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[Hayter]

a usc player cheating??  NO WAY.  

how do they think they are going to get away with it with the testing they have nowadays?

brian cushing

[Juan23]

Of course he is the best cheating school

University of Stupid Cheaters  

[Bryon]

Cushing should be a man about this give back the award and apologise to his team mates.

[Derelict]

2011 BCS National Championship game will all come down to:

The Ohio State University
vs.
#1 team from the SEC
(alabama or University of Florida Gators).

You heard it here first.

[Kyle]

Boise St. vs. Alabama

[Derelict]

Boise State? Really?

The BCS will find a way to screw Boise State out of the national championship because they do not deserve to be there in the first place.

[EL GRANDE WHOPPO]

The Sweater will find a way to phuck things up for The Ohio State.

[Juan23]

OSU ???..haha

[Kyle]

OSU will lose against a lesser opponent like they did last year against Purdue. And an undefeated BSU>one loss OSU. And the SEC title game automatically eliminates a high ranking team from the conference. With no Bradford or McCoy, Big 12 won't have anyone.

[Shal]

Pac-10 needs to extend, they should think about bringing in Colorado.

[Kyle]

Real Shalongest, on 11 May 2010 - 03:04 PM, said:

Pac-10 needs to extend, they should think about bringing in Colorado.

They should bring in Boise St and one of the teams from Utah.

[Derelict]

PAC 10 The conference of chumps needs to expand, and have a PAC 10 championship game much like the Big XII and the mighty SEC. The PAC 10 will have to convince BYU and Colorado to join. They cannot simply ride the USC train... what if the Trojans get hit with sanctions similar to what SMU got slapped with? Lemme tell you, PAC 10 = Dunzo!

[Hayter]

lendale white gets waived by seattle and faces possible ban for violating substance abuse policy...  what school did he go to??

[Derelict]

What is the University of Southern California?

[Juan23]

Nebraska joins Big Ten

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP)—So long, Big 12. Nebraska’s membership in the Big Ten Conference is official.

The Big Ten’s board of presidents and chancellors unanimously welcomed Nebraska to the club on Friday, just a few hours after the school formally disclosed its interest. It takes effect July 1, 2011.

Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman said the move offers stability “that the Big 12 simply cannot offer.”

Nebraska is the Big Ten’s first addition since 1990, when Penn State joined, and it comes just six months after the league announced that it was looking at expansion.The move is a potentially crippling blow to the Big 12 and the biggest move yet in an offseason overhaul that will leave college sports looking much different by this time next year.

“We’ve had a couple disappointing days with the departure of two valued members,” Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe said during a teleconference.

Beebe vowed to work to keep the 10 remaining members together but acknowledged that other Big 12 schools are mulling their options.

Perlman said he believed Nebraska is much more “aligned” with the Big Ten than the Big 12 when it comes to academics, culture and athletics.

The university issued a statement that said for more than 20 years, Nebraska has compared itself to a list of 10 peer institutions established by the regents. Five of the 10 are Big Ten members; four are former Big Eight schools that joined Nebraska in the Big 12 in 1996.

“The University of Nebraska would have new opportunities with membership in the Big Ten—and I believe the Big Ten would be a stronger conference as well,” university president J.B. Milliken said.

Nebraska’s move comes at the end of a crazy week in college athletics.

On Thursday, fellow Big 12 member Colorado announced it was leaving for the Pac-10. Texas and other schools in the Big 12 South—Perlman told the regents that the Pac-10 had been in touch with many schools in that division—could be the next to leave. Texas regents scheduled a meeting for Tuesday to discuss the Longhorns’ future in the Big 12.

“One school leaving a conference does not destroy a conference,” Perlman said. “Nebraska did not start this discussion. After the Big Ten announced it planned to consider expansion, we saw reports that Missouri would want to go to the Big Ten, including a statement by their governor, a member of board of curators and chancellor—comments that weren’t clearly supportive of the Big 12.”

