[NU Sports] Future Big Ten Schedule

[peg wolfe]

Re: the Illini not being the last game of the season every year,  playing 
them then is a fairly recent development, I think.  Back in 1994, NU played 
Illinois at Dyche on the 29th of October.  Why do I remember?  Because I 
still have the magneto-sked on my fridge (and I was there, as well).  The 
last home game of the season was Nov. 5th, v. MSU, followed by games at Iowa 
and Penn St.   And wasn't the last game of the '95 season the Purdue game in 
West Lafayette?  (BTW, UM is off the schedule fairly frequently - didn't 
play 'em in 94, either.)

- peg wolfe aka sundevilpeg


>From: "Jeff Beamsley" <jeffb at hilgraeve.com>
>Reply-To: jeffb at hilgraeve.com
>To: "'NU Sports List'" <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
>Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Future Big Ten Schedule
>Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:13:34 -0500
>
>I am very disappointed that Michigan is coming off our schedule.
>
>It may not be the rivalry game that Illinois is, but it has been the
>benchmark game for our team since 1995.  Our path to BT championships has
>been through Michigan.  Also I think that, over the last ten years, we have
>created a tradition of mutual respect based on some really well played
>games.
>
>Now, I assume, our path to BT championships in 2009 and 2010 will be 
>through
>OSU.  Don't get me wrong.  I look forward to beating OSU every time that we
>play them, but I am excited whenever anyone beats OSU.  I don't feel the
>same way about Michigan.
>
>I think Joe Pa expressed similar disappointment when UoM dropped off their
>schedule for a couple of years.
>
>Jeff
>
>
>
>
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>From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
>Behalf Of prplehaze at insightbb.com
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>Subject: [NU Sports] Future Big Ten Schedule
>
>The Big Ten released the 2009 and 2010 schedules today and there were two
>very interesting aspects to the Cats schedules for those seasons. One: we
>don't play Michigan or Ohio State.  Two: we play Wisconsin on the last day
>of the season both years and Illinois on the next to last day.  I don't
>remember another season in which the Illinois game was not the last game of
>the regular season unless we went to Hawai'i.  I don't know what was the
>rationale in the scheduling office for moving the game but it will be weird
>not to end the season beating Illinois.
>Mark
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