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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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CincyInterloper;2060378; said:
The other thing to consider is that with the two biggest "BCS busters" TCU and Boise both in AQ conferences now, it opens up the BCS bowls to take an additional at large team from a traditional conference. This is arguably a good thing.
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Including Utah, already in the PAC-12, means that the 3 biggest 'BCS busters' have made the transition. Hawaii is the only other non-AQ team to make a BCS bowl, and they've only played in 1, while the other 3 all reached two BCS bowls. Hawaii is also the only one in the group without a win, since TCU is 1-1 and Utah and Boise State are 2-0.
 
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Previously reported as being likely, Navy will be joining the Big East after 2013.

CBS

Navy prepared to join Big East, just not for a while

Having defeated Army for a 10th consecutive season on Saturday, Navy can now turn its full attention to its next goal: joining the Big East Conference.
The Midshipmen are preparing to join the Big East as a football-only member, but likely won't do so in 2013, Navy athletic director Chet Gladchuk told CBSSports.com.

Gladchuk said ultimately Navy's Superintendent, Vice Admiral Michael Miller, will make the decision on whether Navy joins the Big East. However, Gladchuk admitted "everyone in Navy's chain of command is comfortable [with the Big East] and the direction it's going."

How quickly Navy joins the Big East will depend mainly on how long it takes the Midshipmen to restructure their future schedules, bowl and television contracts. Navy has games scheduled through 2018, bowl contracts through 2017 and television contracts with CBS College Sports and CBS Sports (Army-Navy game) through 2018, Gladchuk said.

Gladchuk said Navy doesn't have any demands, but needs the support of the Big East whether it's financially or league members helping by picking up some of Navy's future opponents.

"We're breaking away from a lifelong commitment as an independent and we have a better television deal than a lot of conferences," Gladchuk said. "We can't do that without a mutual understanding with the Big East. The good news is [Big East commissioner] John [Marinatto] has been receptive of talking this through."

Gladchuk said Navy and the Big East were in the process of "getting into those details" when West Virginia announced it was leaving the league. All of that was put on hold until last week when the Big East announced the addition of its five new members.

Last Wednesday, the Big East officially announced the addition of Boise State and San Diego State as football-only members and SMU, UCF and Houston as all-sports members. Those schools will help offset the future departures of West Virginia, Pittsburgh and Syracuse.

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Navy will join Big East as football-only member in 2015

After months of speculation over whether Navy would relinquish its status as an independent and join the Big East, the academy will make it official on Tuesday by announcing it has agreed to become a football-only member beginning in 2015.

A teleconference that includes Navy Athletic Director Chet Gladchuk, football coach Ken Niumatalolo and Big East Commissioner John Marinatto has been scheduled for Tuesday afternoon to address the move, which will end the Midshipmen?s status as football independent.

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Well shit...

It took two words, Legends and Leaders, to humble one of the most powerful men in college sports.
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/7536205#Despite the public outcry, the Big Ten's research indicates fans like Legends and Leaders.


Actually, it took tens of thousands of words written and spoken about Legends and Leaders to make Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany think twice about what his league had done.
The reaction to Legends and Leaders, the names the Big Ten selected for its new football divisions in December 2010, was, with a few exceptions, scathing. Legends and Leaders became national punch lines for a conference that had already absorbed more than a few body blows.
Chosen to "reflect Big Ten traditions and values" and acknowledge the league's past (Legends) and future (Leaders), the division names instead were called confusing, arrogant, too similar-sounding, ambiguous and, yes, lame.
"We've had enough experience with names and expansion and development of divisions that we know that you rarely get a 90 percent approval rating," Delany told WGN Radio in Chicago shortly after the announcement. "But to get a 90 percent non-approval rating was really surprising. It showed that we didn't connect with our fans in a way that we wanted to. It's humbling, to say the least."
Despite the initial backlash and concerns about sustainability, the Big Ten decided to hold off on changing the names. Delany wanted to let them "breathe a bit" and reassess after the 2011 season.
The league hired an independent market research firm to survey Big Ten football fans about Legends and Leaders during the season. The goal was not only to see who liked the names and who didn't, but whether the names could connect with fans and, ultimately, if the names would remain.
Surveys were distributed on game weekends at 10 Big Ten stadiums this past fall, as well as at the league's inaugural football championship in Indianapolis. Fans completed the surveys online.
The results are in, and ESPN.com got the first chance to see them.
Bottom line: Legends and Leaders will remain through the 2012 football season.
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Looks like it's time to email Delaney again...
 
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Despite the public outcry, the Big Ten's research indicates fans like Legends and Leaders.
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I call BS. I saw nobody taking the pulse of Husker Nation over this and I went to every home game.

I cannot recall ever talking to anyone in person or online who liked these names. This sounds like a "poll" where they came up with some numbers to justify their decision.

Did anyone here take this poll? Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?
 
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"When the names came out, people were confused," said Brian Powell, owner of The Brand Explorers, a Houston-based firm that conducted the study. "People scratched their heads and said, 'I don't know what they mean. I don't know how they came about. I don't know where my team fits.' As season moved along, people became more comfortable.
"As that understanding improved, you certainly saw the division name acceptance start to improve."
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Yeah, that's really helping your credibility.
The best remedy to the confusion seems to be time. Powell tracked the approval of the division names during the season through two-week moving averages, which showed a gradual increase in approval from Week 1 to Week 12.
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Which as Muck, ORD or someone suggested, would be their strategy.


Let's wait until people stop paying attention even though they still don't like them.
 
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knapplc;2103064; said:
I call BS. I saw nobody taking the pulse of Husker Nation over this and I went to every home game.

I cannot recall ever talking to anyone in person or online who liked these names. This sounds like a "poll" where they came up with some numbers to justify their decision.

Did anyone here take this poll? Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?
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They were there for the OSU/Nebraska game- at Homecoming, in the B1G Bus/Trailer.

I actually remember someone asking me about it, although I'm not sure if it was official. I responded that I thought it was ridiculous, and the divisions were broken too.

FWIW.
 
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Or would you prefer Veronica and Betty?

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