SportsIllustrated.com’s Andy Staples has a few ideas about how adding Notre Dame into the Big Ten would work. He envisions Notre Dame coming into the picture, a 12-team Big Ten Conference with two divisions- Notre Dame in the weaker one, but including Michigan. There are all sorts of theories about what the Big Ten should do, in light of Joe Paterno asking that the conference expand.
In other Notre Dame-related news, the Track and Field team competed at the NCAA Regional this past weekend. The NCAA National Championships are set to go down next weekend. Here’s the page where you can see all of the meet information, if you’re interested in attending the NCAA Track and Field Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas. One cool thing to look at is the PDF of the meet records and all-time standings. Do a word search for Notre Dame and you can see all of the premier athletes in Notre Dame’s sparking history.
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