[NU Sports] Buckeyes-Trojans

[Abrahamson, Alan (NBC Universal)]

I hereby provide my annual assertion as well that every other team in
the Big Ten can lose every game they play, and I would be thrilled.

Just as a for instance -- let's say Iowa had lost one more game than we
had last year. Who would have gone to the Florida bowl in that instance?


Because the Big Ten teams are (more or less) assigned to bowls one
through six based on the order of finish, every non-conference loss by
every other Big Ten team is a good thing for Northwestern.

As for the assertion that it's bad for Big Ten teams to lose out of
conference because, gee, then the prestige of the conference might be
eroded and thus Ohio State or Penn State would face longer odds in
getting to play for the national championship -- big whoop. I could
seriously care less. 



-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com]
On Behalf Of Eric West
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 7:12 AM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Buckeyes-Trojans

mlinhardt at netzero.com wrote:
> Why does everybody hate the buckeyes?
>   

Why ask why?

Seriously, though, for me it started in 1995. Everywhere I went, if I 
happened to be wearing a Northwestern T-shirt, I couldn't go twenty feet

without being accosted by an Ohio State fan telling me how they "would 
have" pulverized us. (This was in CHICAGO, mind you -- not central 
Ohio.) There are a zillion more reasons, but it starts and ends there.

I might as well make my annual assertion that I view every loss by 
another Big Ten team as good for us. I don't care if everyone views our 
conference as weak; being part of the awful ACC in the 1990s never 
seemed to hurt Florida State.


Eric West
e-west at northwestern.edu

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