Big Ten to explore possibility of expansion in next 12 to 18 months - ESPN
The expansion of the Big Eleven Ten could be a dangerous development for the Big East. If Notre Dame spurns the advances of the Big Eleven Ten again, it is very likely the conference will look to poach a prominent Big East member.
The sad part is, I doubt WVU will be talked about as a viable option. They will likely go after Syracuse and Pitt before even thinking about WVU.
This could be the start of another major conference reorganization.
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5th Year Senior
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Mizzou is the best option
For expanding tv markets while maintaining brand identity. Syracuse next. I doubt they’ll be interested in Pitt.
Well that sucks.
First Paterno joins the Big Televen and refuses to play us, then the ACC steals Virginia Tech and Beamer refuses to play us. Now it’s possible that Pitt will be taken away also. Will WVU have any rivals? Who would be the next in line if we lost Pitt?
Tribune Article
Tribune Article , states that Pitt, Syracuse and Rutgers are the teams in line for a bid.
This could get very interesting.
Leave no doubt tonight! Leave no doubt tonight! No doubt! They shouldn't of played the Old Gold'n Blue.
by 5th Year Senior on Dec 15, 2009 3:22 PM EST reply actions
Mizzou would be the best for us
start a chain reaction that leads Arkansas to the Big 12 (back to their old big 8 rivalries) and we then slide into the SEC. Not saying it would happen….just what I’d like to see.
Why?
Dear Big Ten,
How about this, stop letting a coach who won’t be alive in 5 years dictate the direction of your conference?! Penn State sucks all the way around and this constant slurping of JoePa’s sauce is really starting to piss me off.
Yes- I understand he is the winningest coach. Yes- I understand he has “returned” his program to dominance (although I would argue being pecker-slapped in the Rose Bowl last year, and winning a shitty bowl the year before doesn’t make a dominant program, wait until they get killed this year!). But I am sick-and-tired of the CONSTANT bullshit with JoePa and his misconceived notion that he deserves ANY say in dictating the direction of his conference. If the Big Ten takes ND, we lose NOTHING, they suck at basketball, and don’t get me started on football. If they go after one of our members, hopefully this time the BE commish will have a sack and try to block it, but PLEASE, PLEASE, stop listening to that haggard old goat up in State College.
Thank you.
Not only Joe Pa.
There are a number of coaches and ADs that want to make this move. It makes financial sense and makes the schedule a lot easier to handle.
It will bring millions of dollars into the conference because of the championship game and will give two of the conference’s best teams a game past the final week in November. One reason the Big Ten sucks from year to year in the bowls is because its teams are really rusty and sloppy.
Expanding to 12 teams has been necessary for many years.
Leave no doubt tonight! Leave no doubt tonight! No doubt! They shouldn't of played the Old Gold'n Blue.
by 5th Year Senior on Dec 15, 2009 4:20 PM EST up reply actions
It's almost like JoePa is sitting at home saying
“Oh my God, I can’t believe they took me seriously…let’s see what else I can get them to do….”
I can understand Pitt but not Syracuse or Rutgers
the Big Eleven Ten is more in the mid-west not upstate New York or New Joursey so that part makes no sense to me
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame
DIck Lebeau, Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel and Chris Carter
More money$$$
Get Syracuse or Rutgers and you get the NYC TV market. That huge for potential commercial sponsorship deals.
More TV’s and more potential $$$.
Same with the ACC and BC. They wanted Boston.
Leave no doubt tonight! Leave no doubt tonight! No doubt! They shouldn't of played the Old Gold'n Blue.
by 5th Year Senior on Dec 15, 2009 4:39 PM EST up reply actions
I forgot its all about money
as my history prof. says Christams has two s’s and their both dollar signs
Players who should be in the Hall of Fame
DIck Lebeau, Pat TIllman, Dwight White, Donnie Shell, L.C. Greenwood, Ray Guy, Steve Tasker, Greg Llyod, Andy Russel and Chris Carter
by WVPiratesfan on Dec 15, 2009 6:06 PM EST up reply actions
Actually
“they’re both” is the verb form you’re searching for. “Their” is a pronoun.
by MtnEer_in_SC on Dec 15, 2009 7:29 PM EST up reply actions
And Don't Forget The Big 10 Has Its Own TV Network, now...
…Rutgers would have an allure for them. But what I typed about Syracuse above….I feel roughly the same about Rutgers. If we lose them, sayonara. And at least we would keep Syracuse in basketball.
Now is the time boys to make a big noise.
