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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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Day 2: I still don't like this. I was pissed when Rutgers and Maryland became a permanent part of Buck's schedule at the expense of Iowa, Purdue, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Travel issues, especially non-revenue sports travel will grow in significance. And what about teams that have to fly to the coast one week and play a noon game the next week at home or on the east coast. Gonna be a whole lot more kids getting degrees in kinesiology, law enforcement, and communications.

Oh, and bringing two LA schools into the Big Ten helps recruiting how? Not to mention the historical record of USC and probation.

If other schools in the Pac 8/10/12/8 are shitting in their boxers, imagine what's happening downstream in MAC/Big Sky/Mountain West offices. Bend over and kiss those big paydays goodbye.
 
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If the conference championship is played at the Rose Bowl against onebof the California Schools, a semi final is played there, and then the NC game is there, it could be possible to play in the Rose Bowl 3-4 times in one season. Lol
 
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SEC kicked things off last year that essentially killed off one of the P5. Big Ten fell into a huge counterpunch. Lucky that we are the only conference that can match SEC money, while still maintaining academic integrity and at least some priority to Olympic sports.

Now we will have an arms race that I expect will be resolved before the season kicks off. At this point we have 2 conferences that are fatally wounded. The SEC and Big Ten are going to be fighting to get their picks.

Meanwhile the ACC will fight for scraps if they want to stay alive. Big 12 schools would be smart to dissolve the conference and try to get into the PAC before anyone else leaves. At this point there are zero schools from the B12 that I want, and the SEC is probably in the same boat. Those schools would have already put out their feelers and got no offers. Yes, the Texas market would be great, but I am in the Fuck the entire state of Texas boat.

The cherry on top: Cincinnati ends up on the outside again.
 
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Woody1968 said:
If the conference championship is played at the Rose Bowl against onebof the California Schools, a semi final is played there, and then the NC game is there, it could be possible to play in the Rose Bowl 3-4 times in one season. Lol
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I don't think the CFP Committee would schedule a semifinal game and the National Championship game in the same stadium. However, I could see playing UCLA at home in the Rose Bowl, the B1G selecting the Rose Bowl for the CCG, and a CFP game in the Rose Bowl.
 
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Abenaki said:
Love it or hate it, Notre Dame is going to end up in the Big Ten. It's inevitable at this point.
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The only reason…the only one…I’d enjoy ND in the conference is because they’d constantly get into bitchfests with DFBIA about academic and arrogance smack…they could go off on each other for all eternity
 
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muffler dragon said:
https://www.stltoday.com/sports/col...cle_1e4326e2-ee4f-546e-8969-1ee282fa5a5b.html

There's more content on the link than what I'll copy below.
I find the framing of the impact on ND interesting:
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I wonder how many teams (these academic teams specifically or others) will just realize they can’t compete and won’t try. You may end up with 2 different models…the win at all costs/NIL/NFL farm super conference model, and the older regional or newer something in common model where it is still about winning but not quite as cutthroat with little NIL money and a much less active transfer portal.

Time will tell.
 
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Abenaki said:
Love it or hate it, Notre Dame is going to end up in the Big Ten. It's inevitable at this point.
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I actually agree; unless they make the strategic mistake by waiting too long and when they do decide, the B1G is already at "full capacity".

BuckBackHome said:
I'm all for UNC to the B10. Tons of Ohio transplants down that way.
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Both UVA and UNC would be good additions to the B1G.
 
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cincibuck said:
Day 2: I still don't like this. I was pissed when Rutgers and Maryland became a permanent part of Buck's schedule at the expense of Iowa, Purdue, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Travel issues, especially non-revenue sports travel will grow in significance. And what about teams that have to fly to the coast one week and play a noon game the next week at home or on the east coast. Gonna be a whole lot more kids getting degrees in kinesiology, law enforcement, and communications.

Oh, and bringing two LA schools into the Big Ten helps recruiting how? Not to mention the historical record of USC and probation.

If other schools in the Pac 8/10/12/8 are shitting in their boxers, imagine what's happening downstream in MAC/Big Sky/Mountain West offices. Bend over and kiss those big paydays goodbye.
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I don't understand this argument in 2022.

Many of the high school teams that play on the team you root for, and will soon play against, already play NATIONAL schedules. Check out IMG's schedule, they play back-to-back-to-back away games to Missouri, Utah, and Alabama.

This is an age where kids are flying all over constantly to appear in camps, 7 on 7's, official and unofficial visits, etc.

They fly in first class environments on chartered flights where they have everything imaginable to do any course work or can sleep in complete comfort.

Some non-rev sports are staying, but when you are infusing your AD with tens and tens of millions more than you had, I am not concerned about the ability for those other sports to travel and still be comfortable. Adding an extra 90 minutes of flight time to get to Columbus instead of Washington is something any of these athletes and staffs can handle, a small price to pay for the cash flow injection.
 
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ScriptOhio said:
I actually agree; unless they make the strategic mistake by waiting too long and when they do decide, the B1G is already at "full capacity".
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I think ND is the only school that has the ability, if they wanted to, to let everything fall into place and the B1G and SEC go to 24 schools....and then they tell the B1G they want in. I can promise you, that door is getting opened for ND and the B1G goes to 25. No conference would ever be at full capacity when it pertains to ND.
 
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