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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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IronBuckI;2315333; said:
I assume that you mean UC and Xavier. If so, UC isn't going to be in the Big East next year. They'll be in the cluster[censored] conference. So the cross town shootout will still be a non-conference matchup.
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It has been non conference and yes, is there any other Crosstown Shootout? How will UC not be in the BE for BBall?
 
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LovelandBuckeye;2315384; said:
It has been non conference and yes, is there any other Crosstown Shootout? How will UC not be in the BE for BBall?
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"I had the group liquidated, you little shit. They were insolent."

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jlb1705;2315147; said:
To me UD makes a little more sense than Creighton. They are a closer fit geographically and draw a lot of students from the northeast - more than Creighton does, I imagine. Creighton really should be in too at some point though.
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The Atlantic 10 schools who are joining this year will have to pay a $2M exit fee (which I think the Big East is at least partially covering). Creighton's exit fee is only $50K. So financially it would make more sense to take Creighton now & hold off on a year for at least one of the A10 schools.

Allegedly there is an internal battle among the current members about who should be #12 (with Creighton #10 & St Louis #11) with Georgetown actively pushing for Richmond & others campaigning for others schools not named Dayton.

FWIW I tend to give the Tribune a little more weight than the NY Post (the previous article I posted)...

'Catholic 7' expected to become 10-team league next week

If all goes to plan, and few expect it won't, DePaul and the so-called Catholic 7 will swell into a 10-team league by the middle of next week.

The additions of Xavier, Butler and Creighton should become official by Wednesday or Thursday, according to sources familiar with the talks. And thus the new Big East would take shape for 2013-14.

Xavier and Butler left Atlantic 10 meetings in New York on Friday, according to Sports Illustrated. The thought was that league might vote on increasing exit fees Friday, and if Xavier and Butler announced their imminent withdrawal, they would have lost voting rights and therefore would have had to exit the meeting.

The Atlantic 10 is holding its league tournament at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

Meanwhile, Creighton indeed will be the 10th team in the league, a source told the Tribune. There had been some debate on the identity of any additions after Xavier and Butler, but the new Big East has settled on Creighton for certain, barring unexpected complications.
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Edit: Looks like Arch took the time to get a clarification from the NYP writer:

Dayton & the new Big East
If you take University of Dayton athletics director Tim Wabler at his word, nothing is concrete about the Flyers moving into the newly formed Catholic 7 league - or the new Big East, as they will be known - and especially not when it comes to next season.

A report in the New York Post Wednesday said Dayton, will join Xavier and Butler as additions to the seven next season and Creighton and Saint Louis would join in 2014. But Lenn Robbins who wrote the story told our Doug Harris late Wednesday afternoon that he’d heard Dayton would be the last team him.

He said the reference was to the 12th team in, not the 10th.

Wabler, through UD’s sports information office, said the New York Post story was “speculation.”
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Creighton to accept Big East invitation

Creighton is set to make the Big move.

Creighton University plans to accept an offer to join the Big East Conference, The World-Herald has learned.

Its entry into the newly reconfigured, basketball-centric conference will have the Bluejays annually going to battle on the court against iconic programs like Georgetown, Marquette and Villanova.

It also will mean leaving the Missouri Valley Conference, the league that has been the longtime home to Creighton athletic teams in all sports.
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jlb1705;2315147; said:
To me UD makes a little more sense than Creighton. They are a closer fit geographically and draw a lot of students from the northeast - more than Creighton does, I imagine. Creighton really should be in too at some point though.
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This. I'd like to see Dayton in ahead of Creighton. Creighton definitely fits the profile of the new league, but it's a real outlier geographically. Omaha is over 700 miles from Cincinnati.
 
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LovelandBuckeye;2315450; said:
And Rutgers gets?
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Honestly, I hope nothing. Not a cent. Not a penny.

Rutgers didn't have a negotiating leg to stand on. What if Rutgers didn't want to join the Big Ten? Yeah, you'll be right there with UConn and Cincinnati. The Big East was crumbling at that point.

The ACC, where Maryland was, wasn't crumbling.

I just laugh at the $20-$30 million figure, when their travel was estimated to be at $6 million (increase of $3 million). So that number pays for the increase for about 7-10 years.

North Carolina...they'd probably get $50 million of "FU" money from the B1G.

UNC: "Our travel will increase $5 million."
Big Ten: "O.K., here's $70 million."
 
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Muck;2315121; said:
Butler, Dayton, Xavier to join Big East next season

Meanwhile, the unnamed conference of football-playing schools already is looking to expand, with Tulsa a likely candidate. The league, which has not settled on the America 12 name, will keep its league office in Providence, andis poised to implement some of the most innovative and interaction telecasts in college football history.
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A. Run
B. Pass
C. Double reverse with a throw back to the QB running a streak.
D. Delay of game caused by Tommy Tuberville getting into a slap fight with an assistant coach

Don't forget, every vote enters you into the sweepstakes to pick the conference name for next season. Congratulations to Joe Smith, our 2013 winner, who chose the name "Big Atlantic Leading Local Student Athlete Conference"
 
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Ryan36_1;2315490; said:
Don't forget, every vote enters you into the sweepstakes to pick the conference name for next season. Congratulations to Joe Smith, our 2013 winner, who chose the name "Big Atlantic Leading Local Student Athlete Conference"
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I think it's time corporate sponsorship comes into play, just like stadiums and bowl games. Kenmore could sponsor the "United Refrigerator Conference". Open it up, nothing but leftovers.
 
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