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Message: [QUOTE="jlarson, post: 1755728, member: 6386"] The B1G has work to do with the western division for football, population, markets and recruiting. The B1G West schools are "stuck" up in the far midwest while the eastern schools have had the footprint expand into the Mid-Atlantic area where there are large plots of population. A lot of New Jersey kids are now going to the B1G schools instead of heading south to the ACC or the SEC. The B1G West needs to have their footprint expand south into Texas. There is no way around that. The B1G will want to take Kansas and Missouri so the regional footprint expands into thsoe states and all of those markets become B1G territory and then continue south to get Oklahoma and Texas. Kansas is an easy transition to the B1G and they would take a B1G offer faster than we can blink. Missouri has always tried to get into the B1G and they would flip to the B1G. OU and Texas is the football and recruiting grab for the B1G for the western division. It was a mistake to only take Nebraska back then. They should have taken Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas right away too. Not sure if A&M would have taken up the offer back in 2009/10. And then go into Rutgers and Maryland. If they had done that they would be at 18 schools already and would have beaten the whole GOR era. The B1G will be done with expansion once they fix the B1G West issues and Delany said during media days they are not going to be changing up the divisions. So you know there is one last round of expansion coming. [/QUOTE]

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