In My Onion

By Trent Fasnacht     In my opinion, the Big Ten Conference is the best positioned for open league play where teams are promoted and relegated at the end of each season.      The main characteristic that makes the Big Ten ideally positioned for an open league arrangement pertains to branding.  Despite the fact that the conference has had more than ten member schools since 1990, the number ten is still integral to the conference's stellar name. Instead of being an eccentric anomaly, in my envisioned restructuring, the number ten would have noteworthy significance that the league could build and grow around, and even more importantly, profit from.        The conference added the Pac 12's  University of Southern California and UCLA last June and then just brought in Oregon and Washington last week. My suggestion would work with a Big Ten of eighteen, but would be built for the addition of ACC defectors like Clemson, Florida State, and even others.     I'd start the reimaging o