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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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For 2011, the Big XII will do the old Pac 10 schedule, where they all play each other. Detailed schedules are supposed to be released today.

Hmm. If the Big XII has everybody play each other, wouldn't that be 11 games?

CBS

Big 12 approves nine-game, round-robin schedule

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FCollinsBuckeye;1782455; said:
They'll only have 10 teams in '11, so 9 conference games is accurate...
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That's for you if you missed BB73's joke or for me if I missed yours.
 
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I guess I didn't get it.

:confused:

Shame on me for jumping to the conclusion that BB73 didn't realize the 'BigXII' will only have 10 teams next year. Though, in my defense, I would imagine a person of advanced years, such as BB73, may be prone to cerebral flatulence from time to time...

:p
 
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FCollinsBuckeye;1782476; said:
I guess I didn't get it.

:confused:

Shame on me for jumping to the conclusion that BB73 didn't realize the 'BigXII' will only have 10 teams next year. Though, in my defense, I would imagine a person of advanced years, such as BB73, may be prone to cerebral flatulence from time to time...

:p
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Oh8ch is the one with his brain inside his butt. :wink2:
 
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FCollinsBuckeye;1782476; said:
I guess I didn't get it.

:confused:

Shame on me for jumping to the conclusion that BB73 didn't realize the 'BigXII' will only have 10 teams next year. Though, in my defense, I would imagine a person of advanced years, such as BB73, may be prone to cerebral flatulence from time to time...

:p
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Eh, no worries, just giving you a tough time. Considering the source that was probably one of BB73's better jokes. :biggrin:
 
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dragurd;1782494; said:
The big east after TCU? Does the Big East understand what East means? :p Plus I don't think TCU has near the budget for all that travel.
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The location of approximately one third of their basketball league indicates that they are unclear about the meaning of the word "East". All of their football conference indicates that they are also unclear about the meaning of the word "Big".
 
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The new Pac-12 Divisions are based on geography:

CBS

Cal-Stanford-Oregon-Oregon St-Wash-Wash St

Ariz-Ariz St-UCLA-USC-Colo-Utah

They'll play 9 conference games. But they will play their CCG at the divisional champ with the better record (presumably that will mean the higher BCS ranking for teams with the same record that didn't play each other).

I like the CCG in the home stadium of the team that earned it. If the Big Ten did that, it would almost always be a bigger stadium than Lucas Oil or other NFL stadiums. And I think that home field advantage will usually help the higer-rated BCS team that has a chance to reach the National Championship Game.
 
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BB73;1797626; said:
The new Pac-12 Divisions are based on geography:

CBS

Cal-Stanford-Oregon-Oregon St-Wash-Wash St

Ariz-Ariz St-UCLA-USC-Colo-Utah

They'll play 9 conference games. But they will play their CCG at the divisional champ with the better record (presumably that will mean the higher BCS ranking for teams with the same record that didn't play each other).

I like the CCG in the home stadium of the team that earned it. If the Big Ten did that, it would almost always be a bigger stadium than Lucas Oil or other NFL stadiums. And I think that home field advantage will usually help the higer-rated BCS team that has a chance to reach the National Championship Game.
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Going off of memory from my ride home yesterday, another tidbit that I thought was interesting:

The California schools will play each other annually. This leaves the Oregon and Washington schools with not getting into the LA market as much (I believe that means every other year or something like that).

Like you, BB, I really like the CCG idea. That would be great for the Big Ten.
 
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muffler dragon;1797675; said:
Going off of memory from my ride home yesterday, another tidbit that I thought was interesting:

The California schools will play each other annually. This leaves the Oregon and Washington schools with not getting into the LA market as much (I believe that means every other year or something like that).
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Yeah - playing 9 games gives them 5 in a division, then the Cali schools are basically 2 protected cross-division games. That would leave 2 other games, which means in a 4-year cycle the Wash and Ore schools would have 1 home and 1 away game each with USC and UCLA, or two total trips to SoCal every 4 years.

They also all agreed to equal revenue sharing, which they don't currently have - the TV revenue is currently distributed based on who is on TV the most.
 
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BB73;1797684; said:
Yeah - playing 9 games gives them 5 in a division, then the Cali schools are basically 2 protected cross-division games. That would leave 2 other games, which means in a 4-year cycle the Wash and Ore schools would have 1 home and 1 away game each with USC and UCLA, or two total trips to SoCal every 4 years.

They also all agreed to equal revenue sharing, which they don't currently have - the TV revenue is currently distributed based on who is on TV the most.
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Which I wonder if the equal revenue sharing was the concession made by the Cali schools to the Oregon and Washington schools in order for them to acquiesce to their lessened access to the SoCal market. Who knows?
 
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FWIW, Bob DeCarolis (Oregon State AD) was on sports radio last night while I was driving home.

Couple salient points:

1) The Oregon and Washington schools didn't mind the North-South split, because the league resolved to equal revenue sharing.
2) The CCG location was determined, because conference officials wanted to make sure that they could sell out the facilty. They viewed that as easier to have it in an actual teams stadium instead of at a third party venue.
 
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