Pitt would have to schedule WVU out of the Big East as their cupcake for the Backyard Brawl.
OK for all you Pitt haters. Yes it would help Pitt a lot to go to the big ten for football and it would help the Big ten to add Pitt for basketball. Academically Pitt is better than most of your schools.
Another note I guess Pitt will have to schedual cup cake teams for out of conference football games like penn state does.
I heard UConn, Pitt, Missouri, and WVU are top candidates.
Knowing the Big-10, they'll mull over this decision for a year or so. This is a big decision and they should take their time.
WOW we could win that Conference every YEAR!Making the Case: Why Texas should join the Big Ten. Very interesting column...
Making the Case: Why Texas should join the Big Ten
The only football "super-conference" was the 96-99 WAC, which failed totally and led to the reformation of the (more or less) original WAC as the Mountain West.
Twelve is the magic number. There is no reason to have more.
Matter of convenience. They were going to split it into 2 8 teams conferences (1 for the football schools and 1 for the non-football schools) until the NCAA told them that whoever was the new conference wouldn't keep it's automatic bid to the B-Ball tourney.Doesn't the Big East have 16 in basketball?
The Big East has only 8 members for football, in fact the original set up was that the "Big East Football Conference" was a seperate legal entity that leased the Big East name and logos from the basketball league. They merged later.
The basketball conference remains unstable, and there is going to come a time when it will shrink to 12 or so members.
With Texas in the Big10 that means OSU could only see roses every other year
The point is they would be number 2 at best!Buckeye's rarely ever go to the Rose Bowl, usually a larger bowl depending on the year.