This was in the Summertime Platitudes that just went up. You should definitely read the whole thing but I thought this part was quite interesting:
Anyone care to guess the identity and motivations of the leak? I know I have some ideas...
Q: How did CU’s APR info get out a day ahead of time during the conference realignment frenzy?
A: It was leaked by a Big 12 member institution. Only the schools and conference offices had the info, which was password protected to the general public but each school could gain access two days earlier to the information for each school nationally. In this case, it was definitely leaked to the media by people closely associated with a particular school; that was confirmed by three different people from ESPN alone to me who flat out told me which school did it. I won’t expose that institution (at least not now, I’ll get ‘em good in my book in a decade or so), as we prefer it to be handled first between the Faculty Athletic Representatives. But as was the case, only part of the story was relayed about CU being penalized five football scholarships; what wasn’t leaked out was the fact that we had already absorbed the penalty. Of course, that neutralizes the damage, and would have made it practically a non-story, but that obviously wasn’t the motive of the “leaker.”
Anyone care to guess the identity and motivations of the leak? I know I have some ideas...