btownqb Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 1 hour ago, BGleas said: One thing about realignment, geography has very little to do with it, as we saw with Rutgers and Maryland. It's all about market and money. I'm not sure the Big Ten really needs the Pittsburgh/WV market. I think it'd be East coast (unless it's ND). I honestly don't know. I guess possibly Ga Tech. Don't see Missouri at all, don't see Kansas at all either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownqb Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 5 minutes ago, bstall76 said: Xavier does not have football so that will not happen as much as I would love it for basketball, I got my masters there, and living in the area, plus it is TINY compared to any other school in the B1G. Right now Northwestern is the smallest at around 21000 , Xavier has 6500. I am not sure what Cincinnati would , academically they are ok, decent Med school, do not add TV market. Uhhh.. I watched We Are Marshall... Xavier definitely had football!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milehiiu Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 2 hours ago, Lizard said: Interesting question. My Ideal next 2: Notre Dame (makes so much sense that its now impossible lol) Colorado (I favor them over Mizzou for purely aesthetic reasons) My Most-likely next 2: Georgia Tech, Houston (Major markets and mostly non-threatening overall athletic programs to start) My Dum-dum next 2: Louisville , Kentucky (obviously) The Colorado/Nebraska football game every year was HUGE ! It would be cool to renew that rivalry. And I would love adding Colorado to the B1G in order to see my Hoosiers. However, Colorado really does not fit the Midwest footprint IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bstall76 Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 14 minutes ago, btownqb said: Uhhh.. I watched We Are Marshall... Xavier definitely had football!!! That is true, not sure when they dropped it, sometime in the mid to late 70's i think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CauseThatsMyDJ Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 Conversation starts and stops with AAU schools. Except black sheep Nebraska which was dropped from the AAU shortly after joining the B1G. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
btownqb Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 Just now, CauseThatsMyDJ said: Conversation starts and stops with AAU schools. Except black sheep Nebraska which was dropped from the AAU shortly after joining the B1G. Do you have a list of those Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CauseThatsMyDJ Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 1 minute ago, btownqb said: Do you have a list of those https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Universities#Membership Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bstall76 Posted February 6, 2018 Report Share Posted February 6, 2018 Based on the AAU list, outside the obvious ones how about: Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, and Texas A&M seems willing to follow the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CauseThatsMyDJ Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 36 minutes ago, bstall76 said: Based on the AAU list, outside the obvious ones how about: Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, and Texas A&M seems willing to follow the money. The B1G brass would salivate over the Atlanta and Nashville markets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bstall76 Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 4 minutes ago, CauseThatsMyDJ said: The B1G brass would salivate over the Atlanta and Nashville markets. Yep, plus both fantastic academic schools, both strong sports other than the big 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted February 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 3 hours ago, HoosierJax said: What about Xavier or Cincinnati or Iowa St....I still can't figure out how Rutgers is in the Big Ten Rutgers is a fine school and a very huge TV market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5fouls Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 Fort Wayne would bring big time hoops to the table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rico Posted February 7, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 12 minutes ago, 5fouls said: Fort Wayne would bring big time hoops to the table. No football team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5fouls Posted February 7, 2018 Report Share Posted February 7, 2018 5 minutes ago, rico said: No football team. There is an Illinois joke in there somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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