<p>I wonder if Cornell should drop the Ivy League and join the Big 10…hmmm 
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<p>^^ I am willing to drop both ND and TX if Cornell decided to join the Big Ten even though its football team sucks. We can always teach them how to field a good Div-1A fball team so long the school is willing to invest $; however, this might mean that Huskers get booted out…wait, they ain’t officially in-play yet!! ;p</p>
<p>[The</a> Cornell Basketball Blog: Should Cornell Leave the Ivy League and Jump to the Big 10?](<a href=“http://cornellbasketball.blogspot.com/2009/03/should-cornell-leave-ivy-league-and.html]The”>http://cornellbasketball.blogspot.com/2009/03/should-cornell-leave-ivy-league-and.html)</p>
<p>Cornell used to be a Football powerhouse back in the first third of the 20th. In fact, Cornell, with its 12-6 record vs Michigan, Cornell is the only Ivy to have a winning record vs Michigan. Ouch!</p>
<p>Anyway, I don’t see how Cornell could ever leave the Ivy League. Belonging to the Ivy League is the holy grail of university assosciations. Only HYP would dareleave the league without fearing for their reputations. </p>
<p>Among the key academic powerhouses, I can see Boston College, Chicago, Notre Dame, Texas and UVa fitting into the Big 10. Other possibilities include Maryland, Pitt, Rutgers and Syracuse. Of those 9 programs, I think the last three are the most likely candidates.</p>
<p>Northwestern Branding themselves Chicago’s Big Ten Team
<a href=“http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/big-ten-guru/2010/07/northwestern-branding-themselves-chicagos-big-ten-team.html[/url]”>http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/big-ten-guru/2010/07/northwestern-branding-themselves-chicagos-big-ten-team.html</a></p>
<p>In 1933, Hutchins proposed an unsuccessful plan to merge the University of Chicago and Northwestern University into a single university.</p>
<p>Official Story: [The</a> Universities of Chicago: Northwestern University](<a href=“http://www.northwestern.edu/about/historic-moments/academics/the-universities-of-chicago.html]The”>http://www.northwestern.edu/about/historic-moments/academics/the-universities-of-chicago.html)</p>
<p>NYU Violets is the name of the sports teams and other competitive teams at New York University. The colors are the trademarked [1] hue “NYU Violet”, and white. The school mascot represents a bobcat. The Violets compete as NCAA Division III teams in the University Athletic Association conference. The university sponsors varsity sports as well as several intramural and club teams.</p>
<p>History
NYU formerly competed in Division I athletics. NYU left NCAA Division I athletics in 1981 at the urging of then president John Brademas. Exceptions are men’s volleyball, which competes in the Division I Eastern Collegiate Volleyball Association, and the fencing team, which also participates in Division I.</p>
<p>While a member of Division I, the Violets’ basketball team achieved prominence by finishing as the runner-up to Oklahoma State (coached by the legendary Henry Iba) in the 1945 NCAA tournament and making it to the Final Four in 1960 (won by Ohio State, whose roster featured legends Jerry Lucas and John Havlicek). The Violets’ most recent post season accomplishments as a Division I school was finishing as the runner up in the 1966 National Invitational Tournament, in which they lost to BYU.</p>
<p>Edward Smith (June 17, 1913 – January 29, 1998) was an American football running back in the National Football League for the Boston Redskins and Green Bay Packers. He played college football at New York University and was drafted in the third round of the 1936 NFL Draft.</p>
<p>Ed Smith is important as the individual who posed for the Heisman Trophy with the now iconic straight arm.</p>
<p>Source: [NYU</a> Violets - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYU_Violets]NYU”>NYU Violets - Wikipedia)
---------Yet another of my pipe dream…lol
NYU with 50,917 students, located in New York City, NY can field its team at the nearby Giant’s New Meadowlands Stadium in Jersey!</p>
<p>Big Ten Facts </p>
<p>June 11, 2010 </p>
<p>Big Ten Universities are members of the nation’s only conference whose constituency is entirely composed of institutions that are members of the AAU, a prestigious association of major academic and research institutions in the United States and Canada. The 11 Big Ten institutions are also members of the CIC.</p>
<p>The Big Ten leads all conferences with the highest number of ranked graduate school programs (top 25 rankings as compiled by US News and World Report 2010). This includes Law Schools, Medical Schools (Research and Primary Care), Business Schools, and Engineering Programs. The Big Ten has a total of 24 top 25 programs, followed by the Ivy League (22), Pac-10 (17), ACC (11), Big 12 (9), Big East (5) and SEC (2).</p>
<p>Based on the most recent federal graduation rate average for 1999-2002 freshman classes, Big Ten student-athletes graduated at 70.6 percent as compared with the average for all D-I student-athletes of 64 percent. In addition, the Big Ten’s latest Graduation Success Rate is 82 percent compared to the D-I average of 79 percent.</p>
