yes dear :whip:

We'll save the whip for later.

:p

Oh my :redface:

LMAO

New thread direction: approved!

The funny thing is the Big 10 thinking they are enhancing their conference by adding shit like Missouri, Rutgers, Syracuse, etc.

The only sport that matters in expansion is football since it is all about adding value to football TV contracts. Missouri football has ZERO national presence or following. Same with Rutgers football, same with Syracuse football.

Nebraska is the only national football brand among the rumored expansion candidates.

It's almost as funny as your eternal hatred of Missouri. I'm sorry nobody here gives a **** about Thug-U. Maybe you'd be happier at a prison BB.

Right...because the Big10 network only shows football.

**** Miami

LMAO

That is a pretty ridiculous statement. I would say Missouri has some national presence they were one of the 12 or so teams that got the new nike jerseys. I don't know how big of a deal that is but it seems like something nationally at least. Also you are comparing the national presence of every team in the league. What teams which would possible leave their conference for the big 10 would have a better presence than these teams?

You are new here, just to tell you he is one of the biggest dumbasses on this board.

new to posting i've been lurking around for a while....I could tell

Missouri has now won eight games in the regular season for four consecutive seasons. There are fewer than 15 teams in college football who can say that. And now that they've done it with two different quarterbacks, with different players every single position (not one player who started the Texas Bowl was a starter for the 2006 Sun Bowl), Missouri has proven it can sustain success. Recruits are taking notice.

Especially when it comes to basketball

Do you see ESPN making documentaries about Missouri football? No

Missouri won't play Miami after the 'Canes ass raped them back in '89 in Columbia.

You should know your role on the collective college football food chain (Missouri football qualifying as even a blip on the college football food chain would be an achievement) before talking smack.

Advertisers and cable providers aren't lining up for a piece of the Big 10 Network for womens gymnastics.

Speaking of ESPN...the best TV ratings college gameday ever got?

Missouri game. Weird for a team not even a blip.

Are you suggesting the Big Ten only add teams like Miami to their conference....there aren't very many college football programs with their history, but what does that have to do with this?

Nebraska and Notre Dame are the only two teams that would add any significant value to the Big 10's football TV contracts.

Sort of like you being a blip on this board? No one cares about your crime wave program any more, and no one here ever cared about you, douche. Shouldn't you be shining Dick Vermeil's shoes or something?

You are are completely full of shit.

Missouri adds two big TV markets. You don't know what you are talking about. Adding KC and STL is an 18 million dollar gain for the Big 10 network.

Soooooo I guess every team outside of The U is irrelevant because someone didn't make an ESPN 30 for 30 documentary about how big of a douchebag program they were.....

Hmmmm interesting.

The FIU fight has gotten more national exposure than anything else Miami has done in the last 5 years

They did do a great 30 for 30 on Maclin who is carving up opposing NFL teams on Sundays.

Only Florida and Oklahoma have more 1st round draftees in the past 3 years than Missouri.

WAIT!!!!

Only Miami and Nebraska move the needle and matter apparently...didn't you know? :D

Ahhh...The U....

They were on the receiving end of what was unquestionably the single greatest sports moment in my lifetime...
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There was, however, a Jeremy Maclin feature on E60.

Nothing like a Miami douche to bring Mizzou/KU/Nebraska fans together.

No shit.

Seriously, **** The U.

Let it go. The sun don't shine on one dogs ass ALL the time. :)

I miss all the fun.

I caught that show about the U. I had no idea they were the reason celebration rules were put into place.

Why do you think I like Mizzo? Check the avatar.

Are they gone yet, or is this just another giant "let's see who we can get to say 'pick me, pick me'" parade?

College Live talked about Arkansas moving to the Big 12 tonight

Oh! I called this when I first heard about Mizzou possibly leaving.

I have about the same shot at banging Carrie Underwood as this happening.

If Arkansas moved to the Big 12 from the SEC w/out being kicked out. I'm quite confident their AD would be assassinated shortly after.

It might not be a bad move for them. They'd have a better shot of playing for titles in the Big XII (especially if they were placed in the North) which I don't think would disappoint their fans that much. If the Big XII gets a better tv deal bringing in significantly more money the next go around why wouldn't they at least explore the possibility?

