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[QUOTE="dayooper, post: 1286519, member: 3859"]
My Gopher friend, Rice as a full member (or even a partial for football) goes against everything that the Big10 has done so far, sans one thing: AAU. They are so far down the media market pecking order that their football teams just don't measure up. They have an incredibly small alumni base and a football team that hasn't done anything since I remember. If the goal is to "grease the path" for entry into Texas, what happens when they get that bigger school? They become very redundant.

What if the team they were looking for was baseball? Rice's baseball team can stand alone in any conference, let alone the Big10. Add at least 1 or 2 more teams, and you have a southern wing of baseball and, if Flugs is correct, put the Big10 brand in the area. Adding baseball teams like Tulane and Houston would certainly help Rice and their traveling problem. Adding those three teams would give Big10 baseball 16 teams (Wisconsin doesn't have a baseball team). Go to east-west divisions and you have yourself a way of entering The Big10 brand into Texas. Will it work? That's a different story and I'm not so sure it would.
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