Hey!! How does everyone feel about the Big Ten expanding??

[Condem]

Nebraska? Missouri? Notre Dame? Rutgers? Thoughts, please. Me? I'd love to see the Huskers come aboard. A natural rivalry. If you're an ISU fan I would guess you're shit out of luck.

[Condem]

1. Now, don't everybody talk at once.

Plenty of time to answer.

[Bluzmann57]

2. I have mixed feelings

Yeah Nebraska, Missouri, and Notre Dame are natural rivals, but Rutgers? I think Penn St. is as far east as the conference should ever go. And I certainly do not want some good rivalry games such as Iowa/Minnesota, Illinois/Northwestern, and of course, Michigan/Ohio St. to end for several years because of some "balanced schedule" or some such nonsense.

[Condem]

3. I think a Iowa-Nebraska rivalry would blow away the Goopher series, Bluz.

I respect the Huskers a whole lot more. Would welcome them with open arms~!!

[IADEMO2004]

4. We can't have two Big11's

[Condem]

5. My guess is 16 teams, IADEMO. We're adding 5.

The times are a' changin.

[IADEMO2004]

8. 16! I need to look in some different internet tubes about this.

[Condem]

9. The ESPN college football site, IADEMO. SI, also.

A personal favorite is HawkeyeNation.com. Then go to the forums. A lot of sources here. Very interesting stuff.

[IADEMO2004]

12. Thanks. I've read many different view points.

Hope it doesn't start a huge $$$$ war that fans lose.

[RobertPlant]

6. culturally Notre Dame fits in best

they have that big industrial great lakes feel that a school like Mizzou or Nebraska doesn't.

[Condem]

10. I don't think the Irish are coming.

Too much value on their football independence as they call it.

[progressoid]

7. Adding Nebraska would make heads explode on this side of the state.

There are probably more NE fans than IA or ISU fans around here. I'll have to listen to some morning radio and see what they are saying about it.

[Condem]

11. It sounds to me, progressoid, that Big Red fans are all for it.

When Texas came aboard all the power and $$$ shifted south. They want out.

[rurallib]

13. I think one thing the B10 wants is eyes on the most TV sets.

Nebraska may bring a few with their national name, but they are tarnished right now. So right now they wouldn't add a lot to the B10.
I would look for them to look east at schools like Rutgers, Syracuse, maybe BC etc. I just don't see Notre Dame sharing their piles of money.
No matter what they do to me this move seems to put a dent in what the B10 is about. They used to be the conference that mixed sports with academics and made it work. Now, like all the others, it is all about the money. Soon there will be 4 major conferences left whose job is minor league feeders for the pros.

[Rambis]

14. There will be no need for NCAA

if TV goes to 4 mega conferences of 16 teams each. The NCAA would be left to regulate division II and III schools nothing else. It will be a disaster for student athletes academically and the corruption we have now will be magnified ten fold. It might as well be a pay per play situation because there will be no oversight. Whoever pays the most gets the best players kinda like now:)

[DU9598]

15. Go big

Forget the little red and go for the big orange of Texas. The Big Ten needs good academics which Nebraska and Missouri fail to bring. Texas brings good academics and high quality athletics.

[Condem]

16. Looks like we'll be talking about it for months to come.

Big Jim doesn't want to rush into anything.

[Condem]

17. Man. How cool to get Big Red?!

I think it's only temporary, though. After the Big 12 dies on Tuesday more moves will be made. Mizzou's out. Maybe ND and Rutgers. BTW. The Husker-Hawk rivalry will be hereby known as Farmageddon.

[Bluzmann57]

18. Farmageddon.

Now that's funny. I still have mixed feelings about the whole thing though. It seems that corporate greed has taken over. I mean what other industry in America can make billions of dollars and pay their employees nothing? Corporations all over America are wanting exactly what's going on in college athletics now. I believe that the NCAA may well die out eventually because the four or five super conferences will just tell them to go to hell, we'll have a playoff in football and we can manage something in basketball.

[Condem]

19. We'll know in a couple of days where we're going, Bluz.

If the Big 12 goes down then we'll have the super-conferences. I can't take the credit for farmageddon. Saw it on HawkeyeNation.