University of Southern California
In College Sports, the Power Five May Become the Power Two
So improvisation has all but become a sanctioned sport at conference offices. The Big 12 has moved to add schools such as Cincinnati and Central Florida. Many around the A.C.C., the only Power 5 conference whose membership has been unaffected by this round of realignment, hope to conjure a renegotiation of a television deal that […]
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U.C.L.A. and U.S.C. Are Expected to Leave the Pac-12 for the Big Ten
In recent years, as the Pac-12’s fortunes have waned in football — and as the league was hamstrung by a television deal that pays its schools tens of millions of dollars less per year than the Big Ten’s contract — schools like Alabama, Ohio State, Georgia and Clemson have regularly mined Southern California for elite […]
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Big Contracts, Big Buyouts, Big Pressure: College Football Coaches Hit the Jackpot
The contract terms for Louisiana State University’s new football coach promise an unusually enormous payout for mediocrity: If the Tigers win just half of their regular-season games, de rigueur for a program with three national championships since 2003, Brian Kelly will receive $500,000 — on top of at least $9 million a year in other […]
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