Pac-12 Expansion & Realignment
Feb 19th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Editorial, Featured News, Pac-12 Expansion & Realignment
Earlier in the week we learned that the Pac-10 might consider expansion as part of their quest to start a TV network or get a better deal. A report out of Salt Lake city says that Utah will be invited to the Pac-10 sooner than later. This might happen. I’ve read and gotten my own [...]
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Feb 9th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, Pac-12 Expansion & Realignment
ABC 4 Sports in Salt Lake City is reporting that Utah will be invited to the Pac-10. The article has very little substance, but does cover what we’ve heard for about a year now…that Utah and Colorado will be invited to be the 11th and 12th members of the Pac-10. Utah would certainly accept but [...]
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Feb 8th, 2010 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: College Sports Television News, Featured News, NCAA News, Pac-12 Expansion & Realignment
Intriguing move by the Pac-10 in hiring Kevin Weiberg as COO. If Pac-10 expansion is to happen, Weiberg is an excellent person to have around. He was the Big 12 commissioner from 1998 – 2007. He then left to become an executive for the Big Ten Network which has become the goal of all other [...]
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Sep 23rd, 2009 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, Pac-12 Expansion & Realignment
Since the 2000 season, the Pac-10 has the best record in games against the other Bowl Championship Series conferences (81-62, a .566 winning percentage). The Pac-10 also has a .500-or-better record during this period against each of the other five major conferences. The SEC ranks second among the six BCS conferences with a .528 mark, [...]
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Aug 28th, 2009 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: BCS News, Featured News, Pac-12 Expansion & Realignment
The Valero Alamo Bowl has announced an agreement to bring in the No. 2 team from the Pac-10 starting with the 2010 season. The four-season deal will pay the Pac-10 at least $3 million per year to move from its current agreement with the Holiday Bowl in San Diego. “The Pacific-10 Conference is very excited [...]
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Apr 24th, 2009 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: College Sports School News, Featured News, Pac-12 Expansion & Realignment
There was been some recent rumblings about Washington St. potentially being booted from the Pac 10. It might seem odd based on their solid success in football and basketball over the past decade or so. But it all comes down to money. And the Washington St. athletic department says they don’t have enough. WSU Athletic [...]
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Mar 24th, 2009 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, Pac-12 Expansion & Realignment
Larry Scott, chairman and CEO of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), will be the next Pac-10 commissioner, replacing the retiring Tom Hansen on July 1, the conference announced Tuesday. Scott started with the WTA in 2003 and helped transform the tour, including engineering the largest-ever sponsorship deal in women’s sports, a six-year, $88-million title contract [...]
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Mar 2nd, 2009 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, Pac-12 Expansion & Realignment
The Pac-10 Conference’s search for a new commissioner has moved into its final stage with at least three executives on a short list of candidates. The NCAA’s Greg Shaheen was an early target to replace outgoing Commissioner Tom Hansen, but Shaheen turned down an offer from the conference in January, according to numerous sources. Now [...]
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Sep 12th, 2006 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: Featured News, Pac-12 Expansion & Realignment
The UCLA Daily Bruin recently ran an editorial that I thought might be worth review. There are a few inaccurate facts, such as the writer mentioning the Pac-10 and Big Ten as the “only two BCS conferences to award a conference title based solely on the regular season”. Seems that he forgot about the Big [...]
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Dec 5th, 2005 |
By Matt Peloquin |
Category: BCS News, BCS vs Playoffs, Featured News, Pac-12 Expansion & Realignment
Help Wanted: Premiere college conference, home of 2-time National Champion USC, needs someone to manage its conference image, national awareness, and help push for a second team’s inclusion in the BCS. On December 1st, we looked at the BCS and the PAC-10, focusing on how Oregon would likely be passed over by the BCS. Well, [...]
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