Former Colorado St. Rams quarterback Pete Thomas has made his decision to transfer to the East coast and will become a member of the N.C. State Wolfpack, this according to Kelly Lyell of the Coloradoan. Thomas said that he needed a change.

Thomas will enroll in the fall which will allow him to take part in spring practice and summer workouts, but he will have to sit out the 2012 season due to transfer rules which will leave him with two years of eligibility left. The move to N.C. State came out of nowhere as the Vanderbilt Commodores were supposedly his school of choice.

Thomas met with new head coach Jim McElwain several times to discuss his future, but Thomas mentioned that he was real close with former head coach Steve Fairchild.

The quarterback position is now handed over to Garrett Grayson who took over late in the 2011 season for Thomas who suffered a knee injury.

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Arkansas in Dallas is not on their radar, but it would be a good game.

Spit Blood: TCU Baseball 2012: What should we expect?

College Baseball Top 25 Rankings: TCU No. 15 - SB Nation Denver
Baseball America has released its College Baseball Top 25 Preseason Poll on Tuesday and TCU is No. 15.

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Rumor has it that the bowl eligibility could go from six wins to seven wins. This would guarantee that each bowl game would feature winning teams with winning seasons. This would be great for college football when considering the fact that bowl season has been diluted with excess of non BCS bowl games and 6-6 teams. The bowl system doesn't require major fundamental change, but it does need some tweaking.

Bowls should be in the big cites. The reward of winning should be to go from your small college town to a metropolis for a week to play a marque football game. Under that philosophy, why is there a bowl game in Shreveport, LA, Birmingham, AL, Mobile, AL, Albuquerque, NM, and Boise, ID? And even though Dallas, New Orleans, Orlando and San Diego are fine cities, what are they doing with multiple bowl games?

There are 12 bowl games that need to go, including some of the marquee bowl games in Dallas and Orlando. There are three games in Dallas, two in Orlando, two in New Orleans (not including the BCS Championship) and Tampa Bay. The Hawaii Bowl should also go. It may be in a wonderful place, but the time zone difference is too much.

These bowls have to go:

New Mexico Bowl (Albuquerque, NM)

Idaho Potato Bowl (Boise, ID)

New Orleans Bowl (New Orleans, LA)

Beef O'Brady's Bowl (St. Petersburg, FL)

Poinsettia Bowl (San Diego, CA)

Hawaii Bowl (Honolulu, HI)

Independence Bowl (Shreveport, LA)

Champ Sports Bowl (Orlando, FL)

Armed Forces Bowl (Dallas, TX)

Ticket City Bowl (Dallas, TX)

Compass Bowl (Birmingham, AL)

GoDaddy.com Bowl (Mobile, AL)

With those bowl games wiped out, the fans would just get a bowl game in Las Vegas, Detroit, Charlotte, Washington, San Diego, San Antonio, New York, Nashville, Tempe, Houston, El Paso, San Francisco, Memphis, Atlanta, Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, Dallas, New Orleans, Phoenix area, Las Angeles area and Miami. 22 marquee bowl games plus the BCS National Championship Game, which also means 46 teams with winning seasons. So when the season is over, you take the champions and push them aside (11 conference champions total) and then place the rest. What you get is six BCS conference champions in four BCS games, along with the top two teams overall in the Championship Game. Add the remaining top two to fill in the BCS bowl spots and you're left with 36 teams in 18 bowl games.

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Expansion is back! Not sure if I am really that excited about talking about this, but it indirectly could affect the Mountain West. Looks like the Big 12 is looking to go after the BYU Cougars and Louisville Cardinals. BYU already spurned the Big 12 a few months ago, but now they and Louisville could be the next targets for the Big 12, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education's Brad Wolverton.

BYU's decision to stop negotiations with the Big 12 was over television money due to BYU having their own contract with ESPN and BYUtv. For people who say it was all due to Sunday play for why BYU did not join the Big 12 last time around, well those people are not connecting the dots because if Sunday play was a non-starter the discussion would have never made it to television money.

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Wyoming's Larry Nance Jr. pulls of an Air Jordan dunk against San Diego State.

Video after the jump.

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Some of us are old enough to remember the presidential election of 1992. Instead of only having the usual milk toast, two party candidates, the US voter was treated to a third party candidate, who actually got enough votes to put a scare into the establishment: Ross Perot. One of Ross Perot's most famous quips was about jobs leaving the US for Mexico, as NAFTA was being discussed... he called it the "giant sucking sound" of jobs being outsourced south of the border.

Fast forward to the present day to Jeremy Mauss' article in the Mountain West Connection, in regard to the expected announcement of Navy's imminent inclusion in the Big East as a football only member. For the Big East, this is a solid addition, one that keeps it's non-football members happy and one that pulls a military, academic institution into it's ranks.

What the members of the MW are beginning to hear is becoming all too familiar: Ross Perot's giant sucking sound. It is the sound of yet another team, as Jeremy Mauss astutely pointed out, being sucked out of the MW, further depleting its membership and lowering it's quality of left-over teams. Air Force, which had previously spurned the advances of the Big East, now has a familiar dancing partner set to join in 2015. With the departure of WVU to the Big XII, the Big East is at only 11 "permanent" football members and the Air Force Academy would be a great match with Navy. The inclusion of AF into the Big East would also give the western teams another travel partner, closer than going all the way to Storrs or New Brunswick. Additionally, if the Big East sticks with an 8 game conference schedule, then AD Hans Mueh could potentially schedule CSU and Wyoming out of conference.

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The UNLV Runnin' Rebels got a much needed victory over the New Mexico Lobos on Saturday, winning 80-63. The Runnin' Rebels used a strong second half where they outscored the Lobos 41-28. Five players were in double figures for UNLV, with Mike Moser and Carlos Lopez leading the way with 14 points each. Moser also added 10 rebounds to earn his second straight double-double. Kendall Williams and Tony Snell also led New Mexico with 15 points each as four Lobos reached double figures.

The story of the game is found in the turnover battle, where New Mexico turned the ball over 21 times. UNLV then did what they do best with these turnovers, score. UNLV scored often off of turnovers and in transition, and it was too much for New Mexico to keep with in the second half. In the first half, the Lobos shot decently, being able to keep the game within striking distance, but went cold for stretches in the second half. During each stretch, UNLV pushed their lead further and further until New Mexico was pretty much done.

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