I think there's a chance it could happen if the Big Ten expands to 16, adding ND, Mizz, ku, and someone like Pitt or Rutgers.

There is no way. It wasn't long ago all you had to do to get into the University of Kansas was graduate from high school in the state of Kansas.

Just FTR, KU would let you PIIHB too, but he's more of a Ken doll type with the sweater draped over his shoulders.

Well at least we know what your type is now...

Not surprised...

I think A&M actually fits into the SEC quite nicely. MU is a decent fit but the Aggies are a great fit.

This is just silliness. The Big East is already the dominant basketball conference. They are not going to drop the Chicago and South Florida markets to add a school that is 615 miles away from the CLOSEST school in the conference in a state with 3 million people that absolutely sucks at football.

Chicago alone has a metro population of nearly 10 million people. Its not happening.

Promote all JCCC schools to a D-I status, join KSU and KU in that conference, and rename it to "Kansas Conference".

Yeah, I know, it's just silly, and I'm just entertaining myself here anyways.

Carry on.

An A&M-Arkasas rivalry is an easy one to fuel, too, due to the old Southwest Conference connection.

This is all hypothetical based our yours or someone else's random theory earlier in this thread that there will eventually be conference armageddon, and the only way the Big East survives is by becoming even more of a basketball-centric conference. In that scorched Earth scenario, yeah, I definitely think ku gets in over f'n South Florida.

The whole local tv markets argument is looking like bunk to me, or at least highly overrated. If local markets mattered Nebraska would not be in the Big Ten right now, and Clemson would not be in the discussion to become the next new SEC team. How many people in Chicago actually watch Depaul games? You think if Depaul wasn't in the Big East, their games wouldn't draw in the Chicago market? Conferences are looking for elite programs that will draw in a national audience, not just their local TV markets.

That's certainly possible.

So Mizzou had better do something nationally relevant pretty !@#$ing quickly.

South Florida doesn't have to get in. They are already in. Do you understand how preposterous it is to think that the Big East is going to drop schools from Chicago and South Florida so that UCONN can travel 1400 miles to play KU?

If that isn't silly enough, the Big East has 8 football schools. They aren't going to drop a non-football school and add a school that gives them an odd number of teams.

BE has 9 football schools come next year (TCU). Do you think that travel is an issue if they added TCU? Do you think basketball is even part of the equation if they added TCU?

Do you think they will stand pat at 9 teams?

No, no and no, IMO.

No one's going to those coastal conferences.

The Big "12" will just keep adding teams.

what the **** is wrong with you?

I could see them dropping South Florida to get back to 16 teams in basketball and 8 in football. Dropping South Fllrida market to add Dallas market makes sense. Dropping teams to add Kansas does not.

If the Big East decided to go to 18 teams, KU would still be an odd choice. Memphis would make more sense than Kansas. Hell, Iowa State might make more sense. It certainly would from a location standpoint. Expanding to Kansas turns them into something that looks more like Conference USA.