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.
(Excerpt) Read more at omaha.com ...
1) The Big Ten adds Nebraska, Missouri, Syracuse, Rutgers and Connecticut to create the Big 16 conference.
2) The Pac 10 adds the former Big 12 South to create the Pac 16 conference.
3) The WAC and Mountain West may merge back together again to protect itself.
4) The SEC adds Florida State and Miami to create a 14-team conference.
5) The remains of the Big East and Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) merge to create new conference.
Nebraska thinks it can raise its academic profile by being associated with the Big 10 where every school, including now Nebraska, is an AAU member.
Isn't is Princeton and Rutgers?
So the other famous ones had a break sometime. Pretty cool.
U.C. vs. Miami have played since like 1888.
Shoulda happened years ago.
Not in an unbroken streak. KU and Nebraska have played for 104 consecutive years.
1088 miles from State College to Lincoln. That makes for a loooong weekend on the bus. Or do college teams usually fly these days?
Other than Texas, population-wise the states of the Big 12 just aren’t big enough to justify a lucrative TV contract.
I live in Texas now and I’m furious.
Nebraska did this for selfish financial reasons. Let’s toss out 100 years of history for an extra couple of bucks.
Wow.
It’s just like National Signing Day, with teams instead of players.
Okay...
Rather interesting quote from Nebraska’s chancellor. He says that they “are more aligned the culture and academic mission of the Big 10”. Guess he kind of has to say that now that they’re joining the league.
I live in Kansas but was raised in Illinois and was educated at two Big Ten schools. And I think it sucks. Big time.
The SEC is not going to add FSU and Miami, they already have the Florida market with the # 1 Florida team. They’d be more likely to target VaTech, North Carolina, Texas A&M or try to lure OU to the SEC instead of PAC 5000. The SEC will NOT divide the pie without increasing it. They need new TV markets/states to increase the TV deal. Which by extrapolation means Ga Tech, Clemson and the like are out as well. They’d go for Kansas before they went to Clemson.
FSU and certainly Miami don’t increase it. Miami is just a name. Small school on the way down, no big alumni base OR fanbase. They can’t even sell out their home games and their Athletic Dept is a joke relatively speaking.
South Florida and maybe even Central Florida will pass Miami and could even FSU in a decade or two. They have massive alumni bases and a willingness to build up their facilities.
But the idea of 4 16 team superconferences could happen eventually though
They wish.
The problem with the 2 Kansas schools is they are good at the wrong sport; basketball is puny compared to the dollars football brings in.
“Selfish jerks.”
Clueless fool.
http://www.patriotleague.org/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/100506aad.html
“Only once during the 122-year run have these teams not faced one another on the gridiron - 1896.”
UT isthe kingmaker and they will stay in the Big 12. Reasons are as follows:
1. Pac 10 moves the center of gravity too far to the west for Texas. They want all the conference championship games played at Jerry’s World.
2. Fox Sports is going to throw a ton of money at the Big 12 this coming April
3. Texas would like to keep all the Texas schools together
4. UT right now is the biggest, richest athletic program in the nation. Control is much more important to them than a few extra million in revenues. May not be even that much difference after the Fox deal.
5. Demographics-Texas has three major markets and they’re growing like wildfire as opposed to some of the Pac 10 and certainly Big 10.
6. Texas doesn’t like being dictated to, they want to continue to rule the roost in the Big 12.
This coming Tuesday the Texas Board of Regents meets. They’ll keep the Texas schools together. Afterwards the Big 12 will look to add probably TCU and someone else not too far down the road. OSU will possibly jump to the North.
All of the above is subject to change after Tuesday. LOL
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