Freaked,
The blogger suggested kicking out Indiana. While conferences are not perfect in design, they aren't receptive to goofy ideas found on the Internet.

No

Quite true. Unless there were some colossal government takeover of the NCAA, we more or less know exactly WHAT schools COULD make a move to a new conference at a BCS level. We can narrow it down to usually a handful of schools but for some conferences there are some options. But we do know that some schools are 20-30 years away from even being in the discussion.

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My memory is very fuzzy on this but I remember reading or hearing back around the time of the ACC raid that there were rumors of a few informal talks between a couple of BE presidents and a few Big 10 schools. This was before the BC left for the ACC and talks of a 16 team BE. The rumored schools were Indiana and Northwestern.

This would have given the BE 10 teams
BC-Su
Pitt-WVu
RU-UConn
UCinn-UL
Ind-NW

Obviously nothing came of it and I doubt they were really true in the first place so I'm not sure why I'm bringing it up anyway.

Couple of articles with comments from Joe Paterno calling for Big 10 expansion to 12 so the league can have a title game.He mentions Syracuse,Rutgers, and Pitt.
Links at http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4118848

and at http://www.nypost.com/seven/04302009/sp ... 166992.htm

Cleveland blog article regarding Paterno and Big Ten expansion at http://www.cleveland.com/ohio-sports-bl ... rno_w.html

Pittsburgh blog article regarding Paterno discussing Pitt to the Big Ten at http://community.post-gazette.com/blogs ... g-ten.aspx

ESPN blog article regarding Paterno and actual Big Ten expansion possibilities at http://myespn.go.com/blogs/bigten/0-3-3 ... nsion.html

BE MB thread discussing Paterno comments regarding possible Big 10 expansion at the expense of the BE.Link at http://ncaabbs.com/showthread.php?tid=367531

Blog article regarding Paterno and possible Big Ten expansion at http://ncaapalace.com/the-news/95-thoug ... -expansion

Article out of Columbus regarding Paterno and possible Big Ten expansion.Link at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sp ... ml?sid=101

ESPN article update on Paterno and possible Big Ten expansion.Comments from Commissioner Delany who calls league expansion a "back burner issue" at this time.Link at http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=4141080

ESPN blog article update on Delany and possible future Big Ten expansion at http://myespn.go.com/blogs/bigten/0-3-3 ... nsion.html

Article out of Spartan country regarding possible future Big Ten expansion.Link at http://www.mlive.com/spartans/index.ssf ... me_or.html

Article from Scarlet Knight country regarding Paterno and possible future Big Ten expansion.Link at http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index ... on_of.html