[Husker] Division Names

[Steve Schmadeke]

I think East and West are just fine, even though, as you point out, it is really Almost East and Almost West.

People are used to minor geographical anomalies in division names, such as Dallas in the NFC East.  The National League tolerated a lineup for a quarter-century that had Cincinnati and Atlanta in the West and Chicago and Saint Louis in the East.  Even when those leagues cleaned up some of the geographical oddities, the driver wasn't so much that the names were out of whack, it was because of travel costs and time zone issues.

I think that if the Big 10 sticks with the simple East and West labels, fans will soon enough adjust to the swap of the two pairs of teams out of geographical alignment and will generally be able to recite the divisional lineup.  I can tell you off the top of my head how the SEC is split, how the Big 12 was split, and how the Pac-12 and Big 10 will be split.  However, I still can't tell you off the top of my head who is in the Atlantic and who is in the Coastal divisions in the ACC.

On Dec 17, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Merlin Green wrote:

> 
> I really can't understand all the negative talk over the names.  They are
> only names after all.
> so I have a question for all you smart guys.  What are good names?
> 
> East - West  = Does not work
> Lakes - Plains =  Does not work
> Devaney - Hayes = Good luck with real names.
> 
> Maybe they will have to take something like  Almost West - Almost East
> Divisions
> 
> Give me your ideas.
> 
> Merlin Green
> 
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