<p>The Big Ten leads all conferences with 4.4 million living alumni from its 11 institutions. Undergraduate enrollment for Big Ten institutions totals over 300,000, the most of any other conference.</p>
<p>For the 2008 fiscal year, federally funded research and development expenditures for Big Ten universities totaled over $3.45 billion. The Big Ten ranked second behind only the Pac-10 ($3.67 billion) and ahead of the Ivy League ($2.40 billion), ACC ($2.33 billion), Big 12 ($1.69 billion), Big East ($1.47 billion) and SEC ($1.47 billion). Big Ten universities averaged over $313.7 million per school, joining the Pac-10 ($366.9 million) and Ivy League ($300.2 million) as the only conferences to average more than $200 million per institution.</p>
<p>Based on the US Census projected population for 2010, the eight-state Big Ten region accounts for 68,056,353 people, which ranks second only to the Big East (108,228,906 in 13 states) and ahead of the ACC (63,197,954 in seven), SEC (58,838,904 in nine), Pac-10 (55,037,474 in four) and Big 12 (46,578,410 in seven).</p>
<p>Big Ten student-athletes receive more than $112 million annually in direct financial aid.</p>
<p>In 2008-09, the Big Ten featured 8,733 student-athletes on 275 teams (4,511 male and 4,222 female - a ratio of 52%-48%). In 2007-08, the Big Ten boasted 8,636 student-athletes, which ranked second to the Big East (9,865) and ahead of the Ivy (8,170), ACC (7,840), Big 12 (7,346), Pac-10 (6,946) and SEC (6,220).</p>
<p>Since 1992, the Big Ten increased opportunities for women in sports by establishing a multi-phased gender equity program. In that time, the Big Ten has created more than 2,000 new opportunities for women and established 28 new teams. In 2010-11 the Big Ten Network will commit to “Event Equality” for men’s and women’s events - a commitment to annually produce and distribute a substantially similar number of men’s and women’s events across all Big Ten Network controlled platforms. It will be the first national network to commit to event equality.</p>
<p>In 2006, the Big Ten created the first national conference-owned television network devoted to the athletic and academic programs of a single conference. The Big Ten Network is now available to more than 75 million homes nationally through agreements with more than 300 affiliates and is in 19 of the nation’s top 20 markets.</p>
<p>The Big Ten’s media agreements with CBS Sports, ABC/ESPN, the Big Ten Network and CBS College Sports Network provide the conference with its greatest television exposure ever.</p>
<p>Source: [Big</a> Ten Facts - BIG TEN OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE](<a href=“http://www.bigten.org/genrel/061110aaf.html]Big”>http://www.bigten.org/genrel/061110aaf.html)</p>
<p>Forget about Notre Dame, Big 10 decides
Posted by Phil Miller </p>
<p>Last update: August 2, 2010 - 3:01 PM</p>
<pre><code> CHICAGO – The Big Ten may or may not be finished with expansion, but it’s done dreaming about Notre Dame.
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<p>Commissioner Jim Delany said Monday that with the addition of Nebraska next summer, the league has “paused” its consideration of adding more members, pending additional study. But whenever the league decides to consider expansion again, it will move on without the Irish.</p>
<p>“I don’t see them as a major player anymore, really,” Delany said in addressing the conference’s annual media gathering. “I think (Notre Dame athletic director) Jack Swarbrick has been consistent from the beginning about their commitment to the Big East, and their commitment to independence” in football.</p>
<p>The league’s investigation of further expansion will proceed anyway, Delany said, and remains on the 12- to 18-month timeframe that he originally announced last December, a plan that was sped up when the Big 12 demanded a decision from Nebraska in the spring.</p>
<p>If more expansion does happen, at least one interested observer has a suggestion.</p>
<p>“I’d like to see some teams from the East,” Penn State coach Joe Paterno said. “There may be some things that we can get in the Big Ten from our association with more than one place and school that could help out.”</p>
<p>Paterno declined to identify his favorites, saying he would “leave that in the hands” of Delany and the league’s presidents. But the Big Ten was widely reported to have considered Syracuse, Connecticut and Rutgers before inviting Nebraska.</p>
<p>Link: [Forget</a> about Notre Dame, Big 10 decides | StarTribune.com](<a href=“http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/blogs/99781864.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUgOy9cP3DieyckcUsI]Forget”>http://www.startribune.com/sports/gophers/blogs/99781864.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUgOy9cP3DieyckcUsI)</p>
<p>Big Ten Media Days: Commissioner Jim Delany says league will keep name</p>
<p>Posted on Aug 02, 2010 by Scott Dochterman.</p>
<p>The Big Ten will add a championship game in 2011, revise the league into two divisions in the next 30 to 45 days, change its league schedule to nine games in the next two-to-four years and decide on a championship game site for 2011 as soon as possible. </p>
