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Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

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Which Teams Should the Big Ten Add? (please limit to four selections)

  • Boston College

    Votes: 32 10.2%

  • Cincinnati

    Votes: 19 6.1%

  • Connecticut

    Votes: 6 1.9%

  • Duke

    Votes: 21 6.7%

  • Georgia Tech

    Votes: 55 17.6%

  • Kansas

    Votes: 46 14.7%

  • Maryland

    Votes: 67 21.4%

  • Missouri

    Votes: 90 28.8%

  • North Carolina

    Votes: 39 12.5%

  • Notre Dame

    Votes: 209 66.8%

  • Oklahoma

    Votes: 78 24.9%

  • Pittsburgh

    Votes: 45 14.4%

  • Rutgers

    Votes: 40 12.8%

  • Syracuse

    Votes: 18 5.8%

  • Texas

    Votes: 121 38.7%

  • Vanderbilt

    Votes: 15 4.8%

  • Virginia

    Votes: 47 15.0%

  • Virginia Tech

    Votes: 62 19.8%

  • Stay at 12 teams and don't expand

    Votes: 27 8.6%

  • Add some other school(s) not listed

    Votes: 25 8.0%
  • Total voters
    313
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Taosman said:
I look for State Penn to leave the conference when JoePa stops coaching/dies. There are many Nitts who are unhappy with the Big Ten and the only thing keeping them in conference is JoPa's wishes. They don't like being a mid-level fish in the Big Ten pond. They would love to go independent, again and be the Beast of the East. State Penn leaves and it's back to 10 teams.

And the Domers would never soil they're tradition(so they think) by joining a conference.
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where do you get this? penn state has more plaques around that damn campus about the big ten and they are proud of thier allegiance. more so than many other schools...
 
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jimotis4heisman said:
where do you get this? penn state has more plaques around that damn campus about the big ten and they are proud of thier allegiance. more so than many other schools...
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things i know about teams joining the big eleven

1-they have to be adjacent to a b10 state.
2-they must be western conference in academics
aka they have to be research schools

i know of 3 schools that have "inquired" in some way shape or form two big 12, 1 independent schools, also have it on light person that a few eastern expansion schools have had some sort of look. it should be noted that you have to be voted in for consideration...

psu tossed out rutgers and syracuse at one point or another
 
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piling on just for the sake of saying i did.

spurrier;1182764; said:
number 1..How would you guys view Notre Dame joining the big Ten for football?
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ntre ame is one of the cornerstones of college football. good god does it make me want to vomit saying that. its bad for college football for them to be a bottom feeder. as such, it would be bad for them to join the big ten where they would take up position somewhere beside scum lite (msu). just as psu has struggled in the big 10, so would ntre ame. from a football only perspective, it would be a horrible decision for ntre ame.

First of all let me say that we, ummm, hate ND.
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well then, let me be the first to give you a warm welcome to bp!!! :biggrin:

Saying that, lots of us think it would only be natural to have them join your conference.
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....................... i hate you and want you to die...

the matchups are regional and fierce, and you could then actually have a conference championship game. ND OSU would be a nice game
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see, the thing is we don't want one. wtf is the point of pitting an undefeated team against a 3 loss team to declare some kind of quasi "champion"? or 2 teams that have already played? why? so the #3 team in the sec can complain because they didn't get to play in the ccg and as a result got jumped in the polls by the one that did ala 2007 (georgia)? outside of cash, the only thing the title game does is give the winner a little more ammo with the voters. if this is the "fix" for making sure there is a conference champ... im sorry but i think the solution is worse than the "problem".

2...as a buckeye fan do you think it is fair that a loser of a league championship game should be punished in the polls when a big ten team can just sit home on dec 4?
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*shrug* you loose late and you get punished. that holds true for all conferences. whether its in a championship game or not is irrelevant. in any year not 2007, tOSU loosing to illi that late in the year would have guaranteed tOSU would NOT have played in the nc game because it was so late in the season. if it wasn't for 6 or so other teams having complete meltdowns, we wouldn't have stood a chance. this, unfortunately, is just how college football works. you can loose early, but you can never (well, almost never) loose late and get away with it.

this is a legit question. I personally think that it blows that any school who plays in any ccg, wich is for money only, can lose a shot at the nc by playing in a game that 2 major conferences can skip.
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you said it yourself, this is done out of pure and simple greed. you can't have your cake and eat it too. you can't put all the hype into the game to increase revenue, then say well... it doesn't matter and you can't hold it against us that we lost. as such, you can't hold it against any other conference because their single driving interest isn't greed. live by the sword, die by the sword.

An example is kansas going to the orange bowl. Missouri beats kansas in the regular season, goes to the ccg against oklahoma, whom kansas didnt ever play in the first place, and sit on their duffs, eat popcorn and wish for missouri to lose. i personally loathe when an sec team is ranked 1 or 2 and has to win it to stay in it.
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sucks don't it? are you starting to see why we're not all that interested? alot of teams have been shit on because of the outcome of a ccg, and not just the teams playing. imo, its a piss poor concept that certainly will not get any better by forcing the rest of college football to adopt it. instead of pushing the big ten to put together a ccg. perhaps you should accept that it is a joke and get rid of yours?

oh and speaking of ccg's being a joke. how did ole tennesee enjoy playing in the outback bowl while georgia (who they beat in the regular season and finished ahead of in their conference) went to the sugar? that makes perfect sense now don't it? with the way the big12 and sec finished last year, i can't imagine why anyone wouldn't want to jump on board with a ccg.
 
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ChrisColumbus;1185336; said:
Excuse my ignorance, but I just got here, how do you take 21 pages to discuss this when the only logical answer is Notre Dame?
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Because if Notre Dame wanted to be a member of the Big 10, they already would be. [Commissioner] Delaney has said that they'd like to add a 12th team, whether it be Notre Dame, or not. My money would be on Syracuse.
 
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jimotis4heisman;1185340; said:
well for a guy who thought he landed in asia with the nina, pinta and santa maria, i wouldnt run my mouth to fast...
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Wrong Chris Columbus, jo4h. This is the one that directed tremendous feature films such as Home Alone, Adventures in Babysitting, and Mrs. Doubtfire.
 
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Buckeye_in_Cali;1185470; said:
can't we just get rid of northwestern and be done with all of this?
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Since 1995, the number of Big Ten titles in football:

Ohio State: 6
Michigan: 5
Northwestern: 3
Iowa: 2
Wisconsin: 2
Illinois: 1
Penn State: 1
Purdue: 1
Indiana: 0
Michigan State: 0
Minnesota: 0

They are a powerhouse academic institution. They excel in several other sports. They may suck in big-time men's sports, but overall they are an integral part of the conference. And since they've won more conference titles in football than all but Ohio State and Michigan over the last 13 seasons, it would be tough to justify kicking them out.
 
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