Didn't Arkansas start this whole mess? They left the SWC for the SEC....Texas schools then needed new partners. Big 8 sold out to Texas schools...Ann Richards said soon to be Big 12 has to take Baylor over Houston. The Big 12 came about...the Big 10 added Penn State...everyone wanted to be a super conference.

This is all Arkansas' fault.

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/04...he-center.html

Mizzou living large at the center of Big Ten expansion talk

By MIKE DeARMOND

The Kansas City Star

COLUMBIA | Stuart Eastman — a Missouri fan and booster known on one Internet site as Tiger Stu — doesn’t buy the notion that MU officials are just sitting on the sidelines, waiting to be contacted by the Big Ten Conference.

Eastman subscribes to a “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” theory.

Contact has been made, if perhaps indirectly, between Missouri and the Big Ten, which seems poised — through expansion by as many as five teams — to change the face of big-time college athletics.

“Oh sure,” Eastman said. “Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. It’s not like all of a sudden this is going to take place.

“We’ve been talked to. It’s happened.

“And we’re being politically correct and not saying a word because that’s probably the best thing we can do.”

Never mind that within minutes of Eastman offering up that opinion at an athletic banquet Monday night at Mizzou Arena, MU athletic director Mike Alden once again did the politically correct thing.

“We maintain what our position has been all along,” Alden said. “We’re members of the Big 12 Conference. We don’t get involved in that speculation. We’re trying to make Missouri better every day.”
Welcome to life inside the bubble.

Columbia — home to the 20-sport athletic program of the Missouri Tigers and the flagship campus of the University of Missouri system — is the focus of increasing attention of the best kind.

That’s the way Gary Link, a former Missouri basketball player and current radio analyst and special assistant to Alden who works in the Tiger Scholarship Fund office, sees it.

“The speculation’s great,” Link said. “Anytime they’re talking about you about something like that, it’s fantastic.”

Pittsburgh, Syracuse, Rutgers — lately Nebraska — and Missouri are high on the list of possible Big Ten additions.

Last week a TV report out of South Bend, Ind. — citing an anonymous St. Louis source — had Missouri all but signed and sealed as a new member of the Big Ten.

A day before, KOMU-TV in Columbia reported that Mizzou to the Big Ten was a “done deal” until taking down the initial story.

This week, Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman told the Omaha World-Herald that he anticipated expansion in some form by late summer. On Monday, Link told The Star that expansion could come before the start of this football season.

This despite Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany reiterating recently the league’s intent on keeping to a 12- to 18-month investigative timeline, with the clock only having begun to tick in the middle of last December.
The effect of this speculative swirl on Missouri athletes and coaches is disparate.

“It would surprise me a lot,” said freshman basketball guard Michael Dixon when asked whether he anticipated an announcement by Missouri as early as September.

Senior basketball guard J.T. Tiller, meanwhile, said it would not surprise him at all.

“We’ve heard the talk,” Tiller said. “It’s everywhere. The more talk you hear the more it is a consideration.”

Kim English, a sophomore MU basketball player, said: “I wouldn’t be surprised. I love the Big 12. But I’m just ready to play winning basketball, anywhere. I don’t really care where.”

Michelle Collins, a senior on Missouri’s Big 12 champion soccer team — from Naperville, Ill., in the heart of Big Ten country — trusts the MU administration will do the right thing.

“As long as Mizzou continues to grow, if moving to the Big Ten helps that notoriety, sure, go for it,” Collins said. “If not, Mizzou athletics is still due for big things.”

MU softball coach Ehren Earleywine is one of those who profess a preference for remaining in the Big 12. But Earleywine said, “it wouldn’t surprise me” if MU wound up in the Big Ten sooner than later.

“I was just talking to my wife about that,” he said. “I think the talks are getting heated up. At the end of the day, the money is going to do the ultimate talking. It’s going to make the decision. And I think there’s a lot of money to be gained.”

One of the most-often-cited examples is that out of the Big 12’s revenue sharing plan for football, Missouri gained $12 million at the last split, while the average payout for the 11 Big Ten teams was more than $21 million.

