[jacketree]

Hey, this is pretty funny:

http://ames.craigslist.org/wan/1780238352.html

Someway, somehow, I think Notre Dame is the pin in the grenade about to destroy college football as we know it.  This is all speculative on my part, but it wasn\'t a coincidence that the Big Teneleven stopped with Penn State.  They want ND to make an even dozen, so they too can break into divisions and hold a title game.

So, if ND accepts a back-channel invite to join the Big Ten, everything stops right there.  Texas and the Sooners remain in the Big 12; the Big Ten changes their logo but remains the Big Ten (or as a condition of joining, The Big Ten Starring Notre Dame with Featured Guest JoePa U), the SEC goes on happily wallowing in its own filth, and beach-starved Utah and Colorado join the Pac12 -- maybe.  Big 12 grabs TCU to replace CU. Boise replaces Utah in the Mtn. West. It\'s just up the road anyway.

But if the alleged invites to Mizzou and Nebraska don\'t convince ND that the Big 10 train is leaving the station or forever hold your peace (to which they might say \'BFD\'), then all hell breaks loose. The Big 10 has to follow through with MO and NE (or not, i guess), and they aren\'t going to stop at 13; they\'ll want 16.  The Red River Cabal (Texas, A&M, Texas Tech, Baylor, Oklahoma and Ok State) go west rather than into the Great Lakes, and the Big Ten pushes into big eastern TV markets for other AAU BCS schools (Pitt, Syracuse, Rutgers) and/or big southern TV markets for other AAU BCS schools (Florida, Georgia Tech) wreaking havoc on its way to becoming a true superpower, balanced only in the west by the new Pac16, with the Rose Bowl as a mutually assured title game for half of the country.  The SEC freaks out and responds by grabbing Florida State and Miami to replace Florida; and Clemson, because one Tiger Rag and Death Valley in the conference is simply not enough. The decimated ACC orders statues of Lefty Driesel to be built on every remaining member campus and we\'ll see you in March.

Or.....absolutely nothing happens because inertia generally rules the universe.

[jacketree]

Hey, this is pretty funny:

http://ames.craigslist.org/wan/1780238352.html

Someway, somehow, I think Notre Dame is the pin in the grenade about to destroy college football as we know it.  This is all speculative on my part, but it wasn\'t a coincidence that the Big Teneleven stopped with Penn State.  They want ND to make an even dozen, so they too can break into divisions and hold a title game.

So, if ND accepts a back-channel invite to join the Big Ten, everything stops right there.  Texas and the Sooners remain in the Big 12; the Big Ten changes their logo but remains the Big Ten (or as a condition of joining, The Big Ten Starring Notre Dame with Featured Guest JoePa U), the SEC goes on happily wallowing in its own filth, and beach-starved Utah and Colorado join the Pac12 -- maybe.  Big 12 grabs TCU to replace CU. Boise replaces Utah in the Mtn. West. It\'s just up the road anyway.

But if the alleged invites to Mizzou and Nebraska don\'t convince ND that the Big 10 train is leaving the station or forever hold your peace (to which they might say \'BFD\'), then all hell breaks loose. The Big 10 has to follow through with MO and NE (or not, i guess), and they aren\'t going to stop at 13; they\'ll want 16.  The Red River Cabal (Texas, A&M, Texas Tech, Baylor, Oklahoma and Ok State) go west rather than into the Great Lakes, and the Big Ten pushes into big eastern TV markets for other AAU BCS schools (Pitt, Syracuse, Rutgers) and/or big southern TV markets for other AAU BCS schools (Florida, Georgia Tech) wreaking havoc on its way to becoming a true superpower, balanced only in the west by the new Pac16, with the Rose Bowl as a mutually assured title game for half of the country.  The SEC freaks out and responds by grabbing Florida State and Miami to replace Florida; and Clemson, because one Tiger Rag and Death Valley in the conference is simply not enough. The decimated ACC orders statues of Lefty Driesel to be built on every remaining member campus and we\'ll see you in March.

Or.....absolutely nothing happens because inertia generally rules the universe.