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Somehow Glendale has found an extra $11 million in annual revenue to bridge the gap. Short of renting out all of Glendale's public buildings and the arena to the Zetas as a staging area, I'm not sure how this is possible.

Not so fast, my friends:

@JSportsnet

"Can confirm that RSE has agreed in principle to lease terms with City of Glendale on an arena lease. #coyotesstay"

City of Glendale passed the budget in a whirlwind meeting, with Sherwood (the guy touting the mystery buyer) being one of two votes against. 6.5M for arena management. They've narrowed to two finalists for arena management in the meantime, RSE being neither.

Meanwhile, a plane departs from Teeterboro to Quebec City, stopping for 45 minutes or so then headed to Portland ME.

http://flightaware.c...e/flight/N331BR

They actually passed the budget with 6.5? You have a link?

Hfboards' thread has been all over it. The meeting had an online broadcast.

http://www.azcentral...ix-coyotes.html

So now a Glendale says a new mystery buyer has emerged to save the team and he's totally going to have an offer ready later today and I can't even with this sh

I'll be honest, I haven't really been keeping up with all of the specifics in this situation, but what's the problem with Kansas City exactly? Yeah it's not as "sexy" as Seattle or a slam dunk like Quebec but they have the arena ready to go. Bonus: Realignment is an easy fix.

Nobody in town's interested in owning a team supposedly.

If the NHL is planning to take the Coyotes to Seattle, I believe this needs to be asked, since I no longer trust them to do any due diligence on anything anymore.

"Does Key Arena even have an ice plant still?"

FWIW some goomba on twitter said the Tacoma Dome doesn't have one at the moment.

Moving to Seattle would keep the Coyotes in the west and maintain the integrity of realignment. It would also give the NHL an opportunity to get a foothold in the new $490 million arena that is going to be built in Seattle before the National Basketball Association moves in. There was speculation the Sacramento Kings would move to Seattle, but that possibility was quashed when the team was recently sold and the league’s board of governors rejected a move.

The detachment from reality in this sentence is staggering, even by the NHL's standards.

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Do what now? I thought we already had Baltimore.

Let's relocate them immediately to Shreveport, Louisiana.

Do they have an arena?

No, but Bossier City, which is just across the river, does.

Oh for s sake burn the new realignment, tell Detroit and Columbus to get bent, and just move the damn team to Quebec (unless Columbus is about to die so the Coyotes can live out West). We aren't even putting the cart before the horse anymore, we're putting the cart, the wood that will be used to build other carts, and the ing barn before the damn horse.

1. I just don't see Orlando basketball, but thanks for the point.

2. Explain why too many would hurt. The playoffs can still function.

Why don't you see Orlando basketball? They do pretty well at the gate, built a new arena, and are the only game in town. They'd do far better where they are than moving to a super-saturated Tampa Bay sports market.

Once again, so glad we ramrodded through a stupid realignment scheme to accommodate a non-existent market. Welcome back to the Hotel Western Conference Columbus and Detroit, where you can always check out but you can never leave.

IIRC "Foudre" is lightning, "Tonnere" is thunder.

Nobody wants to leave the SEC.

so i guess its a race to gut the big xii if the sec, big10, acc and pac12 are stable and there "can only be 4 power conferences" right?

SEC is your Conference currently lacking a grant of media rights setup. No buyout either.

(Yes, I understand why in both cases.)

So to all who were hoping that the ACC would be gutted like a fish by the other Conferences over the next few months....bad news.

The ACC is being reported as adopting a conference wide grant of media rights, which would pretty much lock all the member schools in for its duration.

Big Ten 2014 alignment has been decided.

Big Ten East: Maryland, Rutgers, Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana

Big Ten West: Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Northwestern, Purdue

2 Indiana centric thoughts.

1) If Indiana doesn't pull off Bowl eligibility next year, it's going to be awhile before it happens

2) Indiana is separated from all its rivals. The Big Ten might as well add Virginia and UNC now. This bites.

Hey, we'll finally get to play Iowa in my grad year here. Two teams in the same conference shouldn't go four years in a row without playing each other. Kinda nice that we'll be in the "easy" division too. But this really screws over IU.

Indiana would have been hosed regardless. Don't tell me that they would expect to win a West division against Wisconsin, Northwestern and Nebraska.

No, but they would have had a better shot at 6-7 wins a year.

Big Ten 2014 alignment has been decided.

Big Ten East: Maryland, Rutgers, Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana

Big Ten West: Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Northwestern, Purdue

2 Indiana centric thoughts.

1) If Indiana doesn't pull off Bowl eligibility next year, it's going to be awhile before it happens

2) Indiana is separated from all its rivals. The Big Ten might as well add Virginia and UNC now. This bites.

Personally, I think 20 works out better than 16. I don't think for one second that the B1G TEN doesn't have at least the outline for a 20 team conference in mind. Just think, 4 divisions of 5 schools. You play every team in your division every year and 1 team from each of the other divisions on a rotatings basis. You have your 8 league games and will still be able to schedule to warm up games and 2 out of conference games.

It's not a Conference if a member team only comes to town once a decade.

Twice per decade.

1 every 8 years. Ohio State would host Toledo more often.

Personally, I think 20 works out better than 16. I don't think for one second that the B1G TEN doesn't have at least the outline for a 20 team conference in mind. Just think, 4 divisions of 5 schools. You play every team in your division every year and 1 team from each of the other divisions on a rotatings basis. You have your 8 league games and will still be able to schedule to warm up games and 2 out of conference games.

It's not a Conference if a member team only comes to town once a decade.

I really thought the Missouri Valley would pick UIC instead...with "Chicago" actually being part of the school's name in addition to-when's the last time Loyola even CONTENDED for a postseason spot?

Creighton's replacement was going to be a private school-the MVC private schools would rather they were not completely dominated by their public brethren. Additionally, despite Illinois-Chicago's higher budget and greater student body, it does have some problems. Such as being an Illinois public school and therefore eating budget cuts from now until eternity.

That said, chasing after Chicago for "recruits" (outside of the elite players anyway) is a fool's errand. Shame nobody has figured that out yet.

Might as well add bsu, sdsu, UNLV and byu and then call it good

BYU probably won't get into a major conference until they drop their objection to playing on the Sabbath.

ALL college football teams play on the Sabbath (Saturday). BYU's objection is playing on Sunday, which is the "Lord's Day."

"The Lord's Day" is another way of saying "the Sabbath" in Judeo-Christian/Mormon tradition. Regardless of which specific day of the week it is, the concept is still the same.

The Pac-12 as a conference doesn't have problems with private religious institutions, but some of the member schools (see: "Science, Not God!" Snobs at Stanford) are more than happy to block a religious school.

The Pac-12 has since done away with liberum veto with regards to expansion more or less as a direct consequence of Stanford's scuttling of the BYU add back in the 90s.

FWIW I believe Brigham Young does not teach Young Earth Creationism in the biology classroom, so they have that going for them at least.

Pac 12 doesn't have an issue with Bible Thumpers. It's just that when the Bible (or Book of Mormon) Thumpers decline to participate in sporting events on the Sabbath that problems arise. That's a huge scheduling headache.