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6/10/2010

Sports News Today

Filed under: Sports — DRJ @ 11:53 am



[Guest post by DRJ]

The USC sanctions are in. A 2-year bowl game ban and major scholarship reductions:

“The penalties come after a four-year investigation into allegations surrounding Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush and former basketball star O.J. Mayo. The Trojans will lose more than 20 scholarships in football.”

UCLA fans are happy. And Colorado fans are, too, but for a different reason. Colorado will join the Pac-10. The hidden message? I think this is Pac-10’s way of telling the Texas folks that Baylor isn’t welcome.

So once Nebraska bolts to the Big 10, the question becomes: Are the Texas schools willing to leave Baylor behind? If so, hello Pac-10. If not, the Chicago Tribune reports they may ask TCU to join the Big 12.

— DRJ

24 Responses to “Sports News Today”

  1. Huge slap for the University of Spoiled Children.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  2. it will be a minimum of 6 or 7 years for USC to overcome this. Colorado quickly challenges Washington for conference football championships in an over rated Pac whatever they decide to call it.

    BradnSA (3cbaf4)

  3. I like a Big 12 with TCU. I know money seems to be an issue, but that’s not important to me.

    Seems like everyone is coming out ahead here, including USC if they learn their lesson.

    Dustin (b54cdc)

  4. those guys never learn their lesson. the NCAA (used to be, anyway) is reactive, and schools only get hit when someone turns something in.

    This rarely happens so the odds are in favor of not getting caught.

    TCU is a bad choice for the Big 12. I can’t see the Pac 10 turning down all of the extra money the Texas schools would bring in. I can see them being afraid of losing all of the time to Texas schools and using Baylor as an excuse.

    BradnSA (3cbaf4)

  5. The loss of scholarships is a big deal, but USC is usually several Parade All-Americans deep at many positions. This will really test Lane right off the bat. I just wish that there was a way to punish the actual wrong-doers, as opposed to the teams that follow. I know they are trying to punish the institution, and I get the theories behind it, but the people that caused the problems are rarely the ones that bear the brunt of the punishment.

    JD (de02cc)

  6. Well, there goes Los Angeles’ last professional football team.

    AD - RtR/OS! (e78fff)

  7. The Texas schools won’t leave the Big 12. They’ll add TCU to the mix, certainly. TCU has shown themselves capable of playing with the big boys.

    If Nebraska leaves (stupid, but ok) then they’ll need one more team. I’d predict BSU or Utah.

    As far as the PAC-10, yeah, they picked one of the lamer schools of the 12, so I concur they’re going to make Texas an offer they can’t not refuse.

    The geography of it is pretty absurd, too. Most college teams don’t fly around in private jets. Going halfway across the country for a volleyball game isn’t cost effective. The layout of the existing P10 schools is such that they do two-fers — a team goes and plays oregon, then oregon state. and so forth.

    Colorado’s too far as it is, unless they grab up Utah or BYU as a twelfth team.

    IgotBupkis (79d71d)

  8. Presuming Nebraska leaves for the B10, and considering that Mizzou is getting cold feet on the idea of leaving the B12, I’m going to guess that the B12 will invite both TCU and Houston to come in to the conference.

    Thus inadvertently proving Tom Osborne’s point about Texas schools control of the B12.

    Brad S (9f6740)

  9. Comment by IgotBupkis — 6/10/2010 @ 12:54 pm

    Considering that there’s no way Utah will go into the Pac-10 without BYU (not if Orrin Hatch has anything to say about it), the Pac-10 may end up inviting CU’s little brother CSU in Fort Collins to join the conference.

    Brad S (9f6740)

  10. “This proves what I have always said, Bush is to blame for everything”
    Obama

    raugaj (affc90)

  11. My biggest problem with the “sanctions”, it punishes the kids who are currently playing, who did nothing wrong. Say were a freshman or sophomore backup this past year, and you finally get to start the next two years, you can’t play in a bowl game or for the national championship.

    Jeff (10ead9)

  12. Sanctions are an inherent risk which ever school you go to. Most of the kids at that level know exactly what is going on, and the ones not at that level find out as soon as they get there.

    BradnSA (3cbaf4)

  13. there is sports news today, aside from the concert?

    aphrael (e0cdc9)

  14. So now it’s the PAC-11? And, don’t underestimate the quality of any football team in the PAC (or any team in any sport, men’s or women’s).

    PAC-8, PAC-10, or now PAC-11 or -12 teams have a pretty darn good record in Bowl games against some exceptionally fine teams going back a long way. They don’t call the Rose Bowl “The Grandaddy of them All” for nothin’.

    ropelight (a3e072)

  15. Big 12 is about to go BOOM! and disintegrate. Please get back to the minimum safe distance.

    M. Scott Eiland (dcaa3e)

  16. lol at Ropelight. Other than USC, any good Pac10 lately gets owned by Tech in the Holiday bowl.

    BradnSA (4c9195)

  17. I want to hit people who bemoan the punishment of the current students at USC. HELLLLLOOOOOOOO!

    Every football player on the squad was aware of the investigation BEFORE he signed. They knew SC was tainted. Sure, there was a chance they would escape sanction, but the charges were quite serious from the beginning. Any one of those guys could have gone to other Pac 10 schools, or ND, or another bigtime program.

    Screw them. They still have the incredible advantage of an education and of having experienced an insanely rich institutional life.

    Ed from SFV (f0e1cb)

  18. The good news for CU is that they are now slightly more likely than USC to play in a bowl game the next two years.

    JVW (3d0547)

  19. And by the way, since this is a political site: Back in 2004 it was popular for left-wing students at USC to parade around in shirts that said “the only Bush I trust is Reggie.” Wonder how they feel about that now.

    JVW (3d0547)

  20. JVW:

    The good news for CU is that they are now slightly more likely than USC to play in a bowl game the next two years.

    I’d put the odds at dead even.

    DRJ (d43dcd)

  21. That’s mean.

    Its true … but its mean.

    SPQR (26be8b)

  22. At least the Colorado River eventually feeds into the Pacific Ocean. No river in Texas flows that way.

    either orr (58d2a4)

  23. And it appears to be true that USC players don’t come out hyper early because they’d have to take a pay cut.

    either orr (58d2a4)

  24. either orr, there was a time when I did not realize that the gorgeous Colorado river in Texas was different from the Colorado river you’re familiar with.

    I was public school educated, you see.

    Dustin (b54cdc)


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