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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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Woody1968;2268676; said:
UVA is very dysfunctional. Don't get me started. Nobody at that school seems to know what the fuck they are doing. There is nothing I would love more than for Ohio State to beat the crap out of them every year. That said, they still would be the best add from the ACC, IMO, especially with Carolina.
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In the grand scheme of things the Tarheels are the best add from the ACC and it's not close.

Oh and hella noes IRT BC.
 
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JBaney45;2268659; said:
I don't really think our athletic department NEEDS big time donations anyway. Money is not even close to being an issue
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This is a business. Money is always an issue.

ORD_Buckeye;2268652; said:
There is one fundamental difference. Our whales don't donate to athletics. We just last week received our first athletic donation for 8 figures from a guy who I've never heard of. I've lost count of how many 8 figure donations Ohio State has received overall.

Trust me, I'm not complaining. This is the way it should be.
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Sam Covelli donation

He's a Panera franchisee (former McDonald's franchisee).
 
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ORD_Buckeye;2268652; said:
There is one fundamental difference. Our whales don't donate to athletics. We just last week received our first athletic donation for 8 figures from a guy who I've never heard of. I've lost count of how many 8 figure donations Ohio State has received overall.

Trust me, I'm not complaining. This is the way it should be.
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Correct, lots of people that we have never heard of have donated 8 figures. However, I actually have heard of this guy (he deserves a mention here):

In 1999, Richard J. Solove, a personal friend of Dr. James and a prominent local businessman, donated twenty million dollars to The James' Threshold of Discovery campaign, the largest private donation that The Ohio State Medical Center ever received.
 
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One fun thing about the re-alignment madness is seeing how fans of various schools/conferences react in completely different ways to the same news.

ACC abandoning their previous stances by offering ND a sweetheart deal & accepting an academic outlier like Louisville is seen by many fan bases signals weakness within the ACC and is a sign of more escapees in the future.

Some ACC fans? They see it as signalling that ND will one day be a full member, *Louisville is a sleeping giant and it all points to the ACC soon being the most powerful conference in the land.

Any guesses as to which narrative my money is on?

*In all seriousness while I think Louisville is peaking right now (rather than having lots of room to grow), Tom Jurich has done one hell of a job as AD and is a guy I'd love to see in the mix as Smith's successor. As it stands right now their athletic department revenue would place them 6th in the B1G. Not too shabby when your neighborhood is the Big East.
 
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I HATE the idea of Boston College joining. HATE it. Georgia Tech wouldn't be a bad get at all. If we do have to go to 16, I want Texas or Notre Dame. Both teams we would completely whoop every year and are always overrated. Like the SEC shows, if your lesser conference mates are artificially inflated by the media, its very easy to climb in the polls.
 
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jarv;2269100; said:
I HATE the idea of Boston College joining. HATE it. Georgia Tech wouldn't be a bad get at all. If we do have to go to 16, I want Texas or Notre Dame. Both teams we would completely whoop every year and are always overrated. Like the SEC shows, if your lesser conference mates are artificially inflated by the media, its very easy to climb in the polls.
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F*** the polls and F*** the media (espn). There are bigger reasons behind the expansion. BC does not fall into that pretense. I am among the ones that would like to see UVA and UNC join the B1G. But I'm sure we will see other conferences making some "king me" moves, and then see how things shake out.
 
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Muck;2268897; said:
Tom Jurich has done one hell of a job as AD and is a guy I'd love to see in the mix as Smith's successor. As it stands right now their athletic department revenue would place them 6th in the B1G. Not too shabby when your neighborhood is the Big East.
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Not too shabby when your neighborhood is Louisville. You're definitely playing with a stacked deck when there is no vacant land anywhere to build anything, and the most recognizable landmark for people passing through on I-65 are grain silos.
 
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