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The only positive to adding Rutgers was the increase in TV money, which helps the conference stay competitive with the SEC in terms of program spending. Unfortunately, that is a huge part of college football. A necessary evil. In a perfect world, Notre Dame or Mizzou would have been invited instead.
Delaney going away gives me some semblance of hope that they won't screw it up if they ever expand to 16.
I dig the Jayhawks for basketball, but I don't see how they can ever be legitimate in football without taking away from somebody else in their vicinity. There's a very finite level of success that can be attained IMO between them, Kansas State, Iowa, Iowa State and Nebraska. Too limited of a localized recruiting pool, and too much dependency on making a splash nationally to get guys to come to the heart of corn country.
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You can say the same thing about Minnesota in relation to Wisconsin, Michigan State and Michigan, Northwestern and Illinois, or Indiana and Purdue.
I agree that the dynamic is similar, but there's actually a few recruiting areas in those states that have solid talent (Chicagoland, metro Detroit, Twin Cities, Indy). There's virtually no power five talent in those states on the plains, and I'd argue it's a lot harder to get a kid from out of state to those schools than to most of the ones you mentioned. I believe that's why Nebraska has been a pretty big dud so far. No prop 48/JUCO studs like the old days, and I don't think they have nearly the Texas recruiting power that they had in their Big XII days.
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ND will never join a conference for football as long as the Irish have their own TV deal. If BIG ever expands again it needs to look South, either raid the ACC again or to the Big 12 ( Texas and Okie ) or even possibly Houston.
Would like to see an end to the FCS scheduling but it is a complete myth from Big 10 fans that the SEC doesnt schedule tough OOC games. And not all are neutral site games like many believe.'Bama & tOSU are the signature programs for their respective conferences plus many point to Saban's scheduling philosophy as the reason why we have fewer home/home OOC games in the SEC. Add in the signature event of southern football in the 2010s, cupcake Saturday in late November, and the most prominent football program in the SEC has lead to some of the most despised practices of the sport.