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Message: [QUOTE="broooce, post: 4016736, member: 9941"] Kansas and Iowa State are interested in joining BIG from Big 12. Both of these universities are members of the Association of American Universities, a prestigious group of the leading research universities in the US and Canada. All Ivies are in it, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Berkeley, etc. All BIG too, except Nebraska which got voted out in 2011 (and some say that if losing AAU membership happened earlier they probably wouldn't have been invited into BIG). WV not an AAU member but geographically also fits with ACC, that is, if ACC pursues becoming a 16-team conference behemoth. UConn and Notre Dame (ND long-rumored to be on BIG wish list) are not AAU members either. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/sports/nbcsports/report-kansas-iowa-state-set-up-call-with-big-ten/2563042/[/URL] If these schools all leave then Big-12 will be kaput. And if so it'll be ironic as quite possibly AAC will become stronger. I hope one day UConn is invited to join AAU and at that time might be a candidate to join BIG. While football is obviously the weak link, most of the other sports would actually be among the best in BIG! And is UConn football that much worse than Kansas (or Illinois for that matter)? Randy Edsall has done it before and hopefully will bring UConn football to national prominence again. UConn has scheduled several FB games vs. BIG so we'll see whether they can compete again. My dad was a Purdue grad and my daughter recently graduated from Penn State. So I've been a BIG fan for decades, it's obviously an excellent conference and I hold out hope that one day it might happen for UConn. But here we go again with conference realignments. Yikes! [/QUOTE]

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