[NU Sports] 12th game blues

Fri Jun 22 18:55:14 CDT 2007

NOOOOOO
We have to hold the line against the abomination that is the conference
championship.  The only reason it is played is money and with the advent of
the Big Ten Network (whatever you may think of it and whether you can watch
it) the conference is not lacking for money, there is no reason to play it.
Besides, that would mean expansion, since 12 is required for a championship
game - something else I'm opposed to.

OSU was simply too slow for Florida and it wouldn't have mattered if the
Bucks had played two games after Thanksgiving, they still would have lost.
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Roy Lamberton
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 11:33 AM
To: 'Jeff Beamsley'; nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] 12th game blues

Not sure any of the Big Powers would accept the increased standards. If you
follow many of the team stories these days, if the kids aren't getting
arrested
in bar fights, they're flunking out [Maryland lost a top starter to grades
just
today.]

I have always wished for a Big 10 playoff game, even if it would be between
dOSU
and UM most of the time, because it would put that final game after
Thanksgiving
and let our conference champ have a chance at winning the big game on
January
1st or 2nd. Right now, our teams always look rusty in the first part of
those
BCS games and it really was obvious last year.

rsl 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Beamsley
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 10:40 AM
> To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
> Subject: RE: [NU Sports] 12th game blues
> 
> 
> Since I can't comment on the President's intelligence or 
> morality, I thought I would add a few thoughts to this thread.
> 
> I love going to bowl games.  I think it is great fun.  It 
> would be even more fun to win one of them, but going  has been great.
> 
> I have to admit, though, that it is a guilty pleasure because 
> we are complicit in the slow march of sport overtaking study. 
>  So far, the BT has held the line on play after thanksgiving. 
>  That's important because it allows football players to have 
> at least a little time to study and prepare for finals. If we 
> continue to see BT teams fall in the BCS polls in December 
> and performing poorly in bowls because of the long layoff, 
> the pressure is going to mount to extend the season and have 
> some sort of conference playoff.
> 
> IMHO, the season is already too long.  The 12th game is all 
> about money.  It is about making more teams bowl eligible.  
> It is about getting another home game for the "big" teams, 
> and getting nice payoff for the "little" teams.
> 
> I think it would be much more interesting if the NCAA 
> included an academic requirement that became more rigorous 
> with each additional game over say 11, that a team played.  
> The teeth of the academic requirement would be the number of 
> scholarships a team could offer the next year.  So football 
> powers who regularly compete in conference championships and 
> bowl games (more practice should not come at the expense of 
> school) would be held to a higher academic standard than 
> those who didn't play those extra games.
> 
> I don't think it would ever happen, but it would be interesting.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com 
> [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of 
> mlinhardt at netzero.net
> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 7:45 AM
> To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] 12th game blues
> 
> NO!  12-games is already 1 too many.
> 
> I love my season tickets, but I feel burned out late in the season.  
> With more useless/tune-up games it would get even worse.
> 
> I want to see 1-2 home non-conference games to give our new 
> players a sense of game speed and to get me back into the 
> football groove, but no more than that.
> 
> Also early season the weather is warm, which not only means I 
> waste a perfectly good day that I could be out running or 
> cycling, but also warm weather football is evil.  Football 
> should always be played on cool, crisp mid-October days with 
> a mix of sun and some winter-hinting gloom.
> 
> If you extend the season later into the fall the weather gets 
> quite iffy and there is less time to buy plane tickets, book 
> hotels, kennels, schedule vacation days, etc. for bowl games.
> 
> Say no to extra creampuffs, america is fat enough already ;-)
> 
> -- cherron604 at aol.com wrote:
> <snip>
> Heck, I'd argue for a 14-game schedule, if it meant 6 
> non-conference pushovers, and one conference win got you to a 
> bowl. <snip>
> 
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