Athletic director Tom Osborne, the longtime football coach, agreed.

“As we read the tea leaves and listened to the conversations, some of the schools that were urging us to stay, we found some of them had talked to not only one other conference or two but even three, and those were the same ones urging us to stay,” he said.

To generations of Nebraska fans, going to the Big Ten at one time would have been unthinkable. The school’s athletic tradition is built on more than a century of football games against the likes of Missouri and Kansas, dating to the days the team was known as the Bugeaters.

The Huskers, in fact, have been conference partners with Iowa State, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Kansas State since 1928; with Colorado since 1948 and with Oklahoma State since 1960.

Now the Huskers are on the verge of taking their five national titles in football, three Heisman trophies and enthusiastic fans east. They will look to start building new traditions, like a border rivalry with the Iowa Hawkeyes and regular trips to Ohio State, Michigan and Penn State.

Watching a football camp at Beaver Stadium, Penn State coach Joe Paterno declined comment Friday. Paterno in the past has advocated for enlarging the Big Ten from 11 schools to 14.

“It’s just the tip of the iceberg right now,” Penn State receivers coach Mike McQueary said of Nebraska. “Unbelievable tradition, the things they’ve done in that program; academically as well.”

At Iowa State, a Big 12 school rarely mentioned in realignment discussions, officials sent an open letter to boosters expressing disappointment in the moves by Colorado and Nebraska.

“But as all of the discussions about conference realignment illustrate, the future of college athletics appears to be less about academics and competitive success and more about money, as measured by television viewership and the associated revenues,” the letter said.

Fatter paychecks will be coming to Nebraska, eventually. Nebraska received about $10 million from the Big 12 in 2009, half the $20 million received by Big Ten members (thanks largely to bigger television contracts and the in-house Big Ten Network).

The Big Ten told Perlman that no current member would receive a reduced share of revenue from the conference because of the addition of a new member. Perlman said Nebraska has been assured it would not receive less than it did in the Big 12, however, if it joins the Big Ten.

“This is not a financial windfall,” Osborne said.

Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany has said he wanted to add only members that would be considered “home runs.” The Huskers’ football team struggled in the early and mid 2000s but have returned to national prominence the past two seasons under coach Bo Pelini, an Ohio State alumnus.

As for the Big 12, it never was a comfortable fit for the Huskers.

When the league formed, Nebraska football was at its pinnacle, having won three national titles between 1994-97 and winning 60 of 63 games before Osborne retired as coach.

That success didn’t translate to juice when it came to influencing league policies.

Nebraska and the old Big Eight members, all of whom went to the Big 12, believed they were helping out Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Baylor when the old Southwest Conference collapsed.

The perception in Nebraska was that the Big 12’s balance of power was held by the South Division, particularly the University of Texas.

Nebraska from day one was against a championship game in football, for fear it could trip up a team bidding for a national title. But even issues ranging from academic admission standards to location of the league office (Dallas) chafed Nebraska.

When the league last week picked Cowboys Stadium to host the next three conference championship football games—after hosting the 2009 and 2010 games— Osborne complained that continual treks south are unfair to fans of the North representative.

And no one in Nebraska has forgotten the controversial outcome of last year’s conference title game. It looked like the Huskers had beaten the Longhorns 12-10 when the clock ran out, but one second was put back on, allowing Texas to kick the winning field goal. Pelini yelled outside the locker room that Texas was given the extra second so it could go to the BCS championship game.

“This is not about any type of vindictiveness,” Osborne said. “You don’t make a decision of this size based on where you’re going to play Big 12 championship games.”

[Juan23]

Boise St accepts invitation to join Mountain West

BOISE, Idaho (AP)—Boise State on Friday accepted an invitation to join the Mountain West Conference as the two-time Fiesta Bowl winner seeks out a league that’s a better launching pad into lucrative bowl games.

Boise State, now with the Western Athletic Conference, would become the Mountain West Conference’s 10th member. The move would be effective July 1, 2011.

