It looks like Pitt, Syracuse, Rutgers, Missouri and Notre Dame are the ones the Big 10 had their eye on.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=4959107
It looks like Pitt, Syracuse, Rutgers, Missouri and Notre Dame are the ones the Big 10 had their eye on.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=4959107
The Big 10 has kept University of Chicago in the Academic Big 10 since the inception, there is no way the Big 10 is kicking out their most prestigious academic university. FWIW Northwestern has hardly been a bottom feeder in Basketball and Football over the past few years.
For me its ND or bust. No sense bringing in the other schools because they all have their warts, pretty significant warts if you ask me.
I think they are committed to getting a 12th team no matter who it is. It's for that conference championship game. While the SEC and Big 12 and, to a lesser extent, the ACC are playing their conference championship games in early December, the Big 10 is sitting at home watching it on TV waiting to go to the bowl games. I'm not a fan of the conference championship game but it really doesn't make much sense not to have one while others you are competing against do.
I don't see it happening either. Of course, if they're kicking people out, IU would probably be early on the chopping block so I'm not in favor of that. i was just throwing out someone not named IU.
The easiest solution to me is Mizzou, the best solution is Texas. I'll settle for either.
Originally Posted by teamselig
Last edited by Caveat Emperor; 03-03-2010 at 01:45 PM.
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"Image is everything" - the same reason Vanderbilt - whose football program is worse than Northwestern's, but who is better at basketball - is in the SEC - academic reputation. Kicking a school like that out of a conference would look awfully bad to any conference, as they pretend to be concerened about "student athletes."
Your point is accurate and your point valid, but I do think it is an "image" issue.
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