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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 10.2%
  • 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
Muck;2019707; said:
Recognized National Titles:

And only seven of those recognized national titles have happened in the last four decades, and Nebraska owns five of those seven.

Lots of those schools (Nebraska included) are living off of past prestige. Not a single current upper-echelon school has jumped ship from their conference to date.

But it's interesting to note that the one conference with such schools, and by that I mean schools that have won anything of note in the past decade, whose members have openly expressed interest in leaving, is the Big XII. And although its in vogue to blame it all on teams wanting to get out from under the thumb of Texas, Texas themselves have tried to jump ship, and have courted not only the Big Ten, but the SEC and most publicly the Pac-10/12. But it isn't just Texas wanting to jump ship, recently-successful Oklahoma has been active as well, both in a package deal with Texas and without Texas.

If that doesn't define the dysfunctional nature of the Big XII, nothing will.
 
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jwinslow;2019710; said:
So you're saying Pitt could talk a lot of smack to our grandfathers co-workers from Minnesota.

A series from '34-'36 would have been epic.

Pitt actually played in the Rose Bowl several times during that era.

BTW Bierman's '35 team would've kicked TCU's ass (who beat LSU 3-2 in the Sugar bowl).
 
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Muck;2019712; said:
EDSBS - BEHOLD THE FUTURE OF COLLEGE ATHLETICS: THE SUNBEAST
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The first, the SunBelt, a collection of schools with affordable real estate and no BCS Bid or substantial television contract. The second is the Big East, a conference in dire need of members and a place to find cheap real estate for retirement homes, investment properties, and an eventual escape from the wintry sorrow-holes they inhabit.

If you cannot read between the lines: this is all an elaborate real estate venture with a football cover. We plan to buy the land now, upsell it, and then leave the new owners with worthess acreage and ourselves with full pockets. Remember to read the brochures! You laugh, but people include blatant admissions of truth in them all the time, and you deserve to be snookered for not paying attention to the fine print. There is a Dunkin' Donuts coupon on page five of this presentation, and you probably won't ever know that because you won't read that far, either.
They have chocolate fountains at the Golden Corral now. You say "Ha-ha, that's funny, I won't eat there, but if I do, I will probably just have a salad, because Golden Corral is basically one big boot camp for fatness." So you get a salad, but then you think, "Well, I may as well try some of the bourbon chicken."

So you try some Bourbon Chicken, and it's not good, but it is certainly better than you thought. This leads down a slippery slope of Golden Corral consumption choices until you arrive at it, drawn by forces you cannot understand. It stands before you. From one man's perspective, it is just simmering C-grade chocolate and sugar heated and pumped down a contoured mold; from another, it is a ziggurat of culinary orgasm, a tower of fulfillment into which one dips the otherwise regretful marshmallows and disappointing cake squares of life to redeem their sadness.

Either way you're eating it, and thus the pitch. When someone doubts the brilliance of this plan, just repeat: "It's like a chocolate fountain at the Golden Corral, but for football."

Cont'd
 
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1. I feel sorry for Ohio Univ.
2. TSUN still wouldn't win their division.
3. Kansas and Texas Tech could possibly win a conference title or two.
4. The Cats & Dogs Conf. would be the worst footbal watching ever...EVER!
5. Texa$ would still be the king in a shitty conference.
6. I could live with these because tOSU still gets to play Akron and Toledo yearly.
 
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Muck;2019707; said:
Recognized National Titles:

Pitt: 9 (1910, 1915, 1916, 1918, 1929, 1931, 1936, 1937, 1976)
Nebraska: 5 (1970, 1971, 1994, 1995, 1997)
Syracuse: 1 (1959)
A&M: 1 (1939)
WVU: 0
Mizzou: 0

Colorado: 1 (1990)
TCU: 1 (1938)
Utah: 0

Yep. Pan Am and TWA used to be considered the two premier, flagship airlines of the USA. Nowadays, not so much... :wink2:

On another note, it would appear that Pitt wins the prize for "We didn't support the US in WW I, we kept all our athletes at home to compete (with whom?) for football championships!"
 
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MaxBuck;2019414; said:
The thing I probably love most about this whole "realignment" business is that the EssEeCee apologists continue to spout off on how they're the best there is on the football field, ignoring the economics of Big College Football.

The SEC is, of course, the strongest conference around, and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile, the football programs of the Big Ten will continue to feed money into academics and into non-revenue sports at a rate the SEC can only dream of, yielding educational opportunities for countless young people who, if they were stuck in Arkansas, would be relegated to a life in the chicken processing plant.

This train of thought only works if you actually think the SEC athletes and athletic administrators give a shit about the actual education to be gained.
 
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DallasHusker;2019803; said:
Yep. Pan Am and TWA used to be considered the two premier, flagship airlines of the USA. Nowadays, not so much... :wink2:

On another note, it would appear that Pitt wins the prize for "We didn't support the US in WW I, we kept all our athletes at home to compete (with whom?) for football championships!"

psst - the US didn't get into World War 1 until 1917....
 
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BuckeyeMike80;2019805; said:
This train of thought only works if you actually think the SEC athletes and athletic administrators give a [Mark May] about the actual education to be gained.

Yes Mike, because all SEC athletes and athletic administrators do not care about actual education, unlike the scholar athletes of the B1G and their focus on pursuing the highest level of educational opportunities.

Certainly, no on-going meme in the M*ch*g*n threads expresses any negativity concerning the academic prowess of a B1G member institution.

Ow!! My cheek is bleeding and my tongue is sore.
 
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Woody1968;2019614; said:
Yeah, they aren't going to be another Vanderbilt, and they'll be able to recruit better in the south, as opposed to just Texas. They could be a solid program if their coaching situatiion remains stable. Of course, the competition will be much greater too...

I think they'll probably be mid-level SEC, comparable to Arkansas, South Carolina or Auburn prior to Cam.
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Tubberville Kitty and his undefeated season stare menacingly at you.
 
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