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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Sep
19
Conferencepocalypse: Calm before the storm
Things fall apart, the center cannot hold / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. — W.B. Yeats Yeah, it’s like this, only a thousand times worse. To all of you who stumbled here after reading my column in the … Continue reading
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Sep
18
Conferencepocalypse II: Calling in Congress
Buzz: This is not the time to panic. Woody: This is the perfect time to panic! — Toy Story Pete Thamel of the New York Times talked to a representative “from a state with a university potentially negatively impacted,” who … Continue reading
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Sep
18
Conferencepocalypse II: A building panic
So to all of you out there dreaming up the next big conference shakeup … do yourself a favor and take a couple of deep breaths. The seas of change have calmed for the foreseeable future, which is probably for … Continue reading
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Sep
17
Conferencepocalypse II: The ACC-Big East subwar begins
Big East: “Are you frightened?” Big 12: “Yes.” Big East: “Not nearly frightened enough. I know what hunts you.” — Brendan Loy, one of the few other people nerdy enough to mix “Lord of the Rings” and college sports ESPN … Continue reading
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Sep
17
Conferencepocalypse II: Is Monday doomsday?
Tick…tick…tick… The University of Texas Board of Regents – each university has a separate board in that state – has hastily put up a “special called telephone meeting” (PDF) that, coincidentally or not, will happen approximately two hours after the … Continue reading
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Sep
16
Conferencepocalypse II: The Guns of September
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 … Continue reading
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Sep
15
Agenda Item 28: Conference Alignment
In every boat all eyes were glued on the Titanic. Her tall masts, the four big funnels stood out sharp and black in the clear blue night. The bright promenade decks, the long rows of portholes all blazed with light. … Continue reading
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Sep
15
Five-oh-six-uh-oh
The Des Moines Register: Four mail processing centers in Iowa are among 252 in the nation that are being studied for closure, according to a letter from the United States Postal Service to union leaders. … Under study is moving … Continue reading
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Sep
15
Recently built post offices on The List
I went on a trip to southern Iowa Tuesday in an attempt to clear my head from all of the conference talk and in search of something about as random and uncertain: Iowa post offices targeted for closure. One of … Continue reading
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Sep
14
Floodwaters drained off I-29
That’s the good news. The bad news is that it’s going to be a long time before the flooded sections resemble a road again. Consider that the south I-29/680 interchange looked like this a month ago. The DOT has extensive … Continue reading
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