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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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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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There's a Nevada thread on scout called something like 'everything you'd ever want to know about B1G expansion'... I almost bought back in today. Almost. :shake:
 
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Although I'd prefer to stand pat, I understand that the conference is going to expand. Having said that, I do really hope the B1G considers FSU. As big a proponent as I am for having elite academic schools in the B1G, having another program capable of drawing in big TV ratings would do wonders for the conference. Culturally and academically FSU isn't a fit, but football-wise they are. There's not much getting around the cultural fit, so I'm not sure what can be done about that, but there is something that could be done academically.

FSU made a commitment to becoming an AAU school and was making good gains towards that end before the economy kicked them in the balls. They are just now beginning to get their feet back under them. I'd like to see the B1G presidents and chancellors look hard at them to see whether they will be capable of attaining AAU status in the not too distant future (say, 10-15 years). If they feel they can do it, then I'd like to see them brought into the conference, possibly as a non-CIC member until they become AAU. If they feel they can't make AAU status anytime soon, then maybe they should pass.

As an aside, I have a huge issue with the seemingly capricious decision-making on the part of the AAU. I understand the reasoning for booting Nebraska and essentially forcing out Syracuse, but why in the hell is Oregon still in there? To me, they stick out like a sore thumb.
 
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Using the internal metrics that were presented during the review of Nebraska:

31 Georgia Tech
31 Yeshiva

...(AAU schools)

37 Boston U (admitted this year)
37 Dartmouth

...(AAU)...

40 UAB

...(AAUl)...

43 Tufts
43 Maryland-Baltimore County

...(AAU)...

49 Utah

...(AAU)...

52 UC Santa Cruz
55 Rennselear
57 Wake

...(AAU)...

59 University of Miami
61 UIC
62 Cincinnati

...(AAU)...

64 Colorado St.

...(AAU)...

67 Oregon St.
68 George Washington

...(AAU)...

69 New Mexico

...(AAU)...

72 Wayne St
72 Cal-State Riverside

...(AAU)...

76 Alaska-Fairbanks
78 Virginia Commonwealth
79 University of Vermont & State Ag Cell
79 Hawaii
81 UConn

...(AAU)...

83 Georgetown
83 Delaware
86 SUNY Albany

...(AAU)...

87 Arizona St
87 South Florida
90 UMass
91 VPI
91 NCST
91 Oklahoma
94 (AAU School)
94 Florida St

There was another AAU school at 104 (rumored to be Kansas) & Nebraska was #109.

(The breaks in the list mean there are one or more AAU schools in those positions. None of the AAU members were listed by name)
 
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It's still funny that two weeks ago someone told me an ESPN columnists (Maisel) was inferring to Jim Delany and the Big Ten starting all of this mess.

The problem was, the columnists pointed to Penn State joining the Big Ten in the 90's as his example.

When your grasping at anything to dislike a conference, you get that.
 
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One of the next two has to be Georgia Tech (and not just so I can see the Buckeyes in Atlanta every now and then). The move makes too much sense for both sides to not happen. There's nowhere else for GT to go when the ACC implodes and the B1G wants to be in the SE's biggest market.
 
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If the amount that CBS Sports is reporting for the Big East TV contract, I do not know why any school would stay in that league (if they have options).

The amount was as low as $60 million per year and between $4 million-$5.3 million per school annually.
 
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Mike80;2273670; said:
I really couldn't care less about some expansion survey.
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I've already filled it out the first day it was available, but am also skeptical the conference would actually listen to opinions.

For example, home sites instead of neutral for the conference championship may make it easier for a Big Ten team to make the playoffs, in addition to perhaps helping ticket sales. But the Big Ten won't do that.

It'll go from Indy to Chicago to probably New York, Atlanta or Washington D.C.
 
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TDunk;2273762; said:
What did you expect them to say? What do you hear from owners when their coach is having a rough season. "We're solidly behind our guy. We believe in him." Then he gets a pink slip.
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Yeah, I can see that the ACC would want to protect it's interests, but the statement came directly from the member schools most speculated to leave: Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, Clemson, North Carolina, and Florida State. Virgina previously gave the same line. Then the other remaining members signed off on it. I agree that if one of these schools was going to leave, they certainly aren't going to say so in public prior to the move being official...but at this point we've been seeing mostly a lot of media speculation and "sources" claiming that this school will announce on Monday, or that school will declare on Wednesday, etc, and so far it hasn't fallen through.
 
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