There is still residual resentment at Missouri over the Big 12 allowing the Tigers to be passed over in several recent bowl placements by league teams the Tigers had beaten, particularly a BCS spot in the Orange Bowl that went to Kansas while Missouri went to the Cotton Bowl.

But the specifics of why Missouri would be a good fit in the Big Ten are not what is in the air as the 2009-10 school year winds down. Will the Big Ten will extend an invitation that so many contend now will be readily accepted, or is it possible that Missouri might remain in the Big 12?

“Honestly, at this point, nothing would surprise me,” said Wayne Kreklow, who along with his wife, Susan, coaches MU volleyball and is the father of incoming freshman basketball player Ricky Kreklow.

“There have been so many rumors and stories circulating around. You’ve got all the big conferences positioning for all the what-ifs.

“We’re kind of on the sidelines, waiting to see when we’re sent into the game, and when we are, who we’re playing for.”

Beebe's task: Fend off Big 12 raiders


By DAVE SITTLER World Sports Coumnist

BIG 12 Conference commissioner Dan Beebe is the second coming of either Nero or Teddy Roosevelt.

Some believe Beebe is fiddling while the Big 12 gets burned by conference raiders who could steal as many as seven league teams.

Others contend Beebe, like Roosevelt, is quietly wielding a big club behind the scenes as speculation over conference expansion rages.

In the past few days, we've seen the Big East hire former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue to look out for its interests, SEC commissioner Mike Slive taunt the Big Ten and commissioner Larry Scott confirm the Pac-10's expansion plans remain on schedule.

Expansion hysteria has reached the point where a college football coach called out almighty Notre Dame.

Beebe, meanwhile, has made a few flippant remarks on the subject or spoke softly and succinctly about it.

The person responsible for this panic is Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany. It's Delany's world right now and we're all living and waiting in it.

Delany rocked several conferences last December when he confirmed the Big Ten was exploring expansion.

The Big Ten has released little information about its plan, other than the process could take anywhere from 12 to 18 months.

That hasn't stopped widespread rumors. They range from the Big Ten adding one team or becoming the first super conference with 16 schools.

"I tried to put (Delany) in a headlock," joked Beebe when commissioners gathered last month in Scottsdale, Ariz. "But he's a tough guy."

Tagliabue doesn't find anything funny about Delany playing kingmaker.

Labeling Delany's expansion study as "very disruptive," Tagliabue told the New York Times that "everything outside the Big Ten is held in artificial suspension.

"The Big Ten looks at a bunch of choices and everyone else has to deal with the depreciating value and a ton of negativity. I hope there's a better way. Otherwise it's going to have a terrible negative effect on everyone other than the schools in the Big Ten."

Speaking to a gathering of Associated Press sports administrators last week, Slive made it clear that the Big Ten isn't about to steamroll the SEC.

"If there is going to be a significant shift in the conference paradigm," said Slive, "the SEC will be strategic and thoughtful to make sure it maintains its position as one of the nation's pre-eminent conferences."

The conference landscape would experience a monumental shift if the Big Ten adds five teams. Most projections in that scenario have three from the Big East and two from the Big 12 enabling the Big Ten to become the first 16-team league.

If that unfolds, some insiders believe the SEC will counter by adding Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas and Texas A&M from the Big 12.

There's also reports that Colorado and the Pac-10 continue to flirt with each other.

Notre Dame could calm the fears of many schools if it would finally accept the Big Ten's invitation. Despite its name, the conference that currently has 11 schools would then have the 12 teams needed to stage a football championship game.

Several Big East coaches have reached the point of anger after hearing predictions their league would fold if three schools join the Big Ten.

Speaking at a Chamber of Commerce function last week, Connecticut coach Randy Edsall confirmed the anxiety throughout the Big East, which counts Notre Dame as member in every sport but football.

Edsall revealed that every Big East football coach has "asked the conference to deliver an ultimatum to Notre Dame to come into the (Big East) for football or get out entirely."

Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick, who finished runner-up when the Big 12 named Beebe commissioner, has said the Irish remain determined to be a football independent.

If the Big East or Big Ten can't call Swarbrick's bluff and force the Irish to join one of the conferences as a full member, then Missouri and Nebraska could reportedly receive Big Ten invitations.

