Throw out who fits for the big ten what teams would you want?
Ignoring every criteria for the big ten to pick teams, who would you pick?
I personally would go with nebraska, oklahoma, notre dame, kansas kansas state
divisions as follows
West
Nebraska, Kansas, Kansas State, Oklahoma, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Notre Dame
East
Northwestern, Indiana, Purdue, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State, Illinois
Yes i know that some schools in east are further west then some west schools but this gives a good balance of power.
Football- west has oklahoma, nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin
east has OSU, UM, PSU,
Also basketball as a whole would be stacked!!
Football would work like this you play everyone in your division, plus 3 in other division (rotates every year) plus a championship game for division winners.
Go away andre, your thread's played.
I'm curious as to why you would take Kansas/Kansas State over Texas/Texas A&M
Mostly cause I was thinking a basketball centric view and while Texas and A&M are good basketball players KU outshines Texas and A&M is about even with KSU.
Expand to the Canadian TV market.
Tijuana A&M.
Then we could get big ten hockey
Awesome idea. Let's do it.
Is there a university in Guam? If so, is it Guam A&M? I'd want Guam A&M in my conference. I'd pronounce it guamnomnom.
I think we'd have to take Guam Tech too.
Lake Superior State
Texas and Notre Dame. After that they are all the same.
"Stop rhyming, I mean it"
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"Anybody want a peanut?"
The ESU Timberwolves. We've got bad blood with them already.
I think they are still on probation for their recruitment tactics of Darnell Jefferson.
I want Slippery Rock.
Hey, they're AAU!
University of Wyoming
tap into the european market. i hear they like football a lot
Texas, Nebraska, and ND.
I want the SEC to raid the ACC for FSU and Miami.
Then I want the two conferenceS to announce that there will be an SEC v. Big Ten Challenge to kick off the season every year.
I heard Grand Valley State is a football powerhouse. I'll take them.
UT, TAMU, NEB, ND, and (MIZZ or PITT).
I'd want Hawaii with the guarantee that they'd fly all Michigan season ticket holders out there for every game that Michigan plays @ Hawaii.
And I'd want them added to our "non-rotating" schedule so we play them every year.
How about the Minnesota State Golden Eagles?
....they gave points for heart...
We need to add **** Van **** to the Big Ten.
Notre Dame or Texas really isn't a big score. I love the idea of Michigan v. Texas on what I'll assume would be at least a semi-reglar basis; however, Texas, seems like a reach to me for the Big Ten in terms of geography and culture (Austin is in Texas but it's not of Texas).
If the Pac 10 goes to sixteen teams, I think it's important for the Big Ten to keep pace, because I suspect the SEC and ACC will raid the Big East and/or each other.
So I'll go with these five additional teams:
Notre Dame
Nebraska
Pittsburgh
Pick two--Missouri, Syracuse, Rutgers
would be dissappointed they did not make your cut.
fixed
we get 12th team and can have conference championship game. if current revenue is appox. $20M per big ten school now......adding ND (with no new schools to split revenue with) and their financial wake + conference championship game should up revenue split by 20%. i understand that delaney is looking for BTN markets, so perhaps adding only ND wouldn't expand their geographic footprint.
i'm opposed to 16 school mega-conference format.
...would be:
- Nebraska
- Notre Dame
- Maryland
- Virginia
- Virginia Tech
East Coast bias and all that. Plus it would really get the family rivalries going. I already have one with my Sparty brother. This would add one with my Wahoo daughter and my Hokie son. My wife (Michigan native, not an alumna) would HATE this. She already thinks I'm too obsessed with Michigan and that I look to negatively compare the Virginia schools to Michigan at every opportunity. I tell her I don't need to do that, it's self evident (I kid, but not really, I kid, but not really).
And add McGill.
Hockey!!!!!!!!!!
Still hate 'em. i will be perfectly happy keeping them on the outside. Once the Super Coferences are settled, it will be harder for them to schedule the games they want/need to remain relevant. Cue the slow decline.