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The NHL is supposedly sponsoring these studies for five schools. When will we learn who else is looking into adding D1 hockey? Possibly Rutgers, Pitt, Syracuse, Rhode Island? More Pac-12 schools to join Arizona State?

What I also find interesting is who is NOT on this list. Where is Penn State, Alabama, Southern Cal, ... ? There were some surprising names to me in these top ten lists.

FWIW, to my knowledge, only Michigan State and Florida have multiple national championships in both football and basketball.

Next up: North Carolina lawmakers introduced legislation that would outlaw same-sex marriage, despite the U.S. Supreme Court decision from 2015. I can just imagine another boycott coming if that ever passed.

But not just any G5 school. Western Michigan just proved you can go undefeated and still not even be considered for the national championship. They did every thing in their power, and it still wasn't good enough. For most G5 schools, there is no possibility of a national championship from day...

Flug also mentioned that Iowa may be considering a D1 hockey program. I always thought that was a major selling point for UConn. The B1G will have an uneven number of hockey teams next year with the addition of Notre Dame. I'm sure they would prefer to have eight instead of seven teams...

I don't understand the infatuation with four superconferences with 16 teams apiece. Each conference is an entity of their own, and they will do what is best for their own self interest. You can no more force them to have the same number of schools each than you can force GM, Ford, and Chrysler...

What they don't have is a location problem or a population problem. Let's face it, athletics is NOT why Rutgers was invited to the B1G.

Is M H ver3 a dirty word? Can I not type that here??

Sorry, that tweet was from MHver3. Not sure why that didn't copy over too.

For what it's worth (non-key tweet) ... MHver3 ‏@MHver3 16m16 minutes ago Look for SMU and Rice to leak that they are no longer under consideration for B12 membership. UCF hasn't been told yet but it's coming.

Agreed. I have a graduate certificate from UMd. They do pretty good athletically too, at least in the Olympic sports that nobody cares about. Still waiting to hear that woodpecker and the ash tree joke.... (gotta do something to pass the time while we wait for the next CR tidbits)

That does seem more likely.

Or they're waiting to announce UConn as the basketball season is heating up. Maybe they feel it would be more acceptable to the casual fan at that time.

Saying these blogs represent their respective University president's opinion on expansion is like saying the BY speaks for Herbst. That being said, I do agree with your last statement: Nobody knows nothin'.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it takes UConn longer than 27 months to earn $10M from the AAC. They could withhold every penny and UConn would still owe them more after their 27 months notice is up. Look at what the ACC did to UMd.

One of the reasons for expansion was supposedly because WV was on an island. There are no other teams in the league anywhere close. So why would the B12 remedy that by inviting another island in BYU? That doesn't make sense. Then again, who ever claimed the B12 ever made logical decisions...

After watching CR over the years, I'm afraid that may be asking too much of the Big XII leadership.

I never said it wasn't a religious school. But, regardless, this is not the place to debate cults. As long as UConn gets picked, I don't really care who else the Big XII selects. Can we at least all agree on that? :)

FWIW, BYU is not a Christian school. Don't let the name fool you.

Yes, very worrisome indeed. If they have no long-term plans to exist after 2024, then why sign yourself up to travel half-way across the continent for tennis matches? Just make it easy on yourself and hop across the river to Memphis and be done with it. The same logic applies to BYU, which...

Not sure how well the U.S. will succeed if we don't know the difference between succeed and secede.

There may not be a 2017 ACC/B1G Challenge if it was a made-for-ESPN event!?

I always preferred Petra myself. p.s. - thanks for 31GuardTrap for moving us along so quickly. I was almost ready to post something this morning (insightful, no doubt), but decided against it for fear it would be the first post on page 666.

I wonder how many of the 1000+ Yes votes are readers of this forum? Is there really that much interest in UConn in the Great Plains? Or do they just recognize that UConn is their best chance to save the B12? Because without the B12, K-State is screwed.

Kansas does not have a D1 hockey program, so at least UConn has that in its favor! :)

Nobody's best interest... except Bluevod's apparently!?

Maybe he stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

Interesting idea for a sports league. Unfortunately, college conferences are more than just sports leagues. The Big Ten, for example, is a group of like-minded research institutions. Regardless of how good or bad Illinois, Purdue, Rutgers, etc. are on the field, it's how they are in the...

All of the B1G campuses seem to be located between the forests, even in the Plains states (I think they show every tree in Nebraska). Notice what isn't forested when the camera pans out at the end? It sure looks like UVa and UNC to me. Could that be some foreshadowing?