Report: North Carolina has offer to join Big Ten
The Big Ten was simply the Big Ten from 1950 to 1990 when Paterno State (Penn State) crashed and made it eleven. Eleven became twelve when Nebraska joined in 2011. Twelve will become fourteen when Maryland and Rutgers (yes, that Rutgers) will invade next year. And it isn’t stopping there.
According to Jeff Ermann, publisher of InsideMDSports.com, North Carolina has an offer on the table to be 15 and a 16th would be in lockstep or right behind them.
Why North Carolina? One, it would bring a huge brand to the conference. Two, Jim Delany, the Big Ten commissioner, is a UNC alum. Three, who wouldn’t want North Carolina in their conference?
Speculation is that a 16th team would have to come too and the early reported favorites are Georgia Tech, Virginia and Virginia Tech. Georgia Tech would be the most likely because Atlanta would immediately become the B1G’s second-largest television market.
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I don’t like this. These schools are Southern and don’t even like Midwesterners. Why would they join the B1G? It doesn’t make sense. The culture is wrong, this will never work.
there dreamin the tarheels will never leave the acc.your right they don’t mix at all.wrong fan base and totaly different people.the tarheels will always be acc.
UNC is not joining the Big 10. No way
UNC has too much tradition down in ACC country. They would never leave.
maryland had too much tradition in the acc too until money talked!
But Maryland is an also-ran, brand-less school with no cache. UNC (much as I “hate” them – my parents are NCSU grads) is a national brand. They don’t need to mortgage tradition for cash, the cash comes to them all by itself.
I wish the teams would quit changing conferences. It’s kind of like nba and nfl ball players changing teams so much that you lose interest in them.