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[QUOTE="Btstimpy, post: 1044415, member: 2043"]
You have to also factor in the fact that the PAC 12 rejected Jim Delany's plan for a scheduling alliance between the Big Ten and PAC 12 in lieu of expansion of the Big Ten.  That rejection changed his line of thinking entirely.  He looked at Rutgers in 2010 and thought Rutgers to be not such a good idea at that point.  What changed is that with the PAC 12 rejection and effectively the Notre Dame rejection, the Big Ten felt threatened.  So they grabbed what they weren't impressed with two years earlier in what my UConn friends keep telling me is a brilliant strategic move.   I tend to view it as a deperate reaction.  Whether it is to avoid getting boxed in, or to save Penn State, or what have you, it is still deperate.  And it will take a lot of work to bear fruit.  That's when you get Napoleonic and start opening offices all over creation to plant a flag.
 
Here is an interview with Jim Delany just yesterday where he was asked what it would take for the Big Ten to expand again.  He is against it because they would dilute themselves if they get larger.  This is coming from a man that just added Rutgers.  Let that sink in.
[url]http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/2014/05/07/big-ten-commissioner-jim-delany-question-and-answer/8774193/[/url]
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