the Big Ten? West Virginia to the ACC?) attempt follow Texas and Oklahoma out the door soon, we’ll see.

I keep seeing writers reference a bloc of Pac-12 schools, starting with USC and UCLA, plus Cal, Stanford, Oregon and Washington, as ideal candidates to make the Big Ten a national conference to rival the SEC. If that happened and the Arizona schools, Colorado, Utah, Oregon State and Washington State were suddenly in a weakened Pac-12, the Big 12 would seem like a perfectly reasonable home.

 

In overtime, you can have a receiver 10 yards downfield from the line of scrimmage. Everyone loves that rule in MLB!

 

Curious about NLI deals - I'm sure they are all different in some ways - but what impact will they have on either encouraging/discouraging players from entering the transfer portal? Could you get a kid to transfer to State U if you offered him enough cash to come. Could a deal be contingent on being the starting QB at say, Alabama?

 

I don’t think anyone’s bolting as things stand.
The two schools have historically had a good relationship as valuable Tobacco Road mafia outsiders who lead with football. It’s natural they’d link up like this to protect their shared interests.

 

ESPN hasn’t figured out that College Gameday is a two-hour turd at best stretched out into three in order to make the stench extra pungent and give everyone a little bit more wing in their wang wang or whatever the hell it is Big and Rich foghorn about. I doubt they’ll pick up on this. Plus, part of the reason the games take so long is all of the commercials networks like ESPN stuff in.

 

They should revamp the FIRST (fixed) hour and make it the G5 hour. Hour 2 is all the conferences but the SEC Hour 3 is the SEC, Clemson and Ohio State. And once Corso is done, have Herbstreit or Des do a seance like thing to peer into a crystal ball and then roll tape of Corso putting on whatever headgear they think will win the "big matchup." I have to think Corso's donned just about everything there is to wear. Though I always wondered what he'd do if he ever had to pick Stanford.



I'm truly surprised the National Arbor Day Council hasn't insisted on a mascot change.

 

The SEC Network has a College Gameday clone. No need for an SEC hour.

Texas, Oklahoma regents accept SEC invitation

This caught my eye:

The SEC plays at noon Eastern every week. Unless Texas and Oklahoma negotiated their way out of those games ...

 

I didn't know the NBA Draft was on until it had been going for about an hour. And I love the NBA Draft.
Is this the first time in history that baseball -- the trade deadline business -- got more attention than the NBA?

 

You don’t have faith that the SEC can move the Eastern time zone to just west of Austin?

 

If you play the 11 am Central game in the SEC, it usually means you suck or you are playing a body bag game.