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Big Ten and other Conference Expansion

Which Teams Should the Big Ten Add? (please limit to four selections)

  • Boston College

    Votes: 32 10.3%
  • 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 21.5%
  • Missouri

    Votes: 90 28.8%
  • North Carolina

    Votes: 39 12.5%
  • Notre Dame

    Votes: 208 66.7%
  • Oklahoma

    Votes: 78 25.0%
  • Pittsburgh

    Votes: 45 14.4%
  • Rutgers

    Votes: 40 12.8%
  • Syracuse

    Votes: 18 5.8%
  • Texas

    Votes: 121 38.8%
  • Vanderbilt

    Votes: 15 4.8%
  • Virginia

    Votes: 47 15.1%
  • Virginia Tech

    Votes: 62 19.9%
  • Stay at 12 teams and don't expand

    Votes: 27 8.7%
  • Add some other school(s) not listed

    Votes: 25 8.0%

  • Total voters
    312
I mentioned this in another thread but I believe the problem for USC and UCLA is the changing demographics in LA county which has led to a less fertile recruiting base and a drop in attendance.

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Football is a black/white sport for the most part and without that demographic it's going to be tough to field a competitive team. You can see in the chart, the black and white populations in LA county have been decreasing while the Latino population has been rising. I think this a very real issue that no one wants to say out loud but it's relevant. Moving to the BIG will help their recruiting and get more TV exposure which will increase their revenues. I'm not sure what they're going to do about attendance because during the best of times LA is full of fair weather fans and if you're not winning no one is going to come to the games. I can honestly see the Pac reclassifying into a mid major in the not too distant future. The decline has been dramatic in both football and basketball.

It's not just Hispanics. Living in Chicago where there's still a steady stream of Polish and Irish immigration, I don't see their kids assimilating and adopting football the way previous waves did. With the proliferation of youth soccer and ability to now watch it on American TV (and that shit always on year-fucking-round), they're just maintaining their parents' affinity for futbol.
 
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It's not just Hispanics. Living in Chicago where there's still a steady stream of Polish and Irish immigration, I don't see their kids assimilating and adopting football the way previous waves did. With the proliferation of youth soccer and ability to now watch it on American TV (and that shit always on year-fucking-round), they're just maintaining their parents' affinity for futbol.
Yeah, it's just a matter of time, and CTE is hastening the transition.
 
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It's not just Hispanics. Living in Chicago where there's still a steady stream of Polish and Irish immigration, I don't see their kids assimilating and adopting football the way previous waves did. With the proliferation of youth soccer and ability to now watch it on American TV (and that shit always on year-fucking-round), they're just maintaining their parents' affinity for futbol.
I know that Chicago has probably the largest Irish and Polish populations but I had no idea that they were still streaming in at the rate that Central Americans are entering the southwest. Have they changed the demographics much there as they have here?
 
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I know that Chicago has probably the largest Irish and Polish populations but I had no idea that they were still streaming in at the rate that Central Americans are entering the southwest. Have they changed the demographics much there as they have here?

Irish not nearly as much as Polish, though it is present. With Polish (and other Eastern European), it's still very prominent. I could take you to multiple markets on the NW side where everyone (employees and customers) is speaking Polish, and and it's not confined to old grandmothers. I'm sure it's not the massive waves that it was 120 years ago, but it's still going on.
 
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Irish not nearly as much as Polish, though it is present. With Polish (and other Eastern European), it's still very prominent. I could take you to multiple markets on the NW side where everyone (employees and customers) is speaking Polish, and and it's not confined to old grandmothers. I'm sure it's not the massive waves that it was 120 years ago, but it's still going on.
There's a large Polish and former Yugoslavia population here in Phoenix, mostly Croatians and Serbs
 
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