Rutgers is the alleged frontrunner for Big Ten expansion even though New York doesn't watch college football. (Hey! They watched at an 8 plus share one Thursday night! It happened once, and that makes it a trend of one!) Rutgers would make sense in the marketing perspective, and would bring important figures such as Barbasol Man ("Pancakes again? Fuck.") and RoTel cheese-dip psychos into the New York market. Additional fun: Ohio State fans meet Rutgers fans! FUN ENSUES
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Really?
Rutgers is like the guy in that “She’s Out Of My League” movie. This is a WAY better deal for Rutgers than it is for the Big 10.
As a Big 10 follower
I wouldn’t be thrilled with either, but if you are going to attempt to get the channel on NYC cable boxes, I would much prefer they go after Syracuse. As Orson points out, NYC is much more concerned with basketball, which Syracuse can provide in spades. Plus, I kind of liked The Express.
Punching a team from Jersey in the dick every season would make me feel good.
But not as good as pulling in Texas and A&M. Delany and his frat bros need to think big. Adding 5 teams with the same effing profile as the eleven you already have is fucking stoops.
Perhaps Delany should try something like,
“Hey Texas, see that pile of money you’re sitting on? How would you like this slightly smaller pile instead? Plus, you won’t have to worry about the stress of running a conference all by yourself, because in the Big Ten, you will just be the new guy, and one of twelve decision makers. If anything, your vote will count less than the others. Won’t that relieve a lot of pressure? Also, none of the away games are within a short drive of your fanbase, your alumni will stick out like a sore thumb, and, without any regard for the institution’s true standing, every conference opponent will always turn up their nose at your academics after every loss… even Michigan State! Also, we hate baseball. So you’ll move in tomorrow, right?”
Actually this is probably very similar to the actual pitch that smooth talking Delaney made to Texas.
by GwinnettGamecock on Mar 2, 2010 4:05 PM EST up reply actions
Point taken
But the Big 12 is gonna be broken up by Big Eleven or Pac Ten expansion (Mizzou to the Big, Colorado to the Pac). While Texas won’t initiate a jump, they will be forced to react to the chaos. If I were the Texas president, I’d be thinking Pac-Ten all the way. But I’m retarded.
yeah, the whole thing changes if and when the B12 is torn to shreds. Texas then has to make some tough decisions and suddenly the sales pitch sounds pretty good. I agree that Texas to the PAC-10 makes more geographic sense.
"We hugged as grown men do. It was a great moment. Then, it was business as usual." -- LJ Sr.
So UT would join a Pac-10 conference that makes even less cash than the Big XII?
What screams obvious is that chaos actually happening is probably a wee bit overrated.
I dunno, Bob
I am a firm believer that we’ll have four or five 16-team leagues within 15 or so years. The SEC could raid the fuck out of the ACC. How awesome would it be if Miami and Florida State joined the conference. The SEC could nab Oklahoma and Louisville to the west and North respectively. IT WILL BE INSANE! Then Emperor Palpatine will be named divine leader of the football BCS and use goddamn lightning boltz to murder Mark May. And Kansas State will be left out to join the NAIA because they fired Ron Prince two short years before the chaos ensued.
no but in all seriousness
I agree, we’re headed for a handful of 16-team conferences filled with the most successful programs. It’s in the best interest of all the big programs that actually make money to push out the smaller programs that don’t. As these schools are funding their entire athletic program with football, they’re going to look for ways to fatten their wallets so the women’s curling team can get some more of those expensive-ass rocks.
"We hugged as grown men do. It was a great moment. Then, it was business as usual." -- LJ Sr.
Miami and Florida State? Hot damn, that WOULD be insane! Those 2 juggernauts would really give top-tier teams like Tennessee and South Carolina a run for their money in conference standing. Look out Liberty Bowl hopefuls, there’s a new sheriff in town. Bringing in teams with quarterbacks who throw a mere 17 interceptions on the season would probably cement in a few Heisman winners, as well.
That, and the day the SEC brings in Miami and FSU
is the day UF decides to fuck it start their own conference. “Not conference affiliated? No, we’re the goddamn Alligator Conference. Perfect in-conference record every year.”