<p>Heres a rundown in a choppy format: </p>
<p>Jim Delany said the Big Ten will keep its name no matter what. </p>
<p>I think the Big Ten is the Big Ten regardless of the number, Delany said. </p>
<p>On expansion front: </p>
<p>Jim Delany said the conference has decision on full speed ahead for transitioning Nebraska into the Big Ten by 2011. But meeting with other league presidents in mid-June the thought was well pause but were not necessarily turning our back on expansion. </p>
<p>Not actively involved in expansion initiatives. Still on 12-to-18 month time frame. </p>
<p>Delany said he presumes the league will have championship game. In 30-45 days the divisional structure will be identified. </p>
<p>Delany will make determination on championship site, TV network by fall. </p>
<p>On protecting Ohio State-Michigan: The divisions need to be as balanced as they can possibly be made. </p>
<p>The first principle is to preserve traditional rivalries, Delany said. </p>
<p>We have to do everything to play each other more, not less. </p>
<p>Right now talking about principles. So far, its competitive balance, preservation of rivalry games, geographic considerations. </p>
<p>Appropriate start of looking back for competitive balance to 1993 when Penn State joined the league. </p>
<p>Delany said he hasnt thought much about championship sites. Likely a one-year site for 2011, then visit other venues for the future. </p>
<p>Im not divisions make sense in basketball. </p>
<p>On Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State on same division: We would be inclined to create teams into divisions in which each division is as powerful as another division. </p>
<p>On Notre Dame being a player in expansion: I see playing Notre Dame playing the Big East for many years to come, and I see Notre Dame playing as an independent in football for many years to come. </p>
<p>I dont see them as a player. </p>
<p>On a future league schedules: I think a ninth game at this juncture would serve everybodys interest. Does not think it will happen for a year or two because of contractual reasons. </p>
<p>On fifth road league games: It might affect some of the schools now scheduling opponents on a home-and-home basis. </p>
<p>I hope it happens in two and no more than four years.</p>
<p>Link: [Big</a> Ten Media Days: Commissioner Jim Delany says league will keep name | GazetteOnline.com](<a href=“http://gazetteonline.com/blogs/docs-office/2010/08/02/big-ten-media-days-commissioner-jim-delany]Big”>http://gazetteonline.com/blogs/docs-office/2010/08/02/big-ten-media-days-commissioner-jim-delany)</p>
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<p>Are Syracuse, Connecticut and Rutgers “major players” and Notre Dame become a “minor player?” </p>
<p>Perhaps, someone should tell the people who speak on behalf of that conference to think before they speak! There is a say about speaking and removing all doubts about the speaker!</p>
<p>Major player for joining the B10 of course. ND is not a player, period–not a minor player. Most have no trouble understanding that.</p>
<p>xiggi, I think what Delany means is that Notre Dame is not willing to be a player in Big 10 conference expansion talks.</p>
<p>In retrospect, I wish we could have just added Rutgers as the 12th member instead of Nebraska (sorry, husker fans…), and be done with this whole expansion drama. But that’s just me… :)</p>
<p>This is what happens when ND & TX decided not to participate in either the Big Ten or Pac-10. Luckily, NJ/NYC is literally Big Ten’s backyard in terms of geography with the addition of Penn State back in the '90s. Nonetheless, which conference would win the battle of the east coast at the end remains to be seen…</p>
<p>[Pac-10</a> Conference hits the road to raise its profile - ESPN](<a href=“LIVE Transfer Talk: Vlahovic to Chelsea with Lukaku to Juve? - ESPN”>Pac-10 Conference hits the road to raise its profile - ESPN)</p>
<p>Everyone Loves New York!! lol</p>
<p>Pac-10 gig in New York was just building East Coast media hype…or trying to. Honestly, when other Pac-10 teams start winning NCGs is when the broader market and money will follow. </p>
<p>Oh and when I roll outta bed Saturday mornings Big Ten games are on…slow and groggy to match my mood.</p>
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<p>Like the bears?</p>
<p>Nice comeback, Sam. ;)</p>
<p>^Perhaps you guys can finally go to the Rose Bowl since that cheater will be pretty beatable.</p>
<p>Well, even if the condoms win the pac-10 the next two years, they won’t be going to a bowl. </p>
<p>I like the Bears chances though…<em>please god</em> :)</p>
<p>As we Wolverines know all too well, getting to the Rose Bowl is one thing…winning it is another! hehe!</p>
<p>I also think that the bears could win the Pac-10 this year (so long as it takes care of its cross-bay rival, the tree). After all, tOSU had already stomped the ‘fastest’ Pac-10 team - Oregon in the Rose Bowl. The last I heard, its heisman hopeful QB Jeremiah Masoli is headed to Mississippi…</p>