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Originally Posted by KCChiefsfan88
I don't get what the Big 10 is doing. If their goal by expanding is to enhance the exposure of their TV network and to expand into new/growing markets (i.e. the sun belt) I fail to see how adding Nebraska accomplishes this.
Adding Nebraska is not going to get the Big 10 Network into homes in the Southeast... adding Nebraska is not going to get people in sun belt markets more excited about Big 10 football/sports... what is the point?
This is an example of expanding for the sake of expanding. Yes they'll now have enough teams for a conference football championship, but Jim Delaney stated all along this was not the ultimate goal of Big 10 expansion.
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Perhaps it was a way, they thought, to flush Notre Dame out and scare them into joining. It would appear, if that were the case, that Notre Dame doesn't give a damn and left the Big 10 having to accept a team that they wanted, just not quite yet...? It does let them have 12 teams though, and lets them have a championship game now as well (not that they couldn't before).
I do not see why they should stop at 12 teams though. I imagine it is up to the PAC now, but I am guessing they have plans to expand to 16 quickly if needed.