Pac-10, Big Ten hold us all hostage

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Reporters' Notebooks
Published 4/29/2008 by dawizofodds at The Wizard of Odds
... Conference commissioner Mike Slive is scheduled to present a plan for a four-team playoff at the Bowl Championship Series meeting this week in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times: BCS officials don't need to leave Florida with a tan, they need to leave it with a plan. Dick Harmon, Deseret News: Who is standing in the way of a playoff? It's the Big Ten and the Pacific 10. Wendell Barnhouse, Fort Worth ...

Playoff Hopes for College Football Are Held Hostage by the Big Ten and the Pac-10
Published 4/29/2008 by Alpha Wolf at The Red and White From State
... But don’t expect it to get very far.  Like UGA’s Michael Adams, the proposition of the bowl structure being replaced by a playoff system will be shot down. So who is standing in the way of a playoff?  the Big Ten and the Pac-10 and the Rose Bowl.  I love this quote from the column: ...

Morning Oatmeal: The Pac-10 sucks edition
Published 4/30/2008 by jtlight at Addicted To Quack: Front Page Posts
... it for me.  At least next year Oregon will have a baseball team to follow. So, with that, lets hate on the Pac-10, Big 10, and Rose Bowl.  Another article just come out regarding the "plus-one" system that has been talked about to some degree or another, and the author of this piece flat out states that if not for the Rose Bowl, we would be on our way to some sort of playoff.  Also, a few days ago, another columnist claimed that college football was being held hostage by these 3 entities. I do not disagree with either of these articles. ...

Morning Oatmeal: The Pac-10 sucks edition
Published 4/30/2008 by jtlight <info@addictedtoquack.com> at Addicted To Quack: Front Page Posts
... cut it for me.  At least next year Oregon will have a baseball team to follow. So, with that, lets hate on the Pac-10, Big 10, and Rose Bowl.  Another article just come out regarding the "plus-one" system that has been talked about to some degree or another, and the author of this piece flat out states that if not for the Rose Bowl, we would be on our way to some sort of playoff.  Also, a few days ago, another columnist claimed that college football was being held hostage by these 3 entities. I do not disagree with either of these articles.  The ...

Everyone Not Wanting a Playoff Is the Rose Bowl's Fault
Published 5/1/2008 by Brian Cook at FanHouse
... - just maybe - the blockheads of the Big Ten and Pac-10 will begin to see the cracks. SI's Austin Murphy: Springing to the defense of his Pac-10 counterpart is Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, who together with Hansen forms a kind of Axis of Obstruction.Matt Hayes: Please, everyone. No more questions about who runs college sports. We give you Jim Delany, commissioner of the Big Ten. Dick Harmon, man who does not watch college football: A true ...

Everyone Not Wanting a Playoff Is the Rose Bowl's Fault
Published 5/1/2008 by Brian Cook at FanHouse
... - just maybe - the blockheads of the Big Ten and Pac-10 will begin to see the cracks. SI's Austin Murphy: Springing to the defense of his Pac-10 counterpart is Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, who together with Hansen forms a kind of Axis of Obstruction.Matt Hayes: Please, everyone. No more questions about who runs college sports. We give you Jim Delany, commissioner of the Big Ten. Dick Harmon, man who does not watch college football: A true ...

Everyone Not Wanting a Playoff Is the Rose Bowl's Fault
Published 5/1/2008 by Brian Cook at FanHouse
... - just maybe - the blockheads of the Big Ten and Pac-10 will begin to see the cracks. SI's Austin Murphy: Springing to the defense of his Pac-10 counterpart is Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, who together with Hansen forms a kind of Axis of Obstruction.Matt Hayes: Please, everyone. No more questions about who runs college sports. We give you Jim Delany, commissioner of the Big Ten. Dick Harmon, man who does not watch college football: A true ...

Paterno & FSU President Back a Football Playoff
Published 5/29/2008 by Husker Mike at Corn Nation: Front Page Posts
... Yes... the "Worldwide Leader in Sports" has their finger in the pot.  Or should I say, their entire fist.  It starts with the Rose Bowel (sp) game and their traditional role of matching the Big Ten (11) and the Pac Ten in the so-called "Granddaddy of them all".  And of course, ESPN controls the broadcasting rights to the Rose Bowel (sp) through 2014.  In college football, who leads the charge against a playoff?  The Big 11 and Pac 10 . ...