Jim Delaney is looking to add to the Big Ten. The conference currently has 11 teams and is arguably the most financially successful conference across all sports due to the SEC’s relative weakness in Basketball and the Big Easts weakness in football. The Big Ten’s cable network offerings are an incredible cash cow that means that each member school gets paid more for a saturday afternoon football game share on the network than Notre Dame gets from NBC, even though Notre Dame can eat the whole pie. However, as the Big Ten looks to merge into a super conference some are questioning that the moves may not be in College Sports’ Best Interest.
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Big Ten; Vissionary or Villain
April 22nd, 2010 — Basketball, Sports
Colts & Saints both Classy – The NFL, who knows?
January 21st, 2010 — Football, Sports, playoffs
The Colts have named Edgerin James as an honorary captain for this weekend’s AFC Title Game. The move, purely a motivational one, was nearly identical to one made by the Saints last weekend. They named former rusher Deuce McAllister as their honorary captain before he announced his retirement this week. The moves show how classy and understanding both of these organizations are. Continue reading →
Fun with Math and Rankings – The Colts D is not that bad.
January 19th, 2010 — Football, Sports, playoffs
Welcome to the NFL. People are very slow to react to NFL trends. Ask the average Fan-on-the-Street who the best NFL defense this year and you’ll get some who will tell you the correct statistical answer, the Jets, primarily because they have now won two playoff games with a rookie QB and a loud mouthed rookie head coach who is telling everyone who will listen how good his defense is. When it comes to defining #2-#5, old habits die hard.
Playoff Picture™ Week 16
December 23rd, 2009 — Football, Sports, playoffs
Oh what a week of Football that was. The Saints are no longer unbeaten. There is a 6 way tie for the last man out in the AFC Wildcard. And it seems like no one could hit a fieldgoal of less than 35 yards. Without any more a do, click the link to find out the playoff picture.
Playoff Picture™ Week 15
December 16th, 2009 — Football, Sports, Uncategorized, playoffs
14 Weeks down, 13 games played, 3 more to go. Things are getting exciting in the final sprint for the playoffs. The Colts may be ready to shut it down. The Cowboys also look to be shutting it down, but not because they have sown up homefield or anything, because for some unexplained reason they always collapse in December, and once again they are doing the same thing. The Saints are still marching and things in the AFC Wildcard are clear as Mud.
What Sucks About the BCS
December 7th, 2009 — College, Football, Sports
Last night, Fox Aired the BCS selection show. Something they had no fault in and of themselves for arranging, other than they were the network that bought the rights to most of the games. Despite their best efforts to hype up the drama and make the matchups compelling, the BCS is BROKEN! The Matchups are:
- #1 Alabama (13-0, SEC Champ) v. #2 Texas (13-0, Big 12 Champ)
- #3 Cincinnati (12-0, Big East Champ) v. #5 Florida (12-1, SEC Runner Up)
- #4 TCU (12-0, Mountain West Champ) v. #6 Boise State (13-0, WAC Champ)
- #7 Oregon (10-2, Pac 10 Champ) v. #8 Ohio State (10-2, Big 10 Champ)
- #9 Georgia Tech (11-2, ACC Champ) v. #10 Iowa (10-2 Iowa, Big 10 Runner Up)
Colts Limping Along Undefeated
December 2nd, 2009 — Football, playoffs
The injuries continue to mount, but the Colts just keep beating the opponents in front of them. They have 5 games remaining and are favorites in all of the remaining games. The list of remaining opponents is:
- Tennessee (-7) (5-6)
- Denver (-12) (6-5)
- @Jacksonville (-6.5) (6-5)
- New York (J) (-10) (5-6)
- @Buffalo (-9) (4-7)
Regardless of the Schedule and the Odds, the most dangerous opponent is this week with Tennessee. The Titans are riding a 5 game winning streak and haven’t lost since VY took back over.
Aggregate strength of schedule (26-29), not murderers row, but not as easy as the Saints remaining schedule. The question will be will the Colts shut it down in mid December when they secure the AFC Home Field and have nothing left to play for but history. I am wholeheartedly against this and will spell out my feelings and reasons for this in a future post.
Playoff Projections™, Week 13
December 1st, 2009 — Football, playoffs
What a week. Surprising performances everywhere. Some teams have gotten back in to the hunt, and some have faded faster than a 16 year old with a supermodel. If you want to know what happened, set your TiVo or pickup a news paper.
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Bring the Raiders Back to LA
November 20th, 2009 — Football, Sports
There is a lot of talk right now in the NFL about the fact that while LA is the second largest media market in the country, they have no football team. Personally if I would live in LA I wouldn’t want a team due to the assinine restrictions in television coverage and the fact that my team – the Indianapolis Colts, would most likely not be moving to LA. There is a problem with moving teams right now and its more than just a superficial ‘we want divisions geographically congruent’ reason.
Week 10 Playoff Projections
November 10th, 2009 — Sports, playoffs
As the NFL network revs up it’s thursday night games, the NFL continues to stratify into distinct layers. The Broncos are falling back to earth and may in fact be this years New York Jets. We have an AFC Log Jam at 6-2 and had to make it to strength of victory. Things will work themselves out rather nicely either next week or the following week. This may be the time that people actually start looking at the Playoff Projections… so welcome if you have just found me.
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