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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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That would be nice if true. At this point in the process, however, any unsubstantiated rumors are just that. When expansion does come, I just don't see the first word coming from a Pitt message board, a Rutgers blog or a small time Iowa radio station. I think this is going to fizzle out as quickly as the Pitt and Rutgers "announcement" rumors.
 
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Apparently some Iowa Christian Radio host has a source in the Michigan athletics office (UPS?) that said that the Big Ten is going to announce in 2-3 months that we will be adding Notre Dame, Rutgers, and Boston College.
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That would be fine with me.

ND is one of the two dream additions, and Boston College is a solid one. Rutgers isn't great but as a tag-along they're worth the market gamble (even if I'd rather have syracuse).
 
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ORD_Buckeye;1680697; said:
That would be nice if true. At this point in the process, however, any unsubstantiated rumors are just that. When expansion does come, I just don't see the first word coming from a Pitt message board, a Rutgers blog or a small time Iowa radio station. I think this is going to fizzle out as quickly as the Pitt and Rutgers "announcement" rumors.
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I think someone mistook the joke email doing the rounds about Swarbrick's forthcoming statement about ND joining the Big Ten ...

when hell freezes over, or by 2015, whichever comes sooner.
 
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ORD_Buckeye;1680697; said:
I think this is going to fizzle out as quickly as the Pitt and Rutgers "announcement" rumors.
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My guess is this one won't even rise to the point of having a downward trajectory over which to fizzle.

Wow. That was a tortured piece of English right there. . .
 
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I could see that playing out. The more I read about Rutgers in the NY / NJ markets the more I think the Big Ten has had them in mind all of this time. While it does not make sense to a lot of us, to Big Ten executives it does. Rutgers is on the rise and an exciting jump to a new conference where bigger competition and more notable and well traveled teams are visiting could be just what they need to rise to relevance in their geography. More butts will be in seats and eyes on televisions to watch Ohio State, Michigan State, Wisconsin, scUM, and even Notre Dame in New Jersey when compared with USF, UCONN, PITT. Maybe it isn't so much about the team we pick up having a large fan base as it is us having a large fan base currently in those regions.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;1680728; said:
Hell is supposed to freeze in December 2012.
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Already happened:

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Delany, Big Ten may swallow Irish in expansive landscape
April 6, 2010
By Dennis Dodd
CBSSports.com Senior Writer

INDIANAPOLIS -- Jim Delany is the smartest man in the room. No, really. Six years ago, I named him the most relevant person in college football. Nothing has changed. If anything, the designation for the Big Ten commissioner was too modest.

Delany's clout runs through all of college athletics and is significant. Someday soon, if you believe the rumblings in college sports, the equivalent of a killer asteroid is about to hit. After soaking up the conference expansion vibe for four days at the Final Four, I get the feeling that Delany could be planning one of the most brilliant power plays in the history of college athletics.

He -- officially, his conference -- could force Notre Dame to join the Big Ten. No mating dance as in the past, just a ruthless corporate takeover.

Every casual conversation regarding expansion here seemed to start with the sentence, "The Big Ten is going to do something ..." That has become as much of an assumption as the tournament expanding to 96 teams. The Big Ten said in December it is exploring expansion. The NCAA had a press conference here Thursday to lay out the parameters for a 96-team whoop-de-do. The only question is which will come first.

All of this is still speculation. The Big Ten could do nothing, although few at this point seem to believe it. Already the conference has hired a financial institution to vet potential new members. A search firm has identified 15 possible expansion candidates.

So let's start with the Big Ten expanding to 12 teams, splitting into two divisions and staging a championship game. Except we're aiming too low. Through the entire process, there has existed the possibility that the Big Ten could be that killer asteroid.

Why not go to 12, or 14 teams? Why not blow up the conference landscape and add five schools and go to 16? In that scenario, Notre Dame would be sort of an athletic outlier. Nearby, Purdue and Indiana could be pulling in $25 million a year in an expanded Big Ten for doing little in football. Despite the recent downturn on the field, ND rival Michigan would be getting richer and more powerful.
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Delany, Big Ten may swallow Irish in expansive landscape - NCAA Football - CBSSports.com
 
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pfft Dodd sucks, he named the Big 16 conferences, Schembechler Division and Grange Division... what the fuck? If you're going to use Schembechler then you have to use Woody Hayes as well, it just doesn't make sense to use Red Grange with Bo. If you want to use Red Grange then you should use Chic Harley or someone equivalent to them.
 
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I feel like there's absolutely no other way to run the numbers here. We've just about exhausted every possible solution to the Big Ten's expansion scenarios...I'm just ready for somebody to get the ball rolling.

It seems to me that there are far more options that GREATLY benefit the Big Ten than there are those that only slightly boost it for a short term...and there's seemingly 0 opportunities that could currently DETRACT from the conference...

...so it's no surprise to me that the playmaker in all of this is going to be Delany and the Big Ten.

Just do something already!
 
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