May 19, 2013

College Football: Sports just need to be sports

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(PhatzRadio / SI) — At a party over the weekend, somebody asked me: Why does anybody still care about this stupid Manti Te’o story? I said something about how every story is a combination of important and interesting, and the Te’o story is a 0 on the Important scale, but on the Interesting scale, it’s [...]

College Football BSC Playoffs: College football playoff to have 6 games, not 7

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(PhatzRadio / SI) — The Big East will compete with four conferences that have not had BCS automatic-qualifying status for a guaranteed spot in the lucrative marquee bowl games when college football’s new postseason system starts in 2014 That group of five conferences just won’t have a bowl of its own. The conference commissioners decided [...]

College Football: Notre Dame wants to partner with Orange Bowl, ACC

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SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) – Notre Dame says it has had talks with the Atlantic Coast Conference about the Orange Bowl. The ACC signed a 12-year deal with the Orange Bowl last week that starts in 2014, when the postseason format changes to a four-team playoff. The deal gives ACC members access to Orange Bowl [...]

College administrators react to approval of playoff system

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(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — DALLAS – The news moved quickly: College football had its playoff. Half a continent away from the Washington, D.C., hotel meeting room in which university presidents and chancellors gave the four-team plan their blessing Tuesday, Gene Smith spoke to its significance. “It’s a watershed,” Ohio State’s athletics director said, “. [...]

College Football: Commissioners reach consensus on playoff featuring top four teams

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CHICAGO (AP) — The BCS commissioners are backing a playoff plan with the sites for the national semifinals rotating among the major bowl games and a selection committee picking the teams. The plan will be presented to university presidents next week for approval. Once the presidents sign off — and that seems likely — major [...]

College Football: BCS on verge of historic move to postseason playoff

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(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — Have they finally heard the drumbeats, or are they just now seeing the dollar signs? Those who govern major-college football are in the process of redefining the way a champion is determined this summer, with a four-team playoff likely coming our way in January 2015. That setup would end a [...]

College Football: BCS commissioners will present presidents multiple playoff options

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CHICAGO (AP) — The conference commissioners who have been working on a four-team playoff to determine college football’s national champion plan to present the BCS presidential oversight committee multiple formats from which to choose. Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said the university presidents will “have options – plural” to consider when they meet in two weeks. [...]

Source: Big East leaders discuss expansion options after TCU news

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NEW YORK (AP) — Big East leaders still aren’t sure which schools to invite to their troubled conference. University presidents and chancellors, along with athletic directors, held a conference call Friday with Big East Commissioner John Marinatto to discuss expansion and the expected loss of TCU. But those talks didn’t lead to any decisions. Two [...]

NCAA President Mark Emmert calls for caution

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(PhatzRadio / USA Today) — Careful, Mark Emmert says. “This is not about playing Monopoly and moving pieces around on the board,” the NCAA president said of the latest round of conference-hopping. “These are real institutions with real students and real coaches and real programs, and it’s much, much more complex than playing a simple [...]