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Big 12 Can Still Salvage Itself

As the dominoes begin to fall in what appears to be the demise of the Big 12 conference, many are ready to pen the obituary of the once-mighty league. Sure, things seem to be coming apart at the seams and losing the conference's three traditional football powers (Texas, Oklahoma and Nebraska) in addition to staples...

Mike Slive On SEC Expansion: Contract Terms Matter

SANDESTIN, Fla. -- SEC commissioner Mike Slive might best be described as the counterpuncher to the Big Ten's Jim Delany in the growing fistfight over conference expansion. That's because, while Slive isn't going to be the first major conference commissioner to throw a punch -- that's likely to be Delany -- he intends to...

Eerily Familiar Feel at Big East Meetings

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. – Seven years ago, Notre Dame basketball coach Mike Brey arrived at the Big East spring meetings at the Ponte Vedra Inn and Club, a beautiful, sun-splashed resort located across the street from the Atlantic Ocean. Despite all the breath-taking surroundings, Brey said the setting was nothing...

College Football's Manifest Destination

The problem with college football is not that the Big Ten may expand, and it's not that such an expansion would catalyze a concatenation of seismic shifts across the landscape of the sport. No, the problem with college football is that within a greater framework in which all the conferences must operate, individual...

The Big East Could Use Another Team

One dilemma currently facing the Big East football conference is that it only has eight members. Which means that each team has seven conference games. And depending on the year, each team has either three or four home conference games. Given the 12 game schedule of college football, that means that Big East teams have to...