"Although the conference will continue to monitor the intercollegiate landscape, it will not be actively engaged in conference expansion for the foreseeable future and does not expect to be proactively seeking new members."

http://www.bigten.org/genrel/120510aaa.html

the_system;588676 wrote:"Although the conference will continue to monitor the intercollegiate landscape, it will not be actively engaged in conference expansion for the foreseeable future and does not expect to be proactively seeking new members."

http://www.bigten.org/genrel/120510aaa.html

This means absolutely nothing.

Why would they want to expand anymore? All it would do is water down the talent.

I don't believe this at all.

This makes sense because all of the conference realignment seems to have cooled for the moment, but I fully expect that in the not too distant future (2-3 years) we'll see things shake up today. The Big East's expansion has done nothing to affect the Big Ten and their future plans and the SEC and ACC look to have no plans of expanding. If the Big XII looks to add teams then we'll probably see things get shaken up again. I also think that the Pac-10 is still very interested in moving to 16 teams and will continue to try and draw some of the Big XII teams over. Basically the Big Ten set off all of the realignment that happened over the past year when they announced their intentions to expand. Now it sounds like (at least for now) they will be reactionary instead of proactive.

I'm glad that they have said they aren't going to pursue expanding anymore right now, but also haven't eliminate the possibility. Back when Penn State was added the conference put a moratorium on expansion for three years. During that time Texas approached the Big Ten wanting to join but the conference turned them down and said to come back when the moratorium was up, but instead Texas got together with the Big 8 and helped for the Big XII. The Big Ten really lost out there and I wouldn't want that to happen again.

Unless it is Texas or Notre Dame, I doubt they want them

ccrunner609;589191 wrote:Oh dont fool yourself, the B10 Network wants Rutgers really bad to get that NYC TV market. THey would jump all over Syracuse also.

I dont see them turning down Missouri either.

They turned down Missouri this summer. Mizzou was very ready to leave the Big XII, but when the Big Ten realized that they would only be adding one team at the time they opted for the better program (Nebraska) over the larger market (Missouri).

ccrunner609;589191 wrote:Oh dont fool yourself, the B10 Network wants Rutgers really bad to get that NYC TV market. THey would jump all over Syracuse also.

I dont see them turning down Missouri either.

hahahahahaha Rutgers? Are you serious Clark? They are about 5 minutes away from being irrelevant again. Like krambman said, the Big 10 opted for program history over market size in the Nebraska-Missouri situation when they expanded a couple months back.

And as others constantly remind you, New York/New Jersey could care less about college football. The Big 10 doesn't want to add apathetic fanbases

So two of the articles you use are the bleacher report and something from NJ.com? Two outstanding sources there. The bleacher report is a joke and NJ.com is not something that is going to be free of bias. Of course they are going to suggest that the Big 10 should take them. (Also that bleacher report article is from May and says that the Big 10 "extended initial offers" to Rutgers, et al. Obviously that article was not true, because Rutgers would be in the Big 10 next season (they would have to be stupid to decline)

Why don't you try something from, I don't know, the last 3 months? Here is something from 5 hours ago.
http://espn.go.com/blog/ncfnation/post/_/id/34787/big-ten-expansion-push-ran-its-course

But unless a major player decides to change its position -- looking at you, Notre Dame, or maybe you, Texas -- the Big Ten will stay put at 12 members

ccrunner609;589191 wrote:Oh dont fool yourself, the B10 Network wants Rutgers really bad to get that NYC TV market. THey would jump all over Syracuse also.

I dont see them turning down Missouri either.

Notre Dame would be a better get for the NYC market than Rutgers or Syracuse would be.