Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[mross34]

Logos gotta change if we add a team.

 

[jwinslow]

It's pretty easy to sneak a 2 in there instead.
It's pretty hard to take yourselves seriously as the Big 10 err Big 12 but not the Big 12.

 

[redbenn]

Logos gotta change if we add a team.

just add an asterisk

 

[redbenn]

It's pretty easy to sneak a 2 in there instead.
It's pretty hard to take yourselves seriously as the Big 10 err Big 12 but not the Big 12.

 

[OSU_D/]

It's hard to keep a secret around the state Capitol, especially when legislative talk turns from taxes to football.

So, in early 1994, when the buzz began that Texas and Texas A&M were preparing to leave the Southwest Conference, David Sibley went straight to a man he knew wouldn't deceive him.
Sibley, then a Republican state senator from Waco, buttonholed William Cunningham, the University of Texas chancellor, at a reception. He asked him point blank if the rumors that the Longhorns and Aggies were planning to desert the SWC were true.

A great article about the politics surrounding the pipe dream (and my dream) of Texas. It specifically mentions the Big 10 in one portion.

Power brokers: How tagalong Baylor, Tech crashed the revolt

 

[BuckeyeTillIDie]

Orrrrrr just change the name

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

The "best/right thing to do" is debatable, but for the big wigs, numbers and money isn't. If the numbers are there, that's what matters. Those numbers would be TV contract boosts, new television shares, academic marks, etc.

If the big wigs make their decisions for "what's best" for the conference based solely on monetary gain, then they need to be relieved of their positions.

And simply adding a CCG won't result in any real "TV contract boosts" or "new television shares"...it's only one single game, likely coinciding with one or more other CCGs.

 

[mross34]

A great article about the politics surrounding the pipe dream (and my dream) of Texas. It specifically mentions the Big 10 in one portion.

Power brokers: How tagalong Baylor, Tech crashed the revolt

The Longhorns next turned to the Big Ten. Having added Penn State in 1990, the Big Ten was now made of universities that, in the view of UT officials, matched UT's profile ? large state schools with strong academic reputations. Berdahl liked the fact that 10 conference members belonged to the American Association of Universities.
Yet, distance remained a disadvantage. Iowa, the closest Big Ten school to Austin, was 856 miles away ? but the appeal of having 10 of 12 schools in the same time zone was seen as a plus.
But after adding Penn State in 1990, Big Ten officials had put a four-year moratorium on expansion. Although admitting interest, Big Ten bosses ultimately rejected UT's overtures.

Sounds like this almost happened once before.

 

[redbenn]

Orrrrrr just change the name

The "Mid 12" doesn't have a good ring to it.

 

[CentFlaBuckeye]

Orrrrrr just change the name

BLASPHEMY!...but, yeah, that is what I thought too. :)

I really don't think a name change will happen but the Big Ten with twelve teams is really kind of ridiculous. Hmm, kind of like the Big Ten with eleven teams.

 

[jwinslow]

Orrrrrr just change the name

Jim Tressel & the 11 Dwarves

(not my creation)

 

[powerlifter]

Texas was not the same caliber of team at that time

 

[LitlBuck]

I don't think Texas has a hockey club:) yet a team and this is one of ORD's requirement for entry into the Big Ten.

 

[mross34]

I don't think Texas has a hockey club:) yet a team and this is one of ORD's requirement for entry into the Big Ten.

Texas Ice Hockey

Currently Division II.

 

[morbitzerker]

Orrrrrr just change the name

The Big Twen.