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PRESENTS mean more revenue for all. But he's also a traditionalist and likes the idea of being able to play teams like Illinois regularly, traveling to farther away locales. Two of those places — Maryland and Rutgers — voted to join the league this week and will officially become Big Ten members, expand- ing the conference to 14 schools in 2014. "I like the revenue rather than part of it," Hope said. "I think you can take a lot of that money and ear- mark it for football and do some things to take the pro- gram to the next level that maybe we haven't had the resources in the last decade to be able to do. I think it's very promising for football at Purdue. … With the economic Big Ten Adds Two Coach Danny Hope thinks that BY GOLD AND BLACK STAFF more league teams could FOOTBALL: NEWS AND NOTES chance to compete with the upper- tier teams in the Big Ten." times like they are, resources have been slim sometimes. So I think it's a huge opportunity for Purdue football to take some giant steps. a huge revenue boost, thanks to its television contract with ESPN The league might soon see Hope said he'd like to see upgrades " With the additional revenue, " to Purdue facilities that aren't cur- rently an "A-plus" and would like to see an increase in assis- tant coaches' salaries. "It's huge in the hir- com senior writer Tom Dienhart. "Put in right league with resources, possibilities are great. gible by winning on Saturday, it is possible — and maybe even likely — that the Boilermakers will know their bowl destination as early as the next day. The likelihood increases if Ohio State beats Michigan and drops the BOWL KNOWN SUNDAY? If Purdue becomes bowl eli- Wolverines even further down the BCS rankings. Once it is mathemati- cally certain that the Big Ten won't have a second BCS-bowl qualifying team, then the conference tie-in bowls can make their selections. It seems clear that if Michigan State beats Minnesota it will be the Gophers and Boilermakers battling out for Meineke Car Care Bowl of Texas on Dec. 28 in Houston. The ing process. You limit the pool size, Danny Hope has mixed feelings about expansion, but likes the revenue it can generate. running out in 2016. An article on CBSSports.com estimated that each Big Ten school would bring in an additional $30 million a year. "I think Rutgers and Maryland are undervalued commodities with big potential, " Tweeted BTN. Tom Campbell out of the program. "You can look and see where "When you try to hire coordinators and your assistant coaches don't make very much, they're concerned about are the assistant coaches going to stay? They don't want to have to train people on an annual basis as coaches move in and " he said. we're at. Any area we're not com- petitive enough in, if you're not competing with the lower-tier teams in the Big Ten than you're really struggling to give yourself a Lindsey Daluga—West Lafayette, Ind. Engineering Lindsey is one of 12 women's cross—country runners to earn academic All-Big Ten honors in the Spring 2011 semester. In all, 59 Boilermaker fall athletes earned this honor. GOLDANDBLACK EXPRESS • VOLUME 23, EXPRESS 12 • 29 LINK TO PURDUE'S 2012 SEASON STATS