The Goat Pen

Cinci above Philly?

and Oakland. Big choices there.

Oh yes, Flacco back to his ol' self. You can just look in that guy's eyes and see that not everything is right in the head.

I just wish Mexico was still alive to rub it in...

Didn't know this rule...

http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog ... ool-wp7579

It's one of the oldest rules in football. Very few do it now, though. I believe college dropped the rule 30 years ago. Pros and HS still have it.

"Here's my NFL Power Rankings (not even worried about waiting for tonight's game):"

Jaguar Hizzy would not be pleased at being shunned

Raven Hizzy was cocky and looking ahead

Again, where the hell was this Joe Flacco a couple of Sunday's ago? Goddamn him in the eyes.

doesn't matter

texan hizzy can make his playoff plans this year

sardis wrote:Didn't know this rule...

http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog ... ool-wp7579

Thats interesting, never heard of that before.

There was a rule about lining up in kick formations that allowed some smaller California schools to run crazy ass offenses and compete with the big boys a few years ago. I think the high school athletic associations put a clamp down on that after a couple of years ago, but it made for some entertaining offenses for a couple of years.

Reports that WVU will leave for Big 12 once Mizzou goes to SEC... but I thought it was basically too late for Mizzou to leave for the SEC for next year?

They recently said it wasn't too late. Conflicting stories abound.

(also, nice post, Mook. Well done.)

Is their "source" the Cincy Enquirer where I saw it mentioned earlier today... or The Goat Pen?

The last 5 big east football teams should just extort the shit out of them to get out of the 27 month waiting period early. If they could split a huge pot from those 3 amongst 5... UC might be able to give a couple of Olympic level athletes a partial track scholarship!

I guess the expansion plan for the BEast would pretty much be the same, except to add a little more pressure to Villanova to go up to D1A ASAP.

Or I suppose Temple or Memphis might get another look, but I doubt it. It seems that is just anathema to the rest of the Big East.

Theres a ridiculous rumor also going around (Chip Brown orangebloods.com, my god it must be true!) that ND will move all their non-football sports to the big 12, which makes a whole hell of a lot of sense. ND is going to fly all their other teams to Big 12 country, when their other option is to just stay with DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, St John's, Nova, and Seton Hall and not worry about football. Its fucking ridiculous. The only reason ND leaves the Big East is to take football with them.

Well, losing WVU, Syracuse, and Pitt on your basketball schedule and trading them for Houston, SMU, and UCF can't be too exciting. But yeah, I'd think the teams that are in for basketball only, plus UC and UL would still be a better batch than the Big 12.

Plus, is the Big 12 going to let them rape them on bowl deals like the big east did? Or do they figure that Big East football will just let them go on fucking them with the hope that Champ Sports/ Sun level bowls won't give them access without the chance to get Notre Dame once every 4 years?

The Big East would be comparable to the Big 12 in basketball either way I would think. TCU is a weak link being added to what was a strong conference top to bottom.

Perhaps its just bias, but I think Big 12 basketball success (outside of Kansas, etc.) lately is an anomaly and not a permanent state.

Some talk that the Big 12 intends to further expand back to 12 after another a year by adding Louisville and Cincinnati.

If the football side keeps revolving in shittier and shittier basketball programs, one would think the basketball only schools would want to split away from the remainder football schools (USF, UCF, Houston, SMU, and probably something like ECU and Temple added to replace UC and UL). So, how do they manage to do that and keep the Big East name (which they would have had for much longer than UCF, Houston, etc.) and Madison Square Gardens tourney?

I mean I guess keeping the tourney would be easy enough, MSG isn't going to want to host the UCF and ECU conference... but what if they can't keep ahold of the Big East name?

I guess the basketball schools would just have to pay them for the name, but still.

Translation: 2016 ACC Tournament in MSG