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Invitations to join Big 10 expand to Missouri, Kansas, Iowa State, and Notre Dame

Huck

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An anonymous source directly involved with the Big 10 conference said today that if the University of Nebraska accepts an invitation to join the Big 10, the Big 10 will expand invitations to Missouri, Kansas, Iowa State, and Notre Dame in order to make the conference stronger and to compete with the likelihood of the PAC 16. Notre Dame would join Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State, Indiana, Purdue, and Northwestern to create the Eastern Conference. On the other hand, Nebraska, Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa State would join Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin to create the Western Conference. This news comes one day after Colorado said good bye to the Big 12 and joined the PAC 10. This would completely destroy the Big 12 conference as it looks like Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Oklahoma State are poised to join the PAC 10 as early as Tuesday. Some sources part of the Texas A&M regents said that Texas A&M might consider the possibility of joining the SEC. If that happens, and Texas A&M doesn't join the PAC 10 with it's other Texas counterparts, this would likely leave an invitation open to the University of Utah.
 
If that happens, Iowa State ends up being the biggest beneficiary of any team in this whole expansion madness.
 
no chance. They are much more interested in the eastern section such as Pitt, 'Cuse, Rutgers, etc. There's more than a few TV sets there. Getting the other part of Iowa means exactly nothing in tv revenue.
 
I just don't see that happening with Iowa State. They've got the academic credentials, are a great citizen, and do very well in some sports. They also fit the geographic and cultural footprint. But if the Big 10 wants to repeat a media market with a university, Pittsburgh has everything ISU has plus the #23 Pittsburgh home market as well as a much better history in both football and basketball.
 
A load of hoo-haw. I can see extending invites to Mizzou, ND and KU, but Iowa State, really? The only way this makes any sense at all, and I'm still not convinced it does, is if Iowa is campaigning for their little brother. Even so, what does Iowa have to gain by adding Iowa State to the Big 10?
 
Here's why this is stinky bait.

The Big Ten would NEVER split into divisions in that fashion, as you essentially put the 4 most historic football teams in the East division. I call BS. If, and maybe when, the Big Ten goesto 16, the divisional format will likely be North/South, so you can pit ND/OSU on the opposite side of UM/PSU.
 
UrbanaBuff said:
Here's why this is stinky bait.

The Big Ten would NEVER split into divisions in that fashion, as you essentially put the 4 most historic football teams in the East division. I call BS. If, and maybe when, the Big Ten goesto 16, the divisional format will likely be North/South, so you can pit ND/OSU on the opposite side of UM/PSU.
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I could almost have believed it if ISU wasn't included. That's the stinky bait as far as I'm concerned. ISU... Really?!?!
 
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