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Message: [QUOTE="Pudge, post: 1419620, member: 364"] The 5 Power 5 obviously have different criteria for choosing additional Universities. Swofford way? Pure Brand & Football tradition started this. Miami? More valuable than any? No one would opine that today. None of the BC, Pitt or Cuse bunch has that broad & bright expansionary future. RUTGERS? See. Now you're seeing the differing variable. The B1G is about Global World Class Universities making huge dollars in athletics but also rising & solidifying their status. Collegiately. Collaboratively. It's more than just sports. It's a broad wideranging strategy. It's why a solid football school in West Virginia and a valued athletic Program in Louisville never fit. This is ... The Whole Enchilada stratagem. Get all 14 schools in the top 50 in the World? It'll happen. Even RUTGERS. B12? Catch as Catch can. Expansion? To fill leaks in the boat. And there's mo way the most robust Universities in Texas & Oklahoma & Kansas don't annually consider alternatives. The variance is going to be huge. And the P5 Cartel will leak. SEC? Great football conference & has some ambition like B1G. Not nearly as academic. Pac12? Homogeneous solid West Coast & mostly PST time zone. Less attractive for the big dollars. But simply a great group of schools & you know clearly what their options are. Texas? There has to be complaints that fast growing Nevada isn't included. And then ... You've left out solid San Diego State & Boise? Forever outside? [/QUOTE]

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