Big 10 to consider adding 12th school

[Diabeetus]

Sorry if this is a d_b, but I didn't see it anywhere else. If they do add a 12th, I think they should rename their friggin conference already.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/football/ncaa/07/26/bigten.expansion.ap/index.html

 

[pallister]

And redo the Big "11" logo.

 

[friend of a friend]

How about the Big 12?

 

[TyWebb]

Agreed Diabeetus. Likewise, I think the Big East should be renamed to something like the Medium East or Mid-Major East.

 

[Diabeetus]

Agreed Diabeetus. Likewise, I think the Big East should be renamed to something like the Medium East or Mid-Major East.

Or the "Let's See How Many Teams We Can Get To Stick Around A Few Years Before The ACC Steals Them East"

 

[D-3 Fan]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. All of us in B-10 Country have been hearing this **** for nearly a decade now about adding a 12th team to the league.

It'll be the same ol' story in Chicago when the coaches get together. South Bend? Forget it, football will never leave NBC. Missouri? Most logical but no chance. Iowa State? Yeah ****ing right. Pittsburgh? Best case scenario, but JoePa has a hard-on against Pitt coming.

Meanwhile, off-topic, the Big 10 Network and Mediacom are bickering over how subscribers will see the new network. B10 wants it on regular (expanded) cable. Mediacom says hell no, you're going to be on digital cable and on a sport-tier package. If anyone wants to watch you, they'll have to bend over for us and take one in the ass.

I haven't see politiking like this since Sinclair and Mediacom were slinging mud back in January. This is going to be fun to watch.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Agreed Diabeetus. Likewise, I think the Big East should be renamed to something like the Medium East or Mid-Major East.

Are you kidding about the Big East?

 

[D-3 Fan]

Big East got screwed...for the better. No way in hell they are going to get pilfered again.

 

[Diabeetus]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. All of us in B-10 Country have been hearing this **** for nearly a decade now about adding a 12th team to the league.

It'll be the same ol' story in Chicago when the coaches get together. South Bend? Forget it, football will never leave NBC. Missouri? Most logical but no chance. Iowa State? Yeah ****ing right. Pittsburgh? Best case scenario, but JoePa has a hard-on against Pitt coming.

Meanwhile, off-topic, the Big 10 Network and Mediacom are bickering over how subscribers will see the new network. B10 wants it on regular (expanded) cable. Mediacom says hell no, you're going to be on digital cable and on a sport-tier package. If anyone wants to watch you, they'll have to bend over for us and take one in the ass.

I haven't see politiking like this since Sinclair and Mediacom were slinging mud back in January. This is going to be fun to watch.

I personally think they should add Pitt or Iowa State, but that's just me.

Since Big 12's already taken, what would they call themselves? Would they continue calling themselves the Big 10 and look ridiculous?

 

[zeke12]

How many years in a row are we going to hear this same story.

Won't happen.

 

[sportschick]

That 12th spot is for Notre Dame, and Notre Dame alone. Always has been.

 

[slappy4428]

It will be Pitt, Mizzouri or Iowa State -- logiclly. Eliminate Iowa State because of TV and it comes down to which is more important: St. Louis/Kansas City TV markets or Pittsburgh and a natural rival for Penn State. West Virginia is the only other possibility; no MAC school fits the bill.
Notre Dame is too self important and there's no way ND shares TV revenue...

And the Big 10 will stay the Big 10, no matter how many teams it has.. they'll come up with a lame reason on why....

 

[Diabeetus]

That 12th spot is for Notre Dame, and Notre Dame alone. Always has been.

I think the TV thing will bring out the greed and enough pressure to force them to add a team. We'll see.

 

[Diabeetus]

It will be Pitt, Mizzouri or Iowa State -- logiclly. Eliminate Iowa State because of TV and it comes down to which is more important: St. Louis/Kansas City TV markets or Pittsburgh and a natural rival for Penn State. West Virginia is the only other possibility; no MAC school fits the bill.
Notre Dame is too self important and there's no way ND shares TV revenue...

And the Big 10 will stay the Big 10, no matter how many teams it has.. they'll come up with a lame reason on why....

Mizzou would be ridiculous to give up rivalries against Kansas, most importantly, but also Nebraska, K-State and Oklahoma.

 

[Brooklyn Bridge]

FWIW, I read a report this morning that said the conference is looking at Syracuse (for whatever reason) and Rutgers. You'd have the big television market in the east and a natural rivalry for Penn St, which always seemed kind of out of place in a midwest conference (Lions fanboy who's bitter he can't see more games).

 

[joe]

Mizzou, an original member of the Big 8, ain't leaving the Big 12 for the Big 10. Tigers already play Illinois in basketball and have a several-year deal to keep playing the Illini in football. Plus, no way does Mizzou walk away from more than 100 years of hatred for everything Kansas.

 

[slappy4428]

Mizzou, an original member of the Big 8, ain't leaving the Big 12 for the Big 10. Tigers already play Illinois in basketball and have a several-year deal to keep playing the Illini in football. Plus, no way does Mizzou walk away from more than 100 years of hatred for everything Kansas.

Pitt or West By God it is, then....

 

[zeke12]

It.


Won't.




Happen.

 

[slappy4428]

It will, if only for the fact it will allow the Big 10 to avoid another three month delay between the end of the regular season and the last bowl game...

remember, the BT was one of the last to be dragged into a conference basketball tourney too.

 

[times38]

I think one of the biggest problems the Big 10 would have should they expand to 12 teams is how the hell to divide up the conference. there's virtually no way to have competitive balance while at the same time maintaining as many rivalries as possible.