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We debate Big Ten Expansion, Part II
21 hours ago ago from Golden Gopher Football Blog
Jeff and I started discussing the possibility of Big Ten expansion by email. Over the next several days we will debate this back and forth over email, and will post our exchanges here, for your reading pleasure. ------------------ Jermo, I am going to work backwards through your backwards comments and start from the beginning...or something. I definitely think the golden goose is in danger of being slaughtered. From what I've seen and ...
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14 hours ago ago from The Panoptiblog
So the big news yesterday out of the Big Eleven Ten was that they are definitely going to form a committee to consider thinking about maybe expanding, someday, to a twelfth team. I'm torn. I find the arguments for expanding persuasive on their face: the Big Ten is invisible between Thanksgiving and the start of the bowl season, which hurts. It would give us a championship game, which would be exciting. And the likely east-west division of ...
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18 hours ago ago from Eye of a Panther
So the Big Ten expansion issue has come up yet again, with Joe Pa leading the charge. Part of their reasoning is that it seems the league wants to remain in the public eye over the last few weeks of the season and be able to reap the profits from a championship game. If all you're looking for as a league is increased revenue, then sure, I get this. And if you're in a smaller, non-BCS conference that needs another quality win to have more of ...
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14 hours ago ago from BucksInsider.com - Ohio State Buckeyes News, Videos, Schedules & More
Rumors are flying that the Big Ten is seriously considering expansion to 12 teams. I know, how does a conference with Ten in the title have Eleven schools, right? The problems with the Big Ten expanding to a 12 team conference are many, but one of the most overlooked is that, if they have 12 teams, are they really still able to call themselves the Big Ten? Even a creating design team in the Continue reading at Bleacher Report Big ...
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22 hours ago ago from OhioStateInsider.com
Ohio State and the McCorkle Aquatic Pavilion will host the 2010 Big Ten Men's Swimming & Diving Championships Feb. 24-27.
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Leading Off: Counting With the Big Ten
21 hours ago ago from The New York Times
In today's installment of How Money Runs College Sports, we move to the Big Ten's quasi announcement that having long ago outgrown that pesky number 10, it would like to stretch beyond 11 teams . In other words, it was running out of ways to print money, and to join the universe of lucrative conference championship games it needs two divisions of six teams. What the conference did not announce was plans to then arm-wrestle the Big 12 for its ...
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