Illinois State or Southern Illinois to Big 10?

[Go Green]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-...51--ncaaf.html

Could happen, if these guys get their way.

[clenz]

SIU-Edwardsville was the one mentioned

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[centennial]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-...51--ncaaf.html

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Illinois Senators Michael Connelly and Matt Murphy have introduced legislation “to study what it would take for Illinois to get one of its current public universities – like Illinois State University or Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville -- to become a Big Ten school.”
The two think tough admissions standards at the University of Illinois are causing many students to continue their educations out of state. Illinois and the private Northwestern are the only two Big Ten schools in the state, and Connelly thinks being a “Big Ten school” carries a lot of weight.

Has anyone heard more of this?

[clenz]

Why SIU-Edwardsville? They've only been D1 since 2007 and don't have football

I've seen this posted multiple places...every single one has left out the fact it's SIU-E...

Not SIU-C

[centennial]

Why SIU-Edwardsville? They've only been D1 since 2007 and don't have football

Does not make sense at all. Should be SIU-Carbondale. Maybe they will merge both the SIU's for sports?

[clenz]

Does not make sense at all. Should be SIU-Carbondale. Maybe they will merge both the SIU's for sports?

So...close one school?

They are 2 hours apart... "merging" isn't going to happen.

Either you completely cut sports at one (one of which is a long standing D1 insitution and the other just spend nearly a decade and hundreds of thousands of dollars to move D1) or you promote a school that is eleventy billion years from a B10 school

[centennial]

So...close one school?

They are 2 hours apart... "merging" isn't going to happen.

Either you completely cut sports at one (one of which is a long standing D1 insitution and the other just spend nearly a decade and hundreds of thousands of dollars to move D1).

Why wouldn't they try to promote NIU instead? SIU-E makes no sense at all.

[lod00]

Why SIU-Edwardsville? They've only been D1 since 2007 and don't have football

I've seen this posted multiple places...every single one has left out the fact it's SIU-E...

Not SIU-C

First off let me say that this is a terrible idea. With all the financial problems the state is facing we have lawmakers pushing for this?
But I believe the most likely reason SIUE and Illinois St. where mentioned because they are better media markets. SIUE taps into the St. Louis market and Bloomington-Normal is a bigger market than Carbondale. Having said that, both markets are already saturated with Big10 fans. Maybe a minimal gain in St. Louis if SIUE could make the massive transition to Big10 athletics.

[centennial]

Mods can you merge the thread? Seems like there is another one running.

[Franks Tanks]

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf-...51--ncaaf.html

Could happen, if these guys get their way.

Sure, but a few state senators are irrelevant. If such tactics worked every school would get some dopey state senator to take up their pet project!