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From this article Delany makes pretty clear what the profile is for a B1G school:
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...rutgers-scarlet-knights-join-well-sources-say
Despite everything we have heard "contiguous" and "AAU" are still extremely important to them in regards to the prospective selection of a school.
I would say that unless the Cuse gets invited we never will. Look, it was always a long shot but I would have liked to have seen it happen. Now, it appears that it's longer odds than any of us could have hoped for.
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/s...rutgers-scarlet-knights-join-well-sources-say
Despite everything we have heard "contiguous" and "AAU" are still extremely important to them in regards to the prospective selection of a school.
Delany said:"It's pretty obvious to us that the paradigm has shifted, and it's not your father's Big Ten. It's probably not your father's ACC," said Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany. "I think that what the paradigm shift is that other conferences had, we had chosen not to. We explored the collaboration (with the Pac-12). It couldn't be executed. The Pac-12 couldn't do what they thought they could do. And at that juncture, we thought we should seriously think about contiguous states, AAU (Association of American Universities, which concentrates on research) institutions and to determine whether or not that was plausible. We found out that it was, and we moved from there."
I would say that unless the Cuse gets invited we never will. Look, it was always a long shot but I would have liked to have seen it happen. Now, it appears that it's longer odds than any of us could have hoped for.