Ever Wonder What’s Being Talked About Behind Closed Doors?…

[Mountainman]

……….. knowing all the while that sooner or later someone is going to spill the beans.


https://www.cbssports.com/college-footb ... volvement/


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[Spence]

All conference teams that are deemed vested should get a full share. Otherwise what is the good of being in a conference. Purdue may not offer a lot in football but traditionally they have been pretty good at basketball and they are an excellent academic partner. Most astronauts went to Purdue.

[Cane from the Bend]

All conference teams that are deemed vested should get a full share. Otherwise what is the good of being in a conference. Purdue may not offer a lot in football but traditionally they have been pretty good at basketball and they are an excellent academic partner. Most astronauts went to Purdue.

There's a reason why Purdue academics started spreading it's wings across Indiana ...

Micro Purdue Universities began popping up and partnering with IU throughout the state. They are a major engineering school, and could only fit so many into their programs on one campus + cost of living and travel for lower income students.

In order to gain a larger body, and potential scholars, smaller satellite Purdue campuses became rather common, nothing more than the size of a Community College. Though, with the full backing of the Purdue Diploma attached to degrees.

My wife and I both went to IUSB [Indiana University South Bend], which is a solid Physics Research, Business and Arts School.

Just there, considered off campus, yet still sharing the same grounds, one of the buildings became, IUPUSB [Indiana University Purdue University South Bend], now Purdue Polytechnic South Bend.

They have since regressed a bit, as they maximized their expansion limit, and had to start closing some of those smaller locales, or merging entirely with a host entity [such as IUPUI will become IU Columbus by July 1rst, 2024]{believe it or not, they are actually using the term realignment for the transition}. Mainly due to the lack of engineering interest with the current generation.

Anyhow, per what Spence is alluding to; the Big Ten University circuit is a tremendous research network, that offers quite a bit to the non-athletic student body. Every school under the Big 10 umbrella is an AAU Institution, outside of Nebraska, who was when they were invited into the Conference, but have since lost its status.

So, for the B1G, it's not just Athletics as the expansion model, but one gear toward Academic expansion, as well.

Oregon, Washington, USC and UCLA are all AAU members.

People bonfire dancing of claims that Florida St and Clemson are going to be invited to join the conference are truly casuals who know nothing about the under-workings of the trade interests for expansion. Neither of those schools are AAU members. So the College Football normies just see field of play success [a little less from Clemson these days], assuming quality football is all that matters.

After all, there is a reason that the Big Ten invited Maryland and Rutgers to join the league. And it had nothing to do with football.

Miami, Duke, Georgia Tech, Pitt, North Carolina, Notre Dame and Virginia are all AAU members.

So the likelihood, if anyone, getting an invite to join the Big 10 in future expansion, from the ACC, will come of those programs.

Here's a list of AAU schools, and the year in which each received said status, in simple pdf format:

https://www.aau.edu/sites/default/files ... 202023.pdf


Now, personally, considering the intention of expansion with TV market and network growth, Internationally; I'd think it would be hilarious if the Big Ten were to invite the University of Toronto to join.

Can you imagine how the casuals would cry foul, then

Bet their Hockey program would kick some serious tail, though

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[Spence]

That is exactly right.

[Mountainman]

You think maybe it’s time for the Boards of Trustees/Boards of Regents and University Presidents to start asking a few more questions of the Athletic Directors and Conference Commissioners other than, “How much we gonna get this time around?”

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[Spence]

Yes, but that is their question no matter what they are talking about.

[Mountainman]

Yes, but that is their question no matter what they are talking about.

Yep…… it was ‘Mouse Money’ (a.k.a. ESPN) that destroyed the Big East Conference, it was ‘Mouse Money’ that darn near destroyed the Big XII Conference TWICE, and it was a lack of ‘Mouse Money’ that destroyed the PAC12 Conference…….. and, in the spirit of truthfulness, it was ‘Mouse Money’ that saved the Big XII Conference after the PAC12 collapse.

