Illinois, Mizzou next trips for Watch List OT
ESPN Watch List offensive tackle Roderick Johnson (Florissant, Mo./Hazelwood Central) is up to eight offers – four from the Big Ten, three from the SEC and one from the ACC. The spring could be the perfect time for Johnson’s recruiting to see a major spike. At 6-foot-7 and 325 pounds, Johnson recently picked up offers from Florida State and Tennessee. He also had offers from Missouri, Texas A&M, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State and Iowa.
Report: UC wanted Meyer to lobby for ACC
How desperate is Cincinnati to get out of the Big East? The school asked one of its famous alums, who happens to coach Ohio State’s football team, to lobby on its behalf and try to get in the ACC. Yes, we’re talking about Urban Meyer. Meyer’s name popped up on an email obtained by the Cincinnati Enquirer through an open records request. Meyer played defensive back at Cincinnati in the early 1980s, and his sister is an administrator at the school.
ACC sues Maryland over buyout
You didn’t think the ACC was going to let Maryland leave for the Big Ten without trying to get every last penny of its buyout, did you? In a move that should surprise…
Predicting all 12 games in this week’s ACC-Big Ten Challenge slate (The Dagger: College Basketball Blog)
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Even If Ohio State Were Eligible, Would B1G Reputation Cost Them BCS Title Shot?
Ask any Ohio State fan, and he or she will tell you that the Buckeyes deserve to be in a bowl game this year. The fact that the Buckeyes are a mortal lock…
Big Ten sacrifices quality for cash with expansion (Yahoo! Sports)
Perhaps it’s a testament to the inherent dishonesty of college athletics that so much of the buzz about Big Ten expansion – Maryland on Monday, Rutgers on Tuesday – is about the hunt for the true, secret reason. Among so many athletic administrators this makes little sense to any known paradigm – why add two debt-ridden, poorly run athletic departments with historically blah football programs? Why make the Big Ten worse today than last week? Why dilute rivalries and brand? What’s the upside, that Rutgers perhaps one day reaches its potential as a good-but-not-great program? All this … for that? Maryland Terrapins run onto the field before a game. (Getty) Everyone acknowledges the money but then figures this is so unnecessary and counter to commissioner Jim Delany’s conservative nature that there has to be more. So we get that Delany must be mad at Notre Dame. Or Delany wasn’t going to let ACC commissioner …
Maryland & Rutgers To Join The Big Ten Conference
The University of Maryland’s Board of Regents on Monday voted unanimously to accept an invitation to join the Big Ten Conference and leave the Atlantic Coast Conference, sources told ESPN on Monday. The…
ACC Preview: Ranking the 15 most intriguing non-league games (The Dagger: College Basketball Blog)
The last time Ohio State met Duke, the Buckeyes stormed to an 11-0 lead and never wavered, winning 85-63 in Columbus last November.
Big Ten Friday mailblog
Hope you enjoy the games Saturday. Jerome from Toronto writes: Now that the ACC has said they’re only going to have 8 league games, what are the chances that the B1G and ACC…
Poll: End of Michigan-Notre Dame series
Less than a week after joining the ACC in all sports but football, Notre Dame pulled the plug on its annual series with Michigan. The two teams will meet in 2013 and 2014,…
