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Mountain West Lurking Quietly, Like A Ninja In Slippers
The Mountain West is adding Boise State - which doesn't have anything to do with the Big 12 shakeout, but will have a lot to do with it once the BCS is urged to reassess its at large and automatic qualifiers in 2011 by the bowl games and playa conferences (and there will be only three: the Pac...
Greg Davis draws his other colt
Football: There is an informative interview on the ESPN Big 12 blog with Greg Davis where you can find a few nuggets that seem to point towards what I already expected from his offense in it's next form. We’re going to go back under center with the quarterback some more. We played the last two...
Fifth Third Arena A Problem and an Opportunity For Cincinnati Bearcats
Follow Down The Drive on Facebook/twitter and check out the store. When Whit Babcock came to the University of Cincinnati he quickly discovered the two things that have been on Bearcat Nations collective mind for a least a decade. One is Nippert Stadium venerable, charming, hostile and...
Conference Realignment; What Do You Think?
Ok Miner Rushers, we want to hear your opinion. Conference expansion has gone every which way over the last few days, but has seemed to settle down now as the PAC-12 will likely not expand to 16 in this current round of realignment. WHAT WE KNOW: While much is still up in the air, this much is...
TEN MORE Teams Want to Join the ACC: Who are they?
According to ACC Commissioner John Swofford after Pittsburgh and Syracuse joined the ACC the number of schools left that still wanted to join the ACC totaled in double digits. Let's take the lowest double digit we can think of and pin down after the jump who these other 10 teams are. In...
ACC Expansion
The ACC made it official this morning that Pitt and Syracuse will be joining the ACC. You can read the story here. This is the beginnings of what I predicted two weeks ago. It looks like the ACC will be mining the Big East for two more members in the coming weeks. The Kansas newspapers are...
Ch-ch-changes!
Earlier today, I mentioned the new addition to Cagan Stadium that gives it an extra 400 seats as well as a press box. Well, here's what it looks like: Click to enbiggen! This picture was taken just to the left of the big Oak tree at the entrance to Cagan Stadium, about five yards to the left of...
Texas A&M to SEC? Roaring expansion tidal wave imminent?
If a report from the Texas A&M rivals affiliate is to be believed, Division I athletics is on the brink of a massive tidal wave steaming ahead for conference coasts. Thursday evening, Aggieyell.com reported that Texas A&M is on its way to the SEC, pending approval by Board of Regents at an...
Expansion Talk: Everything's Bigger in Texas
The Big Ten caused minor tremors around NCAA Division I conferences in December 2009 when announcing it was doing the waltz with prospective conference expansion. Within several months , however, it was the University of Texas doing the Texas two-step with the Pac-10 that had created a full-blown...
Where's His Head At? Examining Baseball's Proposed Postseason Expansion
You can take it to your bail bondsman right now: The next "modernization" step will be two wild-card teams and another round of playoffs, then more wild cards until the Indians, Mariners, Marlins and Rockies will be the only teams sitting at home. --Dave Van Dyck, Baseball Digest, June 1993...
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