MeanGreen61

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/archives/2010/06/catching-up-with-karl-benson-p.html

Who will be the winners and losers in conference games ? http://www.philsteele.com/polls/sunbelt.html?

Around 75% are saying NO THANKS to the WAC thus far.

Post by MonzanoWolf on the Belt board WAC, Reduced TV Dollars, FCS Expansion Candidates A good post by Yoda (Fresno State fan) on the WAC Board; another consideration is the fact that Boise and its BCS generated monies are now gone as well. Benson knows perfectly well that the (TV) contract will be rewritten. He has long ago given his Presidents an idea of what to expect in terms of reduced income from such a rewrite. And newsflash dude, if we added a new member, any of the commonly rumored candidates, we would still get hammered by ESPN. It is not any old school that we are losing. It is a school with a national reputation and one that draws a national television audience. There is no replacement that doesn't see us still get hammered. We could add BYU and we'd still get hammered. We could add TCU and still get hammered. We could steal Utah from the PAC and still get hammered. Get it? So why be desperate? Let's say that our television contract is cut to $2 mil. Well you can divide that by 8 or you can divide it by 9 -- because if you add Montana or whomever, at the end of the day, you are still only getting $2 mil. LA Tech would love to go to C-USA and the WAC would love to see them do so. We'd wish them the best. They are not a western school and the travel expenses have to be killing them. We understand that -- it kills us as well and each of us goes there far less often than they come here. I think most of the conference Presidents would like to see us lose LA Tech to C-USA and Hawai'i to who cares just to save the travel costs. We could back fill with any of the FCS schools commonly mentioned and come out ahead financially. You may not like that and you may desperately need to blame someone, but it is not Benson's fault. Here's another newsflash. If they are lucky, Fresno State and Nevada will end up in the MWC and LA Tech will end up in C-USA or the Sun Belt. Everyone else (and maybe those three schools as well) will either drop from FBS and/or will be aligned with Montana, Portland State, UC Davis, Sac State and Cal Poly as WAC members. That is what most of the Presidents aspire to. That is all they aspire to. That is why they are not proactive. They long to recreate the old Big West football conference and the only way to do that is by attrition. Face it jediwarrior, you've been skipped over and your best days are well behind you. And it's not Benson's fault.

http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/colleges/topstories/stories/061710dnspocarltonchat1.ae387322.html

http://eagletalk.net/2010/06/17/votes-required-for-admission-to-cusa-wac-and-mwc.aspx There is always talking about this school or that school keeping a certain school out of a certain conference. Can one school like Southern Methodist keep North Texas from becoming a member of Conference-USA? Could TCU keep North Texas out of the Mountain West Conference? Could LaTech keep North Texas out of the WAC? The answer is not really.

Jerry Jones would like Arkansas and Notre Dame to join the big XII. http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/colleges/topstories/stories/061710dnspojonesbig12.adcd1c73.html Dallas Cowboys owner and former University of Arkansas football player Jerry Jones has his own idea for Big 12 expansion. According to a report in the Lawrence Journal-World and News, that plan involves Arkansas and Notre Dame joining up in the Big 12.

TCU Frog post on the CUSA board. True ? False ? Definately interesting. If true, Jones is the type of guy that could make it happen. Arkansas Possible to the Big 12, C-USA possible for the SEC The BIG talk down here is the Jerry Jones and other Arkansas alumni and major donors are pushing for the Hogs to realign with UT and A&M. The new Big 12 could TV deal could potentially generate more revenue than the SEC and increase more with the addition of Arkansas. A school in the ACC, Big East, or even in Conference USA could be courted by the SEC according to the ticket. Which C-USA school fits more with the SEC?

http://www.clickorlando.com/knights/23927913/detail.html ORLANDO, Fla. -- Local 6 Sports Director David Pingalore is reporting that multiple college football sources have said that the University of Central Florida and Memphis could be invited to join the Big East conference as soon as next week.

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/archives/2010/06/time-for-the-annual-edition-of.html

Several sources and threads on the CUSA board say Memphis and uCF are being invited to the Big East. http://ncaabbs.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=439

http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1094753

I respect Arkstfans knowledge, however he is a little bias in favoring of the Sun Belt when posting his views.

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/archives/2010/06/a-little-of-this-and-that.html My take is still that UNT's chances improve with every move that happens

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-pac-10-utah

UNT gets plenty of discussion in this thread from the Scout Muts board. http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=349&f=2388&t=6044514

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704009804575308782794344398.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_6

I don't beleive that anyone here can say what is or what isn't being done by officials for the future of UNT. All of the really juicy stuff takes place behind closed doors.

I e-mail Vito questioning the ticket prices quoted by Rivals. This was his reply. The Rivals.com listing is based on the lowest possible price at each school. My guess is those would be Fouts endzone seats that cost $90.

%&$#@ they picked up on the Florida idiots piece. http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/23228/links-north-texas-looking-for-greener-pastures

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/archives/2010/06/some-baseball-talk.html

My ticket renewal prices for Section E were at $125.00 each

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid50822477001?bclid=1493222136&bctid=95757926001 "God Damn, let Nebraska go. They'll go over the to Big Ten, get their foot in the door, and they'll mash it for 'em. What's Nebraska got to offer? They got 700,000 households." "TCU's got a 35,000 seat stadium and they can't even fill it...what do they bring to you?"

http://weblogs.sun-sentinel.com/sports/college/fau/blog/2010/06/belt_could_lose_north_texas_an.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sun-sentinel%2Fsports%2Fcollege+(College+Sports+%7C+South+Florid​a+Sun-Sentinel)

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