UNC and UVA Offered BigTen Invitation

[TheVictors]

Easy enough to Google ....but it's true.


Very, very solid academic schools with very, very solid athletics across many of the major sports.

But, what does it say about the $$$$$ involved that UNC would even consider bailing on Duke and the vaunted ACC?!

 

[redandguilty]

Hate the idea and all expansion in general. Personally, would love to be able to see Michigan play without planning a vacation around it.

 

[thewolverines24]

If UNC agrees to come to the Big 10, we all might as well start waving goodbye to every great, traditional rivalry we have known. If UNC-Duke can get split up, then nothing is off limit. It would be the first step in the worst direction possible.

 

[josh200612]

I'm all for being able to see Michigan away games so close.

 

[wheels002]

I wonder if instead of Va if we could get Duke and UNC. Neither school would do anything for football but our basketball would be unreal.

 

[wlvrnstlr4life]

I wonder if instead of Va if we could get Duke and UNC. Neither school would do anything for football but our basketball would be unreal.

Va Tech would have been a better option. But in the end, this didnt work out for the big east with all the powerhouses in basketball and Duke would bring the conference down in football, big time.

 

[zyxt9]

Looks like they are trying very hard to make UM into a proper Champion of the West once more.

 

[cmrlily]

I don't like the idea of expansion in general. That being said, I like this much better than Rutgers/Maryland.

 

[josh200612]

Va Tech would have been a better option. But in the end, this didnt work out for the big east with all the powerhouses in basketball and Duke would bring the conference down in football, big time.

Va Tech is trying to go to the SEC.

 

[Michchamp]

I'm surprised by this.

I don't think expansion is going to end until we're down to four big conferences: Big Ten, SEC, Big XII, and PAC 12. the PAC 12 being the only conference willing to adjust it's name to accurately represent the number of teams it has, I'm guessing they will be the PAC 16.

any teams that don't make the jump to at least the Big XII are going to face lower revenues, and probably give up any pretensions toward being competitive in football.

also for the less financially well-off schools, "keeping up with the joneses" in the new mega-conferences is going to come at the expense of academics.

quotes in an article I found (written by lacrosse pricks who are devastated their "traditions" will be destroyed by this)

The Big 10 conference has received applications for membership from UVA, UNC, and Georgia Tech while FSU, Clemson, UNC, NC State and Virginia Tech have contacted the SEC about potential membership. Despite public statements to the contrary the Big 12 conference has been in close contact with FSU, Clemson, Virginia Tech and Miami about joining the Big 12.
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meanwhile, if the expansion talk is true, Minnesota is dumb for doing this:

Fun fact: The Minnesota Gophers just paid UNC $800,000 to take them off their football schedule in 2013 and 2014. What?s the point? Terrible programs, who have been waived from schedules, are now joining the conference they have never been able to compete against.
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[Michchamp]

if the ACC evaporates just as Notre Dame was planning to join it... where does that leave the Irish?

If UVA, UNC, and GTech join the Big Ten, we'll be up to 17 teams. ND could be the 18th.

you'd have to play 8 games just to play the other teams in your division, never mind any cross division games. guessing they'd have to add two more conference games, and make up for the revenue loss in lieu of that being against a patsy by planning to make more TV money and circulate that around the conference.

 

[TheVictors]

I think Mega-16 Conferences are inevitable and if the BigTen can grab UNC and UVA, so do it.

 

[Michchamp]

I think Mega-16 Conferences are inevitable and if the BigTen can grab UNC and UVA, so do it.

I thought Syracuse & Pitt would make more sense. Not too many big football schools when you get to that region. But UNC and UVA are better academically. will be more of a culture shock though.

just for "fun":

New Big Ten East:
Maryland
Rutgers
UNC
UVA
PennSt
ohio
MICHIGAN
MSU

New Big Ten West:
IU
Purdue
NWestern
UI
UW
Minn
Iowa
Nebraska

without adding an additional game... we'd only play one crossover a year. Would we get Minnesota to preserve the Brown Jug game?

I'd suggest they add a couple more, and make one a cross-division rival, and make the other(s) tied to prior year record, kinda like the NFL does.

 

[redandguilty]

will be more of a culture shock though.

Why? Chapel Hill is very much like Ann Arbor.

 

[Michchamp]

Why? Chapel Hill is very much like Ann Arbor.

no it isn't.

 

[redandguilty]

no it isn't.

yeah it is.

 

[Michchamp]

Sorry, I don't think so.

In fact, I just googled it. You mean to tell me this looks like Ann Arbor, Michigan?

No one here is buying what you're selling. Jerk.

 

[Michchamp]

No thanks. Not in my conference.

 

[redandguilty]

No thanks. Not in my conference.

Crap. I was hoping you wouldn't find those pictures.

 

[TheVictors]

Chapel Hill is a nice, college town that is quite a bit like Ann Arbor and other idyllic locales. Durham, on the other hand, is more like Ypsilanti with the school and its campus taking a relatively small parcel of land. NC State ... well, that's just a big old campus and pretty spread out.

Can't say I made it to Wake Forest.