denguegopher
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Every year people talk about adding one more team to the Big 10. So I thought I would get this board's reaction to the idea. I have listed all the school that meet 2 requirements(1 offical & 1 unoffical) The first, and offically, being the school must be located within a state that already touches a state that has a Big 10 school. For example UCLA could not join the Big 10. Secondly, and unoffically, the school must me a member of the AAU or Association of American Universities. The AAU is the highest group a school could join.
Note that Notre Dame is not included but could get in the AAU if they applied, I would guess. And, yes I know there are a few IVY League schools in the list but they meet the guidelines I set forth.
So make your case for the school that is the best fit.
Iowa State
Missouri
Nebraska
Rutgers
Maryland
Pitt
Carnegie Mellon
Columbia
Cornell
Princeton
Syracuse
Penn
The AAU is clearly an outstanding group of universities http://www.aau.edu/about/article.aspx?id=5476 . I believe that most of the criteria to become an AAU is related to research and graduate education. Very few graduate students are D1 athletes and relatively few undergraduate students are involved in research. I know that conferences about about more than athletics, and that prestige (usually measured by research productivity) is key for universities, and therefore being associated with other prestigious schools is desirable. But athletics is also about $ and adding good athletic teams to the conference. I think that limiting Big Ten expansion to AAU schools limiting. I think that Louisville or Cincinnati would be nice additions athletically, but I know it will never happen.