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AAC Commissioner Mike Aresco Touts Optimism As Conference Meetings Wrap05 / 23 / 13The talk around this week's American Athletic Conference meetings "was about the future, not the threat of realignment," according to Kyle Veazey of the Memphis COMMERCIAL APPEAL. AAC Commissioner Mike Aresco yesterday said of the meetings, "Nobody ever even slipped and said Big East. Everybody said... |
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Notre Dame To ACC This Fall
The Univ. of Notre Dame yesterday announced an agreement with the Big East to "quicken its defection" to the ACC in all sports except football and hockey beginning with the '13-14 school year, according to Zach Schonbrun of the N.Y. TIMES. The move “allows Notre Dame to enter the ACC at the sa ...
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Big East Yet To Discuss New Financials
Univ. of Central Florida AD Todd Stansbury yesterday said that despite reports of in-fighting between football schools in the Big East, there "have been no discussions about the finances of the new, yet-to-be-named conference," according to Paul Tenorio of the ORLANDO SENTINEL. He added that the gro ...
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Pac-12 Tourney Looks For Vegas Boost
The Pac-12 is hoping that moving its men's basketball conference tournament to the MGM Grand in Las Vegas "will ensure a packed atmosphere instead of the fickle situation at Staples Center in the past," according to Andy Katz of ESPN.com. The Pac-12 has “no excuses if it doesn’t ha ...
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BCS Plans Rebrand With Playoff System
The BCS is looking to “resell, rebrand and rename” itself, according to Dennis Dodd of CBSSPORTS.com. Premier Sports Management CMO Mike Goff is “the point man on giving the BCS a new coat of paint, a new image, without all the previous baggage.” Goff said the new name, which ...
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Arizona State Mascot Change Sees Backlash
After Arizona State Univ. recently unveiled a “modern version" of the school's costumed "Sparky" mascot, a "growing chorus of students and alumni is demanding the old Sparky back,” according to Anne Ryman of the ARIZONA REPUBLIC. Two Facebook pages, a “student-generated YouTube ...
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New Big East Will Keep Tourney At MSG
The Big East agreed to sell its name to the Catholic 7 schools that are breaking away this summer to form a basketball-only conference, and the new league also will "assume the old one’s contract to play its conference tournament at Madison Square Garden," according to Richard Sandomir of the ...
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Docs Show Big 12 Financial Gains, Losses
The Univ. of Missouri last year left the Big 12 for the SEC, and NCAA disclosures and tax returns for the '11-12 financial year, show a "better understanding of the cost of embarking on new paths," according to Blair Kerkhoff of the K.C. STAR. Big 12 tax returns show Oklahoma "received the greatest ...
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Towson Alienates Alumni With Sport Cuts
Towson Univ. President Maravene Loeschke on Friday was “escorted by several police officers into a meeting” with the school’s baseball and men’s soccer teams “to tell players she had decided to cut their sports,” according to Korman & Walker of the Baltimore ...
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UT Mulls Alcohol Sales At Sporting Events
Univ. of Texas men's AD DeLoss Dodds said that the school is "considering selling alcohol at football, basketball and baseball games," according to Christian Corona of UT student newspaper THE DAILY TEXAN. UT would "become the third Big 12 school to serve alcohol at football games after Iowa State a ...
AD Salaries On The Rise At FBS Schools
FBS ADs "make an average salary of roughly $515,000, up more than 14%" since October '11, according to a sports-section cover story by Brady, Upton & Berkowitz of USA TODAY. This comes at a time when "academic spending at many schools is declining or not increasing at the same pace as athletics ...
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