[NU Sports] Divisions

[CHerron604 at aol.com]

I may be in the minority on this, but all that I care about is how this  
impacts us, and as best I can see, this plan keeps us as far away from Ohio  
State as we could hope.
 
Everything else is transitory, but avoiding the Buckeyes ?   PRICELESS
 
Of course, we would have to pass through them to get to Pasadena, but we  
could cross that bridge when we get to it.
 
Chances of making the title game from the OSU division ?  not good at  all
 
Chances of making the title game from the other division have to be  better.
 
Chuck Herron   Tech '85
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/1/2010 8:45:00 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
sjtruog at yahoo.com writes:

Now that  I've seen the actual schedule, let's do a side-by-side comparison 
of the final  weekend of the season ...

The Big Ten's over-thought plan ...
* OSU  vs. Michigan - The Big Game, but could be repeated the next week?
* NU vs.  Illinois - Sweet Stovepipe, but could be repeated the next week
* IU vs. PU  - Bucket and all ... thankfully won't be repeated next week
* Iowa vs. UNL  - Natural rivalry, could be for a trip to the title game
* Wisconsin vs.  PSU - Too far for rivalry, but could be for title game
* MSU vs. Minny -  The one UM game w/o a trophy??? Zzzzzzz.

The natural east/west  divisions ...
* OSU vs. Michigan - The Big Game and could be for division  title
* IU vs. PU - Bucket game, tradition and could be for division  title
* MSU vs. PSU - Growing rivalry and could be for division title
*  NU vs. Illinois - Honest Abe and all, plus could be for division title
*  Wisky vs. Minny - The greatest trophy (Axe), plus could be for division
*  Iowa vs. UNL - Border war rivals, plus could be for division title

Add  to that ...
- Competitive balance is a wash with either
- Geographic  travel costs for teams (and more importantly fans) are better 
with the  east/west
- More rivalries are kept with east/west
- The rivalries MEAN  MORE with east/west
- Michigan vs. Ohio State MEANS MORE with  east/west

Can someone tell me why we're going with the artificially  forced divisions 
again over nature???

The league will survive this -  thankfully college football is the greatest 
game out there (even the B(C)S  can't ruin it) and this is the best league 
overall ... but why add things that  suck so bad to such a great sport 
without any real reason???

OK - I  promise I won't rant on this anymore ... the season is right around 
the corner  thankfully ... but now that the divisions were official I 
wanted to add  that.

GO CATS!!!
-SjT




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STEPHEN J. TRUOG
sjtruog at yahoo.com
GO CATS!!! GEAUX  SAINTS!!!
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--- On Wed, 9/1/10, Jim  Leonard <jleonard518 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Jim Leonard  <jleonard518 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [NU Sports] Divisions
>  To: "Northwestern Wildcats" <nwu-sports at tssi.com>
> Date:  Wednesday, September 1, 2010, 6:22 PM
> I don't think today's  announcement
> was all that important. Divisions had to be 
>  created and there was no hope of satisfying everyone. I
> think Paul is  correct 
> that avoiding tOSU every year is a positive thing. I
>  personally enjoy having 
> Wisconsin and Penn State on the schedule  every year but it
> couldn't be done and 
> I'll get used to it.  If these divisions had existed before
> I came to NU I never 
>  would have thought twice about them. 
> 
> 
> It will be  slightly amusing whenever Michigan and Ohio
> State both have their  
> divisions locked up and they play the big game twice in a
>  row. Imagine Ohio 
> State wins the regular season game but then  Michigan comes
> back the following 
> Saturday in the  championship game and beats them for
> the BCS bid. That's the way  
> they wanted it I guess, but I doubt their fans will enjoy
> it  when it happens. 
> 
> 
> Go Cats!
> Jim
>  
> 
>       
> 
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