[NU Sports] Big Ten and ND

[Arthur Miller]

--- On Tue, 12/8/09, cherron604 at aol.com <cherron604 at aol.com> wrote:

> All I know is, the University Senate there wanted to join
> the Big Ten, especially for the academic benefit it would
> bring their University.  Athletic people (and probably
> Network people) didn't want to.  And if athletic people
> can overrule professors, I am not so sure that is a school
> we want in the conference anyway.

Well, if that's the standard then at least half the Big Ten isn't qualified--OSU, Michigan, and Penn State for starters.  

The truth, if some of you could get past your anti-ND bias, is that we have significantly more in common with Notre Dame than any of our current conference-mates.  It would seem that having another small, private, academically-oriented university in the Big Ten would only help advance the concerns and priorities of such institutions.

If expansion is a given, the LAST thing I'd want to see is yet another monster state university join.