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Crib Sheet: The Chips Have Fallen Into the Bowls

The teams have been announced that cards played out on the table.  The big hand is lame this year but the side bets are sexier.  That’s right the regular season is over and now we are flipping over to bowl season.  There were some snubs as usual, but the Big 12 lineup of bowls still looks pretty strong.  The Cotton Bowl is right up there with the BCS bowls in terms of interesting match ups.  Kansas State vs Arkansas, or Big 12 vs SEC, like it should be.  Call your bets and flop on over to this week’s Crib Sheet.

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Crib Sheet: Media Day Menagerie

Oh yeah lot’s of squawking and a talking this week.  Media Days are here and the Big 12’s focus this year is the Longhorns Network, not the impending doom of the conference.  Although some would say that the network is the started of a long doom for the conference.  This week’s Crib Sheet delves into that as well as the usual news items that comes across my desk.  So let’s dig in:

Crib Sheet: Season’s Greetings

It’s the most wonderful time of the year!  Happy holidays from KC College GameDay!  It’s bowl season and I’ll do a couple of recaps in the next couple of days as well as run down some bowls I’m in to.  In the meantime, we have a fat Crib Sheet so let’s get to it:

Stadiumspotting Has Hit the Lawrence Limit

Saturday was the third week in a row for Stadiumspottring and I can say that I’ve hit my limit.  I love going out to games, but when the majority is for a weak and rebuilding Kansas football team, it makes it real hard to go back for more.  The times were just different enough to make it stadiumspot worthy but I’m not sure I can hit up anything new until a bowl or Big 12 title game.  I again enjoyed all that Lawrence has to offer, as well as the typical company sponsored feast.  What put it over the top for me was hanging out on Mass street.

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Big 12 , er 11, er 10 Predictions for 2010

Man what a crazy roller coaster of an offseason for the Big 12. Who would’ve thought a year ago that the Big 12 would be rocked to its very knees and survive probably one of most weirdest advances in college football history.  It was like a whacked out game of Axis & Allies.  Welp Germany didn’t win and neither did the Big 10.  So here we are going into what is the last season we will ever see for this 12 conference league.  Who will come out on top?  Roll dice to find out (er read below).

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Crib Sheet: No Buzzword Bingo for these Meetings

It’s the middle of May and many of the big time conferences are in the middle of meetings.  Athletic directors and coaches nationwide are now meeting to check up on things and discuss to goings on of their respective schools.  Now usually, this will blow over with not much of a drop of news to report.  This year, however, it’s getting bigger attention because of the expansion talk coming from the Big 10.  Where last year there might have been one or two beat writers covering the meeting, this year it’s a media hoopla.  No, the KCCGD Crib Sheet did not travel to the Big 10 meeting, but the Big 12 one is in Kansas City next week so we may crash that party.  In the meantime, read up on our Big 10 expansion series and check out this week’s Crib Sheet:

  • Blair Kerkhoff speculated last week how Kansas City could be affected with Missouri and/or Nebraska leaving the conference.  We’ll cover it later this week, but this is a nice roundup of how serious of a move this is for the local area.
  • Rivalries could be affected as well, especially with Kansas and Missouri.  Lew Perkins hinted heavily last week that Kansas might have a hard time doing a rivalry game if it wasn’t in conference.  Big time decisions with consequences are fun for Missouri right now.
  • Mike Sherman’s been away to Iraq talking to Aggie troops.  He went out there for the Aggie Muster, which is a roll call of fallen Texas A&M soldiers on April 21.  He ended up being late and had to stay later due to the Iceland volcano blowing ash.   Sherman’s got our respect here for spending his own dough and sticking through to keep up the tradition.
  • Notre Dame and Miami are looking to renew their rivalry.  Sounds good to us.  Back in the day, this game meant national championships.  Today, well, these teams are struggling to get back to the big time.  Maybe this renewed tussle will help them get back on the track.
  • It seems like there is some trouble going on over in Lawrence.   We might have not mentioned it before, but there is a big brewhaha over former fundraiser Rodney Jones’ abuse over tickets and plane ride solicitations.  On the field, first stringer defensive tackle Jamal Greene is off the team because of his arrest for a little breaking and entering and armed robbery.  At least they are cleaning things up now.
  • The speculation for the Big Ten expansion now grows toward the Sun Belt, according the head honcho Jim Delany.  Let the fake reports triple because of this.
  • Bennie F. Abram, the Ole Miss player who collapsed and died on the field during a workout, had the sickle-cell trait.  The enlarged heart due to that caused the seizure.  When  will the NCAA institute a rule that monitors this disease in football players?  Every year there’s a new kid that dies because of this.  Where is the clamor?

Big 12 Preview 2009

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Most folks outside of the midwest believe that the Big 12 Conference is 2nd nationally amongst conferences in terms of football strength.  Much of the talk points toward the Big 12 South.  As we roll into the 2009 season, we find some teams reloaded, some teams are out of ammo, and the rest either misfired or are shooting blanks.  We’re gonna see where they all stack up and how they will finish in 2009, according the Purple Yeti’s crystal ball.  There are some shifts in power, but the top stack will stay the same and most of the close calls will still be close.  Hopefully the crystal ball pulls through.

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