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No doubt, Heath definitely earned his!

Greg Auman â€@gregauman Fresh off NCAA run, USF men's basketball coach Stan Heath has new contract through 2017-18 season. Salary up to $1.13-million in 2012-13.

Greg Auman â€@gregauman USF has higher buyout clauses in place with new Skip Holtz contract: $1-million if he leaves before Dec. 8, 2013; $500,000 thru Dec. 2015.

Greg Auman â€@gregauman Skip Holtz's pool for USF assistants continues to rise as well: $1.85-million this fall, rising $100,000 each of next two years.

Greg Auman â€@gregauman Some big bonuses in new Skip Holtz contract with USF: national title $500,000, runner-up $400,000; Big East title and BCS berth $200,000. 3m Greg Auman â€@gregauman Football coach Skip Holtz's new contract with USF goes through 2017 season, with salary/compensation of $2-million per year.

Greg Auman â€@gregauman USF announces new contract extensions for football head coach Skip Holtz and men's basketball coach Stan Heath.

Josh Newberg â€@joshnewberg247 Vernon Hargreaves ran a 4.42 in the 40 and a 4.1 in the shuttle before spraining his ankle. Out for the day. http://ow.ly/c44P6

http://voices.idahostatesman.com/2012/07/03/bmurphy/college_football_playoffs_starting_look_bcs_20#storylink=cpy College football playoffs starting to look like BCS 2.0 Submitted by Brian Murphy on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 10:54am, updated on Tue, 07/03/2012 - 2:25pm By Brian Murphy bmurphy@idahostatesman.com While college football presidents and conference commissioners still have work to do on access and revenue distribution for the new postseason format, Big East Senior Associate Commissioner Nick Carparelli said he does not believe deserving conference champions will be cut out of the system. "I don't believe any league is going to be squeezed out. There have been seven conferences represented in BCS games. Last year was the only year it wasn't and there probably should have been a seventh," Carparelli said. Since the BCS expanded to five games for the 2007 postseason, at least seven conferences were represented each year until last year. In 2009, there were eight conferences represented in the five games with Boise State (WAC) and TCU (Mountain West) joining the six AQ conferences. "Now we're seeing the system expand from 10 to 12. The purpose of that was for access for other deserving champions," Carparelli said. "The notion there is going to be less access is a false one." In the BCS, the top-ranked conference champion from a non-AQ league was assured of a spot if ranked in the top 12. Carparelli said "at a minimum, we should expect that that line will remain." "The national championship has evolved. The revenue has evolved. Full access for other conference champions will evolve," he said. Other highlights: — On bowl tie-ins: Carparelli said the Big East is in discussions with bowl games. "I'm confident that wherever our champion ends up, it will be a very high-quality location against a high-quality opponent," he said. He added that the league is considering not having a specific tie-in for its conference champion given the geography of the league in 2013 and beyond. "Honing in on one location for our champion might not make sense for anybody," he said. — On Boise State's decision: He said the league talked with Boise State throughout its process of withdrawing from the Mountain West. "Clearly Boise State needs to resolve the issue of where their sports other than football will play. We believe they have options," Carparelli said. Carparelli said the league has considered the possibility of creating a "Western Division" for all sports, but that "a lot of strategic planning needs to be done." — On the league's upcoming television negotiations: "We're very confident of the value that this conference brings to the table. All of the consultants in TV, the professionals that we have talked to, have echoed those positive sentiments," he said. Playoffs starting to look like BCS 2.0 College football's newly announced playoff system, which will begin with the 2014 regular season, is starting to look very familiar. The ACC and Orange Bowl announced a new 12-year agreement Tuesday, locking the league's champion into the bowl game as long as it is not playing in the four-team playoff. If that is the case, then a second ACC team will play in the Orange Bowl. Sound familiar? It sounds an awful lot like the despised BCS, which the new system was supposed to replace. So far five leagues have announced contracts with bowl expected to be part of the six top-tier games. A selection committee will chose the four teams to participate in the playoff. Rose Bowl: In some years, perhaps one of every three, the Rose will be a