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A Plus-One Playoff Is Unlikely

December 10, 2010   Brett McMurphy   No comments

NEW YORK – While Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany admits they’re losing the “PR war” with supporters for a college football playoff, Delany and the other automatic-qualifying BCS commissioners haven’t softened their stance against a playoff.

In fact, the automatic-qualifying BCS commissioners say they’re less likely now to be in favor of a “Plus One” model for fear that would ultimately lead to a full-blown, 16-team playoff.

“We’re not winning the PR war,” Delany said. “There are good arguments on the other side, (they’ve) adopted many more fans and more media than our argument, but we do have a great regular season, a great bowl season and the 1-2 (BCS title) game.

“But it’s not perfect. We don’t have an NFL style or college basketball style playoff. I get that people want it. I’m not looking to lead the parade, just looking to answer the question.”

Added NCAA president Mark Emmert about a college football playoff: “That’s not a train I’m driving.”

 

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Jim Delany Warns Non-AQ Leagues: Don’t Expect More Than You’re Getting

December 09, 2010   Brett McMurphy   No comments

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NEW YORK – Inside The W Hotel in Manhattan on Wednesday morning, they sat side-by-side on a platform. Five of the most powerful men in college athletics — the conference commissioners from the Big Ten, SEC, Pac-10, Big 12 and Big East. Also part of the panel was Western Athletic Conference commissioner Karl Benson.

Although Benson was seated with the group at IMG Intercollegiate Athletics Forum, it’s very obvious: Benson and his league are clearly viewed as an outsider by the big boys.

And college football’s behemoths — the automatic qualifying BCS conference commissioners — vow they’ll keep it that way.

They indicated that after providing the non-automatic qualifying leagues unprecedented financial reward and access to the BCS bowls in the past, enough is enough. They flat out said if those leagues try to get even more there could be dire consequences.

“Don’t push it past this because if you push it past this, the Big 12′s position is we’ll just go back to the old (bowl) system,” Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe told FanHouse. “You’re getting the ability to get to places you’ve never gotten before. We’ve Jerry-rigged the free market system to the benefit of those institutions and a lot are institutions that don’t even fill their stadiums.”

Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott had the same message.

“The six (BCS) conferences have bent over backwards and tried to be politically correct to their own detriment, probably further than they had to, maybe should have,” Scott told FanHouse.

However, it was Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany who wanted to make the automatic-qualifying BCS leagues’ point loud-and-crystal clear.

 

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Administrators Agree on Little but Unite on No Compensation for Student-Athletes

December 09, 2010   Terrance Harris   No comments

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NEW YORK – It’s interesting. You can put athletic administrators from across the country in the same building and they seem to disagree on just about every burning issue in intercollegiate athletics.

Conference realignment. A football playoff versus the bowl system. The number of years of eligibility a student-athlete should be allowed. How to ensure student-athletes graduate. You name it, there is a rarely a consensus in the room.

But when the subject of paying intercollegiate student-athletes as coaches contracts become bigger and television revenues reach once unimaginable levels, there is finally an agreement: That is never going to happen.

In fact, NCAA president Mark Emmert (right) set the tone of this week’s IMG Intercollegiate Athletics Forum when during his opening remarks he professed, “As long I am president of the NCAA, we will not pay student-athletes.”

That seemed to be the sentiment of all of the administrators who attended the forum that did not include student-athletes.

 

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Cal Addressed Fake Injury Issue, Suspended Defensive Line Coach

November 27, 2010   Michelle Smith   No comments

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Cal suspended defensive line coach Tosh Lupoi for Saturday’s season finale against Washington for instructing a player to fake an injury in the 15-13 loss to Oregon on Nov. 13.

The announcement came after the Bears lost 16-13 to Washington, a defeat that knocks Cal out of bowl contention for the first time since Jeff Tedford came to the program in 2002.

Athletic director Sandy Barbour addressed the media after the game.

“This is a young coach who made a mistake. We make mistakes in life a lot,” Barbour said, according to a report by the Associated Press. “He stood up and he accepted responsibility for it. The head coach accepted responsibility for it and I accepted responsibility for it. That’s what we do as educators.”

Tedford reportedly said after the game that Lupoi would remain on staff.

 

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Stanford Keeps Things From Changing Too Much in Pac-10

November 15, 2010   Michelle Smith   No comments

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In some ways, change is coming to the Pac-10 a year before Colorado and Utah join the league and new logo gets a quick facelift.

The big news to come out of media day was that the conference has changed the format for its postseason tournament. The women will play the final two rounds of the tournament at the Staples Center where the men’s tournament has been held the past two years. In previous years, the women’s tournament has been played in its entirety as a separate site from the men. Up until three years ago, it was played in a different city.

“The commitment I made when I came into the Pac-10 is that this just isn’t about football or men’s basketball,” said Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott. “Last year was the first tournament I saw, and while I understood the background of having the women in L.A., with the synergy and how it could benefit both (the men and women), the way it was structured, the women weren’t getting any benefit. I actually felt it had the opposite effect, the women looked worse by comparison.”

Putting the women in the same venue of the men hopefully will benefit the struggling women’s tournament, Scott said.

