I doubt Iowa State would ever be considered by the Big 10. Lets face it, If Michigan State, Northwestern, Indiana, and Minnesota weren't already Big 10 members, I doubt they would be getting invites.
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I'm sick of this crap. First, it's making me obsessively check on all sorts of fan boards and not do real work (who's with me on that one). More so, it makes me sick that so many people all around the country have forgotten the fact that these are universities and not mini-pro teams. Fun to watch, but their missions are education and research and not getting eyeballs on a burnt orange version of ESPN. Aside from Nebraska fans, of course, because there is nothing to be proud of getting the boot from the AAU.
As for Iowa, I can not imagine that if something happened and the Big Ten was going to expand into a super-conference that Sally Mason and the Iowa administration would do anything to purposefully block an ISU invite (which I think Grassley would threaten with senate investigations and Harkin as an alum would be pushing for). Let's not forget that, unlike Texas and Texas A&M, we do have the same Board of Regents, which isn't going to allow one of our institutions to purposefully damage the other one because a bunch of phantom bandwagon fans (source-Iowa City after the Northwestern game in 2009) wearing $15 knock-off Hawkeye jerseys don't like the Cyclones.
As for Iowa, I can not imagine that if something happened and the Big Ten was going to expand into a super-conference that Sally Mason and the Iowa administration would do anything to purposefully block an ISU invite (which I think Grassley would threaten with senate investigations and Harkin as an alum would be pushing for). Let's not forget that, unlike Texas and Texas A&M, we do have the same Board of Regents, which isn't going to allow one of our institutions to purposefully damage the other one because a bunch of phantom bandwagon fans (source-Iowa City after the Northwestern game in 2009) wearing $15 knock-off Hawkeye jerseys don't like the Cyclones.
Big 10 would invite Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, and Iowa State. If the Big 12 ceased to exist.
Not really. I can't remember them playing each other. Geography is not close at all. They both are "top shelf" name schools athletically and academically and they have large TV bases of course, but that doesn't mean they are close.
Yes, remember a few weeks back when the head of the Pac 12 made some waives by saying they weren't done expanding......
You haven't really made any sense, so I agree that is about all there is to be said for this matter.
If the Big 10 stepped in and did this, I'm pretty sure all mentioned would leave in a heartbeat...even if the 9 league is going.
Why wouldn't they? It would make perfect sense for them to do that. It expands the Big 10 west and gets all of Iowa, Kansas, and Missouri's TV sets...
SEC would need to add one to three teams (probably from ACC). B1G would look for two to four more, Pac12, ACC replacements, etc etc. There would be A LOT of realignment and lots of places for ISU to end up.
Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds said Wednesday it would be Texas' goal to hold the Big 12 together. But if there wasn't sentiment for that he said Texas and a school like Notre Dame should look at starting their own conference. Dodds has said he is against Texas going independent.
Zero chance this happens.
One major hold up is KSU has the academics of a prison school and that would not sit well with the big 10 presidents. There are about 10,000 other reasons as well.
They could do that by just inviting KU and Mizzou and then still have room for ND and/or Pitt, Syracuse, etc. thereby expanding even further.
Yeah. That's like 7 more TV sets. Missouri would make sense. From there, they'd be looking to the Oklahoma schools.
Makes no sense. They already have Iowa's TV sets. Missouri and maybe Kansas are reasonable. KSU and ISU don't really stand a chance with the Big 10 unfortunately.
Sooner or later, I have to imagine that our best case long-term scenario is a 16-team Big East.
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