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[QUOTE="TruDomGopher, post: 1286566, member: 4159"]
Actually, I think the B1G is the most stable conference because of the CIC, not the sports or network.  Some of the departments in some of these schools are wrapped so tightly it would nigh unto impossible to pry them apart.  And the primary focus of the B1G from way back was to cooperate in making sure the eastern establishment schools didn't get all the research funding.  Oh, yeah, and they could play each other in sports, too.

If a school fits, hybrids and partial memberships may be a good thing for all concerned.

Or, in the alternative, if you look at the B1G as a television network, it could be a way to buy programming rights under a non-commercial cover.

In any event, it is a fundamental shift away from the B1G "all for one and one for all" philosophy that has served it well these many years.  They clearly weren't willing to bend much for ND.  What it Texas wanted a "deal"--would the B1G tell them to pound sand?  I don't really know at this point where this is all going, but I anxiously await the next installment.
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