Penn Accepts invitation to Pac-10

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Okay. Just kidding. I've been waiting to make a post on this for a while and finally, there's a hook.

Thanks to an inside source at Penn Athletics, I received this extra-secret plans for the Ivy League expansion — which might just rival the Pac-10 (or whatever number it ends up at) in size when all is said and done.

Okay. I'm still kidding. But here is an interesting take on conference expansion in terms of media markets where the schools are and how the Ivy League could dominate. From ESPN's Page 2:

Super Ivy East

School	Academic Rank*	Media Market**	Market Size Rank**
Brown	16	Providence, R.I.- New Bedford, Mass.	53
Columbia	8	New York City	1
Cornell	15	Elmira-Corning, N.Y.	176
Dartmouth	11	Burlington, Vt.- Plattsburgh, N.Y.	94
Duke	10	Raleigh-Durham, N.C.	26
Georgetown	23	Washington, D.C.	9
Harvard	1	Boston	7
Penn	4	Philadelphia	4
Princeton	1	Philadelphia	4
Yale	3	Hartford-New Haven, Conn.	30

Super Ivy West

School	Academic Rank*	Media Market**	Market Size Rank**
Cal	21	S.F.-Oakland-San Jose	6
Caltech	4	Los Angeles	2
U. of Chicago	8	Chicago	3
Emory	17	Atlanta	8
Notre Dame	20	Chicago***	3
Northwestern	12	Chicago	3
Rice	17	Houston	10
Stanford	4	S.F.-Oakland-San Jose	6
Vanderbilt	17	Nashville, Tenn.	29
Washington U. in St. Louis	12	St. Louis	21

*Academic rankings courtesy of U.S. News and World Report **Media markets and size rankings for 2009-10 courtesy of Nielsen ***Notre Dame has a large national TV following; for football purposes, generally considered part of Chicago market