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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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BB73;1715531; said:
A possible wrench in Delany's master plan - CFN's Matthew Zemek is speculating that the MWC took Boise State today since they may not see themselves getting Big 12 leftovers Kansas/K St/Iowa State.

If the Big East could get those schools, and the Big East has great bball for Kansas and is an AQ conference for football, then it could hope to survive without ND even if the SEC/ACC poach a couple of schools.

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The problem is, isn't the Big East kinda full with basketball schools? Unless they plan on a 20+ team basketball conference.

Which unfortunately might work if they can group the western Big East schools with Kansas & KSU (like Notre Dame, Marquette, Cincy, etc...)
 
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I think it is worth noting that all of the speechifying by the regents was purely for show. It was clearly unnecessary to sway any of the other regents, the vote was a quick and enthusiastic yes from every single one of them. The speeches were clearly meant for the cameras. Who their target audience was might be up for speculation... probably (mostly) their fans and alumni.
 
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kn1f3party;1715541; said:
Scary quiet on the "Texas to Big Ten" front with Pac-10 rumors swirling and a meeting Tuesday.
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I know... wish I could be on Frank the Tank's blog right now... damn work blocking it.

It will be interesting when they get plugged back in to their sources to find out if anything has changed...
 
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also, considering how fucking idiotic it would be financially for Texas to go to the Pac 10, I get the strong suspicion that all of this "Texas to the Pac-10" noise is to try and get the Big 10 make concessions to Texas (whatever those may be)
 
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Buckeye86;1715548; said:
also, considering how [censored]ing idiotic it would be financially for Texas to go to the Pac 10, I get the strong suspicion that all of this "Texas to the Pac-10" noise is to try and get the Big 10 make concessions to Texas (whatever those may be)
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I took from Perlman's statements about Texas not willing to equally vest media rights in the conference that Texas is looking to make some money and wouldn't do anything to take less--even if it saved the conference. So how in the hell does the Pac-10 become > the Big Ten in the eyes of Texas?
 
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