[NU Sports] Is the Big Ten overrated?

[Jonathan Hodges]

In order to split into 2 divisions and get that championship game the Big
Ten would need an additional member.  We all know ND isn't going to join
anytime soon - that's about as likely as a playoff in Div. I-A.  I don't see
any likely candidates outside of that unless the B10 raids another big
conference (i.e. Big XII) and it doesn't look like that would happen,
especially after they sat on the sideline during this most recent conference
realignment.

While a conference championship seems nice, I don't think I'm for it because
without a playoff system that includes only conference champions (which will
probably never happen) the championship game is worthless.  Sometimes the
games generate buzz, but many times they just create controversy - see 2001
Nebraska going to the national championship without winning their own
division and 2004 Oklahoma going to the championship after losing their
conference championship game.

Also it eliminates many conference rivalries due to the division split.

Anyways I just don't see it happening for the B10.

Jonathan

On 1/10/07, Roy Lamberton <rstetson at capps-assoc.com> wrote:
>
> After watching the debacles with our top [read Bowl] teams this year....
>
> I have changed by long standing belief that we don't need a playoff in the
> Big
> 10.
>
> We need to put Michigan and dOSU in separate divisions and then split the
> conference NE to SW, with NU, Iowa, Minny, Wisconsin and Michigan in one
> Div and
> the rest in another.
>
> Yes it would screw up that annual dOSU/UM thing, but I'm sure they'd get
> over
> it.
>
> They could play the league championship in Soldier Field or Indy every
> year.
>
> Then we wouldn't have an almost 2 month layoff between our final game and
> the
> bowls.
>
> rsl
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com
> > [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Ben Adler
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:27 AM
> > To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> > Subject: [NU Sports] Is the Big Ten overrated?
> >
> >
> > No one's brought this inconvenient question up yet, so I'll
> > throw it out there.  Clearly, the Big Ten's credibility has
> > taken a hit (at least this year) thanks to the BCS nosedives
> > of its top two teams.  Did the voters and computers give Big
> > Ten teams too much credit?  Or did the 45- and 50-day layoffs
> > for Michigan and Ohio State hurt the conference's
> > credibility?  Or somewhere in between?
> >
> >   -- Ben
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