HuskyHawk
The triumphant return of the Blues Brothers.
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If anything defines what CR is really all about more the Rutgers to the BiG, I have know idea what it is. 100 years of accomplishing absolutely nothing in athletics......
Increasingly, I think we make things too simple. The Big Ten is not looking for the same thing the ACC is looking for and neither is the Big XII. They all have differing criteria, and evolving criteria.
Rutgers looks like a Big Ten school. Big campus, large enrollment, major state U, good academics, strong research, has been playing D1 football and basketball a long time. That's the Big Ten model. They deviated slightly for Nebraska, but not much.
Rutgers looks a little like an ACC school, but the ACC decided that after adding Syracuse, Pitt, BC, Miami and VT, they needed something different. They turned down WVU, which was a mistake, and would have given them a much better fit than Louisville. They tried to fix it with Louisville. It was a patch job.
The Big XII doesn't know where to turn. It has BYU on one side, a WVU that is too isolated and no clear vision for what it wants to be. So they are frozen in indecision.