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Greg Swaim tweet from today:
"After all of the smoke today, it's looking like the#Big12 is feeling pressure from the committee to add teams for a CCG, but which teams?"
This marks a change from everything I've heard for months. Greg Swaim has contacts at the meetings, and when he tweeted yesterday it was still looking like the Big 12 wouldn't be forced to expand.
Swaim had some tweets from a few weeks ago explaining why the committee wouldn't force the Big 12 to expand. First, the special arrangement that Notre Dame gets kind of makes it awkward for the committee to force the Big 12 to add teams. If the Notre Dame gets special access, who's to tell a conference how many teams they have to have or whether they need a conference championship game? Second, the Big East and ACC don't want to force the Big 12 (or anyone else) to expand because they know they would be the victims of expansion.
However, now, apparently something may have changed. This is good because anything that gets conference expansion moving is probably good for us.
Swaim also mentions that he has media friends that have heard that Maryland is talking to the Big 12, in addition to the Big 10 rumor.
"After all of the smoke today, it's looking like the
This marks a change from everything I've heard for months. Greg Swaim has contacts at the meetings, and when he tweeted yesterday it was still looking like the Big 12 wouldn't be forced to expand.
Swaim had some tweets from a few weeks ago explaining why the committee wouldn't force the Big 12 to expand. First, the special arrangement that Notre Dame gets kind of makes it awkward for the committee to force the Big 12 to add teams. If the Notre Dame gets special access, who's to tell a conference how many teams they have to have or whether they need a conference championship game? Second, the Big East and ACC don't want to force the Big 12 (or anyone else) to expand because they know they would be the victims of expansion.
However, now, apparently something may have changed. This is good because anything that gets conference expansion moving is probably good for us.
Swaim also mentions that he has media friends that have heard that Maryland is talking to the Big 12, in addition to the Big 10 rumor.