[NU Sports] Is the Big Ten overrated?

[Evan Bradley]

Also no NU/Illinois, or Michigan/MSU, if anyone cares, unless you make
rivalry games a designated out-of-division game...but I don't see any
of this happening, either.  From a fan standpoint, I like the idea of
a 10-game conference schedule, but I suppose that isn't as good for
the collective records/bowl hopes of the conference, since someone has
to lose those games that could have been won out of conference; oh,
well.

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
> >