(02-29-2016 04:03 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: (02-29-2016 03:41 PM)Stay Cool Wrote: (02-29-2016 02:58 PM)NIU75 Wrote: This Big12 talk is like trying to get a date with Cindy Crawford and telling all my friends about it all the time. She is not going to date me or will ever call me. Let us move on, please.
So we should roofie the B12 like Rutgers did to the B1G?
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Yep never underestimate the power of television markets and the cash it involves. Money is a very powerful thing
1 billion dollar endowment, 48,000 undergrads (19,000 grads), a market 3x the size of Chicago, only D1 football team within about 100 miles of NYC, only P5 team IN 200 miles probably, roughly 200 miles from 2 other conference teams.
I would say they had a little more upside then NIU.
But I will say they were a build it they will come, to an extent. Got good, had 40k consistently mid to late 2000's, before investing a lot in their stadium 100mil and expanding to 52k. Then they moved up to the big leagues.
The Big East got a little better, they got better.They WERE 10-15 years ago where NIU WANTS to be. Again,take a chance building it,take a step up a class (ANYWHERE other than Sunbelt is better) prove yourself. Problem is NCAA football conference dynamics both conference and playoffs are constantly changing and will in 5 yrs. NIU needs to align with anything other than MAC sorry to say, if they want to step up.
As mentioned before, I thing 2 BCS appearances in a row would have done wonders. A win in the 2nd and this stadium is being built now.