Big Ten expansion

ACC (2-10) in BCS bowls ...
Florida State (1-5)
Virginia Tech (1-2)
Maryland (0-1)
Wake Forest (0-1)
Georgia Tech (0-1)

Mountain West (2-1) in BCS bowls ...
Utah (2-0)
TCU (0-1)

And Boise State is 2-0 in BCS bowls, compared to Notre Dame's 0-3. Give me the Mountain West and its lack of prestige over the ACC and Notre Dame. To most college football fans, it's obvious after watching them that Utah, TCU and BYU are right there with the big boys. Other schools and other conferences are right there in name only.

 

Basketball revenue?

 

Yup. The checks they receive from the NCAA tournament revenues are ridiculously large.

 

Which gives them all the more incentive to close the door and keep them out the way golf clubs do to people they'd prefer not to deal with. We don't want you, we don't schedule you, to us you simply don't exist. So go play Nevada on your assinine blue field.

 

Problem is, to most college football fans those other schools and other conferences have a built-in reputation and cachet that the Utahs and the TCUs still can't match. Hell, I'm the same way. Give me a choice between watching a game on TV involving LSU or Utah, and I'm going for the LSU game about 95 percent of the time.

 

Clem Haskins and Minnesota would like to take issue on the academic side of the discussion.

Mark2010, to quote fellow Iowa Hawkeye fanboi Armchair, Iowa fucking State has as good of a chance to join the Big Ten as Chad Ochocinco has in running and winning the governor's election in Ohio.

 

To suggest that the BYUs, Utahs, TCUs and Boise States should branch off into their own division simply because they're not power-conference schools is asinine. They've played heavyweights, they will continue to play heavyweights.

Point is, the Mountain West in its current form doesn't need to form a 32-team super conference to gain access to the BCS. They've already shown they can do so now, without the automatic bid, and has a good chance to secure an automatic bid for the 2012 and 2013 seasons with or without Boise State added to the mix.

 

If conference armageddon happens and the Big 12 disintegrates there is a better chance Iowa State winds up in the WAC than it winds up in the Big 10.

If you want to be a farmer, you go to Iowa State.

If you want to own the farm, you go to Iowa.

 

Exactly!! Society is set up so that those in power keep power. Another reason that, after more than 200 years, the US still only has two political parties that matter.

No way are the big boys going to allow the Utahs, TCUs and Boise States of the world to crash their parties. And if they start stealing recruits that the bog boys actually want, all the more reason to shut the barn door and keep them out.

 

Florida State, Miami and Virginia Tech (and you can make the case for Louisville and Cincinnati) weren't born into football prosperity. Through hard work and fighting through lopsided schedules (no home-and-homes for those guys in the 70's), they eventually established themselves among the elite. Nobody slammed the door in their faces.

Seeing as how Boise, Utah and TCU have seen major bowls (and there's NO WAY IN HELL they see them in the 80's -- just ask Fresno State teams of that time) -- I once again do not buy in on the mid-major suppression conspiracy theories.