Good read: "How Michigan State became a member of the Big Ten"

[Seaa Blue]

http://alumni.msu.edu/magazine/article.cfm?id=2507

Just thought my fellow expansionistas might enjoy this. The whole article is good. This caught my eye:

Hannah frequently argued that sports were important to a university and that if entrance into the Big Ten enhanced the athletic program, the entire university community would benefit. “I have always thought that a sound athletic program was good for a university,” he later wrote. “It is good for the athletes, if they are full-time, bona fide students who must maintain satisfactory standards of scholarship and performance.

Athletics unify a university probably more than any other feature of the institution. They merge the enthusiasm of students, alumni, faculty, friends and supporters of the university, and all to the university’s good.”

 

[kelseypup]

Interesting article. Hopefully the Big Ten will come around and invite us. They did invite Rutgers so...