[Husker] Big Ten Scheduling

[Mike Nolan]

> 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

Right idea, wrong place and time.

Imagine if this week people were talking about the SEC's Alabama-Texas A&M 
and Georgia-Florida Semifinal games. 

The ratings would be off the charts.
--
Mike Nolan


> 
> 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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