Continuing the WWI theme from an earlier post, because no one wants this to happen yet everyone is compelled to participate.
The people who cover college sports for a living, like this reporter from St. Louis, hate it:
Missouri and Arizona State were playing one of the best games in the country. And nobody cared. … I hit my breaking point.
Yahoo’s Dr. Saturday says history is repeating itself, and it’s not good:
Texas A&M is about to follow Arkansas in the opposite direction, setting the stage for a replay of the drawing-and-quartering of the old SWC. Only this time, it will [be] Baylor, Iowa State, Kansas and Kansas State left for the vultures, just like their discarded predecessors in the Lone Star State.
CBS’s Dennis Dodd looks at who’s doing the real moving and shaking – members of the various university board(s) of regents. Plus this:
It’s no longer about geographic or (puh-leaze) academic fits. You’re either a market or a brand. Nebraska is a brand. Georgia Tech, rumored to be a hot property, brings along the Atlanta market to some enterprising raider.
Southern California, Texas and Michigan are both. Woe to Baylor, Kansas State and Iowa State, which are neither. Good to know some university’s future is being decided by a media consultant analyzing its Q rating.
And no pressure tonight, guys, but Dodd also says Paul Rhoads “may be single-handedly holding the program at the BCS level.”
A Pitt blogger sends a Big East love note to Missouri, Kansas, and Kansas State, but he’s apparently still upset about the 2000 Insight.com Bowl:
P.S. Don’t tell Iowa State. I know we said last year that they could come too but Ames sounds about as exciting as watching Depaul play basketball.
Another columnist kicks Iowa State out of the BCS, this one in Georgia.