The Goat Pen

Got them all right. Bet you didn't.

Correct. I took it a couple of weeks ago. I think I was in like 60-70% range.

I like the George Dubya pic

I'm going to contribute something as soon as I have something worth writing about

There needs to be a tie-breaker on the comments.

I forgot to read your entry last night, aggy. For whatever reason, I can't view the blog posts here at work without the formatting being obliterated. In other words, nothing would make sense. Gibberish.

::Cue Rat's, "It's all gibberish anyway."

Marv Lewis: Carson quit towards the end of last season.

http://americaspeaksink.com/2011/10/dal ... lmer-quit/

Just when you thought it couldn't get more dominant...

http://nflcommunications.com/2011/10/26 ... -the-week/

http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketb ... 13-tourney

If Floater wasn't dead, he'd be furious.

Also, with voluntary payments and extensions of scholarships to 4yr, the NCAA is helping the big schools monopolize college athletics here. Awesome.

WVU to the Big 12. Havent seen a timeline. The web service for the SEC also "mistakenly" posted a "Missouri will join the SEC as full member on July 1, 2012" news realease on their website. Dunno if it was just posted early, or if it was a hack/prank.

WVU supposedly will begin Big 12 play next season, so it would seem that the SEC will get to 14 for next year as well.

It's like a big flacid phallus lazily laying across the buttcheek that is the SEC.

brilliant.

So how does the money get split for the defections? Between TCU, WVU, Syracuse, and Pitt, that is 20 mill to divy up. Do the football and basketball schools split it evenly, or do the football schools get extra?

ND should get their check given to them in the middle of a shit sandwich since they could have stopped the defections from ever happening to begin with.

If there is any truth to the idea that UL and UC could get invited to the Big 12 after another year, I guess we'll find out when the final votes occur to up the buyout to 20 mil. No way UC votes for that if they think they have a really good shot at leaving in a year. They can't afford it.

I think WVU owes 10 million.

In honor of yet another Big East conference change...

a history of conferences UC has been in for football and the (current) D1A teams that they played with in those conferences:

Independent (1885-1910)

Ohio Athletic Conference (1911-1927): Ohio State, Miami (OH), Ohio, and Akron.

Buckey Intercollegiate Athletic Asscociation (1928-1937): Miami (OH) and Ohio. UC won the conference championship twice.

Independent (1938-1946)

Mid-American Conference (1947-1952): Miami (OH), Ohio, Western Michigan, Kent St., Toledo, Bowling Green. UC won the conference championship four times. Played in the '47 Sun Bowl, '49 Glass Bowl, and '51 Sun Bowl.

Independent (1953-1956)

Missouri Valley Conference (1957-1969): Houston, Tulsa, North Texas, Louisville, and Memphis. UC won the conference championship twice.

Independent (1970-1995)

C-USA (1996-2004): Southern Mississippi, Houston, Louisville, Memphis, Tulane, East Carolina, Army, UAB, TCU, USF. UC was co-champion once. Played in the '97 Humanitarian Bowl, '00 Motor City Bowl, '01 Motor City Bowl, '02 New Orleans Bowl, and '04 Fort Worth Bowl.

Big East (2005-current): WVU, Louisville, Pitt, USF, Rutgers, UConn, Syracuse. UC has won the conference championship twice so far. '07 International Bowl, '07 PapaJohns.com Bowl, '09 Orange Bowl, and '10 Sugar Bowl.

BTW... with the NCAA's latest reforms meaning more otherwise bowl eligible (record wise) teams will be ineligible for post season play (academics wise), that means we will start seeing schools with sub .500 records getting exemptions to fill empty bowl game slots.

That's just... special.

UC is still a stepping stone school. They are getting stepped on once again.