All while the leadership of the colleges and universities were torpedoing their own Governing Body, the NCAA, by allowing their member schools get by with blatant violations for years and years, as recently demonstrated by ‘That School Up North’ telling the NCAA to ‘sit down and shut the hell up, we’ll decide what the punishment of our Coach is for cheating and lying about it’.

Now, who’s that guy with the Big Ears that has the College Football Playoff under contract???

You think maybe these College and University Officials are on the Mouse’s Christmas Card List????




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[Cane from the Bend]

Yes, but that is their question no matter what they are talking about.

Yep…… it was ‘Mouse Money’ (a.k.a. ESPN) that destroyed the Big East Conference, it was ‘Mouse Money’ that darn near destroyed the Big XII Conference TWICE, and it was a lack of ‘Mouse Money’ that destroyed the PAC12 Conference…….. and, in the spirit of truthfulness, it was ‘Mouse Money’ that saved the Big XII Conference after the PAC12 collapse.

All while the leadership of the colleges and universities were torpedoing their own Governing Body, the NCAA, by allowing their member schools get by with blatant violations for years and years, as recently demonstrated by ‘That School Up North’ telling the NCAA to ‘sit down and shut the hell up, we’ll decide what the punishment of our Coach is for cheating and lying about it’.

Now, who’s that guy with the Big Ears that has the College Football Playoff under contract???

You think maybe these College and University Officials are on the Mouse’s Christmas Card List????


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Well, the Mouse Hole may be receiving renovations, soon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvhqg20q0Q8

Not a fan of Apple for the purchase. Their politicking isn't much different.

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[Mountainman]

Yes, but that is their question no matter what they are talking about.

Yep…… it was ‘Mouse Money’ (a.k.a. ESPN) that destroyed the Big East Conference, it was ‘Mouse Money’ that darn near destroyed the Big XII Conference TWICE, and it was a lack of ‘Mouse Money’ that destroyed the PAC12 Conference…….. and, in the spirit of truthfulness, it was ‘Mouse Money’ that saved the Big XII Conference after the PAC12 collapse.

All while the leadership of the colleges and universities were torpedoing their own Governing Body, the NCAA, by allowing their member schools get by with blatant violations for years and years, as recently demonstrated by ‘That School Up North’ telling the NCAA to ‘sit down and shut the hell up, we’ll decide what the punishment of our Coach is for cheating and lying about it’.

Now, who’s that guy with the Big Ears that has the College Football Playoff under contract???

You think maybe these College and University Officials are on the Mouse’s Christmas Card List????


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Well, the Mouse Hole may be receiving renovations, soon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rvhqg20q0Q8

Not a fan of Apple for the purchase. Their politicking isn't much different.

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Nah………. guys like Gates are too busy financing ‘The New World Order’ and ‘Centralized World Government’ and ‘Climate Change’ in order to save the planet…….


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[Cane from the Bend]

Yes, but that is their question no matter what they are talking about.

Yep…… it was ‘Mouse Money’ (a.k.a. ESPN) that destroyed the Big East Conference, it was ‘Mouse Money’ that darn near destroyed the Big XII Conference TWICE, and it was a lack of ‘Mouse Money’ that destroyed the PAC12 Conference…….. and, in the spirit of truthfulness, it was ‘Mouse Money’ that saved the Big XII Conference after the PAC12 collapse.

All while the leadership of the colleges and universities were torpedoing their own Governing Body, the NCAA, by allowing their member schools get by with blatant violations for years and years, as recently demonstrated by ‘That School Up North’ telling the NCAA to ‘sit down and shut the hell up, we’ll decide what the punishment of our Coach is for cheating and lying about it’.

Now, who’s that guy with the Big Ears that has the College Football Playoff under contract???

You think maybe these College and University Officials are on the Mouse’s Christmas Card List????


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Well, the Mouse Hole may be receiving renovations, soon:

Not a fan of Apple for the purchase. Their politicking isn't much different.

Nah………. guys like Gates are too busy financing ‘The New World Order’ and ‘Centralized World Government’ and ‘Climate Change’ in order to save the planet……. .

