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No. There's still more prestige and money for them at this level, even if they are effectively shut out of the championship hunt.

Since Notre Dame likes to exult in their "standards" somehow I doubt they would be willing to play in the SEC for similar reasons to Georgia Tech's. I could see the Irish attempting to join the ACC-Big East confederation if it seriously looks like college musical chairs is going to stop with 64 Superconference teams and they turn down the Big Ten, but I don't think the culture fit is there for the SEC.

Pretty much every conference will be like the Big East. It'll change everything about college basketball. Except these other Conferences won't have such things as "DePaul" or give an excessive-to-the-point-of-existential-threat amount of power to the Providences and Seton Halls of the world. Unfortunately, your up and coming program sacked its coach. (For decent reason, although things would not have come to a head had South Florida actually won big games in October for once) Past history indicates that up and coming programs who fire/force out coaches for stalling out over a couple of years tend to plummet back down into the nethers from whence they came. We like to call this the "Indiana Trajectory".

Maryland, eh? I wonder how the ACC would respond. Presumably brokering a merger with the shell-shocked football survivors of the Big East after the SEC steals those ACC programs least concerned about the amount of cheating that goes on in conference (so no, Georgia Tech wouldn't be leaving).

So the very latest rumors are that the Big Ten will also invite Syracuse, Rutgers, Notre Dame, and Maryland to join. Pierce the heavens, baby. Presumably Missouri prays that Notre Dame remains stubbornly obstinate about their independence in this scenario.

I wonder where Baylor, ISU, Kansas, and Kansas State would do next if that happens? The fate that awaits all good ronin. Seppuku. Setting aside the fact Rutgers and Pitt don't make enough to afford routine flights to Texas with unbalanced revenue sharing... Nebraska is still the Big XII North's flagship program. If the cornerstone of one division is pulling out, along with a couple other members, you aren't going to be able to adequately replace them. In that situation, it is every man for themselves.

And now reports are coming in on SportsCenter that the 6 proposed Pac 10 invitees are bailing. Goodbye Big XII.

Don't mess with Texas Dr. Tom.

Colorado: " Baylor, Texas (for a few days), the Big XII, Notre Dame preserving the peace, and Dan Hawkins (on general principle). We're goin to the Pacific Baby!" Allegedly anyway. A mere 15 legislators can't compensate for a basketball program that is still more noteworthy for one player murdering another, a football team that flat out sucks historically as well as presently, the market size of Waco versus Denver, the comparative research and academic resources of small Baptist school versus large state university that is culturally "West Coast". And you know what's funny about non-revenue sports? They don't generate revenue and are therefore meaningless in the greater scheme of things.

The Mountain West could poach survivors. Or Conference USA. Or maybe *hears snickering from Iowa* the MAC.

Fixed. Ultimatums from organizations that have hitherto been less than proactive about ensuring their own survival or addressing member concerns are rather empty.

Missouri says maybe.

Rule 1. The brand awareness of the Big Ten moniker trumps any renaming convention. Damn the math and all that. Rule 2. The Big Ten isn't kicking anyone out.

Slightly off topic, but.... Pac 10 to eviscerate Big XII? Personally, for all the grief the Oklahoma schools get about academics, I'd be more concerned about whether or not Texas Tech's reported accreditation problems would pass muster with the likes of Stanford. Still...Dan Beebe might want to change his tune from "is everyone on the plane?" to "is anyone on the plane?"

I don't disagree with this. Either expand or eliminate interleague play. Preferably, eliminate it, because it would suck to have a team in a tight race finish out the season in an interleague series as opposed to playing one of their rivals with whom they're fighting for a playoff spot. EDIT: wait - your FB and Twitter links aren't part of your sig? You actually pasted them in your post? It's a spammer.

Do you guys drop confetti after every win?

Am I the only one who sees that ending disastrously?

Presumably every banner they've put up since the 1950s. It seems like for Kentucky it's a question of "when" rather than "if" regarding NCAA sanctions.

I find it odd that there is no distinction to the National Championship banners. It's like everything there is one equal accomplishment. Why blow a lot of money on a fancy banner that the NCAA's going to take away from you later?

That thing strikes me as a lawsuit waiting to happen.

They will have to check with Murray Sperber to see if he has not already filed for that name as a trademark. I'm sure he'd appreciate the irony. He was an English prof after all.

That has been denied by multiple parties, including the "invited" schools and the Big Ten.

I agree that it's unique. Having been to some Beef games though, I think it's a good fit for the city when you consider that when Omaha was founded it was a major stockyard / meatpacking hub. All the ranchers from the west would bring their herds into town and then they'd ship the meat down the Missouri River. I'm hearing a bunch of Boise State going to the MTN West rumors, too. Anyone else think so? The Beef moniker was a tribute to the size of the linemen. Boise State to the MWC is pretty much a done deal barring a lot of other spectacular raiding of the MWC going down.

I'm sure the millions of people living in Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, Salt Lake, Austin, Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio, Oklahoma City and others would disagree with you on that. My point is that there is a "frontier" of schools around the Missouri River and then a small pocket of Utah-Colorado until you hit Washington-Oregon-California. Millions of people live in Afghanistan too.

Pershing was a dump when my Dad went to grad school there back in the 1970s. This building is needed.