Its a group therapy thread. We all have Maryland /Rutgers buyer's remorse and need to talk about more interesting options for the futrue.
expansion news
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gratefullred
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If your argument for expansion is to expand the recruiting base, then it is an argument to expand for expansion. It would be hard to bring in 2 schools from different conferences unless the GOR's would expire in the same year.
Conference realingment would consist of Indiana or Purdue moving to a different division. Don't think it will make much of a fuss.
We have enough half-full football stadiums in the B1G currently thanks to the Rutgers Maryland additions. I would only be in favor of KU if it brought OU.
Notre Dame Joe
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The WWL has announced it is done writing checks for expansion. So it is down to if Fox wants to pay more for an expanded Bug10. I think they will pay more, but maybe not so much for two more slices of pie without eveyone taking less.
StPaulHusker
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I think you would be right unless it were big name expansion. They are not going to back up Brinks trucks for Connecticut and some other Big American East reject.
1HuskrFan
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OU would be great, but allowing texass in would be the beginning of the end of the B1G as we know it today. it would not be for the better of the conference. OU won't come without texass, they would lose some of the recruiting in texass. That's why they claim texass is their rival, more for recruiting than play on the field. Texas would have to make to many concession to join the B1G and that's something the whorns can't do, they can't get over themselves. To much money from the oil industry.
StPaulHusker
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I am sure population has something to do with it but it isn't as big of a factor as what they want to make it out to be.
Players are always going to want to go to big schools and play on big stages. And as long as B1G schools continue to have top grade facilities, kids from all over the country will play at those schools.
Players are always going to want to go to big schools and play on big stages. And as long as B1G schools continue to have top grade facilities, kids from all over the country will play at those schools.
Something Clever
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It’s one of the most bizarre fan bases I’ve ever encountered, every single UVA fan I’ve ever met is unbearably arrogant, but what have they ever done to justify that attitude? It’s like if Illini fans started talking down to other B1G schools. V-Tech doesn’t quite fit the profile, but if access to Virginia is all the conference desires then I’d personally prefer them. Better football and better fans.
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Creed
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SEC is second most populous area - seems surprising given there's no major cities aside from Atlanta near SEC campuses. Wonder if they are counting Dallas metroplex, Austin, Miami Fl as SEC?
Notre Dame Joe
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I think they just totaled up state populations, meaning major states like NY, PA, FL, TX, GA are double counted.SEC is second most populous area - seems surprising given there's no major cities aside from Atlanta near SEC campuses. Wonder if they are counting Dallas metroplex, Austin, Miami Fl as SEC?
VectorVictor
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What's not being discussed is that this growth can't continue for states like Texass--eschewing the political issues, the state just does not have enough resources (namely, water) to continue supporting the influx of people. Unless Texass starts massive desalination projects in South Texas along the gulf (something that isn't likely considering how stressed the gulf ecosystem already is down there), people are going to move back upstream where the resources are. Other states (e.g. Arizona) are in a similar boat.
I wouldn't be shocked to see a slowdown in growth in the next few years, as well as a reversal of this trend in the next 10 or so. There's just not enough to go around as it is.
VectorVictor
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By the way, this is one of the articles that has come out about Texass' water woes and how this is likely (more than any other factor currently) to halt population growth and economic expansion to the state:
http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/print-view/who-stole-the-water-20140623
People need to realize that between climate change and water rights becoming a big issue in the next 20-30 years, people living downstream in the South are really going to have problems--so much so that you'll see a migration of population back to the northern areas of the country.
http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/print-view/who-stole-the-water-20140623
People need to realize that between climate change and water rights becoming a big issue in the next 20-30 years, people living downstream in the South are really going to have problems--so much so that you'll see a migration of population back to the northern areas of the country.