“I don’t think it’s going to be an overnight transformation,” Scott said. “The idea is to improve the student-athlete experience and to try to build as quality an event as possible.

“We have to evaluate everything.”

 

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In a Conference With New Ambition, Pac-10 Hopes for a Rebound

October 29, 2010   Jon Weinbach   No comments

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LOS ANGELES – It didn’t quite match the pomp, circumstance and celebrity of the conference’s cross-country road show for football, but the Pac-10 Conference’s media day for men’s basketball was yet another example of commissioner Larry Scott’s plan to burnish the league’s image. Instead of the usual staid event at an airport hotel, the league held its preseason hoops confab at the Nokia Theater in downtown Los Angeles, across the street from the Staples Center and in the heart of the L.A. Live complex owned by Anschutz Entertainment Group.

It was far more building than necessary for a fairly small gathering of West Coast basketball reporters, but the league’s message — from the slickly-produced opening video presentation, to Scott’s introductory remarks, to the huge conference logo sitting outside the theater’s front door — was clear: the new Pac-10, and soon to be Pac-12, plans to be a serious player in the sports marketplace.

“We are building a global brand,” said Scott, who took the helm last year after a six-year stint leading the Women’s Tennis Association.

In just over 12 months, he has already presided over the addition of Colorado and Utah, the creation of new divisions and a conference championship game for Pac-10 football and a landmark revenue-sharing agreement among the league’s member institutions that was finalized last week. The next big move could be the launch of a Pac-10 television network, as Scott will begin negotiations next year on new TV deals including football and basketball. (The existing media agreements expire in 2012). The league has “an ambitious plan to build a modern 12-team conference for the long term with increased value and competitive balance,” Scott said on Thursday.

 

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Pac-12 Divisions Revealed Along with Other Plans for New-Look League

October 21, 2010   Michelle Smith   No comments

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The blueprint for the Pac-12, which becomes an official entity next July 1, has been rolled out.

Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott revealed a series of significant moves for the expanded conference Thursday, following a morning vote of the conference’s CEO group, made up of the presidents and chancellors of the member institutions. Scott said he received unanimous support for the following initiatives:

o. The conference will be split into two divisions for football, the Pac-12 North and the Pac-12 South.

The member schools for the Pac-12 North will be Washington, Washington State, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford and Cal. The Pac-12 South will consist of USC, UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State and new members Utah and Colorado.

The divisional model preserves all traditional rivalries, and also assures that the California schools will continue to play one another every season. There will be no divisions in basketball or any other sport. In basketball, teams will play an 18-game schedule that will include home-and-home games with traditional rivals, six rotating home-and-home series and single-play games against the remaining four teams.

More Pac-12 Coverage: Starting to Feel Real for Utah

 

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Pac-10 Discusses Revenue Sharing, Division Alignment in San Francisco

October 06, 2010   Michelle Smith   No comments

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The Pac-10 isn’t done yet, but the Pac-12 is the topic of conversation in San Francisco this week.

Commissioner Larry Scott is setting the stage for the future of the new-look conference, meeting with athletic directors Wednesday and Thursday to hash out three big matters.

New members Utah and Colorado will be in on the discussions.

“This is a significant point in time for the conference,” Scott said Saturday. “These are big discussions that we are having, but I don’t expect any decisions to come out of the AD meeting.”

The first matter is conference divisions in football, and it’s a complicated and potentially contentious issue, with all of the schools in the conference looking to keep their yearly matchups with the Los Angeles and Bay Area schools because of recruiting interests, as well as their traditional rivalries.

Numerous models are on the table, including a North-South model, breaking the schools into pods, or a coastal/inland scenario. The conference is also looking at a “zipper model” that could keep traditional rivals playing one another every year in opposite divisions.

 

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Chip Kelly Reprimanded by Pac-10

October 04, 2010   Michelle Smith   No comments

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Chip KellyOregon coach Chip Kelly was publicly reprimanded by the Pac-10 Monday evening for comments he made at halftime of last Saturday’s game against Stanford about the officiating.

Kelly made the comments while doing an interview with ESPN’s Erin Andrews.

Andrews asked Kelly what he was “barking” at the officials during the closing moments of the half.

“I just want to know why they won’t come talk to us, I think (Stanford coach) Jim (Harbaugh) and him (the head referee) got friends. I don’t know I just want some explanation on some things,” Kelly said.

FanHouse Fab 40: Quack, Quack

 

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The Fighting Irish Matter, Because You Like Them … or Hate Them

October 01, 2010   John Walters   No comments

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Why do we care? Seriously. Why do we still care about Notre Dame football? Because we most definitely still do.

The Fighting Irish have lost three times this season. After every Irish defeat, each opponent (Michigan, Michigan State and Stanford, respectively) either made its debut or made a jump in both polls.

The Irish have three losing Saturdays in a row. Heck, they’re within a Hawaii Bowl of having three consecutive non-winning seasons.

And yet we still care. You still care. Yeah, you, the guy who will write “Who cares about Notre Dame? OVERRATED!” in the comments section below. And you, the one who will write “I hate Charlie Weiss.” You care. You may despise Notre Dame, but you don’t ignore it. You can’t ignore it.

 

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