Whoa…I didn’t say this was over. I just said it shows we put a ton of work (54 pages) responding to a Dave Wannstedt comment. It’s Dave. Freaking. Wannstedt. There is a guy that looks like him at every used car lot in America.
Like him or not, the guy's coached high major college teams and in the NFL. Never won a Natty or Super Bowl, but was always well
liked by his players and fans because he's a straight shooter. He's also one of FOX's top college football analysts and is well connected across football period.
So why are some completely discounting what he says? But they take "unnamed industry insiders with no connection to any conference" sources as the gospel truth? And those "unnamed industry sources" are who most of the writers (Thamel, Mandel, Wilner, etc) are using.
Wanny's been hanging out with B1G reps the last couple of weeks during the meetings with FOX and when he taped a segment for BTN. So in the last week, in talking with a bunch of folks from the B1G, Wanny's told that ISU & KU are going to get invites or it's strongly hinted at. In the last week mind you, not a month ago not 3 weeks ago. And somehow people portray this as not newsworthy.
One thing about realignment: a lot of the stuff you hear right at the very beginning that gets put on the news cycle back burner will turn out to be true in the end. ISU/KU were rumored right away to be serious B1G candidates and then we got the "well, they made a run but were told not now" line.
I don't buy that. I think the interest is mutual and that both will wind up in the B1G.