Writers of Pro Football Prospectus 2008  27 Jul 2010  Big Ten
Might Pick Big Apple  Take this for precisely what it is worth
(it is a random weekend link from the New York Post, after all,
albeit one that uses real quotes from Big Ten commissioner Jim
Delany), but when Big Ten media days kick up next week, there is
a very good chance that Big Ten expansion will once again be the
topic at hand. Jim Delany is still apparently yearning for entry
into the northeastern corridor of the country.  Coincidence or
not, the Big East -- which has come to absorb expansion tremors
the way Californians shrug off earthquakes that register at the
low end of the Richter scale -- will host its media days at the
same time as the Big Ten. The ACC's media days are Monday and
Tuesday.  Those leagues contain programs of most appeal in
addition to Notre Dame, an independent, and Missouri of the Big
12 because of their markets. ... [T]he Big Ten's clock still is
ticking, and FBS schools in the Boston (Boston College), New
York (Rutger