It's similar to the Vandy argument. Vandy is a founding member of the SEC and except for this year, they generally haven't been good in football or basketball. I don't see them getting kicked out just for being bad. Not sure if Illinois is a founding member of the Big-10. Also I guess other SEC teams would want Vandy around as an automatic win (usually).
It's similar to the Vandy argument. Vandy is a founding member of the SEC and except for this year, they generally haven't been good in football or basketball. I don't see them getting kicked out just for being bad. Not sure if Illinois is a founding member of the Big-10. Also I guess other SEC teams would want Vandy around as an automatic win (usually).
Illinois is an asset to the conference basketball wise, and delivers a bigger slice of Chicagoland than NW (not insignificant), and a source of decent Ws in FB. They are on solid midwest ground.
Illinois is a founding member of the Big Ten in 1896. Other founding members were Minnesota, Northwestern, Purdue, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Chicago. Indiana and Iowa were added in 1899; Ohio State in 1912 (!).
The conference was founded in 1896 as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, then became the Western Conference, then the Big Nine.
It's similar to the Vandy argument. Vandy is a founding member of the SEC and except for this year, they generally haven't been good in football or basketball. I don't see them getting kicked out just for being bad. Not sure if Illinois is a founding member of the Big-10. Also I guess other SEC teams would want Vandy around as an automatic win (usually).
Illinois is an asset to the conference basketball wise, and delivers a bigger slice of Chicagoland than NW (not insignificant), and a source of decent Ws in FB. They are on solid midwest ground.
Illinois is a founding member of the Big Ten in 1896. Other founding members were Minnesota, Northwestern, Purdue, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Chicago. Indiana and Iowa were added in 1899; Ohio State in 1912 (!).
The conference was founded in 1896 as the Intercollegiate Conference of Faculty Representatives, then became the Western Conference, then the Big Nine.
For more, see the Wikipedia page -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ten_Conference#:~:text=The%20Intercollegiate%20Conference%20of%20Faculty%20Representatives%20was%20founded%20at%20a,after%20a%20nine%2Dyear%20absence.