Honestly, I think potential B1G membership depends on how big they want to be and how much their current West Coast schools keep complaining about travel. They might want to add more schools out west and there aren't a lot of better options than Cal and Stanford (plus we have historical rivalries with those schools).
Honestly, I think potential B1G membership depends on how big they want to be and how much their current West Coast schools keep complaining about travel. They might want to add more schools out west and there aren't a lot of better options than Cal and Stanford (plus we have historical rivalries with those schools).
This is rational and might help to further cement the adds of USC, UCLA, UW and UO to the BigTen. Potential problem: Membership is too unwieldy just in terms of sheer numbers. But then again, that West Coast pod thing could be happening and Rutgers and Maryland might just wander off...to the ACC.
Honestly, I think potential B1G membership depends on how big they want to be and how much their current West Coast schools keep complaining about travel. They might want to add more schools out west and there aren't a lot of better options than Cal and Stanford (plus we have historical rivalries with those schools).
This is rational and might help to further cement the adds of USC, UCLA, UW and UO to the BigTen. Potential problem: Membership is too unwieldy just in terms of sheer numbers. But then again, that West Coast pod thing could be happening and Rutgers and Maryland might just wander off...to the ACC.
I think they still end up with a West Coast pod. Especially if the midwest/east coast schools complain about coming out west so often.