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Message: [QUOTE="Jeepers, post: 419583, member: 633"] I don't think Kansas and Missouri are out of play. I do think Texas (tech) and Oklahoma (okst) will end up in the Pac. That is good for the Rose Bowl, which is good for the B10. I do think Delany cares a ton about money and fame, but I also think that he knows a strong Pac is good for college football. He would take Texas, but he's also okay with them getting away. I mentioned Pitt earlier, and here's my theory. I'm almost 100% positive Pitt will never be in the B10. There's no need for Pitt. Now that we are starting to see Delany's true plan, we see he took two new states. Nebraska was too good to pass up, despite bad demographics. But they are a new state. I think we'll see very little doubling up of teams in one state from here on. Except in the Pac, where they have such a small pool to choose from anyway, and Texas politics to look out for the little guys (TTech). Okay, so no Pitt. People keep mentioning that schools need to be married to each other (Ok/OkSt, UVA/VTech, etc.), which I don't think is true. I think the important part is that they're safe. If he took UNC, SEC would take NCSt. If he takes UVA, SEC takes VTech. Everyone is happy. But a school like Pitt needs a home. Why? Because the last thing Delany wants is political problems with his magnum opus. So, he wants Pitt safe. Pitt can be in the Leftover League. Nobody complains, but they also aren't a threat to the B10 (PSU). But they need a partner for it to work, so he leaves SU (who has all the negatives we all know--private, lost AAU, etc.). I always thought the SU/Pitt combo was a little weird. Why Pitt? I feel like our fate is now tied to Pitt. Anyway, I'm sure SU must have told the B10 we were invited to the ACC, with a "Hey, we're about to sign, still no?" Someone mentioned that Gross said something like "We're good in the ACC, we don't fit in the B10." I'm going to just assume that that was just BS talk. At least I hope Gross is forward-thinking enough to take a B10 invite, if it came. The end game? Who knows. His conference still needs to win vs. the SEC. There really are no teams that can change that immediately, besides UT and OK. UVA and UNC are great gets, but they're not football powerhouses to compete with the SEC. They also put a strain on the identity of the B10. So you're not Midwest anymore. But at least you're still Northern. Virginia has turned quite Northern-like, and North Carolina is slowly heading that way as well. But they are both still very southern schools. One of the reasons (IMO) that the SEC is so successful is that they've tapped into southern pride (see: SEC chant). Could be he wants to do the same in the North. Northerners aren't like that, so I'm not so sure. Oh, I left out ND! Delany and ND are like Ahab and Moby Dick. It could be he has given up on ND and will take the tri-state schools instead to get to NYC. But if you're going to do that, might as well take it slowly and give ND time to change their minds. Edit: Or RU is good enough and any control they have in NYC is just gravy. NJ still has nearly 9million people. [/QUOTE]

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