<p>A Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN) radio station reported today that Texas and Texas A&M are going to petition the Big Ten, and Oklahoma was going to petition the SEC.</p>
<p>I think the conclusion we can draw from all this is that nobody has any clue at all what’s going on.</p>
<p>“I think the conclusion we can draw from all this is that nobody has any clue at all what’s going on.”</p>
<p>/agree</p>
<p>I just hope they go slow and don’t rush into stupid situations. Like if Notre Dame isn’t going to join, the Big 10 should just be content with Nebraska, and not go rushing after a bunch of other schools in panic mode.</p>
<p>Also, something is very wrong when an excellent school like Kansas seems destined to be the last kid standing in the Big 12 musical chairs game that is going on.</p>
<p>Adding Nebraska to the B10 secures it as the farm conference. Farms are fine, but enough is enough. Not cool.</p>
<p>Yeah it’s somewhat Norte Dame fault, if the school would have join the conference we wouldn’t have ended up with Nebraska. What a tragedy.</p>
<p>Coolbreeze: Would ND joining the Big 10 have prevented Colorado from bolting to the Pac 10? This is all about each conference trying to maximize TV revenue, not about ND. Even if ND joined tomorrow, the Big 10 would still go after Rutgers, Pitt and Syracuse because they want to add the additional TV markets. The Big 10’s greed started this whole dilemma. I’ll be happy when the Big 10 gets the short end of the stick after they end up adding a bunch of mid-tier Big East teams and ND retains it’s independence.</p>
<p>Well Rutgers, Pitt, Syracuse and ND are all fine schools to add but Nebraska was far fetch. Who knows what else the conference will do to ruin it’s academic image. Now the Big Ten is just another conference. Pac 10 will probably be the winner in all of this.</p>
<p>"Would ND joining the Big 10 have prevented Colorado from bolting to the Pac 10? "</p>
<p>I think it would have. It’s only because Notre Dame is behaving like a 9th-grade girl at her first high school dance that the Big 10 has had to resort to flirting with Big12 and Big East teams. Colorado, not wanting to end up alone or in a depleted Big 12, proactively jumped to the Pac 10.</p>
<p>Also, I just stumbled upon a U of Maryland athletic website, and there seems to be some interest there for Maryland to bolt to the Big 10 before the SEC renders the ACC irrelevant on the gridiron by stealing FSU, Miami, Clemson, and GATech (which it might be inclined to do if it can’t get some of the top guns from the Big 12 South).</p>
<p>Mood at Kansas is pretty grim: <a href=“http://www.kctv5.com/video/23855973/index.html[/url]”>http://www.kctv5.com/video/23855973/index.html</a></p>
<p>I don’t think Neraska is such a bad deal for the Big 10. It has a strong and loyal alumni network that generously gives back to its alma matter and it has one of the top football programs in the nation. </p>
<p>Academically, all Big 10 universities are good, but I don’t see how Nebraska is so much weaker than many Big 10 schools. Nebraska is considered a top 100 univesity and has a PA of 3.1. Several Big 10 universities are ranked between #60 and #75 and have PAs of 3.4-3.6.</p>
<p>Now, if the Big 10 does not manage to land either Notre Dame or Texas, then I agree that the expansion would have been disapointing.</p>
<p>UT blog says nothing about Texas and A&M heading to the Big Ten. A&M is on the fence and is considering the SEC. Texas apparently doesn’t want to go to the SEC.<br>
[Orangebloods.com</a> - A&M could throw off Big 12 six targeted by Pac-10](<a href=“http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1093010]Orangebloods.com”>http://texas.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1093010)</p>
<p>Good news for Kansas is if Texas A&M decides to head to the SEC, it may get an invite from the Pac-10. </p>
<p>It should be a fun weekend with speculation.</p>
<p>Pac-10 should invite Rice…perhaps maybe it’s too small, I don’t know. But it could develop a stronger rivalry with Texas. The MOB would be a nice eastern counterpart to the LSJUMB.</p>
<p>UCB: Rice does not add anything to the Pac 10 because it doesn’t have a high profile football team. This is all about the revenue that will be brought in with the creation of a new Pac 10 Network and new TV deals with ESPN/ABC. I’m sorry, but no one wants to see Rice football on Saturdays. Not even people in Houston. Besides, they aren’t exactly a powerhouse in the C-USA. To think that the could develop a rivalry with UT in football is foolish.</p>
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<p>The B10 would have been satisified w/ ND as the 12th team.</p>
<p>CU was pretty much always on its way out to the Pac10; but the B12 could have survived the Buffs leaving (UNL was the key to the B12 dismantling).</p>
<p>The B10 would never add 3 BE teams since they would dilute the payout to each current member (you kinda contradict yourself here).</p>
<p>The B10 is only going to expand further if it can land either ND or UT; otherwise, it will stand pat at 12 for the time being.</p>
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<p>Still UNL brings up the rear in the B10 (and it’s not quite official yet).</p>
<p>The scuttlebutt is that there is a faction of B10 Presidents who do not want to add a similar caliber school, unless a significantly better school is added (basically means Mizzou gets the shaft).</p>
<p>Might I remind everyone no official announcement has been made by the Big Ten.</p>
<p>I agree k&s. The only way I see the Big 10 growing beyond 12 teams is if the thirteenth team is either Texas or Notre Dame.</p>
<p>I have to be honest, If the Big 10 stops with only Nebraska as a new addition, it has to be considered a failure.</p>
<p>^ Pac-10 and Big Ten are partners…they don’t want to mess up the Rose Bowl establishment too much. Each is waiting to see what happens with the Big XII…both conferences have chosen their first picks from the Big XII…now they’re waiting to see how the dominoes fall. If Pac-10 expands to 16 with 2 BCS bids, expect Big Ten to follow closely behind.</p>
<p>Why a failure? Nebraska is one of the truly great college football schools, and is a member of the AAU. It also gives the Big 10 a football power in the west, so that if they break up into east and west divisions, they will have some semblance of balance.</p>
<p>I agree novi. Obviously, Nerbaska has a great football tradition and a classy and fun alumni network, but if the Big 10 were to add just one more team, I would have liked it to be Texas or Notre Dame, not Nebraska.</p>
<p>It would be a failure because the Big 10 wanted to create the first super conference in college football. They expected to be the only conference with 16 teams and they hoped that by adding NU, ND, Pitt, or who ever else would elevate their presitge past that of the SEC.</p>
<p>UCB: The deal with Nebraksa is already done. It was all over ESPN today. The official presser will happen tomorrow (Friday).</p>