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A Marshall fan responses to CalallenStang's post. My God, SMU has one decent year and all of the sudden you guys are Texas.

ESPN national football blog http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/22898/links-expansion-talk-dominates-non-aq-media

Who knows, but they would probably take their cue from SMU since they seem to be cozy bedfellows.

SMU is joined at the hip with Rice, Tulane and Tulsa. The "private block" has the votes.

http://wvgazette.com/Sports/Marshall/201006060504?page=2&build=cache Muts & Troy get mention. Post by CalallenStang on the CUSA board in article thread From what I've heard, SMU is moving unless CUSA adds some of the Big XII leftovers.

http://www.denverpost.com/colleges/ci_15236809 If you're constantly chasing the Longhorns' tail, the view never changes. And it stinks.

http://www.nola.com/tulane/index.ssf/2010/06/conference_realignment.html

Post by someone using the handle TodgeRodge on the Belt board. there will be no significant increase in athletics budget as the vast majority if not all of the athletics funding that is coming in from the new fee will be used to cover the debt service on the bonds that are being sold to cover the cost of the stadium at most UNT might see ~10% increase in available funds to run the program on and while a 10% increase in budget is nice it is really not significant especially when you are well down in the funding levels in conference and near the very bottom in all of D1-A there is not a game changing amount of funding coming in for UNT that will be available to do anything of significance with....there might be a million or two a year which in itself is a nice amount of money until you realize that UNT is millions and millions away from being even near the top of the Belt increases in revenue will have to come in the form of ticket sales, donations, TV money, and NCAA money for UNT to really have any significant increase in budget

Pac 10 ready to make move. Nebraska is the key http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1091537

http://www.newsok.com/is-nebraska-on-the-clock/article/3466077?custom_click=lead_story.title

http://www.minerrush.com/2010/6/5/1501588/trickle-down-effect-what-does-a

Post from the muts Rivals board. Sorry it's the poster that sez 8-4, but Steele does have us as #3 Yeah, I got mine in Granbury a couple of days ago. By far has the greatest and most accurate info/predictions. Actually have lindys, sporting news, and athlon as well. All pick us 1 or 2 and pick us for either the NO bowl or GMAC bowl. I felt the same as Steele did about UNT. Going to be extremely tough this year as they have dug themselves out of the basement with great recruiting. They will be able to run on anyone. Troy will likely be a little down, but still the most talented team in the belt. Until we beat them, I cannot pick us to do so. My prediction is 1. Troy (11-1) 2. Mtsu (10-2) 3. Unt (8-4) 4. Asu (7-5) 5-8 who cares... 9. Wku (0-12) it would be amazing if this happened and we ended up with 4 bowl eligible teams!

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/archives/2010/06/thoughts-on-conference-loyalty.html

http://www.dnj.com/article/20100604/BLUERAIDERS01/100604006/-1/UPDATES/BLOG++Should+Blue+Raiders+follow+Boise+State’s+lead

My humble opinion of College Football News

Double OUCH !

Iowa State release on realignment http://www.amestrib.com/articles/2010/06/04/ames_tribune/sports/doc4c0951e944459305138917.txt

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/archives/2010/06/ricks-new-deal.html

Big XII Commish news conference http://gazetteonline.com/blogs/docs-office/2010/06/04/quick-hits-from-big-12-commissioner-news-conference He said contingency plans are in place in case schools leave and said its a critical time period for the conference. Big 12 Chairman of the Board of Directors William Powers was supposed to accompany Beebe in the news conference but did not. Beebe said Powers had a plane to catch.

Expansion frenzy gets even crazier http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/22815/expansion-frenzy-gets-even-crazier Colorado athletic director Mike Bohn told the Boulder (Colo.) Daily Camera that his school and the other five are expecting overtures from the Pac-10. "The longer that we were together in Kansas City it appeared that that rumor or speculation did have some validity to it," Bohn told the newspaper. PAC 10 about to raid Big XII ? http://www.omaha.com/article/20100603/NEWS/306039776#barfknecht-pac-10-about-to-raid-the-big-12 The World-Herald learned Thursday evening of administrative discussion that the Pac-10 may have set a deadline of Sunday for Big 12 teams to accept. The Pac-10 spring meetings begin Friday in San Francisco.

FWIW a Bleacher Report article posted on the Belt board by Space Raider. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/401022-why-the-wac-should-consider-a-meaner-greener-future

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Arkstfan post from the Belt board. I think there will be a confirming article soon from a major writer. In the meantime there is this. Andy Staples is reporting that the SEC will meet on Friday to discuss expansion.

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