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Pac-12's Larry Scott Is Highest Paid Conference Commissioner, Earned $1.9M In '1005 / 23 / 12Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott earned nearly $1.9M in "salary and bonuses” during his first full year at the post in ’10, according to Steve Berkowitz of USA TODAY. That figure is “more than three times his predecessor’s final full-year compensation and more than any other m... Tags: Colleges |
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Should ACC Worry About New SEC-Big 12 Bowl?
Despite the Big 12 and SEC creating a New Year's Day bowl game last week, it is “not time yet for ACC fans or league officials in Greensboro to panic,” according to Heather Dinich of ESPN.com. Much of the initial “knee-jerk reaction to the partnership announced on Friday between th ...
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Big 12, SEC Create New Year's Day Bowl
In an agreement “with implications far beyond one game, the SEC and Big 12 announced a five-year deal to have their champions meet in a bowl," beginning with the '14 season, according to Chuck Carlton of the DALLAS MORNING NEWS. If the champions “are part of a likely four-team football p ...
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SMU Dismisses AD Steve Orsini
SMU yesterday announced AD Steve Orsini has been dismissed, effective immediately. Senior Associate AD/External Affairs Tim Leonard was named interim AD ( SMU ). In Dallas, Kate Hairopoulos cited sources saying that there was "a growing clash between" Orsini and SMU President R. Gerald Turner. SMU " ...
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ACC Basketball Tourneys To Include 14 Teams
The ACC men's and women's basketball tournaments will be “two games, and one day, longer when Syracuse and Pittsburgh finally arrive from the Big East,” according to J.P. Giglio of the Raleigh NEWS & OBSERVER. Conference ADs and basketball coaches yesterday “settled on a format ...
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TCU Sells Out Football Season Tickets
TCU yesterday sold out its allotted football season tickets for the first time in school history, "an astonishing feat when you consider the Horned Frogs had a little more than 13,000 season ticket holders three seasons ago," according to Stefan Stevenson of the FT. WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM. TCU surpasse ...
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Big Ten ADs Prefer Bowl Sites For Playoff
Any notion of having BCS playoff semifinals on campus sites "is now dead,” according to Teddy Greenstein of the CHICAGO TRIBUNE. Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany and Big Ten ADs yesterday “made two things clear: They're on board with a four-team playoff beginning with the 2014 season, and ...
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FSU Officials Decline Comment On ACC
The speculation about Florida State Univ.'s future conference allegiance “took a chilly turn Tuesday afternoon when, for the first time in four days, an FSU official declined to comment on the conference realignment inferno that has blazed around the Seminoles' athletic programs,” accord ...
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College Notes
Rutgers AD Tim Pernetti yesterday said that he is “not interested in becoming the Big East’s next commissioner.” He added he still has “a lot to get done” at the school. Pernetti: “I’m flattered that people would suggest that. Beyond that, I’ve really ...
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FSU President Releases Statement On Big 12 Rumors
Florida State Univ. President Eric Barron has written a memo that “includes four key points that would support a move from the ACC to the Big 12 and seven longer key points that argue against it,” according to Joe Schad of ESPN.com. The memo “seems to be an argument by Barron, who ...
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Texas Tops College Spending, Revenue
An annual analysis of college athletics finances shows that over the past three years “no college athletics program has out-earned or outspent the colossus that is Texas,” according to a front-page piece by Wieberg, Upton & Berkowitz of the USA TODAY. The Univ. of Texas took in &ldqu ...
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