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Hello...Jerry said...
This is from some insider on Northwestern's TOS board, fwiw:
Today was a very busy day in Park Ridge. For the Big Ten, the writing has been on the wall: we're going to 16-team super-conferences.
Invitations to join the conference remain in the hands of the appropriate parties at Notre Dame and Texas. The Big Ten believes that Notre Dame will join once Texas joins the conference. Texas wishes to join the Big Ten with its Longhorn Network, as a non-participant in the Big Ten Network. This scenario remains feasible.
The Big Ten is now operating under the presumption that A&M currently plans to leave the Big XII for the SEC. However, there is haste to consider an invitation to A&M immediately. The message to A&M has not yet been met with adequate response by the relevant parties at A&M. Though an invitation has not been settled upon, one likely will soon be forthcoming to Texas A&M. The Chancellors and Presidents have a conference scheduled to give provisional approval to invite A&M to the conference. It is expected that the Big Ten Chancellors and Presidents will find that A&M would add a unique level of tradition and academic prestige to the conference.
Separately, A&M stands to benefit the most from joining the Big Ten conference. In particular, A&M would reap the benefits from the Big Ten Network - which Park Ridge thinks would vastly outweigh the benefits that A&M would receive from the SEC. In particular, the Big Ten Network's reach is and likely always will capture a vastly wider audience than the Longhorn Network, and with A&M's addition to the Big Ten, will include the geographic footprint of the entire state of Texas.
With regard to the benefits A&M stands to gain from Big Ten membership, the Big Ten feels that the Big Ten Network would obviously more than offset the competition for eyeballs of recruits in the state of Texas from the Longhorn Network. The terms of the offer given to Texas include the right for Texas to maintain and independently operate the Longhorn Network, and thus not share in the financial benefit of the BTN. (Texas would receive equal voting rights and treatment in all other operations and activities of the conference aside from participation in the BTN.)
If A&M left the Big XII for the SEC, the Big Ten believes that the resulting political circumstances in the state of Texas would enable the University of Texas to leave the Big XII to join the Big Ten conference, regardless of the decisions made by the other Texas universities (with regard to the Big XII conference).
The Big Ten is actively pursuing the relevant parties at A&M and expanding discussions. This week, for the first time since the conference explored expansion possibilities, the notion that Texas and Texas A&M could join the Big Ten instead of Texas and Notre Dame as members 13 and 14 were openly considered. In such circumstances, the Big Ten believes that once Texas and Texas A&M join the conference, Notre Dame almost certainly would immediately follow, and several universities are in consideration for the sixteenth member, as I mentioned on the Rock. Should Texas and Texas A&M commit simultaneously to the Big Ten, the Big Ten expects to jointly announce the addition of four teams total to create a 16 team conference shortly thereafter.
We're currently in a period of acceleration of activity much like that which came before the invitation extended to Nebraska. The Big Ten seems poised to act immediately if A&M responds to certain overtures.
This post was edited on 8/10 10:44 PM by PURPLE Book Cat
This post was edited by MrWoodson on 8/12/2011 at 1:56 AM
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MrWoodson said...
This makes no sense. Actually, it sounds like an idea concocted by UT to find a way to get the B10 to let them join without dropping the LHN. If UT joins the B10 without A&M and retains the LHN, how does that help the B10 get the BTN into the State of Texas? It doesn't. But if A&M comes along, then A&M helps the B!) get the BTN into the State of Texas. But why would A&M pull out of the B12 to get away from UT and LHN only to follow them to the B10? It doesn't make sense. A&M wants to go to the SEC. They fit better culturally and geographically in the SEC. UT might have convinced the B10 to extend an invitation to A&M, but I do not see why A&M would accept.
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Michmania said...
Which Ohioans currently outside the Top247 have the best chance of moving in? Also, which Ohioans currently in the Top247 have the best chance to move up?
Taylor Decker is a guy on the outside looking in. So is Michigan LB commit Joe Bolden and Wolverines DE pledge Pharaoh Brown. After that WR Monty Madaris and QB Tyler O'Connor are solid four-stars.
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C-Ville Blue said...
Not just lately, I'm from the DC area, and he has always cleaned up in Maryland. I know Reeves isn't from there, but Johnson's been a killer recruiter for a long time. One of my big hopes when rumors were circulating that Paterno was on the way out a few years back was that Johnson and Bradley would go somewhere else. Always figured losing those two would gut the program.
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psubills62 said...
Bradley may have been in line to take over as HC when Joe is gone, but I don't think that's true anymore. Indications are that he'll leave to go elsewhere (though should at least get a token interview), and that LJ Sr. will retire. LJ was always great at relating to kids, and without him I shudder to think of how awful our recruiting classes would be, especially since our HC and OC don't recruit.
And yes, LJ has a lot of ties to the MD/VA/DC area. Mike London has poached a lot of our targets as of late, though, so I think he's helped out significantly in other areas.
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C-Ville Blue said...
Yeah, it's been bizarre to me that the rumors (and you'd know better than me) have started to be that when JoePa's gone y'all are just going to clean house and bring someone completely new in. I guess so the AD can put his stamp on the program, or the regents can get back at JoePa for not going quietly into the night when they wanted him to? Who knows, but the level of loyalty Bradley showed by not going after the Pitt job this past off season was unbelievable to me. Could be a tumultuous few years in happy valley, but for now you guys are definitely killing it on the recruiting trail, not at our level, but still, who is these days...
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mornin'. Too bad Reeves won't be coming. Sounds like we'll have to wait for our next commit for a while 
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