Good morning, Bucknotters. Welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5th of June.

Good morning, Bucknotters. Welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5th here on March 1st, 2023.

Hi, I'm Dave Bittel, very happy to join by Matt Bax and Delph, or his usual Wednesday visit.

Like I said, March 1st, man, it's going to be record temperatures in Columbus today. We're going to hit the 70s.

I feel like knock on woods. I know we're not out of the woods yet, but it feels like we skipped winter here in the capital city of Ohio.

Basically, when it turns to March, I feel like it's spring anyway. I mean, I think I shoveled my driveway like twice all winter.

I'm here for it, man. We basically skipped winter backs.

You know, you're just damning us for like a week long snowstorm at the end of March. That's all you're doing.

I looked ahead, man. The extended forecast looks good. We probably will have one more snowstorm, but I'll take it at this point.

Like, my kids are like, we only had one snow day. It's not even fair. And what even really a snow day is more like an ice day.

All right. Yeah, full day.

Exactly. All right. So the rumors have kicked up again about Big Ten expansion.

There's talk. Okay. Some people think it's inevitable. There's been talked at, you know, Oregon and Washington could join.

There's been some buzz about maybe some other schools. What do you think will happen? What do you think should happen?

And what should happen is if the words noter and dame are not at the top of the list, I don't want to hear about it. That's what should happen.

All right. Any Big Ten expansion that doesn't involve the Irish to me at this point is pointless. We just added the two best teams out west.

The only teams on the western side of the Rocky Mountains that really moved the pulse outside of Oregon.

And Oregon is a Johnny Tom lately Nike product program. It's not like it's some historical food.

They were terrible until the midnight. So let's be real here. At the end of the day, I don't want any expansion that doesn't involve Notre Dame.

And now what will happen. I don't know. It's going to be the mind of whoever the new Big Ten commissioner is because for all of Kevin Warren's flaws and trying to cancel the season and the fact that none of us are going to miss him that he's gone.

The USD and UCLA was a really good move and I'm super happy that happened. But this is like, you know, going out and feeling the Mona Lisa and then stopping for postcards on the way out the door.

Like I don't really get why you would you would go and pick up Washington and Oregon. It doesn't add any value to our television.

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