semifinal playoff game. In other years, it will host the champions from the Big Ten and Pac-12 — unless one or both makes the playoffs. In that case, the second-best team from the league will play for the Roses, according to the Chicago Tribune. Champions Bowl: The Big 12 and the Southeastern conferences have announced a deal that will pit their football regular-season champions against each other in a New Year's Day bowl game for five years beginning in 2014, positioning themselves for the expected switch to a four-team playoff. ... If one or both of the league champions are selected to play in the playoff, another team would be selected for the Big 12-SEC bowl showdown on Jan. 1, according to ESPN.com. Orange Bowl: The Atlantic Coast Conference and the Orange Bowl announced a 12-year agreement that goes into effect in the 2014 seasons to tie the league and game together through 2025. The contract maintains the tie between the two entities that has been in place since 2006. Under the terms of the new deal, the ACC champion will play in the Orange Bowl if the school is not part of the playoff and the game is not hosting a national semifinal. ... In the years that the ACC champion is in a playoff and the Orange Bowl is not hosting, another representative from the conference will be selected, according to USA Today. What it means is that the number of available spots in the top-tier bowl games will fluctuate depending on which bowls host semifinals and which conferences qualify teams for the playoff. When the new configuration was announced, Idaho President Duane Nellis — a member of the 12-member BCS Presidential Oversight Committee that had to sign off on the changes — said the new format would allow more access for teams in other conferences. "The other thing that to me is positive for schools that might be in the Mountain West or the WAC are the three additional bowls, in addition to the Champions Bowl, the Orange Bowl and the Rose Bowl. With the separate championship game, it will provide more access points," Nellis told the Idaho Statesman. "Assuming rankings would have held, Boise State under this new format would have been in one of the bowl games this past year when they were closed out unfortunately. Based on the structure, according to this analysis, there are five (more) non-AQ schools in the last 12 years that would have made into in this new system assuming that things worked out with the selection process." At this point, no defined access points have been announced for teams not in the ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 or SEC. Boise State is scheduled to join the Big East – which was one of the BCS's six AQ conferences in the past — in 2013. "The BCS Presidents made it very clear that there is still a lot of work to be done on the access issue. It's premature to assume that there won't be spots for other conf champions. The system was increased from 10 to 12 teams for that reason," Senior Associate Commissioner of the Big East Nick Carparelli tweeted Tuesday. In the old BCS system, the top-ranked conference champion from a non-automatic-qualifying conference was guaranteed a spot in the BCS if it finished in the top 12 of the final BCS Standings. Scenario This is from Stewart Mandel at SportsIllustrated.com on what the new system might have looked like had it been in place last year: Let's assume, as a hypothetical, that the six wind up being: Rose, Sugar (Champions), Cotton, Orange, Fiesta and Chick-fil-A. And let's say, for this example, the Fiesta and Orange wind up hosting the first semifinals. Here's what the lineup might have looked like using last season's field and the committee's anticipated criteria (strength of schedule, head-to-head, valuing conference champions, etc). • Dec. 31, 1 p.m. Chick-fil-A: No. 11 Clemson (10-3) vs. No. 13 Baylor (9-3) • Dec. 31, 4:30 p.m. Cotton: No. 9 South Carolina (10-2) vs. No. 10 Boise State (11-1) • Dec. 31, 8 p.m. Fiesta: No. 2 Oklahoma State (11-1) vs. No. 3 Alabama (11-1) • Jan. 1, 1 p.m. Sugar: No. 6 Arkansas (10-2) vs. No. 7 Kansas State (10-2) • Jan. 1, 5 p.m. Rose: No. 5 Stanford (11-1) vs. No. 8 Wisconsin (11-2) • Jan. 1, 8:30 p.m. Orange: No. 1 LSU (13-0) vs. No. 4 Oregon (10-2) Obviously, it's impossible to say exactly how the committee's rankings would have differed from the BCS standings, but I elevated Oklahoma State (from No. 3 to No. 2), Oregon (No. 5 to 4), Wisconsin (No. 10 to No. 8) and Clemson (No. 15 to No. 11) for their conference championships and/or head-to-head wins over similarly ranked foes and downgraded Boise State (from No. 7 to No. 10) for poor strength of schedule. We also don't know if there would be an at-large selection order or a teams-per conference limit (the SEC placed four in this lineup).

