B1G New Additions Offseason Thread

[bayareabadger]

https://twitter.com/bigten/status/1819387933209903384?s=46&t=XdrGkNvHkY7K2L9Yz7UOfA

Tooooo many places. 

[847badgerfan]

Yes, 7 too many.

[utee94]

8 too many

Big Ten

[847badgerfan]

I was good with this logo and 11 teams. Fantastic logo.

[utee94]

I was good with this logo and 11 teams. Fantastic logo.

Stupid logo and it sucks.

Much better:

[utee94]

[847badgerfan]

Opinions are like ...

11 was great. 10 game round robin with 3 OOC games and no CCG. 

Wonderful is what that would be.

[utee94]

Crap is what that would be.

Big Ten was great as it was.  Adding PSU was the beginning of the end.  

[847badgerfan]

Adding PSU didn't hurt any other conference, unlike adding Rutgers, Maryland, Nebraska and the PAC's Big 4.

Big difference there, in my opinion.

[utee94]

Adding PSU didn't hurt any other conference, unlike adding Rutgers, Maryland, Nebraska and the PAC's Big 4.

Big difference there, in my opinion.

It started the escalations.  Beginning of the end.  Screw the Big 11.

[847badgerfan]

It started the escalations.  Beginning of the end.  Screw the Big 11.

I wish they would have taken Texas when they had the chance. So there!

[utee94]

I wish they would have taken Texas when they had the chance. So there!

Well that would be fine, obviously.

[847badgerfan]

That probably would have ended the madness right then and there. Texas would have a stable home, and not look elsewhere ever again.

The XII could have survived by adding TCU. The PAC could have taken Utah and BYU.

SEC was already at 12 and the ACC could have gotten there by adding 3 more. Say Miami, Pitt and VT.

Would suck for the other former Big East schools, but they could have figured out a way. And they should STILL be kicking themselves for not listening to PSU about starting an Eastern conference.

[ELA]

If you are going to blame the Big Ten for anything, it's not adding PSU, it's creating the BTN.  That turned conferences into nothing more than TV markets, which threw geography out the window.

The SWC dissolving was happening anyway.  The ACC absorbing the Big East was probably inevitable.  But I think beyond that, look to the success of the BTN.  And damn, I miss the early days of that network.