Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[mross34]

Nebraska willing to listen if Big Ten calls - Big Ten Blog - ESPN

 

[jwinslow]

Without texas, you could make the top or bottom of the I into the B.

 

[Gatorubet]

I have to think that Mike Slive is in some bunker trying to figure out a way to steal Texas, now that descending on the Big-12 to cherry pick teams is OK.

The Arkansas history in the old Southwest Conference would be a plus for us, and getting Oklahoma and Texas in the mix (or Texas and Louisville for that matter - FSU brings us not one new TV viewer), might be cause enough for Mike to make a run at it.

While Texas has got that western thing working, they are still a variant of Southern - and we would love to have them.

 

[Buckeye86]

I have to think that Mike Slive is in some bunker trying to figure out a way to steal Texas, now that descending on the Big-12 to cherry pick teams is OK.

The Arkansas history in the old Southwest Conference would be a plus for us, and getting Oklahoma and Texas in the mix (or Texas and Louisville for that matter - FSU brings us not one new TV viewer), might be cause enough for Mike to make a run at it.

While Texas has got that western thing working, they are still a variant of Southern - and we would love to have them.

bugger off, we called it first

 

[Gatorubet]

bugger off, we called it first

No dibs on beef ribs!

 

[Buckeye Maniac]

I have to think that Mike Slive is in some bunker trying to figure out a way to steal Texas, now that descending on the Big-12 to cherry pick teams is OK.

The Arkansas history in the old Southwest Conference would be a plus for us, and getting Oklahoma and Texas in the mix (or Texas and Louisville for that matter - FSU brings us not one new TV viewer), might be cause enough for Mike to make a run at it.

While Texas has got that western thing working, they are still a variant of Southern - and we would love to have them.

I don't see that Louisville would add TV viewers either. UK pretty much has all of Kentucky in its pocket.

 

[Gatorubet]

I don't see that Louisville would add TV viewers either. UK pretty much has all of Kentucky in its pocket.

Don't make me give good reasons for shitting on FSU....ya know...

 

[jwinslow]

I have to think that Mike Slive is in some bunker trying to figure out a way to steal Texas, now that descending on the Big-12 to cherry pick teams is OK.

The Arkansas history in the old Southwest Conference would be a plus for us, and getting Oklahoma and Texas in the mix (or Texas and Louisville for that matter - FSU brings us not one new TV viewer), might be cause enough for Mike to make a run at it.

While Texas has got that western thing working, they are still a variant of Southern - and we would love to have them.

Oklahoma & Oklahoma St are a perfect fit for SEC athletics, academics & culture.

Texas only fits in athletics, imo.

The b10 has athletics & academics to offer, the culture is certainly all their own down there.

 

[Gatorubet]

Oklahoma & Oklahoma St are a perfect fit for SEC athletics, academics & culture.

Texas only fits in athletics, imo.

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And hot chicks. Texas is an SEC school in that catagory.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

And hot chicks. Texas is an SEC school in that catagory.

Gator, some day Florida is going to have to face up to the fact that they and Vandy have chosen to be the only schools in that conference that haven't gone full retard. That's not going to change.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Another reason we want UT.

 

[Buckeye Maniac]

Don't make me give good reasons for shitting on FSU....ya know...

Oh, I'm perfectly fine with shitting all over FSU, but Louisville sucks just as much.

 

[Gatorubet]

Gator, some day Florida is going to have to face up to the fact that they and Vandy have chosen to be the only schools in that conference that haven't gone full retard. That's not going to change.

What - you want us to start screaming "A-A-U....A-A-U.....A-A-U"

If anyone is ever dumb enough to try to back the SEC in an SEC vs Big-10 academic food fight, you can bet it won't be me.

 

[EngineerHorn]

That Barking Carnival piece made a very good point bringing up the Texas legislature implications. A&M and UT are attached at the hip for that and other reasons.

Yes, they're weird, easy to make fun of, but looking at them purely as a research institution, they're very solid.

So it's probably a package deal. To put it in a different perspective, that's adding almost 100,000 undergrads and grad students, over a million living alumni, and whatever the addition of UT would add in terms of TV sets, increase that by another 50% or so.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

That Barking Carnival piece made a very good point bringing up the Texas legislature implications. A&M and UT are attached at the hip for that and other reasons.

Yes, they're weird, easy to make fun of, but looking at them purely as a research institution, they're very solid.

So it's probably a package deal. To put it in a different perspective, that's adding almost 100,000 undergrads and grad students, over a million living alumni, and whatever the addition of UT would add in terms of TV sets, increase that by another 50% or so.

Them boys gonna have to leave their swords and nazi nurse boots in Closet Station before heading North.