Possibly adding 3 teams to the Big Ten?

14 teams would be a mess, you miss playing 5 teams a year in football, and even in basketball you could end up with a situation like the Big East has where you don't even play every other team in your conference.
 
This is starting to get out of hand...it's been a slow news week and the Big Ten made an innocuous comment about "looking into the possibility of" adding another team...now Notre Dame has had to release a statement and we're already to the point 1 day later of speculating on whether or not they'll add 3 teams. This has gotten a little out of hand.
 
As I mentioned elsewhere, perhaps what we could see is a 12-team football conference, +12-team basketball conference. Thus we end up with something more like the Big East.

I'm not sure what kind of candidates there would be for basketball/non-football, but I suppose it's one rout the Big Ten could take.
 
Marquette is the most obvious option without football ... after that the only other I can think of is DePaul ... does Xavier have football?
 
I do not want three. Right now, I prefer Nebraska or Mizzou. Pitt, Rutgers, others do not excite me all that much
 
JonDMiller said:
I do not want three. Right now, I prefer Nebraska or Mizzou. Pitt, Rutgers, others do not excite me all that much
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I'd like to see Nebraska in but I don't see them getting an invite, they don't bring a large television market to the table. Mizzou has two large markets. Rutgers has the NJ & NYC markets.
 
You have to think about the type of institution that fits the mold of a big10 research school.

Nebraska would fit. ISU probably would, but who wants that!?? :)
 
ugh to Missouri or Nebraska, but then at least we could do a clean E/W split, which we could not with ND or a Big East team

Big Ten East
Indiana
Michigan
Michigan State
Ohio State
Penn State
Purdue

Big Ten West
Illinois
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska / Missouri
Northwestern
Wisconsin
 
I am for ND or Nothing....or somebody else (when ND declines) and nobody in the Big 10 plays them anymore. It makes me so mad that they won't join our conference but get to schedule 4 Big Ten teams every year!
 
How about Rutgers, Syracuse and Pitt. That would put all 3 in a west division probably with Penn St., Ohio St., MIchigan,and Michigan St.
 
Hawke said:
I'd like to see Nebraska in but I don't see them getting an invite, they don't bring a large television market to the table. Mizzou has two large markets. Rutgers has the NJ & NYC markets.
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Jon, the universities on your list are probable candidates, but one is out there that meets the B10 Academic Profile, has a tradition equal to tOSU, U of M, and PSU, and brings huge TV markets, it is in the Central Time Zone and in is not ND.
 
Eyekwah, no way.

Texas will not get an invite. The climate differences and completely different part of the country would bethe issue. I don't think the B10 would consider them for those reasons. Plus, they would be one of four "equals" in that deal, so to speak. I don't think they would go for that, nor would they take a deal where they have to give everyone else equal money that they get.

Just my two cents as someone living in KC.
 
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