[NU Sports] Classic, thy name is Northwestern ...

[Roy Lamberton]

Here's what's scary about all this....

Nobody expected us to beat Michigan or dOSU or Ioway, we were supposed to beat
Duke, Indiana, and Illinois. MSU was a big questionmark.

Right now, Eastern Michigan is the only "lock" [just don't tell them] and Iowa
and Minny are the two games we should still win, Illinois, and Indiana are
looking troubling right now....

Scary huh?

rsl

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Jonathan Hodges
> Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 5:03 PM
> To: CHerron604 at aol.com
> Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Classic, thy name is Northwestern ...
> 
> Here are the "protected" rivalries for each Big Ten team (there are a
> maximum of 2 each that are played every year - the other 8 teams in the
> conference rotate off of the schedule every so often):
> 
> Northwestern: Illinois, Purdue
> Illinois: Northwestern, Indiana
> Purdue: Indiana, Northwestern
> Indiana: Purdue, Illinois
> Wisconsin: Minnesota, Iowa
> Minnesota: Wisconsin, Iowa
> Iowa: Minnesota, Wisconsin
> Michigan State: Penn State, Michigan
> Michigan: Michigan State, Ohio State
> Ohio State: Michigan, Penn State
> Penn State: Ohio State, Michigan State
> 
> I'm not going to list the "trophy games" because as discussed earlier,
> there
> are a ton of them.  After Penn State joined the conference and the current
> scheduling strategy was developed, the conference obviously had a tough
> time
> deciding the "natural" rivalries - especially for newcomer PSU (they ended
> up going with MSU-PSU and OSU-PSU probably because of proximity and
> availability).  The Minnesota-Wisconsin-Iowa rivalry triangle has been
> around for some time, so that made sense - but left no room for anyone else
> (e.g. NU-UW).  Therefore in the middle of the conference region (Illinois
> and Indiana) it appears that they adopted a "neighbor rivalry" strategy
> with
> NU-Purdue and Illinois-Indiana which are not necessarily natural rivals.
> 
> In any case there is not much the B10 can do unless that 12th member shows
> up, which is an entirely other discussion altogether.  A complete
> round-robin 10 game conference schedule won't happen because that would
> leave only 2 NC games which would put B10 teams at too much of a
> disadvantage (and wouldn't allow 7 or 8 home games like now).
> 
> Personally, I would prefer NU's 2 "rivals" to be Wisconsin and Illinois
> since those are 2 rather competitive series all-time.  But, I can
> understand
> why not.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> On 10/6/07, CHerron604 at aol.com <CHerron604 at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> > Does anybody remember the rationale for making Purdue our 'other'
> > protected
> > conference foe ?  Illinois was obvious - Did Wisconsin already have
> > 2  natural
> > rivals (Minnesota, obviously).
> >
> > PS - Doesn't Minnesota have natural rivalries with Iowa (Floyd),
> Wisconsin
> > (Paul's axe) and Michigan (the jug) ?  Does one of those disappear
> > from  time
> > to time ?
> >
> > Chuck Herron   Tech '85
> >
> >
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