Pac-10 Expansion: Signs of Innovation or Panic?

Published on: 13th June, 2010

Since inviting Colorado, Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State to the PAC-10, new commissioner Larry Scott has been branded a visionary, a genius, and the quintessential “smartest guy in the room.” The other commissioners involved in the massive reshaping of the college athletics landscape have been hesitant ...

The Hard Numbers Behind the Pac-10’s Expansion Question

Published on: 15th February, 2010

What will be worth more to television executives: The Mormons or the city of Denver? Sometime in the next six months a sports marketing company or consultant in an expensive conference room will try to answer that question for the Pac-10. They will then have to decide to whom to issue invitations ...

Adding Boise State Solidifies the Mountain West’s Case for an Automatic BCS Bid

Published on: 10th December, 2009

After two years of a four-year evaluation period, the Mountain West is playing well enough to earn an automatic bid to BCS bowl games in two of the three evaluated categories. They are razor-close to passing the third hurdle on their own, but with the addition of Boise State to their ...

Vauge and Missunderstood Rules at the Heart of the BCS Problem

Published on: 8th July, 2009

The Senate's biggest BCS critic missed the heart of the problem in yesterday's BCS hearings. While asking about the fairness of the BCS, Senator Hatch was surprised to learn from the BCS' lawyer that they had already provided rules that allow non-automatic-bid conferences to become automatic bid conferences. Like the vast ...