ACC Hopes To "Protect" Schools Financially Julie Hermann Introduced As Rutgers AD Conferences Hold Spring Meetings ACC Looking Into MSG Basketball Tourney UNC-Wilmington Athletics Review Calls For Cuts College Facility Notes Pitt, 'Cuse Push For N.Y. ACC Tourney Hawaii Brings Rainbow Back To Nickname Iowa Not Scheduling Any More FCS Schools UNLV AD Livengood Announces Retirement
Upcoming Conferences and Events
Featured Story
John Swofford Says ACC Hopes To "Protect" Member Schools Financially05 / 17 / 13ACC Commissioner John Swofford at the end of the conference’s spring meetings on Thursday said that he “wanted to ‘protect’ his member schools from experiencing the types of financial loses that FSU saw in December,” according to Coley Harvey of the ORLANDO SENTINEL. FS... Tags: Colleges |
More Stories
MWC, Pac-12 Exploring Partnership
Mountain West Conference Commissioner Craig Thompson said that his league has "approached the Pac-12 about what he calls a 'best practices' connection -- sort of a West Coast alliance for nonconference scheduling, sharing of officials, and bowl matchups," according to Jeremy Fowler of CBSSPORTS.com. ...
Tags: Colleges
College Football Playoff Site Chosen
Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, "will be awarded the college football playoff's first national championship, to be held Jan. 12, 2015," while the Fiesta, Cotton and Chick-fil-A bowls will join the Rose, Sugar and Orange bowls "in the six-bowl semifinal rotation for the new playoff," according t ...
ACC Agrees To Grant Of Media Rights
The ACC’s 15 current and future member institutions yesterday announced that they had "agreed to a grant of media rights, which allows the conference to retain a school’s television rights if it leaves the league," according to Andrew Carter of the Raleigh NEWS & OBSERVER. The ACC&rs ...
Tags: Colleges
Fiesta Bowl Has Inside Track For Playoffs
The Fiesta Bowl is “one of four bowls vying for the final three slots to host college-football playoff games" under the new system set for the '14 season, and "has the inside track to get one of the spots because of its existing BCS contract, which gives it the first right to negotiate,” ...
Tags: Colleges
Could CFB Break Away From NCAA?
Although the notion that "big football schools might eventually break away from the NCAA is not new, the overwhelming sense within the industry is that some sort of major change is on the horizon,” according to Wolken & Schroeder of USA TODAY. Sources said that "whether that change include ...
Conferences To Address '14 Playoff Setup
When the 11 major conference commissioners and Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick “convene in Pasadena for three days next week, they’ll tackle the pivotal issues facing" the first college football playoff setup for the '14 season, according to Kirk Bohls of the AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN. Alm ...
Greensboro To Host '14 ACC Baseball Tourney
NewBridge Bank Park will host the ACC’s “new, expanded baseball tournament in 2014, the third time in five playings the event has come to Greensboro,” according to David Morrison of the Greensboro NEWS & RECORD. The ‘12 tournament “drew 52,926 fans in Greensboro las ...
Tags: Colleges
Boise State Sues Former Big East
Boise State Univ. yesterday announced that it was “pre-emptively suing the Big East and asking the Fourth Judicial District Court in Boise to absolve the school of any buyout penalty,” according to Chadd Cripe of the IDAHO STATESMAN. The school’s case “could hinge on the defi ...
Tags: Colleges
Nebraska Hoops Nears Record Ticket Sales
The Univ. of Nebraska basketball team just finished a 15th straight season without an NCAA Tournament bid, but is “on track to set what apparently is a school record for season-ticket sales,” according to Lee Barfknecht of the OMAHA WORLD-HERALD. Public sales for the '13-14 season at NU' ...
Tags: Colleges
ASU Plans To Keep Notre Dame Game
Arizona State Univ. "doesn’t plan" to let Notre Dame back out of its scheduled '14 football game in Tempe "so easily," according to Doug Haller of the ARIZONA REPUBLIC. The "agreement was signed" in February '08. ASU Senior Associate AD Rocky Harris said, "If Notre Dame chooses to unilaterally ...