Of course, Gates is MicroSoft [I suspect named for his inferiority complex] ...

Apple [Macintosh] was Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne and the deceased Steve Jobs.

Now run by CEO Tim Cook, Apple is the world's largest technology company by revenue, with $394.3 billionin 2022 revenue. As of March 2023, Apple is the world's biggest company by market capitalization. In June 2023, it was valued at just over $3 trillion.

Here, meet the Apple leadership team:
https://www.apple.com/leadership/

How Ironic, that Katherine Adams; Senior Vice President and General Counsel, has a striking resemblance to Kathleen Kennedy, the woman who took over as president of Lucasfilm for Disney, and quite nearly single handed deteriorated the Star Wars franchise.

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[Mountainman]

Yes, but that is their question no matter what they are talking about.

Yep…… it was ‘Mouse Money’ (a.k.a. ESPN) that destroyed the Big East Conference, it was ‘Mouse Money’ that darn near destroyed the Big XII Conference TWICE, and it was a lack of ‘Mouse Money’ that destroyed the PAC12 Conference…….. and, in the spirit of truthfulness, it was ‘Mouse Money’ that saved the Big XII Conference after the PAC12 collapse.

All while the leadership of the colleges and universities were torpedoing their own Governing Body, the NCAA, by allowing their member schools get by with blatant violations for years and years, as recently demonstrated by ‘That School Up North’ telling the NCAA to ‘sit down and shut the hell up, we’ll decide what the punishment of our Coach is for cheating and lying about it’.

Now, who’s that guy with the Big Ears that has the College Football Playoff under contract???

You think maybe these College and University Officials are on the Mouse’s Christmas Card List????


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Well, the Mouse Hole may be receiving renovations, soon:

Not a fan of Apple for the purchase. Their politicking isn't much different.

Nah………. guys like Gates are too busy financing ‘The New World Order’ and ‘Centralized World Government’ and ‘Climate Change’ in order to save the planet……. .

Of course, Gates is MicroSoft [I suspect named for his inferiority complex] ...

Apple [Macintosh] was Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne and the deceased Steve Jobs.

Now run by CEO Tim Cook, Apple is the world's largest technology company by revenue, with $394.3 billionin 2022 revenue. As of March 2023, Apple is the world's biggest company by market capitalization. In June 2023, it was valued at just over $3 trillion.

Here, meet the Apple leadership team:
https://www.apple.com/leadership/

How Ironic, that Katherine Adams; Senior Vice President and General Counsel, has a striking resemblance to Kathleen Kennedy, the woman who took over as president of Lucasfilm for Disney, and quite nearly single handed deteriorated the Star Wars franchise.

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Yea, I’ve been out of the fray for a while, Gates and Jobs and others, if I remember correctly, were partners back in the early days and we’re running around ‘borrowing’ technology from the likes of IBM and Hewlett Packard…….. and they had some sort of falling out.


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[Cane from the Bend]

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Yea, I’ve been out of the fray for a while, Gates and Jobs and others, if I remember correctly, were partners back in the early days and we’re running around ‘borrowing’ technology from the likes of IBM and Hewlett Packard…….. and they had some sort of falling out..

If by 'borrowing', you mean technological land grabbing ... then yes, yes they did that.

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[Mountainman]

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Yea, I’ve been out of the fray for a while, Gates and Jobs and others, if I remember correctly, were partners back in the early days and we’re running around ‘borrowing’ technology from the likes of IBM and Hewlett Packard…….. and they had some sort of falling out..

If by 'burrowing', you mean technological land grabbing ... then yes, yes they did that.

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When Jobs accused Gates of stealing the idea, he famously answered: "Well, Steve, I think there's more than one way of looking at it. I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."

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[Mountainman]

……….and while fans are trying their best to enjoy this season, there are things going on during our distraction.


https://www.cbssports.com/college-footb ... nsidering/


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[Mountainman]

………”it’s time…..”


https://sports.yahoo.com/would-collecti ... 36402.html


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