[NU Sports] A new low for the Big Ten ...

[Marilyn Bendat]

As John McEnroe would probably say to the Big Ten, "YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS!"

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>From: "SjT (Stephen J. Truog)" <sjtruog at yahoo.com>
>Sent: Dec 13, 2010 3:25 PM
>To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
>Subject: [NU Sports] A new low for the Big Ten ...
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>Since when did the greatest league in college sports try and out-dumb the morons at the B(C)S for major decisions?
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>First they reject the logical east/west division split in favor of "competitive balance" - which really isn't there and will change over time anyway (ask the SEC, where the west used to be a laughing stock but now the east is - might as well go with something that won't change).
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>Now we get "legends and leaders"? Really? That's the best they could do?
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>I think someone at corporate ran out of money to hire a marketing team. I seriously could have picked two items out of the trash and come up with better division names. It makes the league a laughing stock nationally and overshadows some pretty decent trophy names.
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>September cannot come soon enough - when the one smart decision the league has made in all this mess, adding Nebraska, will give the Big Ten some great matchups week after week and make us the top conference in the land for football once again. That will hopefully overshadow the brain trust of ad wizards who came up with these embarrassingly stupid division alignments and names ... and had the lack of awareness to "unveil" each decision to fan befuddlement and national ridicule.
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>Did Jim Delaney take a vacation after the hard work on adding Nebraska and put his wife's idiot cousin's boy in charge while he was gone?
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>What's next? We "proudly" announce dropping half our Florida bowl ties to sign long-term deals with the Weedwacker Bowl, ESPN8 ("The Ocho!") Kickoff Classic and inaugural Utica Bowl?
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>Yeeesh.
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>GO CATS!!!
>-SjT
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