Eleven Warriors

Rutgers = NYC market.  Texas = state of Texas market.  Georgia Tech gives us Atlanta area.

Notre Dame can screw themselves.  Kansas would be a football cupcake, but be careful what you wish for come basketball season.

First of All I think we are only taking two more schools and I am hoping they will be North Carolina and Georgia Tech. These two would get us in SEC Country and provide decent football and in North Carolina's case great basketball competition

Georgia Tech will not give you the Atlanta market.  I'm sorry, I just don't see it.  Atlanta is a southern, football-crazed city, but they're firmly entrenched within the SEC.  A Geogia/Ole Miss matchup would own that market even if Georgia Tech was playing OSU or UM in that same timeslot.  Like it or not, GT doesn't move the needle like UGA does in-state.  The only way I can see this changing is if UGA falls of the edge of the Earth (not likely) and Paul Johnson's Flexbone option attack flat-out dominates the B1G (really not likely, though I love me some flexbone).  It's much easier to create/establish a culture than it is to completely change it, and that's what you'll be facing in Atlanta with Geogia Tech.  Now, if we landed UGA it might be different, but they don't fit our academic profile.

Give me ND and Texas.  Texas's Longhorn Network debacle will help them see the light (and MASSIVE distribution of its product across major population centers), and ND will (hopefully) have an offer that they cannot refuse with the kind of revenue the BTN will provide them.

My expansion wish list: This was all a bad dream and the B1G lives happily ever after with twelve teams. *sigh*

I know everything is based off of football but I would love to see Texas and UNC.  It gives the B1G a football powerhouse(Texas) and a decent program of late(UNC) and also gives the B1G two great baseketball programs.  I think that would be a win-win

If I could get any two other teams at this point, I would probably take Texas and Tennessee.  Texas, obviously, would be the biggest money grab possible for the B1G.  Tennessee, because it would hurt the SEC (to an extent), they're a giant just waiting to rebound, and it would again expand that B1G footprint a little further south, but not so far it is in crazy town.

Both are highly unlikely, but again, this is a wish list, right?

@OldColumbusTown - I was listening to the radio yesterday and they talked about how Tennessee coming to the Big Ten would make a lot of sense, especially for Tennessee.  They were talking about how the emergence of some SEC powers, and South Carolina and such have actually hurt Tennessee and their recruiting.  They are really in a position where coming to the Big Ten helps them both financially and competitively.  The only issue is academically.  UT is not AAU, but it doesn't seem like they'd be a total misfit.  I don't know.  US News & World Report has them ranked 101st nationally of all universities (which for reference - OSU is 55th, and Nebraska, who is no longer AAU, is 96th).

Interesting fact - Tennessee to the Big Ten = Big Ten has the four largest stadiums in college football.  Tennessee is currently the only non-Big Ten school with one of the top four largest stadiums. 

Notre Dame is not aau, kansas is worse at sports than a lot of schools and GT is too far. I think we go after virginia and north carolina.

We did say this was a wish list, right? Lol.

But seriously, the only plausible way I think Tennessee considers a move is the fact they'd (in their minds) instantly move up toward the top of the B1G power structure (in football, and right up there in basketball as well).  That may not necessarily be completely accurate, but I think Tenn would believe it.  They are not a viable SEC program right now.  The end of Fulmer's tenure, Kiffin's mockery, and this 3-year failed venture with Dooley have really, really set them back when compared with the other SEC programs.

Alabama, Georgia, Florida, LSU, South Carolina are all in significantly better positions to succeed now and in the future than Tennessee.  Arkansas and Auburn are also not far removed from some very good seasons and very good recruiting classes.  Vandy is on the rise with Franklin, Miss State with Mullen, etc.  Tennessee has some big decisions to make with their football program.

I don't know - maybe somebody with closer ties to that state and the state of that program (TennBuckeye??) would know the general feeling in the Volunteer State to how they fit in with the rest of the SEC.

ND and Texas ... why? Both bring tradition and a program that is continually in the national spotlight and a solid program (as long as Brian Kelly is at Notre Dame they are for now).