[NU Sports] NU Sports News Digest for 2/26

[Roy Lamberton]

As long as the Big 10 continues to dominated by two or three teams, the idea is
OK, but won't produce anything new.

If we continue to develop more parity between teams, this is pure genius and
something we need to have happen sooner than later.

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Michael Vance
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 10:26 PM
> Cc: NU Sports List
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] NU Sports News Digest for 2/26
> 
> 
> Roy Lamberton wrote:
> >      Big Ten might extend football season
> >  
> > 
> http://chicagosports.chicagotribune.com/sports/college/cs-070224bigten
> > brite,1,5563937.story?coll=cs-college-headlines
> >   
> 
>  From the article: "...the Big Ten is considering adding more league 
> games (it currently has eight)...."  Jim Delaney has stated and we've 
> discussed before how it is mathematically impossible to have 
> nine league 
> games in an 11-team league, so the only possible way to add 
> more games 
> is to go to a full ten-game slate.  The upside: no disputes 
> over who is 
> the best team or who had the easier schedule because everyone plays 
> everyone.  The downside: fewer non-conference games, thus 
> discouraging 
> good national matchups like dOSU-Texas, which are already few and far 
> between.  Those two potential wins become a lot more important.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> -Michael
> 
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