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Originally Posted by KSig RC
You're missing the big draw of joining the Big 10 - the Big 10's academic reputation is sterling, and joining would practically guarantee membership into the Association of American Universities (assuming the school is a "research university"), which is a relatively big draw for a school like Mizzou, while Pitt only makes sense as a "friend" for PSU (who hates Pitt).
Besides this, the Big 12 (and, actually, the Big East) have abysmal TV contracts and VERY awkward BCS/Bowl distribution pacts - essentially, the Big 12's distribution policy serves to keep Texas and OU fat and happy, while the Big 10 essentially splits it evenly. Even the crappiest Big 10 teams finish well in the black for the football season, via the Big Ten Network and bowl payouts.
Really, only three things make sense for Big 10 expansion:
1 - A Mizzou/Nebraska-type traditional Midwest school - ISU makes no sense because they suck at everything and bring no alumni base. The B12 then adds Colorado State or TCU and everybody's happy, at least until the Pac10 takes Utah and BYU and everything goes to hell.
2 - An NYC-area school (Rutgers or Syracuse) to open the market to BTN - this is kind of a long shot, since both programs are kind of weak overall right now.
3 - Notre Dame (who will likely need to wait until after their NBC deal expires, and will require strong changes to the BCS bylaws).
I'd rank them in approximately that order. Shitty academic schools like Cincinnati won't even be acknowledged - the university presidents make the decision, and keeping the academic reputation will be 1a in the process (money will obviously be 1b).
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Screw you hippy. Fucking Hawkeye Homer.
It'll be a few years before this even happens. If anything, the rumblings from Mizzou (and honestly, Iowa State and Nebraska should also make rumblings) should prove to the moronic Big XII commish Beebe that the north schools aren't going to stand to be Texas' bitch much longer. Maybe work in a better tv deal while they're at it.
I don't ever want Iowa State to consider the Big 10 because, not only would we have to deal with fucking Iowa all the time, we'd have to deal with all the other pretentious schools in that conference. I know, money and TV exposure should trump that, but I don't like the idea of whoring out my alma mater. And, yes, I know it's a moot point because it'll probably never happen anyway.
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