[Husker] Big Ten Scheduling

[Mike Jaixen]

For what it's worth, reports are out there that Georgia Tech will be the 15th Big Ten team.

If GT comes on board, I guess Virginia comes as well.  Still would like to see North Carolina.  Frank the Tank thinks it could be . . .  

Miami.

And not the one from Ohio either...

Mike Jaixen
http://huskermike.blogspot.com
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--- On Fri, 11/30/12, George Rapp <george.rapp at gmail.com> wrote:

From: George Rapp <george.rapp at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Husker] Big Ten Scheduling
To: "Huskers List" <husker at tssi.com>
Date: Friday, November 30, 2012, 9:58 AM

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Mike Nolan <nolan at tssi.com> wrote:

> > > Anybody want to set up a pool on which conference approaches the NCAA
> > > with this idea first?
> > > --
> >
> > My money's on whichever big-boy conference gets to sixteen teams first.
>
> I wonder if the Big East would see it as a way to save their conference
> from irrelevancy followed by a complete collapse?
>

There is a precedent - the WAC expanded to 16 teams in 1996, separated into
four 4-team "quadrants", mostly by adding weak-sister teams in football.
 It didn't work out so well, with half of the conference defecting to the
new Mountain West conference by 1999:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Athletic_Conference#Second_wave_of_expansion_and_turbulence

I'm with the guys from EDSBS.com: merge the Big East and the Sun Belt,
forming the SunBEAST:
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2011/10/18/2498232/behold-the-future-of-college-athletics-the-sunbeast...
8^)

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