Report Big 10 expanding by 3 to 5 teams
Rumors of who might join the league have come fast and furious in the last four months and included Notre Dame, Texas, Pittsburgh and Rutgers along with other schools. It now appears that the Big Ten may take on three or five schools to bring its total number to 14 or 16.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2010/04/big-…
All your teams are belong to us.
i heard that piscataway, new jersey was unofficially changing the name of the city to Big Ten.
Is the Chicago Tribune more credible when they're not reporting on Notre Dame's coaching search?
Yeah, until some place without a penchant for making shit up reports this, I'm wary. At best.
I'll believe this when it happens.
If it happens, I won't believe it.
Because it IS happening. Like it or not.
Is this like the 2012-the-world-is-going-to-end thing too?
Well if these additions are planned for 2012, I guess we know what the true cause of the end of the world will be.
I think 16 may be a wee bit too many, but I could live with 14.
to put pressure on whatever team they are actually courting.
"Better sign now because we have 2-3 others interested!"
FYI, Rutgers is currently leading in the poll on that page.
How is that even possible? Do people think so little of the Big Ten that they think a school like Rutgers with an average (at best) football program and an even worse basketball program would be the best fit? What are people thinking?!
Because the people who read that article are definitely the ones whose input would be considered...
I'm afraid sixteen teams would be too many and dilute whatever culture the B10 has developed. Fourteen might not be too bad so long as that doesn't include Rutgers. Nothing against the school, but Rutgers and the B10 just don't sound like a match. Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, and Missouri/Syracuse, on the other hand, I could live with. If only my opinion mattered.
And how would they fit a "16" in the Big Ten logo?
B16 TEN
You should trademark that and then try to sell it to Delaney
Wow it took me way too long to get that... sad.
Well done, Sir.
That is a great idea though.
I don't even want an extra team and divisions. I might just die a little inside if we pick up three or, heaven forbid, FIVE teams.
We better get to play Ohio State in the last game every year and not be faced with foreknowledge we will meet again the following week. That's all I have to say on the matter.
I agree with you completely, but, of course, nothing pleases Delaney more than messing with us.
I still think we should talk the University of Chicago into bumping up their football team to D-I again and joining back up. Get the old gang back together.
Reminds me of a certain mission from a certain deity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzOHq5WbQ8k
As a current Chicago student (check the avatar) I have two things to say on the subject:
1. That would be fucking awesome.
2. Will never happen.
Had Chicago gotten the Olympic bid and the stadium been built right next to campus as per the plans I could have maybe, possibly seen the administration giving it a thought. As it stands now I don't think you will ever see Michigan play a football game at Stagg Field again. Especially since we, uh, built a library over it.
But we do have this now! 
Ohhhhh shiny!
Ohhhhh shiny!I'd be fine with ND, Pitt, Mizzou, Texas, or Texas A&M coming. I don't know about Cuse. But please, no Rutgers.
Texas A&M would be interesting. I was thinking about that earlier, get one of Texas's rival to join to help draw them in, I like it. I also Pitt (hell of a Med School) and ND (I mean COME ON already!)
Cuse would pose a legitimate rival to sparty immediately. And izzo would not be the best coach in the Big Ten anymore (thank god).
However, I doubt Cuse would leave the Big East. They are a basketball school right now and the Big East is the best basketball conference. Maybe if Pitt also left, but I doubt it.
Should we take a Big East football school, it is probable that the conference would lose its BCS bid and possible that the conference would dissolve. And while Syracuse is a basketball school, they are not about to lose their status as a BCS football school, particularly if they are offered admission to a good basketball conference that is much more profitable than the conference they are currently in.
Hawai'i, please? I could use the biennial road trips, and I'd probably pay more attention to basketball for the same reason.
I would say yes to this idea for the volleyball alone.
How does one road trip for that?
Maybe the Big Ten should dump Sparty and go back to 10.
Can't we just move it to Windsor or something?
April 20th, 2010 at 11:38 AM ^
windsorite, we had enough MSU students coming accross the border on friday and saturday nights... all they do is get drunk, cause problems and get thrown in jail so it would just be like EL to them...
Texas: No. They would be shooting themselves in the foot.
Pitt: Probably the best choice.
Rutgers: Fuck them.
