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superman7515
September 17th, 2010, 03:04 PM
So I haven't seen any more on this in a while and was wondering what, if anything, had ever come of it...


Ivy League Presidents Discussing Expansion/ (http://www.ivygateblog.com/2010/04/breaking-ivy-league-presidents-discussing-expansion/)


What would the revamped Ivy League look like? Our source tells us that the goal is to include one school with a large student body and aggressive expansion plan, though not especially strong athletics: New York University. The other definite in, if expansion is to happen, would be Georgetown, as a means of slightly broadening the geographic reach of the conference.

It even led to some speculation on ESPN...

Ivy League Expansion Could Become Media Mega-Colossus (http://espn.go.com/espn/page2/index?id=5293231)


Bigger than the Big Ten. More super than the Pac- 10 11 16 whatever. A media market Megatron to crush all comers in college sports -- so potentially powerful and lucrative it wouldn't even need the University of Texas. While current BCS schools have been scrambling and jockeying for television dollars, safe realignment harbor and the very future of college sports, there's another conference poised to lead the way, a sleeping giant that could expand into the mas macho of them all.

I'm referring, of course, to the Ivy League.

Bogus Megapardus
September 17th, 2010, 03:20 PM
Go back and look at the date of that article. It was the same day as the Pitt-to-Patriot League blog.

sikolec
September 17th, 2010, 03:34 PM
April Fooled in mid-September. Gotta love it xrotatehx

superman7515
September 17th, 2010, 03:36 PM
Haha. Well I didn't even think about it then and seeing the ESPN column in June made me think that there was actually something to it. Oh well. It wouldn't hurt Georgetown to try anyway, haha.

NoCoDanny
September 17th, 2010, 08:11 PM
How about Texas to the Ivy League?