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Big 10 Gains control of Omnitrix
XLR8 working for Big 10?
It was finally time to come out of hibernation. Not even the Spring game or Delone Carter’s fist of fury could get me interested in blogging. I was really trying to wait for that elusive 12th game on the schedule. But who has time for that? The Big 10 has sprung into action.
The Big 10 has decided to escalate their time table for exploring expansion from the 12 to 18 month initial window to the June timeframe. Apparently the Big 10 has gained control of Ben Tennyson’s Omnitrix and selected XLR8 as the alien to get the job done.
For those of you without young boys, Ben 10 is a cartoon whose main character Ben Tennyson, happens to have a watch fall out of the sky and affix on him, allowing Ben to morph into any one of 10 super aliens. Pretty cool for him, but in the wrong hands, aka the Big 10, the earth as we know would be in dire straits.
And so it appears that is true. The Big 10 is going to be the Bigger 10 soon. The question is can the Big East survive? Interesting quote from our former AD on that:
Jake Crouthamel, Syracuse’s former athletic director, articulated in a telephone interview Sunday night a dire future for the Big East. Crouthamel, who helped form the Big East as Syracuse’s athletic director from 1978 to 2005, said he did not see the conference’s surviving.
He predicted that Syracuse would be in a different conference within five years and that there would be “utter turmoil” in college sports.
“I’ve been thinking about this for quite a while,” Crouthamel said. “I don’t see a whole lot of alternatives for anyone. You only control what your conference has. You don’t control what the Big Ten or the Pac-10 or the SEC does. What do you do? I don’t know what you do.”
The best chance for the Big East to survive, he said, would be if the Big Ten, with 11 teams, adds only Notre Dame.
Well it seems that the BE has decided to not really control what it has. It has been a forgone conclusion that the BE will allow itself to get poached again. Our uber blogger agrees. And if we are really relying on ND to save us, we can all forget it.
So it seems that playing the waiting game is all the BE has in store. Ben 10 did not wait for Vilgax to strike before taking action. Sadly there isn’t an ultimatrix available for BE Commish John Marrinatto.
