<p>^^You mean Indiana? LOL</p>
<p>Big Ten conference will be renamed SlowNSnow. <em>From another message board</em></p>
<p>^ Yeah, all that Pac10 “speed” really helped Oregon (or GTech or LSU).</p>
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<p>The only team that would be big hurdle would be UT; NU would have its moments against the others (after all, the 'Cats do pretty well against Iowa and UW - and went toe-to-toe w/ Auburn and Mizzou).</p>
<p>It must be nice for you that USC got dinged by the NCAA again (6x), now they move up one spot ahead of Cal (5x) in being historically one of the dirtiest programs in the NCAA (really, what is w/ you and your infatuation w/ the Wildcats?).</p>
<p>“But it wasn’t meant to be a rigorous order either.”</p>
<p>Obviously, afterall, if it were, Michigan would have been first right?! hehe! As long as you put Michigan ahead of OSU, we’re good!</p>
<p>NU did alright with Auburn.
Most kids in college today have only known a pretty good Wisconsin football program. And Michigan fades into becoming a non factor in football and basketball.</p>
<p>k&s, sure, I’m happy about the Condom Sanctions.</p>
<p>I like the Big Ten…er Big Te(leve)n…er, Big XII…Always have (even the Wildcats).</p>
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Yes sir, I prefer blue and gold (maize) parkas over red sweater vests.</p>
<p>The Big Ten conference is now ruin and likely will only further to ruin itself. I can not believe Nebraska was even offered to join the conference. It is now unlikely that the conferece will atract any eastern schools.
In reply to a previos post Nebraska is not in the same academic league like other Big Ten schools. All of this is unfortunate to the current Big Ten schools who have earned and lived up to their name.</p>
<p>Coolbrezze, the CIC still has excellent academic institutions. Hopefully, Notre Dame and Texas-Austin will join the party and make the conference even stronger academically.</p>
<p>barrons I agree with your last statement. I do not know where all the hype about UMich football come from. Two big football teams in the conference are Iowa and OSU.</p>
<p>Alexandre witg Nebraska tge Big Ten just pushed away all the right schools.</p>
<p>^yeah, the Orange Bowl win by the Hawkeyes was very exciting. Hopefully, Iowa can maintain the momentum.</p>
<p>Alex, as a pretty good soucre of B10 academic info what exactly does the CIC do? To my knowledge it does not really help individual schools compete for research $$$ or anything like that. It just coordinates some research assets and acts as a meeting house for the B10 + Chicago to discuss academics and research issues.
I think all the B10 schools compete very hard to get the research money they receive–both with other B10 and all other schools. I don’t think UM is sending any research $$$ UW’s way and vice versa.</p>
<p>barrons, you’re right that CIC doesn’t directly involve itself in competitive research grant applications, but it does some really useful things around the margins. It owns and operates the fiber optic network that all the CIC member schools use, ensuring reliable ultra-broadband capacity that’s really useful in data-intensive research. It fosters a lot of CIC-wide library and IT coordination, including shared databases, digital scholarship repositories, purchasing and licensing consortia that make technology and other big-ticket purchases more affordable. It has a “traveling scholar” program that allows grad students to spend up to a year at another CIC university at no extra cost. It sometimes provides small seed grants to start-up scholarly collaborations, some of which have led to major funded research collaborations (and in many fields this kind of inter-university research collaboration is increasingly common; the schools compete against each other for research dollars, but often they’re on the same team, too). It’s all pretty unglamorous stuff, but useful.</p>
<p>Thanks, I did not list all those but that pretty much covers what I knew about. Some of our local radio folks were under the impression that all of a sudden Nebraska would be getting research money as if it were shared like the TV money in the B10. Not so much.</p>
<p>Nebraska, although a member of the AAU, will definitely be the weakest link in the Big 10 to date.</p>
<p>So it looks like the Big 10 is going to get shown up by another conference once again. They brought all of this conference expansion talk to fruition and it was all out of trying to increase their revenue. It is now imminent that the Big XII will dissolve after the losses of CU and NU. This likely means the Big 12 south will be leaving for the Pac 10 (with the exception of Baylor, which leaving for the Mountain West). If ND chooses to not join the Big 10, the Big 10 will just be moving sideways by choosing to expand. Adding NU to the Big 10 is just like adding another Wisconsin or Iowa. NU has a fine football program, but it fails to bring in a huge revenue stream compared to what ND can offer. The addition of Rutgers, UCONN, Syracuse, or Pitt does very little for the Big 10 in terms of increased revenue unless ND joins with them. It would be comparable to adding a few more Minnesotas or MSUs. </p>
<p>The Pac 10 looks like the real winners in this expansion with the addition of major media markets in Texas and Denver. They also will be adding OU and Texas- 2 teams with very large national followings. The Pac 10 now has the most impressive collection of media markets among any conference: LA, SD, SF, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Denver, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, and Oklahoma City. The Pac 10 is about to become the most competitive and richest conference in college football and as a ND and Pac 10 fan, I could not have expected a better outcome.</p>
<p>Ironically, this makes it much more likely that there will be a move to playoff system, of which the Big 10 and Pac 10 are the most ardent critics of.</p>
<p>I just read that UTexas and A&M are asking to get into Big Ten. Who knows what to believe at this point.</p>
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<p>TEXAS, TEXAS A&M CAN’T FIND COMMON GROUND</p>
<p>Texas and Texas A&M officials met Thursday in Austin to discuss whether to bolt to the Pac-10.</p>
<p>However, the meeting ended with the teams in limbo.</p>
<p>According to a source, Texas President Bill Powers wants to go to the Pac-10, but Longhorns coach Mack Brown wants to stay in the Big 12. Texas A&M’s first choice is to stay in the Big 12; its second choice is to go to the Southeastern Conference, the source said.</p>
<p>Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds has said that he wants to keep the Big 12 together.</p>
<p>Colorado accepted an invitation to the Pac-10 earlier in the day.</p>
<p>Link: [Texas</a>, Texas A&M conference talks stall; Colorado joins Pac-10 | Wacotrib.com](<a href=“http://www.wacotrib.com/news/breakingnews/Colorado-joins-PAC-10-Conference.html]Texas”>http://www.wacotrib.com/news/breakingnews/Colorado-joins-PAC-10-Conference.html)</p>
<p>Memo to Notre Dame: This is all your fault.</p>