Posted on 06/11/2010 11:39:27 AM PDT by C19fan
1:20 p.m. LINCOLN _ Nebraska has officially accepted an invitation to join the Big Ten Conference, The World-Herald learned early Friday afternoon.
Two sources from conference offices said that Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany contacted BIg 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe on Friday morning to inform Beebe that Delany had officially invited Nebraska to join.
A source with direct knowledge of the situation said Nebraska accepted.
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The Irish Globetrotters?
The thinking is that the Big Ten will break the Big East by inviting two or more teams and others will be invited to the ACC or SEC. The Big East will drop football and become a mainly basketball conference again.
Notre Dame will never join the Big East in football, but can be forced to pick some other conference if the Big East falls apart.
Why would any conference want those Prima Donnas from South Bend?
3,945 miles, Great Circle distance. My car's odometer got corroded with salt water, so I can't give you a road distance. Univ of Hawaii's closest football rival is the Fanning Island, Republic of Kiribati "Coconut Breakers". However, they are not NCAA and thus are bowl ineligible. They are only 1068 miles to the south, Great Circle distance. (again problems with salt water & my car odometer)
Agree. Not sure if the Texas legislature would allow it though.
I believe you are correct
Well gee...I WONDER if Nebraska will realize MORE income if it plays Ohio State or Texas Tech?? That’s a TOUGHIE, ain’t it!
The Big 16 more like.
Okay dead,
Can you point me to one article that talks about how Rutgers up’s the conferences profile due to it’s superior academics? Try not twisting what I said. What I said was that everything that is talked about in regards to why the Big 10 wants Rutgers is because it can deliver the New York City TV market for it’s Big 10 network.
I’m glad that they are graduating their football players. That’s a good thing. But that doesn’t point to good academics for it’s school. In your list you have Rutgers ahead of Northwestern and Duke. Do you really think that Rutgers is better than Northwestern and Duke academically?
Ratings.
No matter how much they suck, every chooch who never went to college and likes beer is a Notre Dame fan.
If they’re going to save the “Big 12” why not add SMU, Rice, Houston and BYU to your Utah and TCU. Lets face it this whole thing is about TV $’s so tieing up Dallas, Houston and the State of Utah would make the new conference a lucrative TV package.
I'm hearing more and more that A&M is going "D@mn tu, we want to go to the SEC!" I don't know if the legislature would allow it, but Rick Perry says he's staying out of it (A&M grad.) If Texas goes SEC, it will be a new world for them. They've been the dominant team forever, first in the SWC, then in the Big 12. There are too many good programs in the SEC for any team to completely dominate the conference. Everybody talks about the Texas egos, but the SEC teams have huge egos also, and there are too many excellent programs in the SEC for any single team to dominate. Consider Bama. As good as they are, they frequently end up getting pwned by Florida or LSU. Course, they return the favor, too. One thing I like about the SEC thing is that in the Big 12, all the teams raided Texas for their players. The SEC has their own high school football factories. If Texas and Oklahoma (followed by the other teams) go to the SEC, it would be difficult to imagine the SEC not winning the national title eight out of ten years. They already dominate the title game, and Texas and Oklahoma usually take what they don't.
Kinda like the Harlem Globetrotters, eh?
But ND already has their deal, and would probably demand too much from the conference, that it wouldn’t be worth it.
I’ve heard that the Texas schools had originally wanted the Pac 10 to include Baylor along with the five other Big 12 South schools. It was noted a couple months ago that the Pac 10 wasn’t too excited about Tech either. Rumor has it that’s the reason the Pac 10 issued an invite to Colorado before anyone else because they wanted to make it clear Baylor wasn’t going to be issued an invite. Baylor is now lobbying furiously to keep the 4 Texas schools together and made it clear at the meeting yesterday with A&M and UT.
I’ve got a feeling the Texas Board of Regents isn’t going to be too happy with the Pac 10 sending out an invite to Colorado early and thus chopping up the Texas schools. I’m telling you Texas doesn’t like the Pac 10 dictating like this. The Pac 10 may have well shot themselves in the foot with the Colorado invite.
Well I'd like to think of it as the other way around. ;)
PISCATAWAY — The timing couldn’t be better for Rutgers University to have its football program lauded for academic achievement.
Four days after Michigan State President Lou Anna K. Simon emphasized that academics – not just athletics — would play a large role in determining what schools would be a good fit to join the Big Ten, Rutgers’ marquee program achieved the NCAA’s highest academic honor.
“”I think Rutgers has always had a great reputation academically — I know they have – not only here in New Jersey but nationally,” Rutgers football coach Greg Schiano said after his program topped all Football Bowl Subdivision members with a score of 992. “”I think as we do this as a football program and as an athletic department, then it also gives our athletes a great reputation. That I think is important as well.”
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Michigan State’s Simon, who chairs the Big Ten Council of Presidents/Chancellors, stressed that academics would play a large role in determining what schools would be a good fit to join the Big Ten.
“”This is more than teams playing teams,” she said. “”I can’t emphasize that enough about the Big Ten and the approach the Big Ten is taking.”
If academics is key a criteria for admission, Rutgers fits the Big Ten profile in that, like each of the 11 current Big Ten institutions, it is a member of the Association of American Universities. The Big Ten, the only Division I conference to have all its schools affiliated with the AAU, is reportedly looking at institutions that are members of the association consisting of 63 leading research universities.
“”With much more sophisticated analysis of the sense of ‘fit,’ but academics has not been much of the conversation (by the media),” Simon said. “”Most of the people in the room were provosts before they were presidents, so it’s a group that is perfectly capable of making very sophisticated judgments on academics. If anything, we obsess about that.”
That may be good news for Rutgers, which is widely believed to be on the shortlist of schools under consideration by the Big Ten.
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