B1G/Pac-12 Still On

I missed this last week, but ESPN's Adam Rittenberg posted a blog piece stating that the partnership is still on, despite some scheduling issues.  You can read the full post here. 

"Despite a few speed bumps, the Big Ten/Pac-12 scheduling partnership is 'a go,' Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany told his league's athletic directors this week"

Texas AD Not Happy with Pac-12/B1G Rose Bowl Stance

Texas AD DeLoss Dodds recently stated:

"The only way it's going to get fixed," Dodds says, "is for the rest of the country to have a playoff of some kind and let them do their (own) deal. And then after five years, their coaches would go berserk because they're not in the mix for a national championship. And they'd have to join it."

The obvious problem with that way of thinking is without the Pac-12 and Big Ten, it's not really much a national championship as it is an SEC/Big 12 playoff.  

B1G/Pac-12 Football Scheduling Agreement is Still On

ESPN posted two blog post on Friday. Basically the scheduling agreement is still on, but some schools may have issues with working out schedules and there may be a late start for Ohio State. You can read the posts at the following links:

Big Ten, Pac-12 series still on solid ground?

B1G, Pac-12 pact could start staggered

 

Utah now has a 2014 opening and potential for a B1G game

Utah bought out USU leaving a home opening in 2014. Will the Utes use this to schedule a game with a Big Ten team? Read more here.

U of Georgia President criticizes Pac/B1G

University of Georgia President doesn't want the Pac-12 and B1G to get any special treatment in regard to preserving the Rose Bowl. Click here to read more at the WSJ.

Nebraska AD likes Pac-12 Big 10 Partnership

Adam Rittenberg of ESPN Big 10 Blog interviewed Nebraska's AD and former football coach Tom Osborne. Here's what he had to say on the Pac-12/B1G partnership:

Osborne likes the Big Ten's new partnership with the Pac-12, billed as a brand-strengthening alternative to expansion. He also thinks realignment fever will die down for a bit. "The time where major disruption can occur is when you have television contracts are up for renewal," he said. "That's when people can start looking toward greener pastures sometimes. So we'll see how things turn out over the next two, three, four years."

Are college sports undervalued? Pac-12 commissioner thinks so.

Larry Scott thinks college football is undervalued, and blames the fragmentation of rights. Read more by clicking here.