Pac-10 asking for (demanding?) more national attention; 'Rogue agents worse than pimps' and more

AnnArbor.com: Dave Birkett breaks down the <a href="http://www.annarbor.com/sports/um-football/top-5-questions-michigan-football-coach-rich-rodriguez-will-hear-at-big-ten-media-days/">Top-5 questions Rich Rodriguez will hear at Big Ten media days
Detroit Free Press: Mark Snyder gives <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20100801/SPORTS06/8010530/1054/Questions-abound-for-U-M-coach-Rodriguez">his view on Coach Rodriguez's concerns
USA Today: Former Oregon QB <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2010/08/jeremiah-masoli-confirms-he-is-heading-to-mississipp/1">Jeremiah Masoli to walk-on at Mississippi
Los Angeles Times: Chris Dufresne lists the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinionla/la-sp-0802-college-football-20100802,0,421851.column">story lines to follow during the 2010 season

When the college football coaches of the Pac-10 gathered in the center of Times Square for a photo-op, a passer-by asked ESPN's Ted Miller, in an English accent, "Are dees some famous people?"

The Pac-10 is attempting to make that so, sending its coaches cross country to increase their fame and -- ultimately -- the conference's fortune.

Is this a trend all major conferences will follow -- parading its coaches around like golf-shirted puppets?

As Miller says, the Pac-10 is "asking its coaches, who'd rather be doing just about anything other than tap-dancing for the media a week before preseason practices, to adopt perma-grins for the cameras."

FILE - Oregon quarterback Jeremiah Masoli talks during a news conference in this Dec. 29, 2009 file photo taken in Los Angeles, Calif. Masoli has accepted an invitation from Mississippi coach Houston Nutt to visit the school this weekend, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Friday July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File)

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