Kansas Athletic Director Lew Perkins is set to resign from Kansas University effective with the end of the 2010-2011 school years, sources have told the Lawrence Journal-World and KUsports.com.
Perkins came to KU in 2003 after Al Bohl was fired in a saga that led to Roy Williams bolting for North Carolina.
Perkins has overseen a dramatic increase in the athletic department's budget, but has recently become engulfed in a scandal over ticket sales and blackmail allegation.
Perkins is ditching KU because of this mess.
Actually, if you read the info there, he's ditching KU over the ticket scandal.
He's still ditching KU. I wouldn't want the AD to leave my favorite college sports university in a time like this. He announced this at the wrong time.
For humor's sake I'd love it if all the expansion stopped here and none of the involved leagues changed their names so that we'd have 3 incorrectly-named leagues, including 2 that should be switched (Big 10 with 12, Big 12 with 10)...obviously that's not going to happen.
Kansas Athletic Director Lew Perkins is set to resign from Kansas University effective with the end of the 2010-2011 school years, sources have told the Lawrence Journal-World and KUsports.com.
Perkins came to KU in 2003 after Al Bohl was fired in a saga that led to Roy Williams bolting for North Carolina.
Perkins has overseen a dramatic increase in the athletic department's budget, but has recently become engulfed in a scandal over ticket sales and blackmail allegation.
Perkins is ditching KU because of this mess.
Actually, if you read the info there, he's ditching KU over the ticket scandal.
He's still ditching KU. I wouldn't want the AD to leave my favorite college sports university in a time like this. He announced this at the wrong time.
The Pac-10 is considering adding five more teams: Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech. If that happened, CU would likely go into an eastern division with its former Big 12 rivals, along with Arizona and Arizona State.
Truth is, the University of Colorado didn't have a choice and made the right decision. The Buffs couldn't stay in a dying conference, and they wouldn't move to the lovable Mountain West Conference and end up with far less TV revenue in a less significant league. And they didn't want to get shut out of Pac-10 expansion.
So CU took the money and ran. If you don't believe Division I college sports is all about the money, bury your head in the Great Sand Dunes.
Goodbye, $8 million a year. Hello, $22 million a year. Goodbye, Iowa State. Hello, Arizona State. Goodbye, Manhattan. Hello, Hollywood. Goodbye, Huskers. Hello, Huskies. Goodbye, Oklahoma. Hello . . . uh . . . Oklahoma.
That quoted section of that article seems to be dead on. CU absolutely did the smart thing by jumping ship early rather than risk getting left all alone.
They should probably just go ahead and change the names of these conferences after companies while they're at it. The Fed Ex East conference, the Doritos Southwest conference, The Buy N' Large California conference, etc...
I'm not sure I can articulate why, but if the Big Ten adds 3-4 teams, it sours me on college basketball going forward. It's one area where I maintain a fondness of tradition, and I like that 1 out of ten or twelve teams can be the conference champ. If you're now fighting 16 teams, you don't play each team twice anymore. I didn't like it when the Big Ten went to a tournament and that almost seems more meaningless with all these teams involved. I've been losing interest already, this is just going to put the nail in the coffin.
InvincibleCakeEater wrote:Boise State is leaving the WAC and moving to the Mountain West.
Is that confirmed or just a thought/rumor?
The MW might come out looking like gold in this whole process. If they're smart and aggressive. They could be a 5th major 16 team conference. They're up to 10 teams now and could easily add:
Baylor
MU
Kansas
Kansas State
Iowa State
That would get them to 15. Pick up Tulsa or Fresno State some other team I'm missing and you have a major conference that should inherit the Big 12's old BCS bid. They would probably want to change the name to the Big 16, though.
Boise State has given the Mountain West Conference a 10th program.
Boise State is leaving the Western Athletic Conference, a league the Broncos have dominated for a decade in football, the MWC confirmed with a statement Friday.
