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[QUOTE="Dick_in_MI, post: 56713, member: 225"]
Modesty prohibits me from hitting the "Like" button on your post Scooch :)

The B10 looked long and hard at SU, Rutgers, and UConn...and I'm assuming various combinations of those schools as well. And they didn't bite. They went with a perennial football name in Nebraska.

There are many ways to interpret that; they may have felt that no combination of those schools could really bring the NYC market, or they may have felt that there weren't enough decent candidates to drive the football bus. Or maybe they really wanted to stay Midwestern. Whatever.

But Rutgers wasn't attractive to them then so it's not attractive to them now.

Rutgers is viewed by the B10 like the fawning nerdy suitor to the homecoming queen. She doesn't have to give him a second thought but she knows he'll always come running if she beckons.

The B10 has all the time in the world and the only way they take RU is either 1) in some combination with ND (and quite possibly not even then) or 2) if ND goes elsewhere and they decide they really need two more teams and nobody else is out there. Even then, they'd be more likely to poach somebody from another conference.

For many years, I thought that RU was destined to end up in the B10 but I now feel they are fairly screwed in that department.
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