"I would be negligent not to be concerned," Beebe acknowledged at the commissioners meetings. "I expect that (Delany), who I have known for many, many years and trust implicitly, that he'll do what he said he's going to do.

"If and when the time comes that they're going to do anything — and if that includes any of the institutions in the Big 12 — he'll let me know first."

Perhaps Delany will keep his word. But Beebe would be wise to remember how eight members of the Western Athletic Conference stunned commissioner Karl Benson and the rest of the league by secretly meeting at the Denver airport in 1998 and voting to abandon the WAC to form the Mountain West Conference.

Beebe also believes Delany's contention that the Big Ten's expansion timetable hasn't changed. But others don't buy it, including MWC commissioner Craig Thompson.

"I think the timetable has to be a little quicker than that," said Thompson, noting the rules a school must follow to leave a conference.

Mike Holder and Joe Castiglione, the respective athletic directors at OSU and OU, are confident Beebe is quietly being proactive to ensure the Big 12 survives.

In a February interview on Big12sports.com, Beebe expressed confidence about the conference's future.

"I'm pretty comfortable that we're going to have the institutions that we have right now as we go forward," Beebe said. "I think at the end of the day that we're going to be in pretty good shape when all of this settles down."

If Beebe doesn't settle things down, he could soon be watching his conference burn down.

Some random thoughts...

Nero is insulted to be compared to a mental midget like Beebe.

I can't see Arkansas leaving the money and prestige of the SEC for the collapsing mess that is the Big 12. The Big 12 has stage 4 cancer, guys. It isn't going to make it!

They don't need to add much value to the football TV contracts, it's already a fairly huge number. You add considerable academic strength to the conference with the new schools (and yes, Miami fan, that book learning stuff is important). With football, you add strong teams in Nebraska, Mizzou and Pitt. With basketball, you add Mizzou (on the rise), and Pitt/Syracuse (national powers). Nebraska and Rutgers pretty much suck in basketball, but three out of five is pretty good.

Translated: Texas signs my paycheck, and they'll be fine.

I'm sorry, did you say "Shat's ass is a little sore again"? I would think that your ass would be a little sore after Shats' theft of all those millions, yes. ;)

Beebe is a douchebag.

Hey KU fans you might not be left out of the fold just yet if Texas, UCLA, & USC get their way. When the Big Ten expands to 16 look for a new conference out West to emerge.

East
Texas
A&M
Oklahoma
Kansas
Colorado
Utah
Arizona
Arizona State

West
California
Stanford
UCLA
USC
Oregon
Oregon State
Washington
Washington State

This new confernece would be basically be a merger between the Big 12 and PAC-10. Ironically it would give that conference fairly close to the same amount of television sets as the new Big Ten.

No Kansas State?

That was the biggest puzzler to me as well.

Another reason why Mizzou and Nebraska should leave

http://www.huskerextra.com/articles/...5040840910.txt


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Things I know and things I think I know:

* In exactly a month, the Big 12 Conference board of directors will vote whether to keep the league’s football title game at Cowboys Stadium through 2013, or continue to rotate the site.

Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe, in a radio interview last week on the Husker Sports Network, sounded inclined toward keeping the game in suburban Dallas.

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“Look, the fact of the matter is, we have the facility in this region of the country that is the best in the world right now, that is also in a recruiting hotbed for all of our programs,” he said. “So, I think our members so far feel like, why would we move away from such a tremendous facility?”

Um, not quite all members feel that way.

Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne told me Monday that Big 12 athletic directors voted on the issue in March at the request of Beebe, perhaps as a way for the commissioner to test the waters.

“The vote, as I recall, was 11-1 to return to Texas and to give them a three-year contract,” Osborne said.

You probably can guess the lone dissenter.

“I expressed some reservations,” Osborne said. “Being at Cowboys Stadium was a novelty for fans, and certainly it was a good crowd this year, but that novelty won’t be there every year. And for schools from the North Division to have to go down there every year, it doesn’t seem quite right to me. I thought it should be rotated between a northern venue and a southern venue.”

