Lewis Black with a take on Texas. I was talking about NY'ers vs. Texans but I think they deserve each other.
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There is little doubt that Texas would be an excellent addition to the Big 10, but there would have to be a couple teams coming with them. Also have to keep in mind is that the Big Ten expansion has been to adjoining states. That would mean Kansas (currently AAU but with a crazy legislature that might endanger that standing), Oklahoma (who is not an AAU but seems serious about becoming one) coming along with Texas. That would put the Big Ten at 17 and mean that they would be looking to add 3 more schools.
Have to think that the Big Ten would look to the East and the top 3 targets would be Virginia, North Carolina and Duke. If that happened then the Big Ten would have hemmed in the SEC and the Big Ten would be the premier football and basketball conference.
POD 1: Duke, UVA, UNC, Maryland, Rutgers
POD 2: Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, UT and Iowa
POD 3: Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana,
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Originally posted by Whitley View PostThere is little doubt that Texas would be an excellent addition to the Big 10, but there would have to be a couple teams coming with them. Also have to keep in mind is that the Big Ten expansion has been to adjoining states. That would mean Kansas (currently AAU but with a crazy legislature that might endanger that standing), Oklahoma (who is not an AAU but seems serious about becoming one) coming along with Texas. That would put the Big Ten at 17 and mean that they would be looking to add 3 more schools.
Have to think that the Big Ten would look to the East and the top 3 targets would be Virginia, North Carolina and Duke. If that happened then the Big Ten would have hemmed in the SEC and the Big Ten would be the premier football and basketball conference.
POD 1: Duke, UVA, UNC, Maryland, Rutgers
POD 2: Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, UT and Iowa
POD 3: Penn State, Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Indiana,
POD 4: Wisconsin, Minnesota, Purdue, Northwestern, Illinois
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Duke would not be a preferred target, IMO.
They are for me -- the idea of putting a hoops league together with KU, UNC, Duke, Indiana, Michigan State, Ohio State, Michigan, Maryland...is unreal.
But, I don't the B10 values Duke that highly.Dan Patrick: What was your reaction to [Urban Meyer being hired]?
Brady Hoke: You know.....not....good.
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Duke has a lot of value in basketball, they are a 'national' basketball brand. I think they add a ton of value to the BTN basketball inventory; one of the reasons the BTN is so successful is the quantity of basketball inventory it carries.
That said, not sure if I want to add them, especially if the B10 adds NC from the same state. It would depend heavily on who else the B10 adds with Duke.
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IMO -- and this is a very IMO IMO -- you cannot be for anything that breaks up the Duke-UNC rivalry. That's a shitty thing to advocate, esp for an M/OSU fan. I would absolutely hate to destroy that. Recently was just talking to an uncle who taught at G'town in the late 70s and through the 80s. Some great stories from that time. It's an absolute fucking shame what's been done to the G'town/Cuse rivalry.
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My impression was that it's really the ACC's Grant of Rights deal that gave the conference a bit more of a future than it supposedly had, but it's not as if any of us actually knows how this is going to go down. Folly to pretend that Delaney couldn't have seen that coming and has no work-around fix. He may have a stupid vision but he's not a stupid man and he's surely got his bases covered in a few ways. From my perspective frankly there's nothing I'd like to see less than the Big Ten in Atlanta, but we're all just going to have to wait and see what happens. Today is looks like the conference will expand to the west and south; earlier it looked the opposite. No sense in predicting as if there's something truly firm on which to base a prediction. My only prediction is that they will continue to pretend academics are a factor.
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