ValleyTiger

This is all about the money and that means football. The outcome will have more to do about a school's following than the current strength of their program.

The Texas schools left the old SWC back in the 80s over money. They left the small schools with small fan base behind (SMU, TCU, Houston and Rice). Ditto here (Iowa State, K State, Kansas, Baylor)

I do not see SEC picking up any of these leftovers(no offense to anyone).

SEC has no need to hurry but will start looking around. I expect they already have a list of schools and have already had discussions with several schools over interest. FSU, Clemson are obvious potential candidates. Nothing wrong with having 14 teams. Also, I would be surprised if we have heard the last of discussion of teams to PAC10.

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Athletic scholarships are given out primarily in the basis of physical skills just like academic scholarships are given out based on academic capability. Like the academic scholar, the athletic scholar who cannot keep up his end of the bargain runs the risk of losing his free ride.

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This is an excellent point. A scholar usually must maintain a 3.0 GPA and some cases better to keep their scholarship.

Also this is not exactly anything new. I have read several players over the years say their scholarship was pulled so as to be given to someone else. An example, Rob Bironas who kicks for the Titans has his scholarship pulled when Tuberville started at Auburn because Tuberville does not give kickers scholarships. Bironas had been the team's kicker He was not cut but no longer had a free ride. He transferred.


"Bironas attended Auburn University where he was a semi-finalist for the Lou Groza Award in 1998 after making 12 of 16 field goal attempts (including two successful 49-yard (45 m) tries with the four misses from 40+) and making all 18 PATs for a team-high 54 points. The following season, new head coach Tommy Tuberville kicked the preseason All-SEC kicker off the football team and replaced Bironas with the punter, Damon Duval.[1][2] Bironas later transferred to Georgia Southern University, where his brother was on the soccer team, for his final year of collegiate eligibility. While with the Eagles, Bironas won the 2000 NCAA Division I-AA National Championship, before returning to graduate from Auburn with a degree in marketing."

still kickin

glad i skipped Denver.

We are who we thought we were.

I think

My son received this several weeks ago and it caught us by surprise. Last year they had several positive comments on LSU including pre-game atmosphere ranking.

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yeah, youre right experience is TOTALLY over rated...

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I immediately think of Justin Vincent and how experience seemed to be lost on him........

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towards the end of the 01 season (espeically the sugar bowl), lsu's offense was astonishing. 3rd and 18 was nothing for them. and this was after teams knew josh reed was tearing it up and they STILL couldn't stop it. i've never seen an lsu team throw downfield more often AND more successfully

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The only game I saw that year was Alabama in Tuscaloosa. Davey to Reed at its best. I still think of Reed as the best WR we have had in recent years. He just made it happen....

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It was actually his wife that gave him this idea...which when he was asked to speak on ESPN..he used this to his advantage!

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sounds like a smart man. he listens to his wife...

1) USC YES, anyone else NO
2) NO WAY. Cannot stand the guy

Curley was ahead of his time, I guess