The Big 12 board of directors, of which Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman is a member, will vote on championship sites for football, baseball and basketball June 3-4 in Kansas City, Mo. The board has been opposed to anchoring sites.

Of course, that was before JerryWorld opened. The stadium is comfortable and alluring in its distinctly wealthy way. The 2009 championship game earned more money ($10 million-plus) than any title game in Big 12 history.

Under a prior contract, the game returns to Cowboys Stadium in 2010. As for future games, well, big money and creature comfort can be difficult to argue against, which is partly why Osborne’s hard-line stance is intriguing, but not all that surprising.

In past interviews, he has expressed concern that the Big 12 has tilted decidedly south — which is probably part of the reason he keeps an open mind about Nebraska joining the Big Ten.

* By the way, there’s not much news on the Big Ten/Pac-10 expansion front. Rampant speculation (it’s fun, isn’t it?) just makes it feel like there’s news.

“Really, until these conferences make up their minds what they want to do, and start making offers one way or another, it’s hard to assess the landscape,” Osborne said. “You just don’t know for sure what they’re thinking. And, obviously, they have not called us, and they have not informed us what they’re thinking.

“It’s not that we’re just sitting here not doing anything,” he added. “But you can’t all of a sudden begin to make a lot of phone calls to people when you don’t even know what the parameters are.”

And if the Big Ten made an overture to Nebraska?

“We have to listen to anything,” he said, reiterating his past comments. “Because, if it looks like the Big 12 is going to take a real big hit, and lose two or three or four teams, then you’d have to take a look. If, on the other hand, it looks like the Big 12 is staying intact, then that’s another issue.

“There’s no way anybody at this point can know.”

* Not sure I want to know the range of fluids Tom Osborne Field absorbed Sunday as 8,000 runners finished the Lincoln Marathon at the 50-yard line.

I’m all for the marathon fun continuing in Memorial Stadium in the future. But hey, it’s not my field.

“We will have to sit down and evaluate how it went this year,” Osborne said. “Were there any glitches? Did it put an undue burden on our staff?

“The main thing is, we just don’t want the general public to feel the stadium is something that’s going to be open to a large number of events. We will do that on occasion. But we don't want to make a habit of it.”

* So, Husker baseball coach Mike Anderson gets at least another year. I thought it would be a close call. I thought wrong. Osborne clearly believes in Anderson, even though my e-mail basket tells me many fans are hot over the program’s startling decline.

Hey, don’t shoot the messenger.

:spock: It was an 11-1 vote. Apparentally Mizzou wasn't that concerned about having the football championship in Dallas.

God I hate Texas.

Well I wish Alden was as responsive as Osborne was in that article stated. I know Osborne didn't say much, but he sure didn't shy away from the possibility.

I can't understand how any of the northern schools could go along with this. Perhaps Alden no longer cares because of the potential pending move? Or maybe he's just an idiot.

It's not like Kansas City doesn't have a freshly renovated stadium or anything. Oh wait, it's exactly like that. I guess we wouldn't want any of these Texas assholes to have to come to Missouri in December and have to bring coats with them or anything.

4321

A little off-subject but I found this link to be pretty interesting, I wonder how much this plays into the decision making for what schools will end up where.

Apparently, KU has actually moved up since the list was made in 2009, but that was just someone saying it - no credible link.

http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/spo...-tell-you.html

it's not just Beebe ... all the school presidents just bend over like they enjoy having Texas :hump: them every year.

Why YES, good sir! This! And Rep!

They already knew they were going to the big ten

Actually they recruit a lot from Texas so it wouldn't be bad exposure. That is why the Navy game wouldn't have been that bad of a deal if they hadn't of gotten shit on

This has probably already been posted... but maybe ISU wouldn't be as bad of a fit as everyone thinks-

NCAA Directors cup rankings-
Missouri: 42nd, 324 points
Rutgers: 78th, 162 points
Nebraska: 6th, 617.25 points
Pittsburgh: 83rd, 158 points
Notre Dame: 31st, 409 points
Connecticut: 49th, 288.5 points
Syracuse: 58th, 235.5 points
Texas: 23rd, 457 points
Boston College: 43rd, 317 points
Kansas: 90th, 146.5 points
Iowa State: 22nd, 458.5 points
Maryland: 21st, 461.8 points
Virginia: 8th, 610.5 points
Kentucky: 16th, 534 points

