A little over 25 years ago, the Coca-Cola Company was concerned that it was losing market share to Pepsi in the “Cola Wars” and hired an avalanche of consultants and scientists to concoct a new formula for its flagship product. If you were a businessman that only made judgments based on specific metrics from market [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Message to the Big Ten: Don’t Create the New Coke Conference
Posted: August 26, 2010 in Big Ten, SportsTags: Big Ten Divisions, Big Ten Expansion
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BlogPoll 2010 Week 1 Ballot
Posted: August 24, 2010 in Big East, Big Ten, College Football, SportsTags: BlogPoll
Nothing too off-the-wall to start out the season with my first BlogPoll ballot: Frank the Tank’s Slant Ballot – Week 1 Rank Team Delta 1 Alabama Crimson Tide – 2 Ohio St. Buckeyes – 3 Texas Longhorns – 4 Florida Gators – 5 Virginia Tech Hokies – 6 Oklahoma Sooners – 7 Nebraska Cornhuskers – [...]
BYU Independence Day and How It Helps the BCS Conferences
Posted: August 18, 2010 in College Basketball, College Football, SportsTags: BYU Cougars, BYU independent, BYU to the WAC, Mountain West, Utah Utes
While the realignment action at the BCS conference level has come to a standstill, BYU is aiming to be a next-tier combination of Notre Dame and Texas and possibly causing a massive upheaval at the non-AQ level with its reported proposal to become a football independent and become a member of the WAC for all [...]
Conference Threat Levels
Posted: August 13, 2010 in Big East, Big Ten, SportsTags: ACC, Big 12, Big Ten Expansion, Colorado Buffaoles, Nebraska Cornhuskers, Nebraska to the Big Ten, Pac-10, Pac-10 Expansion, SEC, Texas A&M Aggies, Texas Longhorns, Texas Tech Red Raiders, Utah Utes
Yes, I’m alive and so is this blog. With the slowdown in conference expansion news, it was a good time to take a summer break after going non-stop for the first 6 months of the year. However, the start of the football season is only a couple of weeks away, so the activity will be [...]
