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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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ORD_Buckeye said:
If the rumors of Juggalos, Memphis, Houston and BYU are true, I guess academics didn't really matter at all! Three city commuter colleges (the latter two of whom make U of Cincy look like U of Chicago) and a Mormon college with a long and dark history of censoring academic freedom to the point that Baylor looks like a bastion of free thought in comparison. Zero sustained success at the foosball other than BYU and sporadic basketball success by the juggalos and Memphis only when they're cheating their ass off.

How the hell does anyone see this as making the conference stronger and keeping UT and OU on the plantation?
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They feel like they need a championship game or they'll be on the short end of the playoff stick more often than not, no?
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
And the plot sickens. That's who YOU ARE, juggalos. A mediocrity so toxic that you're capable of bringing ESPN & FOX Sports together to stop you from entering a conference.

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ESPN is getting all our games (and the games with Houston and Memphis) for something like 2 million a year now from the AAC. I'm sure they don't want to start paying the B12 25 million a year for essentially the same thing. That's all this is about. My guess is the B12 and ESPN settle for a higher payout for the existing B12 teams in return for the B12 foregoing expansion until the current contract runs out.
 
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BuckeyeNation27 said:
They feel like they need a championship game or they'll be on the short end of the playoff stick more often than not, no?
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Yeah, but they received the NCAA waiver to have one with 10 teams. I'm wondering whether this is the small schools wanting to ensure that there is a viable Conference USA in place ready to move forward when Okie and the Whorns take their balls to the PAC/SEC.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
If the rumors of Juggalos, Memphis, Houston and BYU are true, I guess academics didn't really matter at all! Three city commuter colleges (the latter two of whom make U of Cincy look like U of Chicago) and a Mormon college with a long and dark history of censoring academic freedom to the point that Baylor looks like a bastion of free thought in comparison. Zero sustained success at the foosball other than BYU and sporadic basketball success by the juggalos and Memphis only when they're cheating their ass off.

How the hell does anyone see this as making the conference stronger and keeping UT and OU on the plantation?
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Don't forget BYU's 'You were raped/sexually assaulted? We may charge you with honor code violations for having sex' position.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Yeah, but they received the NCAA waiver to have one with 10 teams. I'm wondering whether this is the small schools wanting to ensure that there is a viable Conference USA in place ready to move forward when Okie and the Whorns take their balls to the PAC/SEC.
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wtf? not that I ever wanted one when we really were the Big10.....but where was ours?
 
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My 2 cents is that the LHN actually gives OU the best options for hitting the eject button. They're kind of sitting in the cat bird's seat right now and can integrate into any conference not named BIG (because of AAU status) easily. For all of UT's arrogance, the BIG and PAC are not going to take them as is unless ESPN agrees to fold up the LHN to let them move to a conference with a FOX partnered network. Does ESPN prefer to hold their nose and continue to write those $15M checks to keep UT on the plantation? It's in ESPN's best interest to do everything possible to attempt to channel UT into the SEC (or even ACC) in order to fold the money losing albatross LHN into an ESPN partnered conference network.

Of course, UT and OU could just sign onto extended GOR in Conference USA 2.0 with the aim of being the biggest fish in a small, sewage filled pond.
 
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OSU_D/ said:
Don't forget BYU's 'You were raped/sexually assaulted? We may charge you with honor code violations for having sex' position.
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Perhaps BYU and Baylor could form a research institute for the study of justifiable rape.
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"Are they accepting applications for their master's program?" - Jameis Winston
 
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I checked The Shag's massive expansion thread over the weekend, and they're still scheming to invite themselves over to the PAC12 with Okie and two little brother "yes men" from the Big XII (Okie St & Texas Tech are probably the two most talked about), to which the PAC would obviously shit themselves with joy to take them. This way they could still have a voting bloc for which to get what they want, all while getting out of their sinking ship of a conference that they ran head-long into an iceburg with.

It tickles me that they actually think this would ever happen. Their delusions of grandeur know no bounds in college football.



....except maybe over in South Bend...
 
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