CBS: B1G did expansion homework on Oklahoma, Kansas & Vanderbilt
Couple days old but just found it on the google.
Vanderbilt.......Really......ugh
April 25th, 2013 at 11:58 AM ^
OK = NO AAU = No B1G
KU = B12 = GoR = No B1G
Vandy = SEC = NO GoR and no Exit Fee = Maybe B1G
Mizzou = SEC = NO GoR and no Exit Fee = Maybe B1G
April 25th, 2013 at 12:01 PM ^
It's just "homework". It's nothing more than that at this point.
I did my "homework" on dating Kate Upton, big deal. Then Spike stole it . . .
April 25th, 2013 at 12:35 PM ^
If I were Vandy, I would think I'd love to go to the B1G. Out of all the major conferences, I don't know if a single team fits in less with their conference brethren than Vanderbilt does.
Vandy is a prestigious academic university who is not very athletically gifted, playing amongst a whole bunch of deep south football schools. They just seem like such an odd man out there. Even the ACC would be a vastly better fit for them
April 25th, 2013 at 12:42 PM ^
Palo Alto is approximately 4 times further from Ann Arbor than Newark and even more so for College Park. Even Nebraska has a longer trek to Stanford than to Rutgers or Maryland, and it's like a 300 mile swing.
probably hasn't come up as a possibility because why would Stanford want to do that? Every road trip in conference play would be end being at least a trek half way across the country.
So is it that you want Academics (Vandy pretty damn good, Oklahoma graduates less than half of their football team) or Athletics (Vandy meh, Oklahoma I see it.)
.. despite no real boost to football, we can take Vanderbilt. At least they're a good school. I don't want Oklahoma. The only reason to do it is football, and why should we add a program that is SEC-level in terms of academic standards and JuCo acceptance? As a Michigan fan, I don't want the Big 10 adding anyone like that. At least within our own conference we should be on a fairly level playing field.
Kansas is like Oklahoma except switch football to basketball. Oh, and neither of those two add much in the way of media markets. Missouri would have done more, and we skipped out on them.