Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

[ORD_Buckeye]

bcat4life 503 posts
40 minutes ago via Mobile

We will never be a mid major school. That is mindset. We have a rich basketball tradition and will continue to be a player on the national landscape. That is indisputable. We can make a New Year's Day bowl game every year. We need to be a team that can compete for this year after year. That is our challenge and we MUST make changes to achieve it. But we will NEVER be a mid major. Our school is too big, sits in a good market, and is academically well respected. Our time will come. But only if don't have a fan base that has a mid major attitude.

As god is my witness, we shall never be a mid-major again.

 

[MaxBuck]

She's not got any cellulite. Therefore not a Juggalo.

 

[SEREbuckeye]

Big 12 not expanding? Well, say goodbye to Tom Herman at Houston after this season.

 

[Buckeye86]

How does this work?

We're not expanding, our product is worse than it has ever been, we're just going to make FOX and ESPN hand us more money.

 

[Zurp]

Lest anyone question enjoying Juggalo tears today, may I remind you of this.

I like it when they had the shirt that said something like "Ohio's BCS School" or something... the same year Ohio State also made a BCS bowl. Ha! Of course, Ohio State made a BCS bowl 6 straight years and 8 out of 9. UC makes it to one and gets the pineapple-up-the-ass treatment. Congratulations on being Ohio's BCS School!

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

I like it when they had the shirt that said something like "Ohio's BCS School" or something... the same year Ohio State also made a BCS bowl. Ha! Of course, Ohio State made a BCS bowl 6 straight years and 8 out of 9. UC makes it to one and gets the pineapple-up-the-ass treatment. Congratulations on being Ohio's BCS School!

That was no shirt. It was worse. It was a giant banner on the university's official AD website. And the University licensed and sold those Buckeye State shirts in their bookstores. Can you imagine the whining and manufactured outrage if Ohio State actually sanctioned, licensed and sold shirts messing with The Other State Universities? Fuck that Juggalo clown college.

 

[cincibuck]

Big 12 not expanding? Well, say goodbye to Tom Herman at Houston after this season.

He was gone anyway.

 

[SEREbuckeye]

He was gone anyway.

Definitely at some point but this was certainly the nail in the coffin for after this season I think.

 

[cincibuck]

Definitely at some point but this was certainly the nail in the coffin for after this season I think.

Don't disagree. He wasn't about to give Houston an iron clad three to five year lock. At least they'll get some money to start their search while he packs.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

So the fucking AAC Commissioner whose best teams were found to be unworthy by the worst P5 conference is demanding P6 status for his sorry, cobbled together band of commuter schools. Why not give it to the MAC and MWC while we're at it. Just like fucking Oprah. You're a power conference.....and you're a power conference...everybody's a motherfucking power conference!

http://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...bel-after-his-schools-struck-out-with-big-12/

 

[CincyInterloper]

I think the answer is not making the AAC a "Power Conference", it's demoting the Big 12 to G6 status. It's the Big East all over again.

From the below article: "While included in the the 'Power 5 conference' label, the Big 12 is comprised of Texas and Oklahoma plus a bunch of football programs that, historically, are not all that distinguishable from schools in the Mountain West or American Athletic Conferences."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/briango...in-west-conference-than-power-5/#6d7e57dd557c

 

[CincyInterloper]

This is a long but interesting read about Missouri's move to the SEC. The below quote from the governor of Missouri caught my attention, and defines what I think is great about the B1G:

"I’m not going to say anything bad about the Big 12, but when you compare Oklahoma State to Northwestern, when you compare Texas Tech to Wisconsin, I mean, you begin looking at educational possibilities that are worth looking at."

https://missouri.rivals.com/news/zero-trust-inside-mizzou-s-move-to-the-southeastern-conference

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

This is a long but interesting read about Missouri's move to the SEC. The below quote from the governor of Missouri caught my attention, and defines what I think is great about the B1G:

"I’m not going to say anything bad about the Big 12, but when you compare Oklahoma State to Northwestern, when you compare Texas Tech to Wisconsin, I mean, you begin looking at educational possibilities that are worth looking at."

https://missouri.rivals.com/news/zero-trust-inside-mizzou-s-move-to-the-southeastern-conference

It's especially funny since they ended up in the S-E-C.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Every B1G President and AD should read the below passage 1,000 times before even considering offering UT an invite.

EXCERPT FROM THE 100-YEAR DECISION: “As I quickly discovered, Texas was playing an elaborate, behind-the-scenes chess game, strategically making moves in its own best interest and treating virtually all other schools like expendable pieces. We had no interest in playing that game.”

And any guesses at whom the last line below is aimed.

SCOTT STATEMENT, SEPTEMBER 20, 2011: “After careful review we have determined that it is in the best interests of our member institutions, student-athletes and fans to remain a 12-team conference. While we have great respect for all of the institutions that have contacted us, and certain expansion proposals were financially attractive, we have a strong conference structure and culture of equality that we are committed to preserve.”

So, to put that in perspective, Texas has contacted both the PAC and the B1G since 1990 about joining, and was rejected by both.And while both were tactful and professional in their rejections, they however, firmly and emphatically said, "thanks but no thanks" to the self-described most valuable entity in college football. Perhaps the "Big swinging dick'" they're always bragging about is a lot more Trump and a lot less Ron Jeremy.

 

[LovelandBuckeye]

Perhaps the "Big swinging dick'" they're always bragging about is a lot more Trump and a lot less Ron Jeremy.

Have you seen Trump's hands?