Conference realignment "Rumors" "tweets" "etc"

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28 minutes ago, CF is NFL Jr said:

Did they not turn down the Big East for a bigger share of the MWC?  Not joining the BE/AAC was a big mistake for them 

They accepted but later pulled out about a year later. A mixture of the MWC countering with a bigger share that the BE/AAC didn't want to match and the BE further bleeding teams compared to when they first agreed to join. When Boise and SDSU accepted, only Pitt, Cuse, and WVU had announced their departure. About a year after Boise agreed to join was when Louisville and Rutgers also announced they were leaving and then ECU, Tulsa, and Tulane announced as backfills.

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18 minutes ago, Cat941 said:

 

 

[Jim Johnson]

So... Academics are more important than, say, football tradition or TV viewership? Hmmmm.....

 

“We have implicit criteria for who we want to be part of this conference,” [Iowa President Barbara] Wilson said. “The academic excellence is really at the (forefront).”

Collaboration also is a key tenet for league institutions through the Big Ten Academic Alliance. It involves every facet of campus life.

“Most of the other conferences don’t have that collaboration at the academic level,” said Wilson, who became Iowa’s president in 2021 after serving as University of Illinois’ interim chancellor and executive vice president. “That’s something we don’t talk about as much as we probably should. We want the institutions to be as similar as possible because those groups wouldn’t be as helpful if we didn’t have those connections.”

Big Ten done expanding ‘for now’ amid interest from other schools, Iowa president says

WWW.NYTIMES.COM

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Iowa president Barbara Wilson said the Big Ten is done growing 'for now' even though schools have reached out regarding membership.

 

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13 minutes ago, Jim Johnson said:

So... Academics are more important than, say, football tradition or TV viewership? Hmmmm.....

 

“We have implicit criteria for who we want to be part of this conference,” [Iowa President Barbara] Wilson said. “The academic excellence is really at the (forefront).”

Collaboration also is a key tenet for league institutions through the Big Ten Academic Alliance. It involves every facet of campus life.

“Most of the other conferences don’t have that collaboration at the academic level,” said Wilson, who became Iowa’s president in 2021 after serving as University of Illinois’ interim chancellor and executive vice president. “That’s something we don’t talk about as much as we probably should. We want the institutions to be as similar as possible because those groups wouldn’t be as helpful if we didn’t have those connections.”

Big Ten done expanding ‘for now’ amid interest from other schools, Iowa president says

WWW.NYTIMES.COM

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Iowa president Barbara Wilson said the Big Ten is done growing 'for now' even though schools have reached out regarding membership.

 

Yet Calford is in the ACC.  Academics are really the most important factor?

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3 hours ago, Cat941 said:

Yet Calford is in the ACC.  Academics are really the most important factor?

Lol college football stopped making sense a long time ago when the Big Ten added Penn St to make it the Big 11. 

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10 minutes ago, Cat941 said:

 

Hate to break the bad news to the big 12 sources but USF is winning 10 games or better and will continue to BE BOLD…