ISU ignites a timebomb

[Ace000087]

Strong Engineering College, Vet School, Physics, Chemistry, etc... Iowa State is a AAU University... They would be a natural fit for the BigTen. They already play Iowa every year, and they have no real rival in the Big12. Iowa is Iowa State's main rival, plus Minnesota is right up the road, 200 miles away.... There is another rivalry game they can renew from the past. As far as exposure for TV, not every Iowan is a Hawkeye fan, ISU has 27,000 students, and graduates just as much alumni as Iowa every year.

[Ace000087]

They play the Illini every year anyways, so they could just switch it with that as a rivalry game against a non-conference BCS opponent. Another BIG rivalry, with us for the coveted Telephone trophy , would be lost forever unless they scheduled us for a non-conference game.

Didn't Missouri just start that game with Illinois? Its not like they have played each other since the late 1800s.

[simply1]

Strong Engineering College, Vet School, Physics, Chemistry, etc... Iowa State is a AAU University... They would be a natural fit for the BigTen. They already play Iowa every year, and they have no real rival in the Big12. Iowa is Iowa State's main rival, plus Minnesota is right up the road, 200 miles away.... There is another rivalry game they can renew from the past. As far as exposure for TV, not every Iowan is a Hawkeye fan, ISU has 27,000 students, and graduates just as much alumni as Iowa every year.

The thing with Iowa already in the Big 10 capturing a large part of our state, you don't gain a lot in the state when compared with the other markets they are looking at.

[jdoggivjc]

Strong Engineering College, Vet School, Physics, Chemistry, etc... Iowa State is a AAU University... They would be a natural fit for the BigTen. They already play Iowa every year, and they have no real rival in the Big12. Iowa is Iowa State's main rival, plus Minnesota is right up the road, 200 miles away.... There is another rivalry game they can renew from the past. As far as exposure for TV, not every Iowan is a Hawkeye fan, ISU has 27,000 students, and graduates just as much alumni as Iowa every year.

While I agree that ISU fits the demographics as well as the requirements of what the Big 10 is looking for in member schools - membership in the AAU and residing in a state that already belongs to the Big 10 or resides in a state that borders such a state - ISU has one serious disadvantage - we give them nothing in terms of new TV sets as the Big 10 already owns the state through the U of Iowa. Of the six schools that I think are legitimate candidates to join the Big 10, I'd say ISU sits squarely at #6, which means virtually every other eligible school will have had to have turned down the Big 10 and the Big 10 will have to be that desperate to go to 12 to take us - which means it's never going to happen because I'd say 4 of the remaining 5 candidate schools would gladly accept an invite from the Big 10.

Nebraska - the one school I don't think would accept the invite because they're already a revenue king in the Big 12.

Missouri - it's been rumored that they've been wanting an invite from the Big 10 for years, and it would give the Big 10 access to the Kansas City market - a market that has been solidly Big 8/Big 12, well, forever.

Pittsburgh - I honestly don't think that Penn St owns much of Pittsburgh or the rest of western Pennsylvania. This would be a solid addition to the Big 10.

Rutgers - gives the Big 10 the illusion of adding the New York City and New Jersey markets to the Big 10 (but if you know anything about the NYC and NJ markets, they couldn't give two ***** about college sports, which is why it's just an illusion of adding the market).

Syracuse - kind of the same as Rutgers, but I think upstate New York is more open to college athletics than the state of New Jersey.

Iowa State - we just give nothing to the Big 10 that the Big 10 doesn't already have, although we'd gladly take the invite if it were offered (although it would cause all kinds of mixed emotions amongst the fan base).

Honestly, I think Missouri and Pittsburgh are the best candidates.

[Al_4_State]

I just can't see Pitt leaving. Not now. They have a good chance to win the Big East, and maybe play for the NC with what they return next year. Why would you give that up to be 2nd fiddle to OSU? Makes NO sense. The Big East team I could see going is Syracuse, for two reasons. They're irrelevant in football anyways, and it makes things a little less congested for them in basketball.

[jdoggivjc]

I just can't see Pitt leaving. Not now. They have a good chance to win the Big East, and maybe play for the NC with what they return next year. Why would you give that up to be 2nd fiddle to OSU? Makes NO sense. The Big East team I could see going is Syracuse, for two reasons. They're irrelevant in football anyways, and it makes things a little less congested for them in basketball.

$$$$$$$$$$

Simple fact of the matter - they'll pull in a LOT more green as a member of the Big 10 than they would from the Big East.

[woodie]

send the whining mizzou crybabies to the little 10.would not hurt my feelings one bit.

a good replacement for them and a team that would be competitive
would be colorado state at ft collins. they are very similar to iowa state,nebraska,kansas state in that they r the ag school ,vet school,home ec school,engineering school,etc., in colorado.they give the buffaloes a good run for their money in the ft collins-boulder
shootout every year. colorado state is where tony alford played football.

[LoyalSonForever]

I'm thinking more along the lines of TCU as that would push OU into the North and give the conference a possible OU/TU showdown in the championship every year as well as renew the OU/NU rivalry.

[clonefreek]

Just so you know insight offered the bowl spot to Mizzou and when they asked how many tickets they would want Mizzou responded with an answer of 3600. So Insight dropped mizzou and invited Iowa State

[CrossCyed]

send the whining mizzou crybabies to the little 10.would not hurt my feelings one bit.

a good replacement for them and a team that would be competitive
would be colorado state at ft collins. they are very similar to iowa state,nebraska,kansas state in that they r the ag school ,vet school,home ec school,engineering school,etc., in colorado.they give the buffaloes a good run for their money in the ft collins-boulder
shootout every year. colorado state is where tony alford played football.

I would hope that the Big 12 would try and look at getting a new market, such as an Arkansas.