***OFFICIAL IOWA STATE TO THE BIG EAST THREAD***
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Yeah, I really do expect them to wait and see how a 16 team league works out. Unless the SEC poaches an ACC team (which seems less likely given Mizzou will need a home), I don't see either the ACC or Big 10 expanding right now. SEC will sit pretty with 14 teams and the ACC and Big 10 will watch to see how a 16 and 14 team league do. The Big East will be the one who does the most adding this time around.
What if you send out invites to the party and no one comes. That is what is going to happen when conferences approach some of these teams. I think some are going to wait and see. You act like the conferences can just draft the teams.
The big 10 sat at 11 for 20 years. The pac stood at 10. The SEC\Big 12 were at 12. I dont get why some think that just because one or two go to one size, everyone else is magically going to follow suit, especially with a format that's never been tried at a major level, and utterly failed when tried in the WAC.
The media has brainwashed a lot of people into believing it. But there is no historical precedence for it. I will believe it when I see it.
Hlas is about as homer-tavern-hawkish as they come. He is one of those that would still write about the hawks having a chance at the national championship when they are 5-7. I wouldn't believe a word that man writes about ISU.
My guess is $60M in Big 12 after new contract for athletic dept versus $30M for Big East after football expands. It will be night and day.
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An article on "superconferences" I found browsing the net.
College Football: Superconferences Could Kill Big Ten, SEC Rivalries - Darren Everson - WSJ.com
College Football: Superconferences Could Kill Big Ten, SEC Rivalries - Darren Everson - WSJ.com
It is great though if you want some blatently homerific news stories about other universities.
Thank you. This is where I get lost in the whole conversation. What is the incentive for a conference like the B10 to go to 16? "Everyone else is doing it" doesn't seem to be enough when you have the prominence of a conference like the B10. Is the B10 and its member schools going to be excluded from some future championship-determining bowl/playoff system if they don't see the value in expanding to 16 or 18 or X number of schools? Of course not.
Yeah, we're seeing a shakeup right now, but I'm not convinced that it's because there is some sudden urgency to form a new superconference structure. There has been and always will be movement between conferences. I'm just not buying into this superconference hysteria yet as it seems to be largely media-driven.
How is your Edsel running these days?
If Big Ten wants to be premier, they need to follow the lead of the SEC and Pac 12. They need to get into gear.