We’d mint more NCs than Bama.
"In case you're wondering what the offense should look like, that wasn't it." - Urban Meyer
You have to be Amy Fisher crazy
or fourteen years old.
Have some perspective that reaches beyond the last seven seasons. Miami perpetually underachieves and Free Shoes was coached by a corpse for the last decade. They’ll both be back with a vengeance.
That's the point.
Our SEC recruiting advantage would be gone. UF would hate to bring in its too rival in-state schools, it’d just hurt UF.
(the rest of the post.. about leaving the SEC and minting titles was sarcasm…)
"In case you're wondering what the offense should look like, that wasn't it." - Urban Meyer
Agreed
I gotchya, meng. I was replying to the post about Free Shoes and The U perennially battling for Liberty Bowl bids with Rocky Top and The Chicken. That’s craziness. FSU, Miami and Tennessee are top fifteen programs that have fallen on hard times, but they’ll be back, methinks.
My point was a backhanded compliment to the SEC. If that conference wanted to expand, they would think big.
I understand the research institution/AAU hurdles. But I am hoping that the Big Ten pushes the envelope a bit. It’s hard to get a boner for Rutgers and Missouri. Maybe it’s the weed.
Ah yes, with metronomic regularity, the “they’ll be back!” idea. It’s interesting how they’re back EVERY year, until results prove otherwise, and then they’re only 1 or 2 years away. “Perpetually underachieving” makes no sense—if they could have achieved in that time, don’t you think they would have, at least once, even on accident? Having the Miami-FSU game to open the season last year was even more amusing, as it elicited Pavlovian hopes for both teams, before bringing people back to the sobering reality.
thanks but no thanks.
like four said… we had a walking corpse, his incompetent son, and 1 too many of his cronie buddies over the last decade, yet the worst we could do was 7-6. I won’t claim we’re back until we are and it hadn’t happened yet, but cleaning house in December was the first step needed.
As far as expansion goes, I’ll stick w/ the ACC. FSU spurned the SEC 20 years ago for a reason and none of those reasons have changed except now the SEC has TV money that FSU would desperately like to get their hands on. Other than that the ACC provides an easier road to BCS, a legit academic profile (read: NO Ole Miss, MSU, Arky, USCe, Kensucky, or other tier 3 institutions), and a much more enjoyable travel schedule. I’ll take Boston, Atlanta, Chapel Hill, and Charlottesville over Starkville, Fayetville, Baton Rouge, and wherever the F Kentucky gets down at now until forever.
Really?
‘Cause I’ve seen games on the Flats. A road trip to Baton Rouge or Lexington kills any gameday experience at the NATS. Of course, I am but a simple SEC graduate. I probibly don’t have the smarts to properly unnerstand wut appeels to peeple from the Sorbonne of North Central Florida.
by GwinnettGamecock on Mar 3, 2010 1:11 PM EST up reply actions
to each his own ;)
born and raised in Auburn, AL… sold programs and held a season ticket before my age was double digits. I know whats to like about the SEC, and Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Vanderbilt are outstanding academic institutions. Yes, I’ll give credit where its due… so, USCe? That shit ain’t hardly a blip on the map, SEC or otherwise. I know it and you know it… so you fight for your conference b/c there’s no fight to put up for your school. G’day sir… keep cockin’.
ACC wouldn't lie down for this
It’d raid the Big East lickity-split, probably taking Syracuse and UConn.
Passing? Who needs passing?
by RamblinWreck007 on Mar 2, 2010 6:29 PM EST up reply actions
I know this is kind of a no-no hyah...
Can you imagine basketball season with a Duke-UNC-UConn-Syracuse round robin? Holy shitballs!
Now, can you imagine Duke-UNC-UConn-Syracuse fighting it out for a berth in the Meinike CarCare Bowl? Holy sh-aw fuck it.
"God dammit, Donald"
by DougoUConnPlaysFootball? on Mar 2, 2010 7:51 PM EST up reply actions
It would actually be a bigger pile of money...
which is the only reason Texas would get offered.
Also, most of their away games are still 400+ mile drives. But other than that, you nailed it….
"I think so, Brain, but how are we going to get the bacon flavoring into the pencils?"
