Report: Big Ten Conference has contacted Texas about becoming 12th team

[Chardon]

Im telling you. Watch for Kentucky, Missouri, Louisville... Kentucky hasnt been good since Tim <s> .C</s>ouch.

 

[Aristotle]

Obviosuly number one on everyone's wish list is ND, but that wont happen.

But what I would really like as number 2 is West Virginia. They really have had solid programs in bball and football for awhile and would be solid. Unfortunately, their academics arent big ten standards...which is really a shame.

 

[Remi]

I didn't feel this deserved a new thread, but apparently Notre Dame could be a possibility. Depends on how you look at it I guess.

Notre Dame watching expansion plans

NEW YORK -- Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick says the possible expansion of the Big Ten could create changes in major college football that force the Fighting Irish to give up their football independence.

The Big Ten and Pac-10 have both said they are exploring the possibility of adding schools.

Swarbrick says that looming realignment changes could be "relatively small ... or they could be seismic."

While Notre Dame prefers to remain independent in football, Swarbrick says, he and university president Rev. John Jenkins will evaluate whatever changes occur and assess how they effect the Fighting Irish.

Swarbrick told reporters Tuesday morning: "You can each come up with a scenario that would force our hand."

 

[Nightperson]

Only way ND would get in the Big 10 is if they got on they knees......

 

[Chardon]

ND leaving the Independent Conference could be a crushing blow to Army and Navy :chuckles:

 

[mixman]

If the current big 10 teams could agree to give ND a bigger share of the pie for the first x years they are in the conference, I think they could get them interested. I already think they'd make more TV money in the big 10 then they do on their current NBC contract, it's just a matter of making up for ND not getting a cut of the BCS pie every year.

 

[Soda]

I don't think the Big Ten needs to offer much of anything to ND if anything at all. If ND needs to give up it's independence, they pretty much are hand-cuffed by the Big Ten to join. ND had *past tense* the hand in the Big 10/ND relationship, but the widespread expansion of conferences will tilt that hand towards the Big Ten. There should be a merge eventually that will be less lucrative than what we all think.