ND: Fuck them twice. Boot 'em to the Big East to replace Pitt. I think they like their TV contracts and "holier-than-thou" attitudes too much to join any conference.
Let's go over your comments one-by-one:
Texas: Why would they be shooting themselves in the foot? Moving to the Big Ten would be an upgrade from an academic and financial standpoint over the Big 12, while also being at least a shift sideways (if not upwards) athletically. The problems with such a move for them are political and cultural and unfortunately, they are probably too big to overcome to make such a move.
Pitt: Pitt is a good choice from an academic, athletic, and cultural standpoint. Unfortunately, they add nothing financially unless they come in a package deal designed to make the Big Ten so strong that the Big Ten Network becomes a national network on basic cable, or at least takes up the eastern and central timezones. And finances more than anything will drive expansion.
Rutgers: Yeah, Rutgers to the Big Ten would suck.
ND: ND would be an academic, athletic, and financial boon to the Big Ten. The question really is whether ND wants to give up independence, especially when their independence is one of the driving forces behind the donations to their athletic department, which are arguably more important than their TV contract. Your attitude here is simply idiotic.
5 even 3 is too many! Just get one for now!
I urge people to look beyond one or two sports on this one, also at academics. As a kind of academic union this is fairly huge, and could help boost the Big Many to Ivy-like--better, its own largely publicly-peopled--status.
And for waterpolo it's cool, because Chicago DOES get back in the mix and several teams can SWIM to Chi, UI as well as along the Erie Canal to Syracuse for meets, shaping up mightily and curtailing some of the travel expenses.
how things work here. It's always a little demoralizing when the negs seem to come for behavior just a little outside the herd. That feature of the plussing and minusing that makes us more lemming-like is to be regretted, no? Maybe I am missing something and there was something noxious about my post.
Yeah, maybe you got negged for posting an awful and 100 percent unrealistic idea. Is MSU the best academic school in the conference, nope, not even close. But they are so bad that anyone would take serious the idea of dumping them outright? Not a chance.
Once you factor in the fact that they are the best basketball program in the conference and average in football, the idea of dumping sparty is nuttier than a squirrel turd.
do your homework; that was not my post. I just laughed and seconded. (Like, anyone thought that was serious?) Of course, I tend to think Mystery Science Theater is lower than lame, and find your sig line not even slightly inspired, so. . . c'est la guerre.
I think you got negged for your syntax, and to a lesser extent grammar. In the post 3-4 replies back, the original, I think.
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April 20th, 2010 at 11:15 AM ^
MST3K, so MGoPoints will be the least of your worries when Pearl blasts you into space and you don't have the wherewithal to create witty robot companions.
The purpose of MGoPoints is that the posters who are so irritating that they fall below 20 points (or into the negatives, I'm not sure what the cutoff is anymore) cannot start topics. Otherwise, they are meaningless.
Funny that whenever someone calls the points meaningless, it's always someone with thousands of points.
Sorta like rich people always saying "money can't buy you happiness." I always want to punch them in the mouth and say, "OK, asswipe, then you won't mind handing all of yours over to me."
as seems to have been the case for your first comment here (currently at 0). And upvotes are worth twice what downvotes are, so it's possible to come out ahead even though a comment has a negative number.
But whining about negs pretty much guarantees downvotes -- deservedly so, in my view.
A big enough expansion could make the Big Ten deep enough to reverse the depth problem which skewers the matchups when facing the SEC in all of the bowls. It could allow the BT to once again become the dominant conference in football.
My perfect outcome (read: pipedream) would be Texas, A&M, and ND. Obviously, that isn't going to happen, but it would be pretty cool. The only question I have is this:
Why is Rutgers leading the poll asking who is the best fit?
You have to wonder if most of the voting isn't coming from the NY/NJ area.
The only question I have is this: Why is Rutgers leading the poll asking who is the best fit? You have to wonder if most of the voting isn't coming from the NY/NJ area.Hence, the reason many people think RU is the right choice. It's all about claiming a piece of the NYC television market. Recognizing all the reasons why people think RU won't accomplish that (NYC is a pro town, no one really follows RU, etc.), if the Big 10 chooses RU, it will because its market analysis says that between RU and current Big 10 alumni living in the area, the BTN stands to experience significant growth in the country's most lucrative television market.