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College Football 2009: Where Championships are won by a majority vote

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BoomGoestheDynamite said:
Yeah, as far as I know Nebraska brings a historically great football program and...?
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They're a better option than anybody else from the Big XII North. Missouri?? They're praying that everybody else turns down the Big Ten.
 
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bigmrg74 said:
They're a better option than anybody else from the Big XII North. Missouri?? They're praying that everybody else turns down the Big Ten.
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Mizzou is a better school academically with a more well rounded athletics department and two major metropolitan areas within its footprint. St. Louis + Kansas City > Omaha.
 
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BoomGoestheDynamite said:
Yeah, as far as I know Nebraska brings a historically great football program and...?
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Women's bowling. :p I saw like one minute of Women's Bowling National Championship a few weeks ago and they talked about how Nebraska is a power.
 
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I agree that Missouri would be more appealing to the Big Ten than Nebraska. But even Missouri isn't likely to get the Big Ten real excited. Good school and some good teams, but not something to get excited about. Notre Dame or Texas on the other hand would really be a catch for the Big Ten. There's a lot of ok additions for the Big Ten, but it's just hard to see them settling for an ok addition. Of course if they decided to to to 16 instead of 12, then there's all sorts of interesting possibilities. But I'm not sure the Big Ten is that adventurous.
 
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BoomGoestheDynamite said:
Yeah, as far as I know Nebraska brings a historically great football program and...?
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women's volleyball. Decent baseball program, horrific basketball (Northwestern would finally have competititon for worst basketball program in the conference).
 
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Ok additions isnt good enough...the Big Ten is only going to add to the conference if said school brings something of value. Nebraska, Mizzou and most of the rest of the schools mentioned don't. It isnt worth it for the member schools to split cash up with the likes of Nebraska and Mizzou when they really wont bring in enough money to justify it. (speaking mostly of the BTN and new subscribers for the most part)
 
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Dirty said:
Women's bowling. :p
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Terrierbyassociation said:
There's been some talk, mind you talk from people who have no idea what they are talking about, that the Big East is in serious trouble.

I don't know why, with them being the premier conference in college basketball and college basketball bringing in even more money...I doubt the Big East is failing any time soon.
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The Big East is a dead man walking.

Basketball is so far behind football for TV that they can't see each other anymore. As far as Syracuse goes,even ignoring athletics.

"Huh, being in a conference with Michigan, Northwestern and taking part in one of the largest, if not largest co-operative academic research groups, or being in a conference with USF, Cincy, and West Virginia."
 
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bronconick said:
if not largest co-operative academic research groups
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yeah... lets keep talking about something that doesn't exist.

Otherwise you're entirely right. Big East basketball is a gnat in comparison to Big East football... nevermind the other conferences.
 
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unofan said:
The CIC doesn't exist?
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I am sort of hoping he was trying to be funny using the premise of schools caring about research and so on...I am trying to give him the benefit of the doubt ;)
 
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bronconick said:
The Big East is a dead man walking.

Basketball is so far behind football for TV that they can't see each other anymore. As far as Syracuse goes,even ignoring athletics.

"Huh, being in a conference with Michigan, Northwestern and taking part in one of the largest, if not largest co-operative academic research groups, or being in a conference with USF, Cincy, and West Virginia."
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Slap Shot said:
Because the only Big XII football program worthy of the Big11 athletically and institutionally (among others) is Texas. The Big11 isn't going to settle.
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Well yeah Texas would be ultimate prize, probably worth more than what even ND would bring to the table. Have demand to have the BTN on about every major Cable company's plan? the Big Ten would easily bump the shares of BTN money by about a million each, and thats even after cutting the pie 12 ways instead of 11. Not sure if Texas would really want to do it though. They would then have to come north a lot, and they might struggle a lot with late October/early November games. Plus they do have a pretty good baseball program down there in Austin, while the Big Ten might love the idea of having an school where they could always seen teams to get games in early for baseball season, Texas might not be so keen on that idea.

Plus, right now in the Big Twelve, Texas has a lot of say as to what happens in the league. Thats not going to happen in the Big Ten.
 
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Some radio station out of who knows where is reporting the Big Ten is offering spots to Nebraska and Mizzou. I call BS.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Some radio station out of who knows where is reporting the Big Ten is offering spots to Nebraska and Mizzou. I call BS.
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There's absolutely no reason to go to 13. They'll add either 1, 3, or 5, most likely 1 or 5.

I'm calling B.S. only to the extent that if the add more than one, they'll add more than 2. Also, the Omaha fishwrap would be all over this by now.
 
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unofan said:
There's absolutely no reason to go to 13. They'll add either 1, 3, or 5, most likely 1 or 5.

I'm calling B.S. only to the extent that if the add more than one, they'll add more than 2. Also, the Omaha fishwrap would be all over this by now.
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Supposedly, the radio station is 810 in Kansas City, and they're saying Missouri, Nebraska, Rutgers and Notre Dame currently. If ND says no, they stand pat at 14, if they say yes, they offer either Pitt or Syracuse.

Edit: Those schools have been "asked to apply" by next month's B10 meeting, I guess.
 
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unofan said:
There's absolutely no reason to go to 13. They'll add either 1, 3, or 5, most likely 1 or 5.

I'm calling B.S. only to the extent that if the add more than one, they'll add more than 2. Also, the Omaha fishwrap would be all over this by now.
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Apparently they made offers to Rutgers, Notre Dame, Mizzou, and Nebraska. Details are:

If Notre Dame accepts the offer, the report said, the conference would make an offer to another school to create a 16-member league. If ND declines, the Big Ten would attempt to expand to 14. The radio station also reported that nothing official would be forthcoming until the Big Ten chancellors and presidents meet in early June.
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http://interact.stltoday.com/blogzo...5/mu-mum-on-kc-radio-report-of-big-ten-offer/

Again, I call BS
 
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