I was going to cut back on expansion talk, but what the heck, everyone else is.

I said a few weeks ago that I was tired of talking about expansion of the Big 10 and in a way I am.  But this seems to be taking on a life of its own and now everyone else is writing about it, so what the hell?   When this all started I really thought it was their hope that adding a 12th team would induce Notre Dame to finally say fuck it and join the Big 10 while they still have enough of a fan base to be of interest.  Today I have very little doubt that while they still want the fighting irish, they have set their sites on becoming the first "super-conference" and intend to add 5 teams, and cripple the Big East and the Big XII in the process.  And seriously, in business, and make no mistake, this is business, that's just how these things happen.

As it stands today, and that may change sometime this afternoon, the likely candidates for Big 10 expansion would be Pitt, Syracuse and Rutgers from the Big East and Missouri and Nebraska from the Big XII.  Of course all bets are off in they can attract Notre Dame and someone from that group would fall, likely Pitt in my opinion.  At that point what does the Pac 10 do?  Reports indicate and have for months that Colorado is on their radar but what about Texas and Texas A&M?  They'd certainly be a bigger prize than the Buffs and why not take all 3, add Utah and BYU and become their own super conference?   Then you've practically forced the SEC to respond and don't think OU and Okie Light wouldn't be on their radar, along with South Florida and possibly Florida State.  Then the ACC is forced to respond.

So what happens if all of this occurs?  You wind up with 4 mega conferences encompassing 64 teams.  Currently there are 65 schools in BCS conferences.  Wouldn't be much of a change would it, other than some teams enter, some teams leave?  I can see the Big XII rotting away at the roots, destroyed by Texas greed and inept leadership starting with the buffoon Dan Beebe that was placed as conference commissioner by, you guessed it, Texas.  If we see something like this happen, you can thank Mr Beebe for much of it.  Shit may float to the top but that doesn't mean you should put it in charge of anything.  Hope your week is going well.  I have a feeling that things are just beginning to heat up so we may have much to talk about in the next few months.