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 The Pinstripe Bowl
Officially calling it the 'New Era Cap Co. Inc. Pinstripe Bowl,' Yankee Stadium will host the Big 12 No. 6 vs. the Big East No. 3 teams on December 30th in New York. The New Era Cap Co. signed on for four years as the sponsor and ESPN has agreed to a 6-year contract to televise the game. However, this won't be the first game at the new Yankee Stadium as that honor belongs to Notre Dame and Army, who will play there on November 20th. Interestingly, the last college football game to be played at Yankee Stadium was the 1962 Gotham Bowl where Nebraska beat Miami 36-34. I'm sure the Pinstripe Bowl will sound a helluva lot better than the Texas Bowl to Missouri.
The Big 12 Meeting
When the Big 12 officials meet in Denver during the first week of June, one of the hottest topics will be where the Big 12 football championship will be played beyond the 2010 game at Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Although Denver's Ford Field, Arrowhead Stadium, Edward Jones Dome (St. Louis), and San Antonio's Alamodome are all candidates, expect there to be lobbying to keep the game permanently in Dallas. Said Mack Brown before last year's Big 12 Championship in Dallas, "I would love to see it in (Arlington). It's centrally located. Obviously, people would think playing it there would be self-serving. But I think an indoor area this time of the year to make sure the weather is not a factor and doesn't change is something that I would be 100 percent for." As I've said before, Dallas is not centrally located, it is self-serving for Texas, and weather is and has always been a part of the game of football. Move the game around. I'm sure Denver will welcome Texas in early December.
Taking Gerald McCoy Out of Context
The normally great website sportsBYbrooks very recently ran with a post titled "Gerald McCoy: Ndamukong Suh 'Not Tough Enough.'" They were going off an interview on the Dan Patrick Show (audio here) where McCoy said: "Some people think that he's too nice. He's not tough enough. I turn into a different type of guy when it's football time. As soon as I come out of the tunnel, I change. I don't know what it is... I think my first step is faster. I'm a little more of a speedy guy and pass rusher. I'm a little more of an explosive guy, while he fills holes." If you listen to the audio, you can clearly understand that McCoy was talking about himself and not Suh. Nonetheless, Suh fans were outraged because they took what the website above claimed - which was completely out of context. McCoy is arrogant, but he knows better than this. As he said in the interview, the two are friends.
Cost of Colorado Joining the Pac-10...
....would roughly be $9 million out of their own pockets.
 The Boulder Daily Camera states, "Under Big 12 rules, Colorado must give two years notice if it plans to withdraw from the league and would forfeit 50 percent of its conference distribution for both of those years. CU received $9.7 million from the Big 12 for the 2008-09 school year and is expecting about $9 million this year because the league had only one team in a Bowl Championship Series football game. Assuming those numbers remain consistent over the next two years, it would cost Colorado roughly $4.5 million per year or $9 million over two years to leave the Big 12. The fall of 2012 is the target date for any possible Pac-10 expansion because that is when its new television agreements will begin."
The Wiz of Odds followed with, "The athletic department has an operating budget of about $45 million, which means a forfeiture of roughly 10%. That's a lot of money for a department that balked at firing Dan Hawkins because a $3 million separation package was viewed as too steep a price. Nonetheless, the pluses outweigh the minuses. Colorado has 4,523 alumni in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma combined. The largest numbers of alumni in another Big 12 state are the 6,244 in Texas. By comparison, there are 23,137 alumni in California, 3,755 in Arizona, 2,983 in Oregon and 5,113 in Washington. That's 34,988 alumni in Pac-10 conference territory compared to 10,767 in Big 12 country. Another 1,200 alums live in Utah, which is considered to be the Pac-10's other expansion target. Colorado generally draws less than 1,000 fans to Big 12 road games. A 2007 game at Arizona State attracted 7,000 supporters."
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