[NU Sports] Texas In The Big 10?

[wildelk2 at aol.com]

   Texas? As Steven said about the Iowa game..blek, or something like that.  Why don't we raid Florida from the SEC? Or UCLA from the PAC10?  Makes as much sense.
   I tell everyone who will listen (whether anyone does is another question) that Joe Pa made a mistake joining the Big 10.  If he wasn't so greedy, he would have gone to the Big East, and I doubt Miami, Va. Tech and BC would've taken a walk.  As a Pennsylvanian, I miss Penn St.'s games against Pitt, Syracuse, and West Virgina.  They were a big fish in a little pond, and it served them well. Now, they're just a fish.

   Get Notre Dame. Play them in Evanston. Beat them on a regular basis.   GO CATS!!!    Eric




-----Original Message-----
From: SjT (Stephen J. Truog) <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com; Jim Leonard <jleonard518 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Thu, Feb 11, 2010 9:49 pm
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Texas In The Big 10?


> Please pause while SjT finds a way to hate the idea. 
 
'm in too good a mood to hate anything at this point. Who dat?! :)
That said ...
> I'm not sure how I feel. Why would Texas want to leave the
 Big 12 for the Big 10+2?  I don't pay much attention,
 but the Big 12 seems to be on solid ground.
Mmmm, not quite. The Big XII is probably the most poachable conference of the 
ig Six (only because no one wants the Big East and they're set as a mega 
asketball league).
The Pac 10 is making serious overtures to Colorado to come aboard with Utah, BYU 
nd Boise State. The Big Ten has been talking to Mizzou for sure, and maybe KU 
r Nebraska ... and the league has been split for awhile as the Texas schools 
gainst the rest - with the northern schools especially feeling like they get 
he short end of the stick.
So if any of the "cartel" as Wilbon calls it will crack, it will be the Big XII 
plus, then we could take the name! :) ).
As for Texas themselves, they do make a nice fit academically and athletically 
.. but LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! In this age of travel costs, sending a 
eam to Austin on a road trip would be a killer.
If the league did it, they'd have to do it Pac 10 style and have a "two-fer" so 
he trip is at least worth it economically. 
Maybe they are looking into my idea of the "Big Ten x 2" and want to take in 
exas, TCU, ATM or some others for a southern division?:)
But overall, like you said, this looks more like jockeying games to try and get 
he Irish to budge. Nothing to get seriously worked up over.
GO CATS!!!
SjT

     

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