The Detroit News: Big 10 Headed To 16-Team Super-Conference

Henning is a good guy and decent sportswriter.  If he says he has "sources that are in a position to know" then I believe him.

Someone is going to have terrible luck for the rest of their life.

Your numbers certainly can't do any worse than mine have.

in his article = 16.  One of his lucky lotto numbers = 16.  Coincidence?  I think not.  Either that, or maybe we are going to 23 teams...????

I disagree.  Multiple times he cites his "unnamed sources" who are "in the know."  This is all just unverified bullshit.

True, but ND likely can gain financially by joining the Big Ten.  For one, the bowls (or lack there of) that the Irish have been to lately are below what the average Big Ten team goes to, especially since we go to 2 BCS games every year and we get the Cap 1 bowl, so the bowl revenue sharing would be better than what they're getting on their own.  But moreso than that, ND joining the Big Ten would greatly increase the revenue that the BTN brings in, so that 20 million from Brian's post today would go up significantly if ND joined the league.  

to college football say goodbye :(  so we will play Penn St. what every half decade, all these assholes do is ruin sports that is all they are good for

He commented on it and then claimed his own sources gave him the info he wrote.

they can't blame RichRod for any of this

I hope they're not reading this, they'll probably take that as a challenge and set out to prove you wrong

Freep: Rodriguez is the Force Behind Big Ten Adding Rutgers, Montana, and Alaska-Anchorage

Rich Rodriguez, head coach of the Michigan football team and the sole cause of the Black Plague which swept through Europe during the 14th Century, is the nefarious attempt to ruin the Big Ten via expansion. Multiple anonymous sources claim that Rodriguez has forced every Big Ten University president to vote for his expansion plan involving Rutgers, and FCS school, and a school that doesn't even have a football program by making them practice football for 4 hours and 7 minutes last Sunday. After surviving such a torturous experience, every university president capitulated immediately and voted to add the teams. Rodriguez feigned ignorance upon hearing of these charges.

If the Big Ten goes to sixteen and the only NYC-area team taken is Rutgers, the ACC will likely only go to 14 and take Syracuse and UConn.  Louisville and Cincinnati give them nothing.  The only reason the Big East took them was to have eight teams to maintain a football conference.

How likely is it that the Big Ten would leave open NYC to the ACC taking the two largest alumni and fanbases of the three schools?

Since when is USF the bottom feeder of the Big East? They have finished in the top half of the Big East standings all but one year since they joined and have won 8 or 9 games in each of the past four seasons. During this stretch they have beaten Florida State, Auburn, West Virginia several times compiled a winning record in bowl games. That is hardly a bottom feeder.

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That is a good point that I hadn't thought of before.  Even if nothing comes out of all this expansion talk, it has definitely been a PR boost for the conference. 

From a college football fan's standpoint, a 16-team conference is going to be a disaster.

How?