No matter what the people say,
For there is naught to fear, the gang's all here,
So hail West Virginia, hail.
pitt wont go ..
they are most likely to steal cinncy if anyone because they are still building that program, need a new stadium and the extra revenue dollars that it would bring … pitt doesn’t want to go from being one of the best teams in a conference to one of the shittiest and they already have the tradition and foundation at that school
hell they probably won’t get any of our schools … if they take rutgers or cuse’ then let them … we’ll just pick up east carolina and maybe even add memphis and have villanova become IA and have 10 teams …
Cincy makes no cents
The Big Eleven is not looking to help anyone but themselves out. They couldn’t care less about cincy needing money or any of that shit. They do not need anymore of a market in the state of Ohio. I doubt the conference even looks at Cincy as a viable option.
Leave no doubt tonight! Leave no doubt tonight! No doubt! They shouldn't of played the Old Gold'n Blue.
by 5th Year Senior on Dec 15, 2009 7:48 PM EST up reply actions
Goggle it – Rutgers announced back in May they would leave the Big East to join the Big Ten (er, when Penn State joined it became The Big Ten and Me Too, when Rutgers
joins becomes Me Too and Me Three) after the 2011 season. Rutgers points to Penn State convincing them to join. Like you say, its all TV market share. Rutgers puts the
Big Ten right in the #1 market. But, as late columnist Lewis Grizzard said years ago, watching Big Ten football is like watching two mules fight over a turnip!
I love Lewis Grizzard.
Momar is Libian for Doodoopot.
Leave no doubt tonight! Leave no doubt tonight! No doubt! They shouldn't of played the Old Gold'n Blue.
by 5th Year Senior on Dec 15, 2009 7:54 PM EST up reply actions
lol
doodoopot
" Lord Stanley, scratch thier names on your fabled cup" Mike Lange june 12, 2009
by oldtimehockey09 on Dec 15, 2009 9:30 PM EST up reply actions
Big East schools
won’t jump this conference for the Big Ten. There’s a LOT more to these decisions than simply guaranteed monies from conference championship games, etc.
Pitt, Rutgers or Syracuse would be foolish in my estimation to jump to the Big 10. This would be a lateral move in football and a downward move in b-ball. I really feel that the AD’s of the Big East realize that the BCS isn’t going anywhere (not just till 2013, but beyond) and that when you only have 7 other teams vying for a BCS spot, and the increased recognition, recruiting, etc. that comes along w/ it, sticking w/ the Big East makes the most sense. Cincinnati is a perfect example of a reason to stay w/ the Big East. I can tell you one thing that my booster friend has stated to me. WVU would turn down an offer if it ever came to leave the Big East and I feel PITT would do the same. Can’t speak for Syracuse or Rutgers, but would be surprised if they decided to leave for a Midwestern school.
Syracuse’s biggest rivals are UCONN and Georgetown, and I don’t see it happening.
I had heard that the likely school would be west of Chicago, not East (out here in Columbus) and would think they would look at Iowa State or, more likely, Missouri.
it likely helps
that Syracuse basketball is so strong and Jim B. wields a big stick there. He’d fight them leaving.
Speaking of realignment, if we dump Notre Dame, we should dump DePaul too.
by phucoffaholic on Dec 15, 2009 11:13 PM EST up reply actions
He didn't like moving to the ACC either...
… and that would have happened anyway.
I’m sorry, but there is absolutely nothing else in the equation other than money. You make valid points, but it is truly about money, and money comes from television and television markets.
by The 25314 on Dec 16, 2009 12:11 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Partially agree
While I think it is very noble to think a school would turn down an invite to a conference that makes more money, I doubt it would happen. It is all about money. Money, money, money, money.
It would be a lateral move from the talent perspective but a big step up from the money standpoint.
If I were AD I would not accept a bid to the Big Ten.
Leave no doubt tonight! Leave no doubt tonight! No doubt! They shouldn't of played the Old Gold'n Blue.
by 5th Year Senior on Dec 16, 2009 8:45 AM EST up reply actions
We can’t dump Notre dame because they Are the only ones keeping us in mildly respectable bowl games (if champ sports counts and mildly respectable).
by The 25314 on Dec 16, 2009 12:08 AM EST via mobile reply actions
I'm starting to feel that
bowl games outside of the BCS are basically irrelevant. Traditionally strong bowls, such as the Gator, are changing their affiliations to make money. The bowls mean nothing other than making money for the town they are located.
They just don’t mean much anymore.
Leave no doubt tonight! Leave no doubt tonight! No doubt! They shouldn't of played the Old Gold'n Blue.
by 5th Year Senior on Dec 16, 2009 8:41 AM EST up reply actions
Dumb question
But I wonder if the conference and or the NCAA has any power to stop another big east raid? I am totally over all this talk of conference realignment.
by WVU-Atlanta on Dec 16, 2009 6:53 AM EST via mobile reply actions
NCAA could stop it but they won't
Leave no doubt tonight! Leave no doubt tonight! No doubt! They shouldn't of played the Old Gold'n Blue.
by 5th Year Senior on Dec 16, 2009 8:38 AM EST up reply actions
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