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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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Buckeyefrankmp;1969043; said:
How do you know we are not in the middle of that "seismic shift"? We have Nebraska and Colorado leaving the Big XII. If their leaving and the resulting ten team league is the reason that A&M is leaving for the SEC, then we are still in that process. The pieces are still falling into place. If A&M leaves that leaves a nine team conference with Texas the big bully. Missouri might lower it's sights of wanting to get into the B1G and try to get into the Big East.
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I suppose you could be right, I just don't think this is a continuation of what happened with Nebraska and Colorado. I think aTm is acting based on the longhorn network and their desire to get away from Texas. When the original expansion talk started there were rumors flying around and the speculation was 16 team super conferences were about to be announced. That didn't happen. A few teams moved, that was that.

The B1G made a fairly conservative, well though out move that made perfect sense in adding Nebraska. Adding Virginia, Maryland, Missouri, Rutgers, Syracuse etc doesn't really go along with the addition of Nebraska. Nebraska was a great move, the rest seem like we've already got our team but there's a few fat kids left waiting to be picked. I don't see a scenario where the B1G is left on the outside of anything. Texas is NOT going to the SEC, which is the only nightmare scenario out there.

I do think there will be more moves after the football season, I just don't think aTm or Mizzou will be the catalyst.
 
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MaxBuck;1969058; said:
Nothing about Austin's location would be a negative for B1G membership.
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It wouldn't be an ideal location for traveling, at least when thinking about costs. Almost everything else about Texas fits in with the B1G. I still feel Pitt and Mizzou are good, realistic additions and of course, ND.
 
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Buckeye737;1968990; said:
Obviously the commissioners are trying to add as many big fish to their conference as possible, but I think that may not be the best thing for the long-term stability of a league. What if the SEC was able to add FSU, Texas, A&M, and maybe VT? This won't happen, but what if? There are already rumblings that some SEC members feel the conference is already too competitive in the one sport that matters - football. If you add those 4 schools, there are going to be some good football programs struggling to make a bowl game, and some very good football programs going to crappy bowl games like the Liberty Bowl.
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you're looking at the wrong ACC teams.

if the SEC were to expand eastward, i don't see them getting Clemson, FSU, or Ga Tech.

we already have teams in those states (teams that would probably oppose bringing in their rivals), so they really don't add any market share not already in the conference.

so who else is out there to the East?
Va. Tech? yeah, but I don't think they would join. they currently have a pretty easy ride into BCS bowl games, and are attached at the hip to Virginia now.

WVU? maybe. but i'm not sure Morgantown is a market the SEC feels they need.

NC State? we may have a winner here.
they make sense geographically. are about equivalent (actually a little better) historically than South Carolina. Gets the SEC into a good size TV market. Improves basketball without overloading the top in football.
 
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Guys and Gals...

UT aint coming to the BIG TEN.... Texas is only about Texas (see the longhorn network and not a Big XII network). Academically yes UT fits the Big 10... but everything else doesn't. What i've seen of the Big 10 conference they work together to better the conference... UT is only concerned about itself and how it can make more money. UT would not be willing to give up the money from ESP(i)N to join the BTN unless it was hand and fist over what they are making now. ESP(i)N will ensure that they will either stay in the BIG XII or go independent. The only other option would be the PAC -16 since their idiot leader wants a regional network for every area... Yeah i can see the Washington regional network doing a TON of business as well as the UTAH & Colorado... but the big question is ... would UT share the longhorn network if they joined... i'm inclined to believe not....

IMHO Tejas is out of the question for more than enough reasons... i think we all need to move on and turn our affectionate gaze towards another University that fits the Big 10
 
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MaliBuckeye;1967899; said:
UT and ND to the B1G? Or aTm?

WildcatReport

(who had pretty dead on connections to the B1G offices last summer)
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If by "dead on connections," you mean "absolutely wrong about everything," then yes.

Seriously though. Texas isn't coming. They would have done so already, they wouldn't have started the longhorn network, and we wouldn't have taken Nebraska.
 
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http://www.theledger.com/article/20...-poised-to-join-SEC-FSU-Clemson-Missouri-too-

Eleven of the 12 Southeastern Conference presidents will meet Sunday at a secret location to discuss the admission of Texas A&M to the league, according
to a high-ranking SEC official with first-hand knowledge of the talks.


The official said there was a 30-40 percent chance that the presidents could
vote against Texas A&M's membership. He also said there was the issue of which
university would become the 14th team, something many in college sports will monitor.

"We realize if we do this, we have to have the 14th," the SEC official said.
"No name has been thrown out. This thing is much slower out of the chute
than the media and blogs have made it."
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Gatorubet;1969211; said:
http://www.theledger.com/article/20...-poised-to-join-SEC-FSU-Clemson-Missouri-too-

Eleven of the 12 Southeastern Conference presidents will meet Sunday at a secret location to discuss the admission of Texas A&M to the league, according
to a high-ranking SEC official with first-hand knowledge of the talks.
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Aggy getting voted down would be even funnier than what happened to Mizzou, but less funny than how Oklahoma publicly declared themselves to be Texas' bitch last year.
 
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