Arkansas and Notre Dame to the Big 12?

to MWC!?

If so, should we start referring to the Domers as DN? 

I suppose Arkansas to the Big12 is a little bit plausible, but Notre Dame makes no sense at all. 

Bottom line, I'm really tired of the "expansion rumor mill"

I never liked Notre Dame anyway.

Source: ND refused to entertain the idea of joining the Big Ten when only Boise St, Nebraska and Colorado had move but now that Utah is gone and Arkansas might for absolutely zero reason turn their back on storied rivalries, ND might say 'to hell with it' and join a conference that was unable to maintain their ranks while pouring zero dollar.dollar.bills into their members' coffers. But ND might be able to maintain their current tv ability in a way very similar to neverleavingforanewlycrappyconference. 

Poster: I love it. Posting it now on Texas Rivals and the Unicorns Are Our Friends, Not Our Enemies Facebook page. Have any more Nitrous in that can?

Holy hell, is this ever going to end? I don't know if I can take another 6 - 12 months of expansion talk.  ND just needs to finish acsending into heaven  so we don't have to deal with their holy asses anymore.

The Great Plains aren't big enough for Texas and ND's respective egos- this would be a marriage made in hell for everyone.

On second thought,  they deserve each other.

"That source went on to say if Arkansas joined the Big 12 and realignment started back up with the SEC having to replace a school and possibly looking to get to 14 or even 16, Notre Dame could be back in play."

So IF Arkansas joins the Big 12 - maybe realignment would start back up and the SEC would possibly  look to go to 14 or maybe 16 teams - and if all of this were to happen, Notre Dame could be back in play.

Sounds like a done deal.  Does a person really need a "source" to come up with this shit?

I really don't think that's accurate. They've been playing this game since 1900 and it's been a big-ass deal to both schools the whole time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_River_Rivalry

The Red River Rivalry, commonly known as the Red River Shootout, or the OU-Texas/Texas-OU game, is a common name for the annual college football game between the University of Texas Longhorns and the University of Oklahoma Sooners. The series is considered one of the greatest rivalries in American sports. Both schools consider the game to be one of their biggest rivalries, alongside their in-state rivalries with the Texas A&M Aggies, for the Longhorns, and the Oklahoma State Cowboys, for the Sooners. The name is derived from the Red River that forms part of the boundary between the U.S. states of Texas and Oklahoma. The game originated in 1900, while Oklahoma was still a United States territory and the Oklahoma campus was still in Oklahoma Territory.

The game typically has conference or even national significance. Since 1945, one or both of the two teams has been ranked among the top 25 teams in the nation coming into 60 out of 65 games. Texas leads the all-time series 59–40–5, with a 46–36–4 edge in Dallas. Since 1946, considered the post war era, the series is very close with Texas holding a 3 win lead 32-29-3. Six of the last ten showings featured one of the participants in the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game (2000, 2003–2005, and 2008–2009), including national titles won by Oklahoma in 2000 and by Texas in 2005. Four times during 2000–2004, a loss to Oklahoma was what kept Texas from playing in the Big 12 Championship Game.

In 2005, the Dallas Morning News asked the 119 Division 1A football coaches to identify the top rivalry game in college football. The Red River Rivalry ranked third, behind Ohio State-Michigan and Army-Navy.

... this is such utter BS.

Arkansas makes more in the SEC than it ever could in the Big 12, even with the smoke-and-mirrors deal announced this week.  Schools want to jump to the SEC, not leave it.  If Texas A&M wasn't Texas' little bitch and jumped to the SEC as was possible, the Big 12 would have imploded, Texas would have been in play, and perhaps the Holy Rollers at Notre Dame might have been forced to commit as well.

The best guess from observers much smarter than me is that if Notre Dame ever aligns with a conference, it's 80% + guaranteed to be the Big Ten.

I for one am glad Texas and Notre Dame didn't join right now.  The abject greed of Texas and the limitless arrogance of Notre Dame offend my tender Midwest sensibilities. 

[And to the OP: when you feel like posting something with the intro "haven't seen this posted here yet (a) check the boards or (b) stop and think for a second, there might be a good reason why.]

Like Notre Dame wants to put another team on their schedule that would annihilate them every year like Texas would. 

Plus with ND's arrogance they wouldn't go for the way 3 schools got more of the pie after Nebraska and Colorado's departures.

Notre Dame is going to drop football because it is too expensive to field a legitimate D1 football program.  That's why they won't join a conference, the buyouts are just too expensive after all those years of paying Charlie's pizza delivery bill.

By heard, I mean completely made up myself because I'm sick of expansion rumors and cannot wait until the UConn game kicks off and we can forget about this silliness.

Utah has joined the Pac 10. Good move!

This expansion stuff is starting to get really annoying.

Brian posted this on Mgo.licio.us yesterday.

http://www.cornnation.com/2010/6/16/1520230/chip-brown-expansions-edward-r

It's about the guy who writes for the Rivals' Texas spot. Brian's answer to the question "Chip Brown: Expansion's Edward R. Murrow or Austin's Baghdad Bob?":  "The vote here is the latter."

But what hell: still more evidence that crack does not smoke itself ....

So ND wouldn't "stoop" to join the Big 10, arguably the most prestigious conference in terms of both academics and athletics overall, and they're going to say, "F--k it! We're joining the Big 12, y'all! Gimme some that bar-be-cue!"

No. Effing. Way.

I don't see ND going to a conference where they wouldn't have a lot of the influence in decisions.  We've seen how much clout Texas has in the conference.  Not only that, but the money isn't there like it is in the Big Ten.

It's a Chip Brown story.  Need I say more?

But wouldn't this hurt the Big Ten's chances of finally becoming one of the top 3 conferences? 

Do you guys really want Notre Dame in the Big "Ten" anyways? Sure, they'll help the preseason rankings, but when they have to prove it on the field they'll choke. Their chronic mediocrity will not change once they join the conference and then we'd have their underachieving baggage to carry around like they were another little brother. I have never wanted those bastards in the Big "Ten". I'd love to beat them every year still, but not as a conference member, just as a golden domed bastard stepchild.