MORNING PAPER: Conference expansion edition

by Brian Floyd on Jul 26, 2010 10:30 AM PDT in WSU Athletics

There's been a ridiculous number of stories concerning expansion and WSU this morning. The media machine is ramping up in advance of the conference media tour and unveiling of the new branding coming tomorrow, so expect to see a lot of these things this week. It all leads into the first set of Pac-10 conference meetings on July 30th.

Pac-10 expansion: Previewing the division debate (Part II: football, football, football) | College Hotline
Officials for the Pac-10 will gather Friday in Los Angeles to discuss the most contentious issue related to expansion: How to divide the 12-team league. Jon Wilner previews the football debate with quotes from Athletic Directors around the conference. Bill Moos also takes a shot at UW, which is always fun.
Pac-10 expansion: Previewing the division debate (Part I: basketball, baseball, softball, etc.) | College Hotline
While football is the engine that drove the Pac-10 to expansion, the rest of the sports want to make sure they're getting a good deal out of it too. One coach wants to play a round robin format in basketball, with 22 conference games. How do they come up with these things?
PAC-10 Conference
The Pac-10 is relaunching its website tomorrow in conjunction with the first stop of a whirlwind media tour for coaches and conference executives. It all starts in New York tomorrow, before moving to ESPN headquarters in Bristol and Los Angeles for the typical media day. This is what Larry Scott does best.
New Pac-10 logo and football video - Pac-10 Blog - ESPN
The new logo and a market video were at the links Miller provided for about an hour. Then the Pac-10 realized every writer that covers Pac-10 teams had linked to it and pulled the video. There can't be any way we could've known what the new logo looked like before today, could there?

And now, for some WSU related news.

Don't be surprised if... road schedules - Pac-10 Blog - ESPN
"The Cougars play three of their first five on the road. Stealing a win in any of the three might indicate the first steps of a program coming out of the morass"
Mayes Headlines Aug. 19 Cougar Sports Banquet and Auction - WASHINGTON STATE OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE
Rueben Mayes highlights the speakers at the auction coming up in August. Also speaking: Bill Moos, Ken Bone, Paul Wulff, June Daugherty, and Donnie Marbut. WSU could use donations and this looks like a fun event. Make it happen.

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Also, how about a Fulmer Cupdate

A doff of the cap to Nigel Carr from Florida State. 17 points in one week is truly an epic performance.

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by Brian Floyd on Jul 26, 2010 10:49 AM PDT reply actions

This Fulmer Cupdate thing looks kinda funny

But I’m not sure what it is. Can you explain?

-Brett Gleason
-Daily Evergreen Staff Sports Writer

by Brett the 49er on Jul 26, 2010 12:17 PM PDT up reply actions

EDSBS is required reading.

They basically keep track of “off the field” issues of D1 programs and assign points according to severity and hilarity.

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by Craig Powers on Jul 26, 2010 1:10 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions

Thats great

Looks like I have another SBN blog to follow.

-Brett Gleason
-Daily Evergreen Staff Sports Writer

by Brett the 49er on Jul 26, 2010 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions

I guess the zipper is going to happen

To be totally honest, I really don’t care how they divvy up the league. Keep the Apple Cup and play in SoCal often enough to maintain a recruiting presence and I’m happy. I guess the only alignment I would definitely oppose would be something like us, OSU, Utah, Colorado, Arizona and ASU. I know that football dominance is somewhat cyclical, but our division would definitely be the weaker one for the forseeable future and certainly historically.

by johnnycougar on Jul 26, 2010 12:26 PM PDT reply actions