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07.14.05: South
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Player nabbed for trying to pass funny money |
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07.13.05: Football
player dies after conditioning drills |
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07.12.05: BCS
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07.11.05: Arsonist
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07.10.05: Lyme
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07.09.05: Turnstiles
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07.08.05: Turnstiles
spun at record rate for Heels' title win ... Convicted 'Bama
booster denies 'buying' Means |
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07.07.05: Detour
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hopping on video replay bandwagon |
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07.06.05: Rice
diamond stars make U.S. national team |
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07.05.05: UTEP,
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News Nuggets, 07.15.05
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NOTES FROM ECU AND BEYOND...
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Big 12, Big East divvy up Gator, Sun Bowl spots
MIAMI — The Big East, Big 12 and Notre
Dame would alternate bids to the Gator Bowl and the Sun Bowl over a
four-year period starting in 2006, according to a new agreement nearing
approval.
The four-year deal, which is pending
the approval of the Big 12, will give the Jacksonville-based Gator Bowl the
option of taking the Big East's No. 2 team or the Big 12's No. 3 team. The
agreement is scheduled to begin with the 2007 Gator Bowl, following the 2006
regular season.
The Atlantic Coast Conference will
remain as the Gator Bowl's other participant while the Pac 10 will do the
same in the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas.
The deal is an effort by the
conferences and the two bowls to avoid repetitive matchups in the
postseason, Gator Bowl president Rick Catlett said Thursday.
``Texas just finished playing in the
Holiday Bowl for the third time in four years and we had West Virginia
back-to-back, and it's just nuts to do that,'' Catlett said. ``It's an
attempt to put new teams in and to create matchups beneficial to the games
and for the fans.''
Under the deal, each conference will
have two bids each to the Gator Bowl and the Sun Bowl over the next four
years, Catlett said.
That means the Gator Bowl could invite
two straight Big East teams for the first two years of the deal, but they
will then be forced to take Big 12 teams the next two years.
The Sun Bowl takes whichever conference
is not invited to the Gator Bowl, thought in the case of the Big 12, the Sun
Bowl will have to take that conference's No. 4 team, said Sun Bowl executive
director Bernie Olivas.
Notre Dame, an independent in football,
would remain a part of the eight-team Big East's bowl pool and could not
trump a Big 12 selection in either bowl, Big East spokesman John Paquette
said.
``We want to make sure that we've got a
home in any year we're not in a BCS game,'' said John Heisler, Notre Dame's
senior associate athletic director. ``We want to make sure we have a place
to go that makes sense.''
The potential Gator Bowl selection will
also be influenced by the Cotton Bowl and how many Big 12 teams are invited
to the Bowl Championship Series.
If one Big 12 team is selected to the
BCS, the Gator Bowl will get the No. 3 pick from that conference. If two Big
12 teams make the BCS, the Cotton Bowl's pick will take precedence.
``It's going to be exciting again. It's
going to bring back some intrigue,'' Catlett said.
News Nuggets are
compiled periodically based on material supplied by staff members; data
published by ECU, Conference USA and its member
schools; and reports from Associated Press and
other sources. Copyright 2005
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