Orlando Freedom WR Jeff Badet says Louisville is his leader , , By Brendan Sonnone | Orlando Sentinel, 1:31 p.m. EST, July 3 Orlando Freedom wide out Jeff Badet received an influx of scholarship offers during spring practice. Now that he has taken the time to assess his seven FBS offers, he said he is comfortable naming a favorite. “Louisville is standing high, actually No. 1 right now,†Badet said. “Terrence Ross [Apopka Wekiva safety and Louisville commit] said he went there, fell in love. He had already committed, but he said he went there and fell in love even more. The coaches are cool, the atmosphere, the people love football. I guess me and him are going to take our official visit together. And we’ll just see how it goes.†Ads by Google Miami Herald Digitale Newspaper, just like in print! Includes mobile sports & news apps. heraldsubscriptions.com/mhdigital Universal Summer ConcertsLive Concerts Saturday Nights June 9 - July 14. View The Lineup Now! UniversalOrlando.com/SummerConcerts While Louisville is the clear-cut leader for Badet (5-11, 170) at this time, Boston College and FIU are not far behind. Badet said Boston College’s coaching staff tells him he has the ability to play as a freshman. His teammate, two-way lineman Kevin Maurice, is also helping Boston College keep pace. “Of course Big Mac [Maurice] wants me to go to school with him,†Badet said. “I guess he wants to go to Boston College, but I don’t know yet. He wants me and him to go to the same school.†Badet intends to take official visits to Louisville and Boston College. FIU is a school that Badet has already visited on numerous occasions and the Golden Panthers still appear to be in the mix. “FIU is recruiting me really, really hard,†Badet said. “Every time I go there, the coaches treat me good. I talk to Coach Cristobal from time to time.†Ranked No. 27 on the Sentinel’s 2013 Central Florida Super60 list, Badet also has offers from Marshall, Memphis, Bowling Green and Western Kentucky, along with several Division I-AA programs. UCF and USF have also displayed interest. “If they offered, they’d most definitely be in the top three,†Badet said. “They’d move up. We’ll just see how it goes through the season.â€

BE will not get an auto bid but it will be well positioned for one of the at large bids. The BE championship game will add to the strength of schedule.

I am not a Calculus major but isn't there 6 Major Bowl games now? SEC, Big10, Pac10, Big12 each get 2 teams in each year...ACC gets 1 team in each year---2 when the Orange bowl is part of the playoff....They can actually pick the best remaining 3rd place SEC,Big10, Pac10, Big12 team when the Orange bowl is part of the playoff. That still leaves a Major Bowl for 2 teams.....Notre Dame has to be involved somehow....My guess is that one of the bowls will include ND/Big East and possibly another conference against the 3rd best option.(Which is most likely the 3rd place team in the SEC) This way the Big 5 still keeps 83% of the playoff revenues and still keeps the non Big 5 happy. Hopefully the two new bowls will be floating bowls. Throw us a bone!

We need more local yokels!

You cant make this stuff up. 30 for 30 should be all over this story. I hope the kid makes it to the NFL!

