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Adding post-season bowl game with SEC a brilliant move by Big XII
This time last season, college football fans and media were writing off the Big XII conference as all but dead and gone. In just two years, the conference lost four schools to other conferences; the Nebraska Cornhuskers ran off to the Big 10 and the Colorado Buffaloes, perhaps afraid of being left out, left for [...]
TweetTexas Longhorn Football Stars Arrested in Austin
Most college football fans just want to get through an off-season without hearing about players from their teams getting into trouble with the law. Unfortunately for The University of Texas, three of their star football players were arrested early Monday morning in an incident that should not have been a big deal, but for whatever [...]
TweetBig 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby Meets His Makers
New Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby answered the tough questions during his introductory press conference, like whether he was in the bag for Texas. As long as DeLoss Dodds is the athletic director in Austin and the Longhorns continue printing money, there’s always going to be whispers about who runs the show. All the former [...]
TweetTexas Tech Looks To Join Texas, Oklahoma With Television Network
If a Big 12 member school wants to keep up these days, then your institution had better be researching the possibilities of a campus network. Texas and ESPN launched Longhorn Network last summer amid the riches of a $300 million contract and 17 people capable of viewing it. Oklahoma and Fox Sports agreed on a [...]
TweetBob Bowlsby Accepts Offer to Serve as Big XII’s New Commissioner
Earlier today, Rant Sports reported that the Big XII conference had extended an offer to the Stanford University athletic director, Bobby Bowlsby, to serve as the conference’s new commissioner. It has just been reported that Bowlsby has indeed accepted the offer. The Big XII has been looking to gain some stability after suffering a tumultuous [...]
TweetDeLoss Dodds Takes Aim At Big Ten, Pac 12 On College Football Playoff
DeLoss Dodds isn’t one to mince words and he’s had it with the Big Ten and Pac 12. The role the Rose Bowl will play in college football’s changing postseason appears to be a hindrance and one of America’s most powerful athletic directors is sick of the charade. The Texas AD spoke with USA Today [...]
TweetBig 12 Football Coaches in Bobby Petrino’s Situation
As the college football offseason plods on and most of the South waits for word on Bobby Petrino‘s replacement, it begs the question in Big 12 territory; how entrenched is each head coach? Nothing about the scandal in Fayetteville made me believe it would have cost Petrino his job had he not hired her. That [...]
TweetGarrett Gilbert Taking 27 Hours to Graduate from Texas in May
Former University of Texas quarterback Garrett Gilbert was faced with an interesting dilemma to finalize his transfer to Southern Methodist University and be able to play immediately this fall for the Mustangs, without having to sit out an entire season before doing so. Gilbert had to complete his degree at the end of a traditional [...]
TweetChris Petersen, His New Contract and the Details Should He Exit Boise
The Idaho Statesman obtained the breakdown of Chris Petersen‘s re-worked contract with Boise State. In a nutshell, he’s still incredibly underpaid but it appears the Broncos are at least attempting to allow themselves some notice should their head coach eventually leave. In terms of salary, Boise’s bargain totals a little over $11.7 million for five [...]
TweetDallas City Council Approves $25.5 Million Cotton Bowl Renovation
The Cotton Bowl Stadium at the Fair Park complex in Dallas, Texas is one of the most legendary venues in college football, if not all of collegiate sports. Home to the Cotton Bowl game– previously a New Year’s Day tradition, but pushed farther back recently thanks to the BCS– the stadium has been in dire [...]
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