non--conference-scheduling Stories - The 7th Floor
Go West, Young Hawkeye: Big Ten And Pac-12 Enter Into Scheduling Agreement
The Big Ten and Pac-12 have been playing footsie together for decades (and making out in public once a year in Pasadena), but they're about to increase of the profile of their relationship significantly: The Big Ten and Pacific-12 are extending their partnership well beyond the Rose Bowl,...
Wednesday Morning Dawg Bites: 76 Straight Wins Lead the Big Parade
In this, the season of mixing it up here at Dawg Sports, I am going to use this morning’s midweek edition of "Dawg Bites" to offer links of interest and personal observations I considered worthy of note. Think of them as truth bombs, and enjoy them with your morning cup of coffee as you get up to...
Conference Expansion, Contracts, and Commitments: The Problem of a Nine-Game SEC Schedule
We interrupt Hate Week (or, if you prefer, "Hate Week II: This Time, It’s Historical") to bring you this SEC expansion update. As you may have heard, the Missouri Tigers will be joining the SEC East in 2012, which poses the immediate problem of scheduling with seven-team divisions. Though Greg...
How to Implement an 18-Game SEC Basketball Schedule Without Doing Away with the Divisions
As noted here recently, change is in the air regarding SEC basketball scheduling, as the league is considering doing away with divisional play and adopting an 18-game conference slate. The primary purpose of doing away with the divisions in basketball is to avoid the incongruity caused by allowing...
Why the Georgia Bulldogs Can and Should Play the Clemson Tigers in the Georgia Dome to Open the 2015 College Football Season
As I noted earlier, I recently was interviewed by SB Nation’s Clemson Tigers weblog, Shakin’ the Southland. When asked about the possibility of a neutral site meeting between the Classic City Canines and the Fort Hill Felines in the Georgia Dome, I had this to say: Georgia’s new athletic director,...
ESPN's Ted Miller has the quote of the day
This really isn't ground breaking as many here have said the same thing but that it calls out the other leagues on World Wide Leader who have an obvious agenda is refreshing. Ted Miller hits this one out the park... Over at the Pac-10, we're grinning. We're about to point out the Pac-10 plays a...
Thursday College Football Game Night Open Comment Thread
It’s Thursday night, there’s high-flying point-scoring Big 12 conference action on ESPN, and we have plenty to discuss, from the release of the new BlogPoll to the release of the new SEC Power Poll to Big East expansion (seriously?) to the latest on Brian VanGorder to the latest on Odell Thurman...
Should Nebraska Schedule Colorado for a "Money Game"?
Earlier this week, Colorado agreed to a game next season at Ohio State in a one-game deal. Instead of making a return trip to Boulder, the Buckeyes will pay the cash-strapped Colorado athletic department $1.4 million. That deal made me stop and think for a while. Colorado athletic director Mike...
INPIYL2I: Cupcakes Won't Make You Fat, Right?
It's Not Plagiarism If You Link To It is BHGP's regular news roundup. Send all tips to any of the email addresses at the bottom of the page. But preferably not all of them at once. We usually end up laughing at people who do that. Cupcake overload in 3... 2... 1... The newly-redesigned Hawk...
Is Bill Snyder a coward? Or does he just know more about running a college football program than you?
It was inevitable that in the aftermath of last week's announcement that K-State and Oregon had mutually agreed to cancel their two-game series in 2011-12 that Bill Snyder's critics would crawl out from under their rocks about his scheduling practices. Never mind the fact that K-State paid nothing...
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