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Kentucky fans have never tried to hide the fact that they are a different breed. Traveling thousands of miles for games, wearing nothing but blue from November through March, turning your dog into a piece of a UK memorabilia; these are just things that come with the territory.
The latest example? A remarkably detailed portrait of Anthony Davis...made completely out of Reese's Puffs and Kix cereal.
West Virginia is beautiful, adventurous, half-insane, eager to impress you, filled with very nice people who know how to make fire, and home to Tudor's, the most dangerous fast food chain ever created. It also features like the funnest college football coach doing outdoorsman activities with the funnest college basketball coach in the middle of May. I can't imagine why anyone would ever want to be anywhere else.
Just don't shake anybody's hand.
Since moving to the Big Ten, the powers that be in the Nebraska athletic department have promised to make more of a commitment to basketball, a sport where the Cornhuskers haven't won a share of a conference title since 1950.
Nebraska AD Tom Osborne has promised to change that by upgrading the basketball practice facilities, pumping more advertising dollars into the program, and recently signing new head coach Tim Miles to a seven-year deal, the longest in UNL hoops history.
These are all positive steps in proving that Nebraska is more than just a football school. Not a positive step in proving that Nebraska is more than just a football school? Recruiting one of the top high school point guards in the country as a football player.
Now that the ACC has its next long-term television deal in place and the Big 12's is reportedly right around the corner, all five power conferences are established ... except for the SEC. Though it's been lapped by the Big Ten, Pac-12 and Big 12, the SEC's additions of Missouri and Texas A&M have enabled the conference to renegotiate its current contract, with some estimates flying as high as $30 million per school per year from TV money. Estimates fly high!
As it stands, the money breakdown per conference as best I can figure it (I tried my best!), based in part on work by Kristi Dosh and Jon Solomon:
Above you see Jimmy Kimmel tweeting at Anthony Bennett, the top unsigned basketball player in the class of 2012. Tweeting at recruits is popular these days, and now we have our most famous example yet.
So what do we make of this?
At an autograph signing in Louisville over the weekend, reigning national Player of the Year Anthony Davis was handed a picture of a baby mimicking the (somewhat) famous picture UK released of Davis in the middle of this past season.
Davis signed the photo for the baby's father and then tweeted out a picture of he, the baby and the autograph. As you may have guessed, it's appropriately fantastic.
The Big Sky wants the Idaho Vandals, should they wind up without a FBS home (they will probably wind up without a FBS home. From the Idaho Statesman:
"Playing at the top of the FCS is a better situation than playing at the bottom of the FBS," Fullerton said, adding that it is nearly impossible for schools with budgets near $20 million to compete with schools like Texas and its $140 million athletic department budget.
He said Idaho could shave $3 million to $5 million from its athletic budget by moving to the Big Sky, lessening the need to play those types of payday games. Those savings would come from fewer scholarships in football and women's sports and from lower coaching salaries. Idaho, he said, could then reinvest that money into other programs.
After averaging 10 points, 7.5 rebounds and 1.2 blocks during his junior year at Coastal Carolina, Sam McLaurin became a hot commodity when he announced his intent to transfer earlier this month. Baylor, Illinois, Georgia Tech, SMU and Virginia were among the host of schools who immediately expressed interest in the 6-8 power forward.
Ultimately, McLaurin made the announcement Wednesday night that he was headed to Illinois, and he chose to do so in perhaps most 2012-appropriate fashion ever: on Twitter and following a pair of words that usually precede "I'm going to Taco Bell."
Begin composing your obituaries for the WAC, the original super-conference. Long fallen from its glory days of BYU winning a football national title in 1984 and membership that's included TCU, Utah and Arizona, the former 16-team football league could very soon be down to only one or two football-playing members, along with three non-football members.
The Mountain West is reportedly continuing its decade-plus of raiding the WAC, with Conference USA swooping in for its second round of WAC imports. Even the Sun Belt might pick off a school. Here's the damage at the moment:
The Florida St. Seminoles have a mascot: a guy on a horse who throws burning stuff. It's pretty awesome. But they didn't have anything for the kids until now. Meet Cimarron, the two-legged horse who wears Christmas tree stands as shoes:
This has already resulted in much shaming and scorn around the Southeast, but I don't really get why. Your school already had a fluffy plush mascot, so it's not clear what you're laughing at. Let's all just cuddle.
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