Mountain West, WAC, Independent, What?
Posted by Pete | Posted in News | Posted on 20-08-2010
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Gosh, these conferences…”What the hell is going on?”….to quote on old friend of mine….Now the Mountain West is doing the, er, stealing from the WAC….Fresno State and Nevada?….BYU going Independent?…Did you read TCU’s advise to them?…Don’t do that…Independent is not the way to go…and TCU may be trying to leave the Mountain West? One reason is money and they want a BCS chance, for real. I don’t blame them for that. However, in my mind I already had a case for the old MWC, with Utah, TCU and BYU, especially with the addition of Boise State….Both Fresno State and Nevada are good ball clubs….Well, the good news is we don’t have to change the name of the Mountain West or the WAC…It’s not like the Big 10/12 or the Pac 10/11 or is the the PAC 10/12…I forget….No, its the Big 12/10….Wait it that right?…Crap, I got to learn them all over again….
The basic problem is that there is entirely too much money driving football. It may be wise to force football back to the basics: a bunch of guys in makeshift pads running up and down a cow pasture with a funny shaped oblong pigskin. Coach Nick Saben’s salary is very nearly more than the entire School of Chemistry was worth at the University of Alabama when I began in 1960. And I thought my professors made big bucks. I wonder how all the coaches, players, sports writers, and sports bloggers would earn a living if we had just one football-free year. I wonder if there would be any layoffs. One thing is for sure. It would be the most boring year of the century.
Football is money…no doubt…I remember last year it was said the football program brought in 83 million for the University of Texas…That’s huge….Go Longhorns is the response from all of Texas….They pay a lot of money to beat up on teams like, well, some of the little guys wanting a big payday….