Big ten-
Ohio State: 2nd, 813.5 points
Penn State: 3rd, 726.8 points
Minnesota: 5th, 681.75 points
Wisconsin: 9th, 607.5 points
Michigan: 19th, 482.5 points
Michigan State: 20th, 470.8 points
Illinois: 35th, 389.8 points
Indiana: 39th, 381 points
Iowa: 47th, 296.5 points
Purdue: 51st, 276.5 points
Northwestern: 66th, 200.5 points

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/...pansion-impact

http://twitter.com/TomDienhart

There are reports that the Big 12 and Pac-10 may be talking about forming a partnership.

That would be awesome :thumb:

Very awesome.

oh. are they reupping the Big12 / Pac10 Hardwood Challange? whoopie!

Big 12, Pac-10 look at alliance

By BLAIR KERKHOFF

The Kansas City Star

Big 12 Conference athletic directors met with their Pacific-10 counterparts in Phoenix on Wednesday and Thursday to discuss collaborating in a future sports landscape and possibly working together on television contracts, a source told The Kansas City Star.

Contacted Thursday, Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe confirmed the meetings but did not offer specifics. He called the exchange “very positive.”

“It was an informal gathering,” Beebe said. “We talked about how we might cooperate going forward.”

The meeting could be seen as preparation for possible Big Ten expansion. The Big Ten announced last December that it was exploring adding members, and among those swirling in the speculation are Big 12 members Missouri and Nebraska.

An alliance between the Big 12 and Pac-10 could strengthen their position in television negotiations. As the two major conferences west of the Mississippi River, their schools are located in or near six of the nation’s top 13 media markets — Los Angeles, Dallas, San Francisco, Houston, Seattle and Phoenix.

The Big 12 has football television contracts with ABC/ESPN that go through 2016 and with Fox Sports Net through 2012. The league begins negotiations with Fox starting next spring.

The Pac-10 also has deals with ABC/ESPN and Fox through 2012 and is expected to begin negotiating new deals this year.

According to the source, a negotiating point for new deals could involve games between the Pac-10 and Big 12.

The conferences already partner in men’s basketball. Last week, the leagues announced the matchups for the fourth Big 12/Pac-10 Hardwood Series.



Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/06...#ixzz0nCRydFvl

My link was better, IMO, as it deals with things that people in power actually care about - money.


<table class="tableizer-table"><tbody><tr><td>1st</td> <td>Texas</td> <td>$120,288,370 </td> <td>Big 12</td> </tr> <tr> <td>2nd</td> <td>Ohio State</td> <td>$117,953,712 </td> <td>Big Ten</td> </tr> <tr> <td>3rd</td> <td>Florida</td> <td>$106,030,895 </td> <td>Southeastern Conference</td> </tr> <tr> <td>4th</td> <td>Michigan</td> <td>$99,027,105 </td> <td>Big Ten</td> </tr> <tr> <td>5th</td> <td>Wisconsin</td> <td>$93,452,334 </td> <td>Big Ten</td> </tr> <tr> <td>6th</td> <td>Penn State</td> <td>$91,570,233 </td> <td>Big Ten</td> </tr> <tr> <td>7th</td> <td>Auburn</td> <td>$89,305,326 </td> <td>Southeastern Conference</td> </tr> <tr> <td>8th</td> <td>Alabama</td> <td>$88,869,810 </td> <td>Southeastern Conference</td> </tr> <tr> <td>9th</td> <td>Tennessee</td> <td>$88,719,798 </td> <td>Southeastern Conference</td> </tr> <tr> <td>10th</td> <td>Oklahoma State</td> <td>$88,554,438 </td> <td>Big 12</td> </tr> <tr> <td>11th</td> <td>Kansas</td> <td>$86,009,257 </td> <td>Big 12</td> </tr> <tr> <td>12th</td> <td>Louisiana State</td> <td>$84,183,362 </td> <td>Southeastern Conference</td> </tr> <tr> <td>13th</td> <td>Georgia</td> <td>$84,020,180 </td> <td>Southeastern Conference</td> </tr> <tr> <td>14th</td> <td>Notre Dame</td> <td>$83,352,439 </td> <td>Independent</td> </tr> <tr> <td>15th</td> <td>Iowa</td> <td>$81,148,310 </td> <td>Big Ten</td> </tr> <tr> <td>16th</td> <td>Michigan State</td> <td>$77,738,746 </td> <td>Big Ten</td> </tr> <tr> <td>17th</td> <td>Oklahoma</td> <td>$77,098,009 </td> <td>Big 12</td> </tr> <tr> <td>18th</td> <td>Stanford</td> <td>$76,661,466 </td> <td>Pac-10</td> </tr> <tr> <td>19th</td> <td>University of Southern California</td> <td>$76,409,919 </td> <td>Pac-10</td> </tr> <tr> <td>20th</td> <td>Nebraska</td> <td>$75,492,884 </td> <td>Big 12</td> </tr> <tr> <td>21st</td> <td>Texas A&M</td> <td>$74,781,640 </td> <td>Big 12</td> </tr> <tr> <td>22nd</td> <td>Kentucky</td> <td>$71,186,184 </td> <td>Southeastern Conference</td> </tr> <tr> <td>23rd</td> <td>Duke</td> <td>$67,820,335 </td> <td>ACC</td> </tr> <tr> <td>24th</td> <td>South Carolina</td> <td>$66,545,953 </td> <td>Southeastern Conference</td> </tr> <tr> <td>25th</td> <td>UCLA</td> <td>$66,088,264 </td> <td>Pac-10</td></tr></tbody></table>
Full list.

