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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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BUCKYLE;1983706; said:
It's only about eight and a half to Atl from C'bus. Or, more accurately, about ten and a half from Newark to just south of Macon.
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And an hour and a half plane ride that I'll be making on Friday. Tech should be in the conference. Other than geography, which b/c of the expanded footprint is actually a plus, it's a Big Ten school and makes more sense than any of the other names that get thrown around.
 
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Bleed S & G;1968969; said:
Dissapointed to hear Delany saying what he said on the previous page. If AtM goes, I would hope we would be all over OU, Okie State, Texas, & ND.
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Only one of those schools, Texas, matches the Big 10 academic model, only two, Texas and ND, match/surpass the undergrad model. Both have a want-it- all-their-own-way attitude.

Texas has overplayed their hand, used the Big 10 to get what they wanted and it backfired on them. BUT, placed in the Pac8/10/12/14/16/20 they give the conference two things it desperately needs - a balance to USC and a team in the Central Time Zone.

As much as I root against them, Notre Dame, is the only school that would add value -- academic, athletic and TV sets in the East coast market-- to the BTN.

They could, in a stroke, make or break the Big East or put the Big 10 over the top.
 
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If further defections (UT and/or OU) occur from the "Big" "12" to the Pac-12, I fully expect Boise State to go there too.

I see the other movement as follows:

Iowa State - Mountain West
Kansas State - Mountain West
Texas Tech - Mountain West
Kansas - Big East (hey, it's a basketball school; they need to be in a basketball conference)
Baylor - Mountain West
Missouri - odd man out; who wants 'em?
Oklahoma State - Pac-16
 
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I feel like I'm freaking bi-polar discussing expansion. I'm constantly changing my mind as to who we ought to get. I might get some flack for this, but I'm just going to say it anyways because it's driving me crazy.

My feeling: Go big or go home. If what we got was Notre Dame and a combination of Maryland/Syracuse/Virginia/Rutgers/Missouri/Kansas, I'd feel like this go 'round with expansion would be a failure. Nebraska adds to the pot. Notre Dame adds to the pot. The other 3 pick-'ems would take back what we would gain from bringing in ND while the other conferences add their heavy hitters. Ohio State, Nebraska, and Wiscy (add scUM once they get their act together) can't hold the entire conference up in football perennially. We need 1 or 2 more here in this last round of expansion.

I know this goes against what I've said in the past (and apologies to the Husker fans), but let's go after Texas. Let's go after Oklahoma. Let's go after Georgia Tech. Those guys would really add something to this conference. It's not that I don't want Maryland or Missouri in the B1G, but let's go big and get someone early that would really add something and bring on a Virginia/Kansas/etc later. If we can get a heavy hitter to be our 13th member, the other 3 will fall in place and we'll be in a great position.

Texas & Notre Dame is the end game for me. Would love to hear from PBK soon and hear the next chapter of this soap opera...
 
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BuckTwenty;1983875; said:
I think Berkley and Stanford would have something to say about that.
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Pac-12's academic status is lower than that of the B1G. Great schools in Cal, Stanford, and UCLA; very good schools in UWash and USC; bottom feeders too. Boise would not be the lowest ranked school in the conference given the USNews rating of Oregon State as "Tier 3."
 
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TDunk;1983894; said:
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Well those schools have mostly Asians and women enrolled, so you know their driving skills aren't the best. :paranoid:
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FIFY
 
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BuckTwenty;1983870; said:
I feel like I'm freaking bi-polar discussing expansion. I'm constantly changing my mind as to who we ought to get. I might get some flack for this, but I'm just going to say it anyways because it's driving me crazy.

My feeling: Go big or go home. If what we got was Notre Dame and a combination of Maryland/Syracuse/Virginia/Rutgers/Missouri/Kansas, I'd feel like this go 'round with expansion would be a failure. Nebraska adds to the pot. Notre Dame adds to the pot. The other 3 pick-'ems would take back what we would gain from bringing in ND while the other conferences add their heavy hitters. Ohio State, Nebraska, and Wiscy (add scUM once they get their act together) can't hold the entire conference up in football perennially. We need 1 or 2 more here in this last round of expansion.

I know this goes against what I've said in the past (and apologies to the Husker fans), but let's go after Texas. Let's go after Oklahoma. Let's go after Georgia Tech. Those guys would really add something to this conference. It's not that I don't want Maryland or Missouri in the B1G, but let's go big and get someone early that would really add something and bring on a Virginia/Kansas/etc later. If we can get a heavy hitter to be our 13th member, the other 3 will fall in place and we'll be in a great position.

Texas & Notre Dame is the end game for me. Would love to hear from PBK soon and hear the next chapter of this soap opera...
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I strongly disagree. Oklahoma shares nothing of the academic mind set of the Big 10, much less the geographic. Texas wants to control all of Texas-- ever think about the Dallas Cowboy owners, Jerry Whatshisfuckinname, mindset vis-a-vis the rest of the NFL? It's the same mindset UT bought into, and has now brought about the collapse of the Big XII -- greed that no one else can live with.

Texas AM, Texas and Okie land will ultimately end up in the SEC. Texas will be unhappy academically and athletically because they can't run the show, but culturally it will be a good fit and the brains in Austin will look for some other academic setting. Rick Perry will be glad to see them go.
 
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cincibuck;1983963; said:
I strongly disagree. Oklahoma shares nothing of the academic mind set of the Big 10, much less the geographic. Texas wants to control all of Texas-- ever think about the Dallas Cowboy owners, Jerry Whatshis[censored]inname, mindset vis-a-vis the rest of the NFL? It's the same mindset UT bought into, and has now brought about the collapse of the Big XII -- greed that no one else can live with.

Texas AM, Texas and Okie land will ultimately end up in the SEC. Texas will be unhappy academically and athletically because they can't run the show, but culturally it will be a good fit and the brains in Austin will look for some other academic setting. Rick Perry will be glad to see them go.
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That's all well and good. But don't tell me you'd rather see Rutgers or Syracuse in this conference than Texas or Oklahoma. You're kidding yourself.

Screw academics and geography for a second. Who do you want in this conference?
 
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Jim Delany, the commissioner of the Big Ten, said Saturday that he did not expect his league to make a reactive move.
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Of course we won't. Any move the B1G makes will be proactive, and large.

I still think Tejas to the B1G is strongly positive. And I think it's far more likely than Tejas to the Pac-24.
 
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Reading the past couple of pages, a few mentioned Georgia Tech. If the conference were to go to 16, and GT is one that joins, I will giggle my ass off.

My boss/owner of the company is a GT grad and is a HUGE college football fan. The man paid for 20 of us to fly up to ATL for a game against Da U a few years ago just so we all could participate in the white-out. :lol:

He dogs on the B1G all the time (slow, boring football, can't win out of conference, blah blah blah), and it would piss him off something fierce if they were to join.
 
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