[NU Sports] Big Ten Expansion

[Roy S. Lamberton]

But Notre Dame does have its own network for football, NBC.

And Texas owns the Permian Basin Oil Fields.

Flying the wrestling team around only makes sense for Iowa, Iowa State, Oklahoma and OSU.

Besides, Texas would always win Baseball and Softball since they can play year round. 

Naw, the two guys may have come off as overbearing, but many of their comments, as
reported by you, hold water with this guy who used to live down there.

rsl

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Driving around Chicago on Sunday - Hub Arkush (Pro Football Weekly) and Barry Rosner
(Arlington Heights Daily Herald) were hosting an afternoon show on the Score, 670 AM.
Both men should know better, but shot back with stale, old statements when a caller asked
about Big Ten expansion and Texas.

Both men shot back that 'Texas makes no sense', though some of the links we saw in the
last few weeks indicate that there are good arguments for Texas (best public academics
between Berkeley and Champaign).  Arkush brought up Missouri as the best match, though
most of what we have read indicates that Missouri has broached the subject - but they
don't bring us much in the way of TVs to get the Big Ten Network.  Texas would, and Texas
makes less from their TV deal than Indiana makes from ours...

Rosner also shot back with 'Notre Dame makes the most sense, but it'll never happen', and
he backed that with the (discredited) notion that 'they have their own broadcast network'.
Again, all the stories that have been linked to us show that ND makes way less from their
TV deal ($8 million ?) than our least accomplished conference mate makes ($22 million ?).

It's always annoying when the voices at sports talkers parrot these myths (Notre Dame has
it's own network !  Making huge bucks !  Texas makes no sense !) and don't get called on
it.  Also both men treated it as pretty much a sports question - Everything we have read
indicates that Missouri and Texas officials consider it to be mostly an academic question.
Other than the Ivy League, all are admitting that the Big Ten represents the highest order
of academics, and the other leagues aren't even close.

Chuck Herron   Tech '85



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