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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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CBS

Temple to Big East after it settles with MAC


Temple has given the Big East a verbal agreement it will join the league in 2012, but an official announcement can not be made until the Owls finalize their settlement to leave the Mid-American Conference, sources told CBSSports.com.
The Big East wants to make the announcement that Temple is joining by Monday so it won?t conflict with the Big East men?s basketball tournament, which starts Tuesday in New York. Whether it will happen that quickly depends on the Owls? negotiations with the MAC.
The MAC?s exit fee is $2.5 million for schools that provide two years notice. However, there is no specific penalty for a school leaving with less than two years notice, a source told CBSSports.com.
Temple was a Big East football-only member from 1991-2004 and the plan was for Temple to join the Big East in all sports in 2012. The Owls' football program competes in the MAC and their Olympic sports are in the Atlantic 10 Conference. To leave the Atlantic 10 with less than a year?s notice costs $2 million, a source said, while it?s $1 million if more than a year?s notice is given.
Because of the difference in exit fees Temple would pay the A-10, there remains a possibility Temple could join the Big East in football this fall, but its Olympic sports wouldn?t join the Big East until 2013.


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BigWoof31;2121142; said:
http://www.fromtherumbleseat.com/20...ill-where-i-guarantee-that-you-didnt-see-this


Don't do this. Adding Georgia Tech to your conference will do nothing but lead to robust disappointment.
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If we want Georgia Tech we're gonna go after Georgia Tech. She's pretty and smart and funny and she's the only thing I've ever loved!
 
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Piney;2121161; said:
I just doubt this will happen as I don't see Delany bowing to any pressure from 4 letter networks.
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^^This.

While GTech to the B1G isn't so farfetched, this is, imo:

You read that right, there's a rumor with a little more smoke than the other one mentioned that involves said four-letter TV network pushing on the Big Ten (or so) to add Notre Dame, Rutgers, Maryland, and Georgia Tech by the year 2016.
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Now only if we could get them to go full retard and convince them we need Texas without their network and with equal revenue sharing. We'll even nicely Let the SEC of one of Maryland or GT Well I would say Rutgers but while ESPN is that stupid I don't think the SEC is. :p
 
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BigWoof31;2121142; said:
http://www.fromtherumbleseat.com/20...ill-where-i-guarantee-that-you-didnt-see-this


Don't do this. Adding Georgia Tech to your conference will do nothing but lead to robust disappointment.
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My favorite comment from your link.

It's funny

that you guys think academic reputation matters. I?ve really never been convinced it does. And IF it does, then with the SEC being so lacking in geek cred compared to the B1G (Michigan, Purdue, Ohio State, Illinois, Northwestern), Pac 12 (Stanford, Berkeley, UCLA, WashU, Oregon), and the ACC (Duke, Wake, UNC, UVa, GaTech, Miami, BC) then WHY would they miss out on taking two of the best large flagship state schools in the country away from a conference that can?t pay them as much?
Now, for UNC and UVa, I could see their faculty not being happy about cutting ties with the likes of Duke, GT, Wake, et al to go hang out with Vandy, Florida and the twelve retards. But TV money would certainly let their athletic people justify the move. And the SEC would have two more big, popular, historic, Southern flagship universities with the seeds of competitive football and strong brands in everything else. If the schools could stomach it, I think the SEC would LOVE to get either of UNC or UVA.
Don?t get me wrong ? they?d like VPI and NCSU probably just as much, but state names are state names. They get popular quickly. Easy to relate to. I think those are the first choices in a perfect world.
I met her on the campus, sir, cheering the Brave and Bold.


by GT_Jason on Mar 5, 2012 11:11 PM EST
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LovelandBuckeye;2121588; said:
My favorite comment from your link.
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FIFM

No joke
I have given up. My new rule is ?never order grits north of Tennessee?.
When I go to Waffle House here I get hash browns, scattered and smothered.
by CraigT on Mar 6, 2012 5:41 PM EST up reply

Chunked
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Mar 7, 2012 5:28 PM EST up reply

Covered
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Mar 7, 2012 5:28 PM EST up reply

Topped
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Mar 7, 2012 5:29 PM EST up reply

Diced
by TBuzz on Mar 7, 2012 5:52 PM EST up reply

UGA'd
by TBuzz on Mar 7, 2012 5:52 PM EST up reply
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To be honest I like GT fans. All the ones I have interacted with have been pretty damn funny and able to form coherent sentences. That alone places them above 90% of the fanbases in sports.

They would be a strange outlier and the odds of this actually happening are probably nil....but I wouldn't hate it
 
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It's a nine hour drive from Columbus to Atlanta. It can't be much less than that between Cbus and the Twin Cities or Lincoln. The only thing that, at first, doesn't make sense about GA Tech is the geography but even that fades away with a slightly broadened perspective.

GA Tech is really a Big Ten school and is more of an outlier among the ACC or, certainly, SEC schools.
 
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RugbyBuck;2121732; said:
It's a nine hour drive from Columbus to Atlanta. It can't be much less than that between Cbus and the Twin Cities or Lincoln. The only thing that, at first, doesn't make sense about GA Tech is the geography but even that fades away with a slightly broadened perspective.

GA Tech is really a Big Ten school and is more of an outlier among the ACC or, certainly, SEC schools.
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It's 8 hours from Columbus to Chicago, so extrapolate accordingly for Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska etc.
 
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