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No, they should be caring about athletics, these are first and foremost ATHLETIC relationships. A big part of the success of Ohio State athletics is being a part of an elite athletic conference. Yes, the good of our academic programs is a far greater consideration, but the success of...

That's great and everything, but we are talking about the Big Ten..an ATHLETIC CONFERENCE. This is about athletics, no one is saying that everything is about athletics, no one is saying that athletics is more important then anything. But we are talking about who we are partnering with in...

Again I think FSU is a better school then say Ok State, plus you had the Texas schools leaching on Texas there. But there would have been another element to bringing in all of those associated schools which is related to a question I'd like to bring up, and maybe this gets more into...

I have to stop and point out here that the CIC doesn't actively go out and solicit research money. When they report that their member schools brought in such and such amount of dollars, that was done by each individual school on its own and then added up. Academics are obviously the #1...

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How many empty seats at Rutgers and Maryland? FSU is not quite Nebraska sure but they are the best football option left on the board aside from the Domers. Isn't the Big Ten's ploy to force entire states into carrying the Big Ten network? Maybe I'm dense but if Rutgers and Maryland are going...

I definitely see where you are coming from with that, personally I would have liked to keep that midwestern culture as a driving factor when it came to adding more schools. It just seems like that got thrown out when we brought Rutgers and Maryland on board and the rest of the countries moves...

And you are? I read between the lines. We had a chance to add Missouri and we took Nebraska. Nebraska is the worst academic school in the Big Ten yet we took them when a superior school wanted in. The Big Ten started this conference expansion bit and the goal behind it wasn't about...

The Big Ten added Maryland and Rutgers for east coast exposure TV dollars. We added Nebraska for football. Never did they say "Oh we need another school to share research with, let's bring them to the conference" If FSU were going to seriously commit to joining we'd take them. You don't add...

Bullcrap, explain to me how FSU hurts the CIC? We certainly didn't invite Nebraska for their stellar academic reputation, they were barely in the AAU and now aren't. FSU is basically on par with them rankings wise. This is about athletics, it's an athletic conference. The CIC is a nice...

This is about sports..if FSU were West Virginia or Kent State or some other 3rd rate academic school then fine, but they aren't that bad. If we assumed Rutgers and Maryland would be getting their athletic department together when we let them in, why not let FSU in under the assumption their...

I'm sure there would be complaining, but that would really be ridiculous reasoning. 3 of those 4 are better academically then some AAU members.

No way

I'd love to see the Noles on board..have my doubts but crazier things have happened during this whole realignment bit.

Which is ridiculous logic, we are going to a 4 team playoff in a year..they'll be a lot more room for a 1 loss team from another conference to sneak in

Obvious true freshmen starter... With flame out about 3/4ths of the way through the season

I'll throw my name in the hat My qualifications include NOT being Derek Dooley or Lane Kiffin I also promise never to play another "Clausen" or "Crompton" at quarterback ever again under any circumstances

So anyone else think Bielema was viewed as the top candidate for this job simply because he was already married to a gold digging young blonde? Certainly he wouldn't need to go after another..

The huge tv deals aren't the only place the money has come from football. Stanford's athletic department is still self sustaining, they wouldn't run 35 varsity sports if it tapped into the universities funding: http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/07/29/athletics-budget-on-stable-ground/ Sure...

The University would have to drain funds away from the academic side to allow those teams to exist though if it wasn't for football. I think you are kind of missing the point I was making though, I was addressing the original statement that assistants shouldn't be paid more money because the...