That is always the case. Power corrupts. When people in power break the law they need to go to jail. In this case jail is going to bring them the violations they failed to report.. That is justice! Let them see what its like to be abused and have nobody to defend them. So what do you think should happen to Penn State? I already stated this, but I did not go into all the details. They need to pay the victims. My guess is the figure will be 15-25 million per victim. I am fine with any monetary sanctions imposed by the NCAA and /or Big10. Should they get the death penalty, no. should they clean house and start over.... absolutely. Spainer, Schultz and Curley are the ones that agreed to the cover up. They will be held accountable for this. to our knowledge, the BOD were not informed of the situation. If it comes out that the cover up is more expansive than what has been reported to us, then I may reconsider. As of right now, paying over 150 million out to the victims and any additional sanctions should hit them in the pockets. I have a feeling their insurance company may find a loophole to back out of covering 100% of the settlements. D&O policies cover most issues, but criminal activity of this nature might not be covered. I am anxious to see how the settlements play out. We may never find out what % of it is covered by insurance, but I'd be shocked it will not cover 100% of it. Before this thread, I have to tell you, I did not think that the NCAA had any business in this case. I agree with you about cleaning house. It would be ignorant to think that nobody else was involved in a stretch of 10 plus years. Also the statue outside the stadium has to come down. It is the fiduciary responsibility of the University to have controls in place. In the corporate world Sarbanes Oxley was created to keep checks and balances at all levels. Same has to be true for not only at Penn State but all Universities.

That is always the case. Power corrupts. When people in power break the law they need to go to jail. In this case jail is going to bring them the violations they failed to report.. That is justice! Let them see what its like to be abused and have nobody to defend them. So what do you think should happen to Penn State?

Unfortunately this is the root of the problem. The "people" holding this much power will abuse it. Joe Patterno had too much power and influence. Football is their religion. They will do anything to protect it.

The more I think about this thanks to Bullwinkle, the more I think Penn State has to be punished in someway. Not sure if the NCAA will bring the Death Penalty but a penalty has to be issued. All the crimes were committed by employees of the Athletic Department at the institution. These heinous acts did not happen away from campus. They happened repeatedly at the University by a person in power. All these skum bags made a choice of protecting their institution over reporting abuse. Criminally they will all get theirs but something has to be done for the lack of 'institutional control'. Penn State and their board has to be liable in some degree. If Sandusky would have been caught raping a 10 year old girl in the shower, this thing would have not lasted a day. The assistant coach would have punched him in the mouth. Sad but true!

Decision within 2 weeks. http://www.tampabay.com/hometeam/blog/east-lake-qb-pete-dinovo-will-decide-between-ucf-usf-within-two-weeks/14158/

The NCAA may be able to go after them based on ethical conduct. They haven't determined if they can yet ... You are 100% correct Triple B but........here is another story about the actual investigation. "Emmert said the case is not yet a formal investigation, though the inquiry could lead to that. NCAA investigators have not yet been on Penn State's campus. Emmert has asked the university to respond by Dec. 16 to several questions." "Emmert, in his letter, said the allegations in the case are testing "not only the integrity of the university, but that of intercollegiate athletics as a whole and the NCAA member institutions that conduct college sports." NCAA can definitely make an example of Penn State! http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/football/ncaa/11/18/ncaa-penn-state.ap/index.html

This is an SI story.....I guess the NCAA can go after Penn State based on ethical conduct--so I guess there is a chance at the Death Penalty! Its never happened but.. The governing body has said it will examine whether Penn State violated bylaws covering institutional control and ethical conduct in its handling of accusations against Sandusky. NCAA President Mark Emmert has made clear the organization will let the legal process and other investigations play out before deciding whether to weigh in. Spokeswoman Stacey Osburn said the NCAA had no further comment in light of the Sandusky verdict and that its previous statement about Penn State "still stands'' after the verdict. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/ncaa/06/25/penn-state-jerry-sandusky.ap/index.html

Powerful stuff! http://www.news-press.com/article/20120701/SPORTS/120630008/0/HENDRICKSCOUNTY/Noel-Devine-long-run?odyssey=nav|head

Greg Auman â€@gregauman @ErnieConsuegra USF's fall football roster isn't yet set, but Bulls should have scholarship available for transfer, yes.

No... but yes to Sandusky!

asking Greg