B1G Expansion and more Conference Realignment

Perhaps this is a Big picture move....screw up the ACC and they have to grab another school (probably from the Big east) so the Big East could be out 2 schools and the big12 has less options to choose from when they inevitably need to expand again (or get back to 10 after another defection)...

 
irafreak said:
Perhaps this is a Big picture move....screw up the ACC and they have to grab another school (probably from the Big east) so the Big East could be out 2 schools and the big12 has less options to choose from when they inevitably need to expand again (or get back to 10 after another defection)...
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This is what I've been saying for 4 years. Corner the market.

Go "Goodfellas" on the Big East and chip away at the ACC. The Big XII only has so many options(none of them very desirable)

 
The only upside I can possibly see is a potential re-assignment of the divisions. What does everyone think about the divisions as they stand...and how they might stand with this proposed expansion..or any expansion for that matter?

 
grandpasknee said:
The only upside I can possibly see is a potential re-assignment of the divisions. What does everyone think about the divisions as they stand...and how they might stand with this proposed expansion..or any expansion for that matter?
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I like the divisions the way they are but I wouldn't mind trading the Penn state game for an annual Wisconsin game.

 
grandpasknee said:
The only upside I can possibly see is a potential re-assignment of the divisions. What does everyone think about the divisions as they stand...and how they might stand with this proposed expansion..or any expansion for that matter?
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I could see Illinois moving to the Legends Division and Maryland and Rutgers into Leaders division

 
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dbetz23 said:
grandpasknee said:
The only upside I can possibly see is a potential re-assignment of the divisions. What does everyone think about the divisions as they stand...and how they might stand with this proposed expansion..or any expansion for that matter?
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I could see Illinois moving to the Legends Division in Maryland and Rutgers into Leaders division
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I can't see Maryland or Rutgers leading or being a legend in anything. This better not happen.

 
Ringer02 said:
grandpasknee said:
The only upside I can possibly see is a potential re-assignment of the divisions. What does everyone think about the divisions as they stand...and how they might stand with this proposed expansion..or any expansion for that matter?
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I like the divisions the way they are but I wouldn't mind trading the Penn state game for an annual Wisconsin game.
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Yeah...I'd really like having Wisky being the annual game rather than PSU.

 
Foppa said:
dbetz23 said:
grandpasknee said:
The only upside I can possibly see is a potential re-assignment of the divisions. What does everyone think about the divisions as they stand...and how they might stand with this proposed expansion..or any expansion for that matter?
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I could see Illinois moving to the Legends Division in Maryland and Rutgers into Leaders division
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I can't see Maryland or Rutgers leading or being a legend in anything. This better not happen.
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+1

 
I can only imagine they (big 10 powers that be) are looking at East Coast TVs....has to be a better way to expand than that...but I"m for expansion in general if we can get the right teams..

 
what other good teams are on the 1-80 corridor east and then North? Notre Dame is the only I can think of. I guess Maryland would count for BBall

 
Why take Maryland and Rutgers? With those tv sets, the 2017 tv contract could pay out 35-40 million per team, that's why. I may even be low on that guess.

 
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