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Originally Posted by kcchief19
The conjecture I've seen in a number of places this weekend is that Beebe's pitch to the Big 12 Lite and the south schools is that all you have to do is stand pat and outlast the Big East and you're golden. The theory is that if Notre Dame goes to the Big Ten, the Big East is going down the tubes and that's when the Big 12 can jump and expand to make sure they remain one of the 16-team super conferences.
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The problem with this theory, again, is that Notre Dame leaving won't cause the Big East to go down the tubes...the Big East going down the tubes would cause Notre Dame to leave. And the BE isn't breaking up until at least two schools get pulled, and that's not going to happen until the ACC comes calling because the SEC came calling for some of those schools. The only way I see that changing is if the Big Ten tried forcing ND's hand by, for example, grabbing Rutgers and Syracuse now and hoping that the BE doesn't reach out to some of the Big 12 schools to replace them quickly. The problem with this is that it eliminates the ability to round out the current 12 team format with both Texas and ND and go no further. It's extremely unlikely to happen, but the Big 10 isn't in the position where they need to make any move now.