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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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Might be completely coincidental, but FSU called me last night (first time they've ever reached out via phone) asking if I'd like to make a donation to the school.

Thought it was slightly interesting considering the timing with realignment and exit fees.
 
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billmac91;2272906; said:
Might be completely coincidental, but FSU called me last night (first time they've ever reached out via phone) asking if I'd like to make a donation to the school.
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Consider yourself lucky. I get calls from OSU and UF at least once a year.

But yeah, that is an interesting coincidence, especially in light of their stated desire to become AAU-caliber.
 
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LordJeffBuck;2272889; said:
Actually, Florida State started out as an all-female college (Florida State College for Women). Florida State went co-ed in 1947, which not coincidentally was the same year that the school began participating in football.
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Walking around that campus still has the feel of walking around the campus of a women's college given the female to male ratio there and the quality of women that put those at UF to shame.
 
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There is something to be said, I guess, for a university stepping up and saying they will spend the cash to meet the requirements for membership - nothing like having someone who wants to be there pony up what they need beforehand.

I have no idea where to begin to research this, but what are FSU's chances of getting into the AAU in the next 2 years or so?
 
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LordJeffBuck;2272889; said:
Actually, Florida State started out as an all-female college (Florida State College for Women). Florida State went co-ed in 1947, which not coincidentally was the same year that the school began participating in football.
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Interesting, but I guess I'm missing what that has to do with its circus program, though I note that it was also started in 1947 apparently.
 
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Mike80;2273003; said:
There is something to be said, I guess, for a university stepping up and saying they will spend the cash to meet the requirements for membership - nothing like having someone who wants to be there pony up what they need beforehand.

I have no idea where to begin to research this, but what are FSU's chances of getting into the AAU in the next 2 years or so?
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ZERO. Georgia Tech just entered. FSU has a long fucking ways to go.
 
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ESPN - Big Ten eyes further expansion

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NEW YORK -- The Big Ten recently announced it would increase to 14 members, so can a 16-team Big Ten be far behind?

"There are some advantages to 16 (teams) compared to 14," Michigan State athletic director Mark Hollis told ESPN on Wednesday. "Fourteen is clumsy. We're not out looking for two teams, but basically we will continue to survey the landscape."

Hollis, attending the IMG Intercollegiate Athletics Forum at the Marriott Marquis, said whether the Big Ten expands is dependent to "what happens in other areas" in the country.
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More...
 
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ORD_Buckeye;2273030; said:
ZERO. Georgia Tech just entered. FSU has a long fucking ways to go.
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So yeah...

http://frankthetank.wordpress.com/2...ht-the-case-for-florida-state-to-the-big-ten/

If You're Going to Create a Superconference, Then Do It Right: The Case for Florida State to the Big Ten

The irony of writing a blog that's largely known for being focused upon conference realignment and Big Ten expansion is that I'm personally not someone that has a preternatural need to see the kingdom of Jim Delany get larger and larger. Back when I originally starting writing about the topic three years ago, I only really saw a necessity for the Big Ten to add 1 more school to create a conference championship game and wasn't a large proponent of expanding to 14, 16 or beyond. All of the superconference ideas with an emphasis on pods and market shares interest me greatly from a business perspective, but the number of potential expansion candidates out there that make me perk up as fan is pretty small. If the Big Ten needed to go up to 16 to get marquee schools such as Texas or Notre Dame, then that would have been one thing, but expanding simply for the sake of market share can backfire in the long run. Nebraska certainly qualified as a school that I?d go out of my way to actually watch play football, so I was content with the thought of the Big Ten staying at 12. I completely understand the latest moves by Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany to add Maryland and Rutgers to move the league up to 14 members as a way to stay ahead of the ever-changing demographics of this country, yet that?s largely the business side of my brain coming to that conclusion...
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But, ultimately, no.
 
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OSU_D/;2273482; said:
Frank, The dude, Chip Brown, PBC.... they just serve to remind us nobody know ish unless they are being used as a mouth piece for some reason.
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Frank doesn't really belong in the same category with those others. He freely admits he doesn't have any inside information. He just discusses possibilities and the potential value of various teams.

He wasn't saying Miami was being seriously considered by the B1G, he's just long been a proponent of them receiving an invite.
 
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