After adding USC and UCLA, Big Ten leaves door open to more expansion
INDIANAPOLIS — It’s gone from 10 schools to 11, 12, 14 and soon 16 with the additions of UCLA and USC, all while somehow remaining the Big Ten. One might call it the Bigger Ten, while understanding it just might swell again at any given moment. Kevin Warren, the Big Ten commissioner, pondered Tuesday what it would have felt like to sit among the seven college presidents meeting in 1895 in a ...
INDIANAPOLIS — It’s gone from 10 schools to 11, 12, 14 and soon 16 with the additions of UCLA and USC, all while somehow remaining the Big Ten.
One might call it the Bigger Ten, while understanding it just might swell again at any given moment.
Kevin Warren, the Big Ten commissioner, pondered Tuesday what it would have felt like to sit among the seven college presidents meeting in 1895 in a Chicago hotel called the Palmer House to discuss the formation of what would become the Big Ten.
It couldn’t have been any zanier than this.
Warren indicated during Big
