Both Washington and Oregon visited the BIG conference headquarters in Chicago for a week or so in August. Since then, radio silence.
I for one think there is something cooking there and it's just waiting for a propitious time to be announced. That would about lock it up for the BIG expansion for a couple of years I would think.
I know it's not as hot a topic as who the next NUHC will be, but my guess is that the NU selection will not be leaked until a couple of days before it's announced, but I suspect we'll hear more on the expansion futher in advance of the desired announcement day. PR guys will decide whether that is before or after the season finishes. My further uninformed feeling is that the CA people are wrestling with Berkeley and political pressure to squeeze that school into the package.
Nothing suggests that ND is still in play, since that talk started months and months ago and nothing but negative sounds have surfaced on it. I guess they could have slipped into the Chicago offices easily, but one would think they would have been noticed.
I for one think there is something cooking there and it's just waiting for a propitious time to be announced. That would about lock it up for the BIG expansion for a couple of years I would think.
I know it's not as hot a topic as who the next NUHC will be, but my guess is that the NU selection will not be leaked until a couple of days before it's announced, but I suspect we'll hear more on the expansion futher in advance of the desired announcement day. PR guys will decide whether that is before or after the season finishes. My further uninformed feeling is that the CA people are wrestling with Berkeley and political pressure to squeeze that school into the package.
Nothing suggests that ND is still in play, since that talk started months and months ago and nothing but negative sounds have surfaced on it. I guess they could have slipped into the Chicago offices easily, but one would think they would have been noticed.