Unreal, Iowa State is NOT EVER going to the Big 10. They will stop at 12 or 14 before they invite Iowa State. We would be dilutive to the pie and they are not going to do that. I cannot understand why people do not get this.
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Unreal, Iowa State is NOT EVER going to the Big 10. They will stop at 12 or 14 before they invite Iowa State. We would be dilutive to the pie and they are not going to do that. I cannot understand why people do not get this.
With Pitt and Syracuse now joining, I would be willing to bet all teams in the conference will stay put.
Anybody seen Boomer lately. Tam is still at the bus stop with OU.Remember...OU is our best friend through all of this
Boomer is busy sending in plays to the offense in Florida while negotiating with the PACx
No one is leaving the ACC now IMO. If you are in a stable league with geographical relevance, you are very likely to stay. The ACC will find money close the B1G. The post you initially quoted is correct. The Big Ten will not take anyone without AAU status simply because they don't have to.
Oh really? Would they be dilutive to the research pie? No one talks about that but there is so much more money in research than there is in football that it isn't even funny. That's not even to mention the obvious research partner we would have in just the Ag field in the Big Ten. ISU, Purdue, and MSU are all highly touted Ag schools. The Big Ten is different than other conferences. Sometimes for them, it isn't all about football.
I hope you are right about that, but them adding NU last year doesn't really inspire confidence.
Love to think you are on to something, BUT THERE HAS BEEN ZERO EVIDENCE OF THIS AS EVEN A REMOTE POSSIBILITY. The addition of Nebraska had ZERO to do with Academics. They even lost their AAU Affiliation recently...I hope I am wrong as this thread is long, but until something credible comes out that its even possible, I prefer not to even consider it.
Why not? At the time Nebraska was an AAU member, and while we at ISU like to make fun of them for that, their academics aren't nearly as bad as we make them out to be. They're not as good as ISU's, but they're not exactly OU, OSU, or K-State either.
OK, let me know when they take someone other than ND without AAU status. I am anxiously waiting. Also, let me know when someone leaves the ACC.
We will never know the answer to that, unfortunately, but the fact that 2 Big Ten members voted to oust NU leads me to beleive the Big Ten was well aware that NU's status in the AAU was tenuous at best.
Where did I say that we were going to be invited to the Big Ten? Nowhere, didn't say that. I also didn't say they brought in Nebby on academics. I said they met the standard at the time.
There really isn't anything credible out there on any of these rumors. It's all hearsay except for the ACC stuff today I guess. It's all hypothetical and I don't understand how people will read doom with the idea that that is possible but something good happening to ISU is unreasonable.
Like they did with Nebraska? You think they had no idea they were about to lose their AAU membership?
Same two members wanted Pitt. I still don't know how Delaney got that through but he did.
I think there are several situations that would result in an ISU invite. One is the research angle that has already been discussed. THe other, and more probable, is if the other 3 major conferences go to 16 teams and approach the Big10 and say, look, we want to redo the BCS conference layout with our 4 conferences getting 2 bids each (or a tournament format of some sort). and in redoing the current layout, all of our conferences stand to add $50M/year. But we need you to have 16 teams or else it's not fair for our conferences since we have 16, can you expand?
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