[Formula presented] expansion for excited baryons

We derive consistency conditions which constrain the possible form of the strong couplings of the excited baryons to the pions. The consistency conditions follow from requiring the pion-excited baryon scattering amplitudes to satisfy the large-(Formula presented) Witten counting rules and are analogous to consistency conditions used by Dashen, Jenkins, and Manohar and others for (Formula presented)-wave baryons. The consistency conditions are explicitly solved, giving the most general allowed form of the strong vertices for excited baryons in the large-(Formula presented) limit. We show that the solutions to the large-(Formula presented) consistency conditions coincide with the predictions of the nonrelativistic quark model for these states, extending the results previously obtained for the (Formula presented)-wave baryons. The (Formula presented) corrections to these predictions are studied in the quark model with arbitrary number of colors (Formula presented)