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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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Buckeye86;2274637; said:
How does FSU's academic record compare with Nebraska's?

It can't be that much worse...
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FSU was tied at #94 with a current AAU member on the internal ranking list that was used when Nebraska went up for review. Nebraska was #109.

There was one another AAU school below FSU at #105. That was rumored to be Syracuse who left the AAU voluntarily around the same time as Nebraska was up for review.

The two most recent AAU additions; Georgia Tech & Boston U. were #31 & #37 on the AAU list. Thirty two other non-AAU schools (not including Georgia Tech & BU) were ranked higher than FSU.

The University of Miami was at #59 behind nine other non-members.

Some of the various schools discussed on my composite ranking:

4 Duke 1391.0755
10 North Carolina 1272.3637
15 Georgia Tech 1179.6399
18 Virginia 1128.4918
20 Pittsburgh 1104.9044
27 Notre Dame 1017.9417
34 Miami (FL) 867.0165
36 NC St. 820.1705
38 Virginia Tech 781.5183
41 Connecticut 724.0432
45 Florida St. 714.1528
48 Kansas 642.6922
49 Boston College 637.2450
57 Syracuse 563.0363

65 Nebraska 521.5648
 
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Bucky32;2275018; said:
Gone from the public eye? He's an AD that was addressing the school's athletic board.
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To be fair Barry has run off at the mouth multiple times about expansion over the past few years. People just don't remember when he says something goofy compared to someone like Gee because Alvarez quotes don't get repeated endlessly on ESPN.
 
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Muck;2275026; said:
To be fair Barry has run off at the mouth multiple times about expansion over the past few years. People just don't remember when he says something goofy compared to someone like Gee because Alvarez quotes don't get repeated endlessly on ESPN.
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I'm not saying he doesn't, but to state he's been out of the public eye for years is a bit of a head-scratcher when he's an AD of a Big Ten school.
 
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Muck;2275011; said:
FSU was tied at #94 with a current AAU member on the internal ranking list that was used when Nebraska went up for review. Nebraska was #109.

There was one another AAU school below FSU at #105. That was rumored to be Syracuse who left the AAU voluntarily around the same time as Nebraska was up for review.

The two most recent AAU additions; Georgia Tech & Boston U. were #31 & #37 on the AAU list. Thirty two other non-AAU schools (not including Georgia Tech & BU) were ranked higher than FSU.

The University of Miami was at #59 behind nine other non-members.

Some of the various schools discussed on my composite ranking:

4 Duke 1391.0755
10 North Carolina 1272.3637
15 Georgia Tech 1179.6399
18 Virginia 1128.4918
20 Pittsburgh 1104.9044
27 Notre Dame 1017.9417
34 Miami (FL) 867.0165
36 NC St. 820.1705
38 Virginia Tech 781.5183
41 Connecticut 724.0432
45 Florida St. 714.1528
48 Kansas 642.6922
49 Boston College 637.2450
57 Syracuse 563.0363

65 Nebraska 521.5648
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Just curious - how did you weight your rankings? Having said that, its interesting that Nebraska is so low on your list.
 
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Mrstickball;2275258; said:
Just curious - how did you weight your rankings? Having said that, its interesting that Nebraska is so low on your list.
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I used 17 different university rankings all were given equal weight and normalized to a 100pt scale. The exception being the ACTA, CWUR & IPRHEI which were normalized to a 50pt scale. AAU members were given a flat bonus of 10pts.

ACTA, ARWU, CMUP, CWUR, Forbes, HEEACT, IPRHEI, Leiden, NRC, Parchment, QS, RPI, SIR, THE, URAP, USN&WR, & Washington Monthly

The entire list can be found here.
 
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Muck;2275645; said:
In all honesty it's better than most of the combos I've seen thrown about.

Still there is exactly 1 AAU member on that list, doubt it would ever get past the COP/C
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I'm sure there would be complaining, but that would really be ridiculous reasoning. 3 of those 4 are better academically then some AAU members.
 
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