hey football guys, what about the other sports, a-holes.

It's pretty dull in the basketball/ football off-seasons .
The olympics and the athletic championships - track and field -
are my only distractions . Well, this year, we have expan$ion.

All these 'football' 'guys' are talking about expanding leagues.
Rubbish. There just aren't enough Oregon players getting arrested and
making headlines this year. Or . Why waste my time ? I am anti-expan$ion.

Like I said, it's all just blowing hot air right now. While all the tuitions and
costs of education go up, somebody decides that athletics - $300 million dollar
stadiums and facilities - is the most important factor.
There doesn't seem to be any money in televising 'eltectric car' races or academic competition.
Yet each year, we have a story about the National Spelling Bee, don't we.

A few years ago we had co-champions in PAC10 football.
Was it Oregon and USC , who did not play each other in the regular season ?
Ah, so we get a 'you must play all 9 other league teams rule' . Suck.
So now we have 10 teams who play a 13 game schedule, in football.
The basketball schedules have worked, yet the teams are approaching 30 games
a season.

Adding Colorado (to the PAC10) would be interesting to me,
because they are one of those innovative schools, and don't forget Ralphie (?).
Nobody wants to play Utah or BYU if they can avoid it.
BYU would give the conference a huge shot of credibility ..
a legacy of great teams from 'out west' .
New Mexico ,the obvious 'other' candidate for pac10 expansion.
I would rather see them add: SDSU , UNLV , Fresno State, than any texas schools.

How do i say it... I hate texas football. i have been 'stuck' watching big12 games
since the league was invented. I much prefer the Big10 and PAC10 games, thanks
to ESPN and Fox Sports.
The competition in Texas is such that they could form their own league:
Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Texas Christian, Baylor, Rice, Texas El Paso,
North Texas (?) , and throw in Oklahoma and Oklahoma State.
Call it the Chili league . Get out of my face, and off my television.

Alas, expansion is a terrible idea for real competition. Actually, the Big 12 was
deficient in scheduling its' top teams in the regular season.
I wish i could give examples, but anybody who knows big12 knows that schedules are
hit n miss , unless you're oklahoma vs. texas or texas tech vs texas....

The same applies to the South Eastern Conference, the scheduling is such that
if you happen to avoid playing Alabama, it could get you a bowl bid. Not
to bash any particular team. That one missed game,and your team goes from 5-7 to 6-6.

The BIG 10 would never be the same, if the expan$ion removed classic games
from the schedule. What if OSU and Michigan didn't play a regular season football game ?
How would you like to see the Cornhuskers at Wisconsin instead ? No history there.
In fact, I'm not sure if the big10 plays a round robin schedule in football.
Notre Dame is a stinker. They would dilute the conference...
Mizzou is a wannabe. Although the games with KU KSU and Arkansas are great for the region.
And if all this eliminates a Nebraska vs Oklahoma yearly football game, it's a
huge sacrifice of quality for dollars.

I pause to think , where exactly do the television networks -
the guys whose money makes talk of expan$ion valid - come from ?

I think of NRK, forced to show Eurovision 2010 because Norway won the
2009 competition. Guess what, they cannot afford to show the soccer
championship series. (yea, i'm an american, what do i know).

I think of NBC , desperately in debt, forced to show the Vancouver
Winter Olympics. They cut corners - the coverage was mostly Bob Cost-us
sitting in a chair talking to people. If you wanted to watch actual
competition, you went to nbc.com and sufferred through the lag, disconnects,
and 100 commercials for a new sitcom named 'bite my dirty finger' or whatever
it was called. The curling and hockey was good, if you had cable channels
CNBC and MSNBC .

People talk about the demise of the networks - nbc,abc, and cbs - yet where
is the talk of where their money goes...into sports. Would TV programming
be any better IF they didn't blow all their money on college sports ?
Yes. just think positive... good or bad doesn't guarantee an audience.