[Husker] Making sense of Big Ten divisions

[Theodore Heise]

I liked this little story a lot.  Thanks, Jon.  It inspired me to 
tell my own.  :)

My oldest was a distance runner at Purdue almost 10 years ago.  I 
don't know how many of you have been to cross country meets, but the 
courses usually include loops in several different directions that 
sometimes cross in places.  If you know the course, you can see the 
pack come past many times by running between locations (sometimes it 
takes a pretty hard run, but the sport is inspiring enough to spur 
the effort).  Anyway, my son once told me that his teammates would 
tell him, "Robert, your dad is *every*where!"

I can also report that IU has a wonderful cross country course, and 
Purdue's is pretty good.  Both very attractive, with lots of wooded 
parts.  The IU course has some hills, and is reported to be pretty 
challenging.  The course at Illinois is kind of ho hum, and I don't 
think I've been to other Big Integer courses.

Ted



On Fri, 2 Jul 2010, Jon Johnston wrote:

> My oldest son going into his senior year. He plays competitive 
> soccer. I've been around his team for a few years now - they've 
> stuck together. I yell a lot and I'm very loud. They used to hate 
> it - now they always tell me they want me at their games yelling.
>
> So.... why am I telling you this? Last week, I walk up to the team 
> after a game, and one of the kids looks at me and says:
>
> "I'm going to Wisconsin. If Nebraska is going to the Big 10, then 
> I'm getting you a ticket in the student section the first time 
> they play in Madison".
>
> Oh! Oh! Oh! The investment might pay off!!!!
>
> Jon Johnston
> Corn Nation
>
> On Jul 1, 2010, at 7:26 PM, Steve Cornelius wrote:
>
>> Teddy Greenstein of the Chicago Tribune has an interesting 
>> article about how the Big Ten may set up their 
>> divisions:http://bit.ly/dthIqq. He supports SI's Stewart 
>> Mandel's<http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/stewart_mandel/06/22/expansion-divisions/index.html>idea 
>> of a "West Division" comprised of: Nebraska, Wisconsin, Iowa, 
>> Illinois, Minnesota...and Penn State!