[OutsiderFan]

On Mason, very good article.  Doesn't sound like he's leaving too soon.

On the 8 vs. 9 conference games issue, for the sake of the California schools, I think it makes more sense to put pressure on the other leagues to play 9 conference games.  I mean even if the Pac-12 were to go to 8 conference games, it's still a brobdingnagian advantage to the non-California schools, because they don't have to play the California schools as much and the California schools play each other every year.

For example, Oregon doesn't play USC next year.  Though they do play Arizona while Stanford doesn't, missing USC is such a gigantic advantage for Oregon over Stanford in terms of competing for the North crown in 2013 and it is never going to be accounted for in the BCS rankings, other than by a couple computers. 

[OutsiderFan]

On Mason, very good article.  Doesn't sound like he's leaving too soon.

On the 8 vs. 9 conference games issue, for the sake of the California schools, I think it makes more sense to put pressure on the other leagues to play 9 conference games.  I mean even if the Pac-12 were to go to 8 conference games, it's still a brobdingnagian advantage to the non-California schools, because they don't have to play the California schools as much and the California schools play each other every year.

For example, Oregon doesn't play USC next year.  Though they do play Arizona while Stanford doesn't, missing USC is such a gigantic advantage for Oregon over Stanford in terms of competing for the North crown in 2013 and it is never going to be accounted for in the BCS rankings, other than by a couple computers.