Ash: Man-crush for Larry Scott

Usually I make fun of Gambo for having what I like to call "man crushes." He has had many of them over the years. Tommy John is his #1, followed very closely by Curtis Martin and, lately, Ian Kennedy. A man crush is usually punctuated by an overabundance of praise given to said semi-hero. Well, it is official, I have a man crush! My man crush is with Larry Scott, the commissioner of the Pac-10 - or Pac-11 for now. I've never met Larry and to be honest don't know if I would recognize him if he walked into our studio, but his swift actions as the new Pac-10 Commissioner have me giddy with excitement. I even wrote a poem for Larry:

Roses are Red

Violets are Blue

Colorado was one

Who will be two?

The announcement Thursday by the Pac-10 that they have added the University of Colorado to their conference is the second blow to the Big 12 Conference (officially first, but the reports of Nebraska leaving for the Big 10 surfaced on Wednesday).

The Pac-10 decided they wanted Colorado and their Denver TV market first and foremost, so they made the bold move that has everyone asking what's next.

There are a ton of different reports out there and to be honest they keep getting stranger by the minute. Texas to the Big 10? Didn't Nebraska just leave to get away from Texas? Texas to the SEC? Where did the SEC come from? I still believe that the expansion will continue with the other Big 12 schools Texas, OU, OSU, Texas Tech and maybe A&M, with all becoming a part of the nation's first super conference. There are some reports that A&M will go to the SEC and then I guess maybe Baylor could get the invite from the Pac.

The only other option I see happening is that the Big 12 stays intact with just 10 teams for now and loses their Big 12 championship game and also allows Texas to have their own TV Network.

Chip Brown from www.orangebloods.com has been all over this story from the get go and he keeps saying it is going to get done, and I think he is right.

Larry Scott knew what he was doing when he was appointed to the commissioner position with the Pac-10. He asked the school presidents for a larger budget and then went and hired former Big 12 commissioner Kevin Weiberg to be his right hand man. Weiberg had similar visions of a super conference when he was the commish of the Big 12, but was never allowed to do anything with it. Now he and Scott might have the last laugh at the expense of the Big 12. I am so pumped for all of this I can hardly stand it. One last poem for Larry:

Rose are Red

Violets are Blue

The Pac -10 was good

But it's better with you!

Love,

ASH