Tag: Cincinnati Bearcats

AAC Commissioner Mike Aresco again wants to eliminate the Power 5/Group of 5 split

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Fort Worth, Texas — American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco marked the start of the AAC men’s basketball tournament Thursday by issuing a statement once again opposing what Aresco believes is an unhealthy division between the Power 5 and Group of 5 conferences at the FBS level. “In recent weeks, I’ve seen references to the ‘Powerful Five’ in interviews and public conversations suggesting that the P5 is an almost exclusive focus in college athletics, Aresco wrote in the statement. “This is very misleading, especially in the current environment.” Aresco spoke…

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Big 12 looking west, Pac-12 looking for TV deal: What we’re hearing about the realignment

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This past July, weeks after the stunning Big Ten announcement of USC and UCLA, Pac-12 Commissioner George Klyafkov made a bold realignment prediction: “No Pac-12 school is going to the Big 12.” After eight months, we may finally learn whether his confidence was warranted or a feigned bravado. Kliavkoff is under pressure to offer its members a new media rights deal by the end of the month. If the dollar numbers or the details disappoint, March could be the moment when the Big 12 finally hits. Sources familiar with the…

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Can Cincinnati basketball avoid another late season meltdown after an ugly loss to ECU?

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CINCINNATI – History is not hypothetical. The 2021-22 Cincinnati Bearcats were 17-9 (7-6 AAC) in mid-February before being defeated at home by Temple, 75-71. It was the first of five straight losses to end the regular season and a bad finish for first-year head coach Wes Miller. On Wednesday night, the 2022-23 Cincinnati Bearcats traveled to East Carolina — the program’s last visit to Greenville, NC, before joining the Big 12 next season — with a record of 17-9 (8-5 AAC). Cincinnati lost 75-71, taking a 16-point lead with nine…

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Wes Miller, Mariah Carey and Cincinnati Basketball shed their “situational” identity

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CINCINNATI — Wes Miller wasn’t in the know after Cincinnati’s tip-off 90s-themed game at 9 p.m. against East Carolina on Wednesday. Tonight? said Miller, who was apparently deaf from the rotation of Nirvana, Tupac, and Alanis Morissette all around the third third ring all evening. However, she responded following up: Have a go-to ’90s jam? “This is a childhood. I have a lot of ’90s go-to parties. Picking one is probably unfair,” Miller, 39, said, faltering before giving a brief glimpse into his back pages. “I will say, in the…

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What does Daniel Grzysiak offer to the Cincinnati football team?

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CINCINNATI – Daniel Grzesiak’s Cincinnati Bearcats sales pitch was simple. “They led the country in sacks (when this was staff) in Louisville last year,” Grzysiak said. “It definitely caught my attention.” She helped Cincinnati secure a transfer commitment from the 6-foot-1, 245-pound rusher out of Utah on Saturday, and he’s a formidable addition to the Bearkats’ defense in 2023 under new head coach Scott Satterfield. Grzesiak, ranked as the 20th best transfer prospect available ever the athletePrior to his decision, Max Olson spent his first four seasons at Nevada (including…

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Cincinnati’s victory over Wichita State is encouraging, but Wes Miller wants more consistency

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CINCINNATI – Cincinnati opened conference play last season against Tulane on January 1, 2022, with a disappointing 68-60 loss at home that featured a 26-point lead in the first half of the game. It proved to be an unfortunate harbinger of a frustrating few months that saw the Bearcats run to a 7-11 regular season record in the AAC. After nearly a full year, UCLA opens conference play again against the Green Wave in Fifth Arena, this time on December 29, 2022. Same opponent, different result. The Bearcats won 88-77…

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Inside Cincinnati internship search and updated candidate list

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CINCINNATI — We’re halfway through the week of Cincinnati’s search for a head football coach in the wake of Luke Fickel’s departure to Wisconsin on Sunday. Bearcats athletic director John Cunningham spoke to the media Sunday night and vowed to work quickly and judiciously to find Fickel’s replacement. The sense from multiple sources with knowledge of either the internship search or candidates targeted by Cincinnati is that the process is moving forward with the hope that the candidate will be in place by the end of this weekend or early…

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Send your 5 college football group questions to the G5 Drive mailbag

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What’s on your mind about the G5 conferences? Submit the G5 Questions below to Chris Vannini’s Mailbag. .

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All-America’s new mid-season college football team: Drake Maye, Quinshon Judkins on first list

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As we’re halfway through the season, it’s time once again to highlight some of the college’s most exciting young talents. This is the All-America Freshman mid-season squad at The Athletic, and an early look at the real freshmen and freshmen of the 2022 season. We try to prioritize production when we put this team together, and we judge players based on what they’ve achieved so far rather than what they might do in the future. But there is always a long list of candidates for every position and tough choices…

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Mandel’s Final Thoughts: Could Tide Be Weak vs. Volumes? In addition to the urgent madness, the greatness of Los Angeles

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And now, 23 final thoughts from Saturday that started at 11 a.m. Dallas time in front of 90,000 at Cotton Bowl and ended at 11:30 p.m. Palo Alto time in front of a few thousand unsuspecting fans at Stanford Stadium who inadvertently (and unfortunately For them) they witnessed the most beautiful end to the whole darn day. 1. It appears that CBS has hired a psychic medium to run the programming department. For two years in a row, they used their only prime-time pick of the season to broadcast the…

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