810 now reporting the Big Ten has made offers to Mizzou and Nebraska, along with Notre Dame and Rutgers.


http://www.810whb.com/article/3527#

Big Ten makes initial offer to Big 12 pair

The Big Ten Conference has extended initial offers to join the league to four universities including Missouri and Nebraska from the Big 12, according to multiple sources close to the negotiations.

While nothing can be approved until the Big Ten presidents and chancellors meet the first week of June in Chicago, the league has informed the two Big 12 schools, Notre Dame and Rutgers that it would like to have them join. It is not yet clear whether the Big Ten will expand to 14 or 16 teams but sources indicated Missouri and Nebraska are invited in either scenario. Notre Dame has repeatedly declined the opportunity to join the Big Ten. If Notre Dame remains independent, Rutgers would be the 14th team. The Big Ten would then decide whether to stop at 14 or extend offers to two other schools. If Notre Dame joins, sources say an offer will be extended to one other school making it a 16-team league.

In order for the University of Missouri to join the Big Ten, the Missouri Board of Regents will still have to approve the move. Sources close to the governing body say the Big Ten has told officials that Mizzou could add $1.3 million per month in revenue to the lucrative Big Ten Television Network. The Big Ten Network is currently offered on basic cable to very few of over 7 million residents living in Missouri television markets and adding it throughout the state will be a windfall for the conference.

Big Ten representatives have also told Missouri officials they would like to have the entire expansion process wrapped up this summer with a formal announcement coming no later than July.

The University of Missouri is currently under contract with the Big 12 conference and will have to pay a stiff penalty to leave the Big 12. The Big 12 charter states any member will lose between 50 and 100 percent of its shared annual revenue depending on the length of notice any school gives. According to published reports, Missouri receives around $9 million annually in shared football revenue from the Big 12. According to sources, it seems likely Missouri would give one- year notice. It is projected that Missouri's football revenues would increase by $10 million or more per year when it joins the Big Ten versus what it currently receives in the Big 12.

Let the chaos ensue.

ESPN hypothetical maps of 4 mega-conferences:
http://espn.go.com/blog/sportscenter...ference-jumble

Approve it NOW.

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Not great. But not bad either.

That is the biggest piece of hypothetical garbage I have ever seen. Seems like it was done 100% based on geography.

Seems a bit off, even if that was the Orange Bowl year.

It would make road trips infinitely more enjoyable.

The Pac-10 snobbish-elite type would HATE having to travel to Kansas/K-State.

Assemble the regents and approve that deal immediately - both schools.

Big 12 dug its own grave
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Woot.

Make it RAIN!!!!