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One Year Later: A Look at UNC Conference Realignment Emails
For the past year, I’ve been pointing out that conference realignment really hinges on three primary schools: Texas, Notre Dame and North Carolina. The first two are fairly obvious to football-focused...
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Frank the Tank Mini-Mailbag: Derrick Rose Postmortem and an 8-Team College...
Time is a bit cramped this week with Thanksgiving upon us, so I’ll be tackling one mailbag question below this week. Also, I need to wallow a bit in my misery about Derrick Rose being out for the rest...
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Lawyers, Guns and Antitrust Counterclaims: Maryland Says ACC Tried to Recruit...
When it comes to conference realignment-related lawsuits, every school that has left a conference has attempted to claim that it owes nothing in exit fees. In turn, every conference has attempted to...
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One-and-Done: Mark Cuban, the NBA, D-League and College Basketball
As many of my regular readers know, I’m a huge fan of both the NBA and college basketball. While this blog has generally focused on college football over the past few years since that has been the...
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Another Illinois School in the Big Ten? Not Feasible, but the State Needs a...
I’ve been getting a lot of requests for comment on some proposed legislation by an Illinois state representative from Naperville to have a feasibility study performed on whether another Illinois...
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B1G East Coast Strategy: All Going According to Plan
I don’t exactly have a perfect record of predictions on this blog (as evidenced by the regular stream of friendly visitors from TexAgs that still remind me of what I wrote about Texas A&M and SEC...
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Frank the Tank Summer Mailbag Part II: Ice Bucket Challenge, SEC Network,...
Every once in awhile, there’s a bandwagon worth jumping onto, so I’ve taken the Ice Bucket Challenge (you can see my son dousing me with my daughter filming here on YouTube) and made a donation to the...
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College Football Playoff and Big 12 Expansion Rumors: Cincinnati and… Memphis?
With our first regular season of the College Football Playoff over, I’ve got to paraphrase the ESPN commercials that have been running all year: I’M IN. It’s not perfect, as I’ve had my issues with...
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Uptown Dunk: Basketball Conference Realignment and the Big East, Wichita...
After Iowa State lost within the opening hours of the first round (sic) of the NCAA Tournament, I didn’t even bother checking my bracket (IlliNIT Blues) until yesterday since I had figured my horrible...
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Bad Blood within the Big 12: Oklahoma President Wants Expansion and What it...
I know that is has been a looooooooong time since my last post. Between coaching basketball and baseball teams for both of my kids and work, it’s been tough to write lately. The patience of the...
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Big 12 Expansion or Contraction? Watch Out for Oklahoma
It might be legitimate smoke or just the hot summer air of the peanut gallery, but conference realignment talk is still percolating in the wake of University of Oklahoma President David Boren’s...
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Happy New Year: Season Opening Quick Hits on Sports TV Rights, Sun Belt...
The new college football season is finally upon us! Let’s get to some quick hits on college sports business news from the past few weeks: (1) Sports TV Rights: Bubble or Not? – Even before the broader...
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The Connection Between Star Wars and Big Ten TV Rights
The financial news stories coming out of ESPN over the past several months have been quite negative. The Disney-owned cable network has endured several rounds of layoffs and reported last week that...
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Big Ten Adds Notre Dame… for Hockey
In a move that came out of nowhere, the Big Ten will be adding Notre Dame as a hockey member starting in 2017-18. A few quick thoughts on an otherwise sad day with all that has happened in Belgium:...
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B1G TV Deal Coming Out Like a Fox
It has been a couple of days since the news broke from Sports Business Daily that Fox is poised to enter into a deal with the Big Ten for 50% of the packages that are currently on ABC/ESPN (football...
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