big-ten-expansion Stories - The Daily Gopher
Step Into The Champaign Room
Good friend Joe Kutsunis of Hail to the Orange invited me to appear on his Champaign Room podcast last night to discuss the state of college football realignment. http://www.hailtotheorange.com/2011/9/20/2439188/champaign-room-special-edition-a-game-of-conferences
The University of Nebraska has been voted out of the AAU.
The Association of American Universities' members voted to end UNL's membership recently based on the university's inability to meet certain requirements, Chancellor Harvey Perlman said in an email to faculty and staff Friday. The vote required a two-thirds majority of the group's 62 other...
The Name Game: Propose Names for the Big 10's Divisions
Only because there's some really good suggestions here..... http://www.bringonthecats.com/2010/12/13/1874610/the-name-game-propose-names-for-the-big-10s-divisions
Discarded Big Ten Division Names - Maize n Brew
SB Nation's Michigan site is Maize N Brew - might as well start getting used to the Big Ten sites, if you haven't already. http://www.maizenbrew.com/2010/12/13/1873433/discarded-big-ten-division-names
Nebraska is joining a league whose hubris equals their own.
They are calling their divisions "Legends" and "Leaders." Does anything more really need to be said? The "Classiest Fans in the Nation" will fit in quite well. http://ncaafootball.fanhouse.com/2010/12/13/big-ten-divisions-legends-leaders/
"I think, we will continue to look for expansion for another year," said Wisconsin Athletic...
"I think, we will continue to look for expansion for another year," said Wisconsin Athletic Director Barry Alvarez. "I think everybody was thing (last May) as schools were moving and looking that may be the direction (a 16-team conference). Our commissioner and our league decided to study it for a...
Big Ten Decides 12 Schools is Enough
The Big Ten's Council of Presidents/Chancellors met today and determined that the process of expansion that began last December is now complete. The Big Ten will focus on the integration of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and "will not be actively engaged in conference expansion for the...
Source: No divisions for basketball
I reported this one for 670TheScore.com so the link takes you there. All I can say is thank goodness. Having Ohio State, Wisconsin, Purdue, Illinois and Indiana in the same division would completely contradict the competitive balance of the football divisions....
How Nebraska to the Big Ten came to be
A great, behind-the-scenes look at how the Nebraska-Big Ten marriage happened. As with so many of these deals, sometimes you just need a bit of luck and timing to make things fall into place. http://omaha.com/article/20100830/BIGRED/708309872/-1
Chip Brown's "Big 12 Missile Crisis" Timeline
To put a cap on this conference expansion episode, Chip Brown has published a recap of the Big 12's tumultuous days from when Nebraska decided to go to the Big Ten until the Big 12 Lite was formalized. It's in a nice narrative form, little of it is speculation, and it provides a few more details...
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