Honestly.
I prefer Brazil, Cardinal Mooney High School and the Saskatchewan Rough Riders.
How about the Cubbies?
They’d lose in the CWS Finals every year but get great ratings on WGN nationwide.
I'm trying to figure out...
if the guy next to the finger guy is blowing his nose with a t-shirt or sniffing panties.
I need help with the chick’s gang sign too.
by ESS EEE SEE Speed on Mar 2, 2010 4:11 PM EST reply actions
Girl behind gang sign chick….pregnant with a cigarette burn on her hand.
/These are the things I ponder when I think of Rutgers
by ESS EEE SEE Speed on Mar 2, 2010 4:32 PM EST up reply actions
Start your own Big Ten expansion rumor!
1. Pick a state that is in or borders the current footprint of the Integer.
2. Find a Division I-A football-playing university in that state.
3. Compose thoughtful argument in favor of said university’s Intergerization that consists of “BUT THEY COULD GET MORE MONEY AND ARE CLOSE TO A BIG CITY WITH TVS”
4. Profit.
Example: Sources indicate that Temple is interested to very interested in joining the Big Ten. Temple brings in the Philadelphia TV market, creates an automatic rivalry with Penn State, and stands to increase football revenues by $10 gajillion per year.
Brian Kelly says no Burger King at 3 AM.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Mar 2, 2010 4:16 PM EST reply actions
See how this works?
Sources indicate that Kentucky is interested to very interested in joining the Big Ten. Kentucky brings in the Louisville TV market, creates an automatic rivalry with Indiana, and stands to increase football revenues by $10 gajillion per year.
Brian Kelly says no Burger King at 3 AM.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Mar 3, 2010 1:11 PM EST up reply actions
Rutgers would blow ass
All 12 of their fans reek of new money. Their AD is full of idiots who can’t manage money, stadium projects and teams in general. Piscataway/New Brunswick is a shit hole, and I just had their crappy football already in a crappy league. PSU already pulls a lot of people from NY and no one gives a rats ass about Rutgers there.
"I'm colonel cool! And I'm the captain on this rocket to the stars!"
But ...
I hear their basketball program is good. Wait, what?
BC Interruption, a Boston College sports blog
Are they good at anything outside of women's bball?
I honestly have no idea.
"I'm colonel cool! And I'm the captain on this rocket to the stars!"
I figured we had drained all the angry guido we could out of the Northeast when Penn State joined the conference. Am I really wrong?
www.wewillalwayshavetempe.com
Sadly, my friend
The breakdown of Penn State student/fan is only about 10% angry guido.
I’m assuming Rutgers is much higher proportionally.
Really?
What is to be gained from a 70-3 cockpunching of the guidos every 2-3 years?
If Delaney thinks that shit he pedals on BIGIOWA is great, just wait till we get the exclusive NW-Rutgers 10:30 a.m. Pam Ward treatment.
Need to drink heavily now, and contract HSV, HPV and a blowout in memoriam
"Hush now, let it go now. I know it's time to go. Time to let this fall from my hands" VNV Nation, "From My Hands"
by Stuck in the Plains on Mar 2, 2010 6:19 PM EST reply actions
"Just wait till we get the exclusive NW-Rutgers 10:30 a.m. Pam Ward treatment."
You shouldn’t joke about things like that.
Brian Kelly says no Burger King at 3 AM.
by Ancient Chinese Secret on Mar 2, 2010 6:40 PM EST up reply actions
Part of me died typing that...
"Hush now, let it go now. I know it's time to go. Time to let this fall from my hands" VNV Nation, "From My Hands"
by Stuck in the Plains on Mar 2, 2010 6:48 PM EST up reply actions
Seriously?!
A lot of people in the area already get the BTN.
(I get it on Manhattan on Time Warner, but didn’t get it with RCN)
Exactly
I really have trouble believing Rutgers would increase that amount all that much. They need about 15-20 more years of success and some BE championships in order for anyone to give a shit.
"I'm colonel cool! And I'm the captain on this rocket to the stars!"
This plan is 100% Snooki approved
This is really just a ploy by the Big Ten Network to steal the broadcast rights for Jersey Shore away from MTV …
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