The Rest of College Football

[entropy]

it would be better for Manziel to have one of those moments where he realizes he has a problem, admit his actions haven't been good and move forward. Right now, he doesn't think there is an issue... hence, it'll get worse and worse

[Tony G]

Unless he has that Aha moment, he has a good chance of letting further incidents drop his draft stock more.

[entropy]

more likely, something bigger will happen that he can't brush aside..

[Tony G]

WVU Player Commits Robbery In Team-Issued Sweatpants, Gets Arrested
When robbing someone, make sure your victim can't identify you by your football team number plastered on your pants.

West Virginia defensive lineman Korey Harris was arrested Friday for first-degree armed robbery that allegedly occurred in Morgantown on July 12. Harris and two other men broke into a home and held two victims at gunpoint. It presumably didn't take long to catch Harris, as one of the victims saw the number 96 on Harris's team-issued sweatpants and figured it out.

After the university was informed, Harris was dismissed from the Mountaineers.

[entropy]

Some opening lines..
NU -21.5 Wyo
Min -17 Unlv
mich st -24 w mich
wisc -45 mass
mich -26 c mich
osu -33.5 buff
iowa -6.5 n ill
pur +14 cin
nw -8.5 cal
psu -5 syr
ala -18 vir tech

[Hannibal]

I kind of like NIU, Purdue, and OSU with those lines. Not sure about the rest.

[entropy]

"We're 1-11 and picked by everybody to finish last in the league, and that's justifiable," Weis said. "If I were you, I'd pick us in the same spot. We've given you no evidence or no reason to be picked anywhere other than that."

However, perhaps his most interesting comment, which drew laughs across the conference room at the Omni Hotel in Dallas, was about how Weis' pitch to recruits who ask him about playing time.

"Have you looked at that pile of crap out there?" Weis said. "Have you taken a look at that? So if you don't think you can play here, where do you think you can play? It's a pretty simple approach."

[Dr. Strangelove]

The Big 5 conferences are going to break away from the NCAA or form their own division sometime in the next decade. Book it. Just for football probably. Slive, Swofford, and Bowlsby have ALL basically threatened the NCAA with this over the past week.

[WM Wolverine]

A new division for just football is easier to do. Basketball, the NCAA has control over the tournament and that could stop the major conferences breaking away from the mid majors.

[entropy]

2 hours ago ? By BRIAN CHRISTOPHERSON / Lincoln Journal Star



One of the main storylines in Chicago over the next two days will be what Jim Delany says, or doesn't say, about the possibility of the BCS conferences forming their own division and potentially separating from some of the "have nots" of college football.

"Have nots" is cruel and I hesitate to use it.

But in plain terms, that is what this discussion is about here: The "haves" and the "have nots," and whether it's time to part ways.

If you missed it yesterday, Big 12 commish Bob Bowlsby seemed to strongly suggest they should, stopping a breath short of flat out declaring it.

?We've made it too easy to get into Division I and too easy to stay there,? Bowlsby said. "Northern Iowa and Texas aren't much alike."

Here's a recap from Dennis Dodd of CBSSports.

Wrote Dodd: BCS leagues' frustration has crystallized lately around the stipend issue. The BCS schools favor paying players, but the legislation has been slowed by the concerns of smaller schools that can't afford such an expenditure.

The last time there was such upheaval in Division I football was 1978, when 250 or schools broke off from the highest level and became Division I-AA (currently FCS). To be clear, Bowlsby wasn't necessarily talking about breaking away from the NCAA, but basically forming a new division.

"It will surprise me if they [BCS conferences] don't get what they want," Karl Benson, the Sun Belt commissioner, told Dodd.

And if it happens?

"The other five conferences will have to decide at what level we can afford to participate in it," Benson added.

As far as the BCS conference commissioners are said, Bowlsby also said there seemed to be "unanimity" among them on the subject.

I'm sure there is, otherwise Bowlsby wouldn't have dared gone as far as he did.

My hunch is he was just warming up the microphone for Big Ten commish Jim Delany, who probably sits just behind the SEC's Mike Slive as far as powerful voices in college athletics go.

Watch it close when Delany takes the stand. How far will he go?

Sipple and I will keep updating the HuskerExtra site on that subject and everything Huskers when media days begins in Chicago tomorrow.





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[Wild Hoss]

“We've made it too easy to get into Division I and too easy to stay there,” Bowlsby said. "Northern Iowa and Texas aren't much alike."

This is exactly right IMO, although I do believe that separating by conference affiliation is a slippery slope to step onto. Today its Northern Iowa that can’t keep up, but as the scale increases over the years (And it will) it might become Iowa State or Northwestern. What then?

JMO, but if a new division is required its not at the top, but in between FBS and FCS.

[iam416]

JMO, but if a new division is required its not at the top, but in between FBS and FCS

Semantics, right? I mean, if there's a breakaway, it creates a new division in between FBS and FCS. Whatever the mechanism, the end result is 1A, 1B, 1C.

If it's any consolation, I think Nebraska would probably dominate 1B, though I would expect usurpers like Boston College, Northern Illinois, Louisiana Tech and Wazzu to push them every now and again.

[DennisT]

I'd like to see what they do with English futbol.

Say there's 100 teams to keep the math simple. Create 10 conferences of 10 teams each. Each team plays every other team in conference. Use computer rankings, poll results of some kind to put best ten teams in first conference, next ten in second one, and so on. At the end of every year, best two teams in each conference go up a conference and bottom two teams in each conference go down. Steady state, you'll have everybody playing at their peer level. Better competition. Big boys will sort to the top and small fry will settle to the bottom. NC would be playoffs of some kind in top conference.

Never happen though. Travel would be a problem. And the whining over traditional rivalries would be unbearable.

[Tony G]

I'd like to see what they do with English futbol.

Any post that wants to go more towards soccer is inherently flawed

[THE_WIZARD_]

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