According to some reports, Missouri, which recently granted chancellor Brady Deaton the authority to make decisions regarding conference realignment, may announce a move from the Big XII to the SEC as soon as today. That move would be the next major shift in college athletics and the ripple effect on other conferences could reach...
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“Throw the ‘V’!” sounds like something you might hear in the student section of the Pavilion on a Villanova game day. It is also the slogan being used by University of Idaho athletics department marketers to try and promote their teams and generate fan interest, engagement and excitement. “This is about Vandals connecting with...
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When I was asked last week whether I thought the Big East would survive this period of conference expansion, I answered, “flip a coin, and if it lands on it’s side, the league survives.” The fact is that the league will survive in some form, but as a conference with a BCS automatic qualifier?...
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Every so often the St. John’s blogger over at Rumble In the Garden (formerly East Coast Bias) has put together some excellent “roundtable” posts, involving bloggers who cover the various Big East basketball schools. The past week has been one of those times, and now that all five posts are up on his site,...
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The Big East presidents were not supposed to meet until November, but in a time of conference crisis, plans have to be changed. Now, the Presidents will assemble this weekend, on Sunday, to discuss issues related to repairing the conference in the face of the loss of two longstanding members. According to a source,...
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Dan Beebe was fired and new Big XII commissioner Chuck Neinas is taking over that conference with a mission to rebuild their ranks and create stability for the future in the wake of Texas A&M’s move to the SEC. Initial thoughts were that Neinas would try to sit down with Aggies officials before their...
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The NBA’s labor dispute has replaced preseason exhibitions and training camps with summer Pro-Am leagues and street-ball-style exhibition games. One of those took place last night at the Palestra where Villanova alumnus and Philadelphia native, Kyle Lowry scored 34 points to lead Team Philly (comprised of former-college and current professional stars from the area)...
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The Big East needs leadership, foresight, and maybe some creativity to survive expansion apocalypse. They needed those things months ago, when the conference was hoping to be on the prowl itself. Now the whole thing is on the verge of collapse. Some in the league opposed Marinatto being hired in the first place. It...
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In what has thus-far been one of the busiest times for conference expansion news, Tuesday night was a whirlwind of new information however. The Big East football schools met to discuss their future at a hotel in New York City. It was a meeting that Villanova administrators hoped to be able to attend, but...
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Update (1:04pm): Maybe we were hasty in pushing this out there? Mike Jensen issued the following tweet, “My quote was from earlier in week when the Big12 was falling apart. A lot changed.” Signaling that, perhaps, a quote from Terry Toohey at the DelcoTimes was more accurate on Villanova’s current position. His source in...
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