Recent content by ILL_INI

"Hail to the Orange" sounds like some sort of homage to Syracuse. #MarketingFailure

I'm not sure what you're talking about here. The Big Ten didn't "play ball" with ESPN when they started the Big Ten Network, yet ESPN forked over an insane amount of money for the second pick each week during the last round of negotiations. I will be somewhat surprised, but not shocked, if...

This is all typical click bait we see after every conference expansion.

How much overlap are you talking about? I don't know of any sharing a campus. A city? A county? A state? Georgia and Georgia Tech and Iowa and Iowa State come to mind, but that's two pairs.

You do know that they tried to join the Big Ten once (or maybe twice) but were denied, don't you?

Source? Frank the Tank made this ridiculous claim when there were discussions about Texas joining the Big Ten. That's when I realized that Frank the Tank doesn't know what he's talking about. If this research alliance based on athletics were true, Texas would be in the Big Ten.

For those of you who missed a link within that article... http://archive.boston.com/sports/colleges/articles/2011/10/09/power_move_by_acc/?page=full How did I never see this article from 2011 before? Interesting read in and of itself. I think you'll like it.

The dust might never settle. I see it more that the presidents are performing their proper due diligence so that they can decide whether to jump ship to the Big 12 or try to make something out of the Pac 10.

If there was really that much money to be had out there, the PAC 12 would have had a much better media deal. And I don't think anyone relishes the idea of traveling to two (or more!) additional conference foes on the Pacific coast for all sports for what would be a very marginal, if that...

I know I'm getting off topic, but the feds aren't going after the folks bringing in $1.5 billion annually. They have very expensive lawyers and shell company after shell company in foreign countries that makes it too resource intensive to go after, let alone prove in court. The student athletes...

Are we sure the tweet wasn't regarding USC/UCLA?

There already are haves and have nots, yet every year FCS teams beat FBS teams and G5 teams beat P5 teams. Cincinnati was in the playoffs for crying out loud. This is not the end of college football. I still don't see the Big Ten and SEC expanding for the sake of some sort of power grab that...

I think you're all nuts thinking that the conference is going to go on a mad grab to increase the number of schools in the next month or two. There is absolutely zero incentive to do so. ND is the only school out there that moves the needle and it's questionable whether they are available.

There were rumors about USC wanting to join the Big Ten last fall. I heard it on Saturday Morning Sports Talk or whatever that podcast is called with Loren Tate and Steve Kelly.

Or UCLA and Cal