Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[mross34]

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.

So I guess that means 14 at a minimum if Texas is a part of the deal.

Brings up some interesting alignment questions.

If the 14th is Missouri, there's really no good way to split the conferences:

Rust
Penn State
Ohio State
Michigan
Michigan State

Dust
Texas
aTm
Missouri
Iowa

But where do you put Indiana, Purdue, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Northwestern. Obviously you want Purdue and Indiana together, Illinois and Northwestern together, and Minnesota and Wisconsin together. But you can't keep those three pairs together and have even conferences, you'd end up with 8 and 6.

Much easier by adding a team like Rutgers/Syracuse/Notre Dame/Pitt

Rust
RU/Cuse/ND/Pitt
PSU
OSU
MSU
scUM
Purdue
Indiana

Dust
Texas
aTm
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Northwestern
Illinois

 

[jwinslow]

I doubt the big ten is too concerned with protecting a NW-ill rivalry.

West:
ATm + Texas
Minn + Wisc
Miss + Ill
Iowa

East:
Ind + Purd
Osu + mich
Psu + msu
NW

Seems pretty simple. Send NW to the west if you add a big east team instead of Missouri.

 

[mross34]

BIG TEN ANNOUNCES OFFER TO BRAZIL - Every Day Should Be Saturday

 

[Gatorubet]

A place with electricity like the kind you let your hands wrap into the two sweet dimples at the top of a woman's ass for the first time? A REAL WOMAN, I ASK YOU? A place where people just live, not planning and plotting and having to warm the damn car up before you drive to your heartless job that sucks the life out of you, a place where there's no hot dish or snow, just sand, and heat, and wild nights with rum and no pants and, yes, the occasional murder in the street?

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Should the Big Ten be forced to take aggy over Mizzou in order to get the real prize, that absolutely cock blocks Mizzou. No way we take 3 B12 teams. We take 2 (preferably UT and Mizzou) then look East to give Pee State a rival and possibly make some inroads into NYC--the Pitt, Syracuse, Rutgers whack-a-mole that's been debated ad nauseum.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Oh yeah, and Gator, when it comes down to UT or UF.......


Michelle Beadle************************************Erin Andrews

Not even close unless plastic tits are the defining character.

 

[Apache]

Threesome

Texas-Nebraska-Missouri.

Make it the Big 14 and the two divisions-East and West.

 

[ScriptOhio]

BIG TEN ANNOUNCES OFFER TO BRAZIL - Every Day Should Be Saturday

Should make for a great "road trip" for the game in Rio. My Brazilian VISA is good for 2 1/2 more years too. The only problem will be Brazil's football is round and doesn't have "pointie ends".

 

[Coqui]

Which was more fun, beating them in 06 or 08?

You're asking us if we thought a close high scoring game was more fun than laying the wood to our most hated rival?

 

[cincibuck]

For the conference winner it is no big deal. But for a one or two loss team, it can make a difference in what bowl you go to, and if it is a BCS bowl or not. You are right Jax, for the top of the pile it is not a big deal. And if you don't really care if the rest of the conference is thought of as dog [censored], than no worries...but as Power points out, when you get down to a damn near tie vote in the polls, how your conference is seen can make a difference.

As much as I hate Georgia, I want to beat them when the loss ruins their shot at a division or SEC championship (or like 2002, a MNC), instead of beating Kentucky for the umpteenth time. If Michigan becomes an automatic "gimme" win, it has to detract from the experience a little bit. Which was more fun, beating them in 06 or 08?

I enjoyed the 09 "just enough to win" game.
I laughed through the 08 'mistake-a-minute' ass whoppin'.
I savored the 06 win.

How's that?

 

[cincibuck]

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

Try the square at the heart of the campus, surrounded by statues of the generals of the CSA.

That has not been brought up in the "culture fit" discussion. I'm sure the UT faculty would love to see them gone, but that would coincide with a death wish. The next door legislature would have a shit hemorrhage.

 

[cincibuck]

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.

Easy Bruiser, Georgia has a decent academic rep and Faulkner managed to get drunk and write a bunch at Ol' Miss. The rest, including Ol' Miss, are ho hum at best.

 

[cincibuck]

Should make for a great "road trip" for the game in Rio. My Brazilian VISA is good for 2 1/2 more years too. The only problem will be Brazil's football is round and doesn't have "pointie ends".

And Mark Sanford could wave to us from Argentina.

 

[Buckrock]

Texas-Nebraska-Missouri.

Make it the Big 14 and the two divisions-East and West.

Texas, U Conn, Rutgers.

 

[joefoshow]

Maybe add Iowa State because then the big ten would gain that rivialry into the season. It would not add a good team to the big ten but it is a option since Iowa State is close by.