Report: Pitt Not Candidate to Join Expanding Big 10
PITTSBURGH -- College athletics are moving rapidly towards a Cold War-like world in which two super powers jockey for money and influence while absorbing smaller actors into their borders. The Big 10 and SEC will add major revenue and interest-generating members in the near future and now the rest of the college athletics world has to decide whether to make a run at membership in a super conference or defend their current league.
The Pitt Panthers, who are coming up on their tenth year as a member of the ACC, have two options in front of them - either stick with the ACC as they try to make additions that solidify the league as a peer of the coming super conferences or jump ship and try to join someone else.
But according to college football insider John Canzano, at least one of those options is off the table. Canzano told Andrew Filliponi of 93.7 The Fan on Wednesday that the Big 10 "doesn't want Pitt now. They won't want them later. They won't want them ever. It's never going to happen."
There were rumors during the last round of realignment in 2012 that Pitt was a candidate to join the Big 10, but they ultimately joined Syracuse in the ACC while the football-playing portion of the Big East fell to the wayside.
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