[NU Sports] Is the Big Ten overrated?

[Evan Bradley]

I'd like to see how they try to hide a '12' in the BigTen logo...

On 1/10/07, Jeff Beamsley <jeffb at hilgraeve.com> wrote:
> If divisional playoff also means the end to the annual OSU/Mich game, it
> won't ever happen.
>
> I think that the ONLY thing that could potentially move this would be ND
> joining the conference.  Then you could build an east and west division with
> OSU, Michigan, PSU, MSU, Purdue, and Indy in the east and ND, Iowa, Wisky,
> Ill, Minny, and NU in the west.
>
> The only one giving up a "rival" game is ND with it's Indiana neighbors and
> that isn't that much of a rival game anyway.  ND would potentially view this
> as a conference that it could dominate and thus guarantee a yearly big game
> for the BT championship.  The rest of the folks in the west might be happy
> about it too because they would only have to play the winner of the east and
> not have to face both OSU and Michigan most years.  Joe Pa would be happy
> too because he would finally have Michigan on his schedule every year.
> Unfortunately, though I certainly don't wish him ill, I suspect that Joe
> won't live long enough to see this come to pass.
>
> Jeff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Roy Lamberton
> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 7:37 AM
> To: 'Ben Adler'; nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Is the Big Ten overrated?
>
> 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
> >