If this is the end, the Big 12 gave us good times.
Just 14 years in and we’ve seen 36 national championship teams in all sports, four Heisman Trophy Winners and national stars like Kevin Durant, Paul Pierce, Adrian Peterson, Chase Daniel, Michael Bishop and Michael Beasley.
We’ve had front-row seats for Oklahoma’s return to dominance and Texas’ first football title since integration. We had an annual argument as at least the nation’s top football conference behind the SEC, and this last season a solid case as the best basketball league.
ghostrunner wrote:They should probably just go ahead and change the names of these conferences after companies while they're at it. The Fed Ex East conference, the Doritos Southwest conference, The Buy N' Large California conference, etc...
I'm not sure I can articulate why, but if the Big Ten adds 3-4 teams, it sours me on college basketball going forward. It's one area where I maintain a fondness of tradition, and I like that 1 out of ten or twelve teams can be the conference champ. If you're now fighting 16 teams, you don't play each team twice anymore. I didn't like it when the Big Ten went to a tournament and that almost seems more meaningless with all these teams involved. I've been losing interest already, this is just going to put the nail in the coffin.
Big Ten teams already don't play each of their conference comrades twice.
ghostrunner wrote:They should probably just go ahead and change the names of these conferences after companies while they're at it. The Fed Ex East conference, the Doritos Southwest conference, The Buy N' Large California conference, etc...
I'm not sure I can articulate why, but if the Big Ten adds 3-4 teams, it sours me on college basketball going forward. It's one area where I maintain a fondness of tradition, and I like that 1 out of ten or twelve teams can be the conference champ. If you're now fighting 16 teams, you don't play each team twice anymore. I didn't like it when the Big Ten went to a tournament and that almost seems more meaningless with all these teams involved. I've been losing interest already, this is just going to put the nail in the coffin.
Big Ten teams already don't play each of their conference comrades twice.
You play most teams twice a year...there's two or three you only play once.
ghostrunner wrote:They should probably just go ahead and change the names of these conferences after companies while they're at it. The Fed Ex East conference, the Doritos Southwest conference, The Buy N' Large California conference, etc...
I'm not sure I can articulate why, but if the Big Ten adds 3-4 teams, it sours me on college basketball going forward. It's one area where I maintain a fondness of tradition, and I like that 1 out of ten or twelve teams can be the conference champ. If you're now fighting 16 teams, you don't play each team twice anymore. I didn't like it when the Big Ten went to a tournament and that almost seems more meaningless with all these teams involved. I've been losing interest already, this is just going to put the nail in the coffin.
Big Ten teams already don't play each of their conference comrades twice.
You play most teams twice a year...there's two or three you only play once.
Yep. IU played all but Michigan State and Penn State twice last year.
MrMojoRisin wrote:The Big Ten commissioner told the Big Twelve commissioner that they are not interested in any other Big Twelve members.
At this time? For the foreseeable future? Forever?
Source?
Big XII commissioner/boob Dan Beebe said it in a presser today. I took it to mean at this time. But who knows. Either way, the odds of Mizzou going into the B16 Ten seem long at this point.
COLUMBIA | Missouri’s chance of receiving an offer from the Big Ten Conference appeared to slam shut this afternoon when Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe said there weren’t any other Big 12 members “being pursued by the Big Ten at this time.”
But MU athletic director Mike Alden told The Star that he is not ready to close the door on the Big Ten.
“We don’t have knowledge of that,” Alden said. “To me that certainly is speculative, that deal. I appreciate the commissioner saying what he said. But we don’t know that to be accurate or not.”
Beebe said that when Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany called him Friday morning to tell him Nebraska had been invited into the Big Ten, Delany also told him no other Big 12 schools were in the Big Ten's plans.
"My understanding is there isn't any other conference institution being considered by the Big Ten," Beebe said.
You can read that however you want. I take it that at this time there is no intention of inviting Mizzou. I've also read that the Big Ten doesn't plan to add for another 12-18 months. I probably read that on Yahoo or the PD. Not in the mood to look that one up too.
Edit:
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said he presumed there would be a Big Ten championship football game beginning in 2011. He also said the conference would "pause" from further expansion over the next 12 to 18 months. He declined to comment on whether Notre Dame or any other school was on the league's radar.
