The Detroit News: Big 10 Headed To 16-Team Super-Conference
Take it for what it is.
Take it for what it is...baseless speculation.
Henning is a good guy and decent sportswriter. If he says he has "sources that are in a position to know" then I believe him.
What are his trusted sources? If you don't cite them, they don't exist.
would disagree with you, along with reporters for the biggest and most important stories (not saying this is one of course) of all time. And oh, BTW, Brian has sited unnamed sources as well. Come on.
You wanna know about the Big Ten expansion? Leave a red flag in your flowerpot so I know you wanna talk. Then let's meet in an empty parking structure....I'll be in a dark corner puffing my cig.
are you there??? ATPM. Love that movie....
Henning's sources also say that today's winning lotto numbers are: 4 8 15 16 23 42
Someone is going to have terrible luck for the rest of their life.
OR great luck in alternate reality.
Tonight's episode will probably be the best one yet. I want to leave work early and just stare at the t.v. until it comes on.
Best of the season anyway. Jacob/Flocke episode = plot driver, and it's about damn time. Finally after the horrible start to this season, the characters are moving around, doing something.
Your numbers certainly can't do any worse than mine have.
in his article = 16. One of his lucky lotto numbers = 16. Coincidence? I think not. Either that, or maybe we are going to 23 teams...????
Hence, no reason to take it seriously.
I disagree. Multiple times he cites his "unnamed sources" who are "in the know." This is all just unverified bullshit.
Notre Dame already is looking at a bigger payday in the Big Ten. The Irish get about $15 million a year in TV revenue compared with $22 million per school in the Big Ten.Obviously Lynn Henning did not read the front page of MGoBlog today. Tsk tsk.
True, but ND likely can gain financially by joining the Big Ten. For one, the bowls (or lack there of) that the Irish have been to lately are below what the average Big Ten team goes to, especially since we go to 2 BCS games every year and we get the Cap 1 bowl, so the bowl revenue sharing would be better than what they're getting on their own. But moreso than that, ND joining the Big Ten would greatly increase the revenue that the BTN brings in, so that 20 million from Brian's post today would go up significantly if ND joined the league.
Yeah, I was just talking about the supposed 22 million from TV that everyone is throwing around. ND will definitely be making more if they join the Big Ten, no argument there.
Yeah, it looks like that number is a little whacky.
It just seems that from a financial standpoint, both ND and the Big Ten win from them joining.
If ND joins the Big Ten, we become the big time conference in the country, right away. Not only that, we become the wealthiest conference in the country by a long shot, ensuring we stay on top.
While we don't know if there is a basis to this or not, when it keeps being reported, I'm increasingly thinking that there's something to it.
I hope not, though. A 16-team Big Ten would be utterly unrecognizeable. Twelve teams would be enough.
to college football say goodbye :( so we will play Penn St. what every half decade, all these assholes do is ruin sports that is all they are good for
Seeing as we didn't play Penn State basically at all until the 90s, I fail to see the issue.
We never played them before 1993, but PSU has become one of the most important games on the schedule IMO, right behind OSU/ND/MSU.
Incidentally, our ND series basically only dates to 1978 (we played them two times in the previous 60+ years), but I consider it a traditional matchup all the same.
Your e-pinion doesn't equal the life or death of college football as a whole.
Jeez, you realize jmblue wasn't the one who said that, right?
It's so unfortunate we might play PSU, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, and/or Northwestern less in order to have games against Nebraska, Missouri, Syracuse, Pitt, Rutgers, UCONN, ND or some set of those teams. What a shame.
I understand completely. Michigan wouldn't want a repeat of 1998 vs. Syracuse again...
Except we're the team with McNabb now.
Only until Jonny Miller takes the field in time for the re-match in the Big House in 2013.
One of the greatest things to ever happen to Michigan and the big ten was inviting Penn St. Now Michigan might have to take a 4, 5, 6 year break that's terrible I don't care how you see it
Lay off me I'm Korean.
your a funny guy Shock
We don't play a lot of teams on a routine basis. Is that a big deal? As long as MSU, OSU and maybe ND are on the table every year, most people will live with whatever happens.
If we were to play 3 in our division and rotate 2 in the other divisions every two years, I don't think that would be an issue.
One conference to bind them all and in the darkness rule them.
He basically just regurgitated the baseless rumor yesterday.
Congrats Lynn Henning, nice journalism.
He commented on it and then claimed his own sources gave him the info he wrote.
Freep hasn't put it's crack team of Rosenberg and Sharp on this? Oh wait, they can't blame RichRod for any of this.....never mind
they can't blame RichRod for any of this
I hope they're not reading this, they'll probably take that as a challenge and set out to prove you wrong
Freep: Rodriguez is the Force Behind Big Ten Adding Rutgers, Montana, and Alaska-Anchorage
Rich Rodriguez, head coach of the Michigan football team and the sole cause of the Black Plague which swept through Europe during the 14th Century, is the nefarious attempt to ruin the Big Ten via expansion. Multiple anonymous sources claim that Rodriguez has forced every Big Ten University president to vote for his expansion plan involving Rutgers, and FCS school, and a school that doesn't even have a football program by making them practice football for 4 hours and 7 minutes last Sunday. After surviving such a torturous experience, every university president capitulated immediately and voted to add the teams. Rodriguez feigned ignorance upon hearing of these charges.
His notion of four 16 team superconferences is hard to figure out.
Regardless, if ND joins the Big 10, the two bottom feeders in the Big East (USF) and Big 12 (Iowa State) will be left out.
Seemingly the ACC could fill in with Big East schools pretty easily (UConn, Louisville, Syracuse, and Cincinnati).
However, for the SEC and Pac-10 it becomes harder.
Colorado is a home run for the Pac-10, but are they seriously going to expand all the way into Oklahoma and Kansas (and one Texas school)?
WVU makes some sense I guess for the SEC but still the only SEC school it's touching is Kentucky (UVa in the ACC obviously). Are they going to dilute their conference with a couple of Texas schools to get UT to come along? Or are they going to go for only the biggest of the Big 12 - Texas, OU, and OK State?
Also to think that Texas-based colleges are going to join another conference, rather than say, creating their own, could be laughed at. This is the same state that just built a $60 million high school field.
The author doesn't provide any insight to this. He sucks.
If the Big Ten goes to sixteen and the only NYC-area team taken is Rutgers, the ACC will likely only go to 14 and take Syracuse and UConn. Louisville and Cincinnati give them nothing. The only reason the Big East took them was to have eight teams to maintain a football conference.
How likely is it that the Big Ten would leave open NYC to the ACC taking the two largest alumni and fanbases of the three schools?
Since when is USF the bottom feeder of the Big East? They have finished in the top half of the Big East standings all but one year since they joined and have won 8 or 9 games in each of the past four seasons. During this stretch they have beaten Florida State, Auburn, West Virginia several times compiled a winning record in bowl games. That is hardly a bottom feeder.
or the 'Big Hex' for short.
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This article looks like Henning has read a lot of blogs to get his info. His work over the years definitely seems to have shown much more passion for baseball than it ever has for college football. This isn't a slam on his writing at all, but more an appreciation of his baseball columns. That being said, I like the article anyway for selfish reasons.
Last year at this time, and for a few years prior to that, any articles about the Big Ten usually started with, "What's wrong with." In one year, the Big Ten has gone from national whipping-boy to "conference most likely to change the face of college sports as we know it."
That is a great accomplishment in my book, and I much prefer what we are seeing now over what we have seen the last few years.
That is a good point that I hadn't thought of before. Even if nothing comes out of all this expansion talk, it has definitely been a PR boost for the conference.