“Boise State scored—big time,” Boise State president Bob Kustra said at a celebratory news conference.

The announcement was part of an ongoing conference shuffle nationwide, where leagues like the Pac-10 have lured Colorado and Nebraska is seeking membership in the Big Ten.As Boise State aims to secure a clearer path to Bowl Championship Series games worth millions, Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson said his league is boosting its strength by adding a football program that’s captured the nation’s imagination, and prime-time television exposure. The league’s main goal is to make a better case to become the seventh college football conference awarded an automatic BCS postseason berth.

“It’s my No. 1 goal, and I think I share it with members,” Thompson said during a conference call. “We are going to try to challenge, and try to position ourselves as the seventh automatic qualifying conference.”

In its two BCS bowl appearances so far, Boise State beat TCU, a Mountain West member, in the Fiesta Bowl in January and it scored an 43-42 overtime upset over Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl.

Boise State has also dominated the WAC, compiling a 49-4 record and winning three WAC titles in four years under Bronco coach Chris Petersen.

Thompson said Colorado’s Pac-10 jump on Thursday was the catalyst for the Mountain West to move quickly to grab Boise State.

He added there’s still discussion among Mountain West university presidents on whether the league should remain at 10 schools, or expand to 12 or even 16, to boost its BCS chances.

“This is a game of musical chairs,” Thompson said. “People want to have a seat when the music stops.”

He expects to readjust his conference’s television package with CBS Sports and Versus to reflect BSU’s inclusion starting in 2011. The conference is midway through a 10-year, $120 million deal with the networks and Boise State athletic director Gene Bleymaier said he expects all 17 of his school’s athletic disciplines to benefit.

For instance, 16 to 18 basketball games could be televised in 2011, compared to just a single game during the 2009-10 season, he said.

“Your reputation, your prestige, the growth of programs, how people perceive you—we take another step up,” Bleymaier said.

Karl Benson, the WAC commissioner and a former collegiate baseball player at Boise State, said he was disappointed in his alma mater’s departure but aimed to pick up the pieces and rebound.

“It’s not the first time a school has left the WAC and each time it has happened, a school or group of schools have stepped up and performed at a level that brings the WAC national credibility,” Benson said.

Kustra said the invitation, backed unanimously by Mountain West university presidents, shows Boise State has improved in both athletics and academic achievement, which he said is now on par with other schools in the conference. Another advantage for Boise State will be travel time. In the WAC, the team travels to Hawaii and Louisiana.

The Mountain West Conference is more concentrated. Boise State joins the Air Force Academy, Brigham Young, Colorado State, New Mexico, San Diego State, TCU, UNLV, Utah and Wyoming.

“I’m delighted we can offer our students-athletes, coaches and fans the very best competition with the most reasonable travel schedules,” Kustra said, declining to weigh in on whether he thinks the Mountain West should pursue further additions.

But Dan Hawkins, head coach at Boise State until jumping to Colorado in 2006, said he doesn’t think the Mountain West is done adding teams.

“We’ll see how that whole thing shakes out and what happens to other teams in the Big 12,” Hawkins said. “There might be some other teams from … the Sun Belt, the Big 12, or somebody melded in there to complete the roster.”

Thompson all but ruled out adding more teams from the WAC.

[Shal]

Real Shalongest, on 11 May 2010 - 03:04 PM, said:

Pac-10 needs to extend, they should think about bringing in Colorado.

Don`t mean to brag, but I called this one

[Kyle]

Looks like the BCS may have found it's reason to screw over Boise with Virginia Tech losing to James Madison.

[Mohican83]

NEWS ALERT

PAC 10 TEAM BEATS A SEC TEAM

AGAIN

[Bryon]

Mohican83, on 13 September 2010 - 08:35 AM, said:

NEWS ALERT

PAC 10 TEAM BEATS A SEC TEAM

AGAIN

I guess it's only hard to beat Tennessee at home if you are in the SEC.