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I bet it will make favored walk on a lot more interesting. It might be more financially advantageous to be the 100th guy off the bench for Alabama than be on scholarship at Akron.

I think we should pick up Stanford - there is an academic component here and Stanford brings MIT level Academics with a solid all around sports program. It is always good to be associated with a school like Stanford.

We seem to be the only fan board I see that discusses realignment under basketball... even Kansas is discussing it under football.

But he may not have quite said that:

Is that a reliable source?

That is pretty much where I would go... if we have to throw in a couple of other like Colorado/UCLA... could work as well.

FYI: The Kansas board seems to think they will be joining the B1G and that it will be announced "soon." They may be falling prey to the same type of momentum that created the Brad to IU hype though..

It is more wishful thinking than anything else. If we are going to expand, A&M seems like one of the most valuable potential schools out there...

Maybe A&M voted yes to make it easier to leave secretly...

Probably insane "phans" at the phog... but the rumor is Kansas to the the B1G: https://247sports.com/college/kansas/board/103723/Contents/realignment-mega-thread-fka-texas-oklahoma-reach-out-to-sec-168057492/?page=296

Given the AAU restriction, what I would do is just add every AAU school from a power 5 willing to come (you're welcome Iowa State...) into a single blanket (THE BIG) and then create regional subconferences that more or less recreate some of the great conferences of the past (PAC, Big Ten...) Taking Iowa State would be charity to make it seem more noble of a venture than it is... To be nice, help the remnants of the old PAC-12 and Big 12 combine...

https://www.theonlycolors.com/2021/7/26/22593575/conference-realignment-talk-heats-up-throughout-fbs-sec-big-12-big-ten-texas-oklahoma Not sure if it was posted, but this is a pretty reasonable compilation of a lot of the topics above...

He also has a knack for recruiting very random players...

By SEC standards They are AAU schools is all I meant.

Honestly, there is no obvious move that the Big Ten could do to counter an addition of Texas to SEC. That is huge. The best bet is to wait for Texas to destroy the SEC from the inside :), then pick up some of the more prestigious SEC schools: Texas A&M, Florida, Vanderbilt, Missouri, ...

He does not need to close the recruits, just reel them in so that Woody can close the deal :)!

That is pure comedic gold right there. I applaud anyone who can say that with a straight face.

If he helps bring us #6, he can call us "Indiana Institute" :).

Wow - I do not see any scenario where we are not a serious player in college basketball in the near future. Just wow!

so when he turns 66?

+1 I think that my complete lack of prior knowledge of Coach's NBA experience was why I was an early supporter of him being hired (after the Dunkin Donut eating guy fell through - what was his name again?). I saw his record with fresh eyes and realized it was really good (considering the teams he coached - excellent).

Wisconsin is really mixing it up with their new jerseys.

Given the way they cut the video's, I could have a highlight reel of splashing 3's; I could not have a highlight reel of doing what he did there...

So no-one on the flying Illini averaged 25 points a game?

That is nice! Just so I have all the names, who is the guy behind Leal and the two between XJ and Stewart?