The PAC 10 expansion groundswell

[myboynoah]

Interesting vote over on ESPN.com:

ESPN.com Poll Results by State

Kansas and New Hampshire are the only strong hold outs. The Dakotas and Rhode Island are toss ups. The Nebraska voting is telling.

[LA Ute]

I will, LA Ute. I'll let you live in your dream world. Romney in 2012!!!!

Be quiet. I am on my way right now to the Carly Fiorina victory party. Now and then a candidate I support actually wins.

[LiveCoug]

http://twitter.com/KyleRingo

[myboynoah]

Adam Munsterteiger of colorado.rivals.com reports that everything he has heard leads to Colorado having received an invitation.

http://kznx-am.tritondigitalmedia.co...sterteiger.mp3

He also says from what he's hearing, if Baylor gets and invite, it will come at the expense of OK State.

[myboynoah]

Meeting ends, no invitation on the table.

No announcement pending from CU on conference realignment

DENVER -- The CU Board of Regents ended its closed-door meeting Tuesday and Ken McConnellogue, spokesman for the university, said there was no offer on the table from the Pac-10 Conference and that no announcement from the school is on tap.

A report surfaced Tuesday afternoon that the Pac-10 had extended an invitation to CU and the school would have an announcement shortly.

McConnellogue did say fans can be assured that the board and CU administrators are engaged in looking out for the school's best interests in relation to conference expansion.

The regents met behind closed doors with attorneys to discuss the school's options in regards to conference expansion and realignment.

CU athletic director Mike Bohn and Chancellor Phil DiStefano had no comment as they left the meeting.

[shoganai]

He was talking about how everyone is talking football, but they haven't yet looked at all of the other non revenue generating sports which nearly all are. He also was talking about Nebraska and Missouri to the Big 10 making zero sense because of the Big 10 Network's money structure. They get, I think, $.88 for every subscriber in the 8 states within the Big 10 now. Outside of that $0.05. And that isn't going to change should these two teams come into the league.

The teams involved in these discussions have done the math. There are a lot of consultants and experts on payrolls right now. It might not make sense from the outside, but the people calling the shots know what they're doing and they definitely know what the projected finances are.

[Viking]

Sometimes I wish I could be in the room when SU reads these types of posts.

he didn't bite. too obvious a troll. LA Ute saw right through it, as well.

[Top Ute]

Darren Rovell was on the local radio station here today discussing expansion and he it was his opinion that the only two things likely to happen are the Big 10 adding a team, most likely ND. And that the Pac-10 may go to 12. He said the superconferences will never work because they aren't sustainable. He was talking about how everyone is talking football, but they haven't yet looked at all of the other non revenue generating sports which nearly all are. He also was talking about Nebraska and Missouri to the Big 10 making zero sense because of the Big 10 Network's money structure. They get, I think, $.88 for every subscriber in the 8 states within the Big 10 now. Outside of that $0.05. And that isn't going to change should these two teams come into the league.

There's some bad info there. You can bet that with each state/team/new market the BTN gets through expansion, that those pay rates jump from a nickel to the current 88 cents as those areas move from having the BTN on a pay tier to basic cable. That's why Rutgers was the most appealing option early, but why Notre Dame is in the mix now, because the BTN would almost certainly wrangle inclusion on most basic cable packages nationally.

With more alumni in this country than any other conference (a guess, but given the undergrad enrollment numbers of some of these schools, I can't imagine which conference could have more), I don't think the BTN on basic cable is a tough sell, especially in NYC, Boston, Phoenix, Miami and Los Angeles.

[Uncle Ted]

Meeting ends, no invitation on the table.

No announcement pending from CU on conference realignment

I suspect this meeting may have been about this instead:

Orangebloods.com: Colorado expected to get bad news from NCAA APR Wednesday: football and basketball both stand to lose scholarships.

[...]

Colorado will be only BCS fball program to get NCAA APR sanctions Wednesday and one of only 2 BCS hoops programs to get sanctioned.

Not good timing for CU.

[myboynoah]

I suspect this meeting may have been about this instead:



Not good timing for CU.

That could explain rumors of an announcement on Wednesday.

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

New rumor. Baylor in, OK St out.

Uncle Phil doesn't want a potential rival as biggest donor.

Mike Gundy is gonna have to act like a man when he finds out about this.

[Lost Student]

I realize Orangebloods doesn't have much of a staff, but if Chip Brown really wants to be collge football's Bob Woodward, he needs to learn how to spell linchpin, the difference between affect and effect, when to use a question mark, and about complete sentences. How embarrassing for a university of Texas' academic stature.

Most of these areticles is stupid and don't say anything really. This one is a prime example. It's even internally inconsistent. What's the Statesman.com?

Totally.

[BoylenOver]

Nebraska to the Big Ten as early as Friday:

http://omaha.com/article/20100608/NE...arly-as-friday

[myboynoah]

It looks like it will be Nebraska that puts the knife to the Big 12.

[Hot Lunch]

I am amazed at all the articles being written about this. You think you might have an understanding about something that is taking place and then all of sudden new information comes out and you have no idea who or what to believe.