[NU Sports] New Sporting News

[Scott Zeller]

The new issue of *The Sporting News* does a survey of 33 former Big Ten
football stars and asks, "If you had to kick one team out to accommodate
Notre Dame or Texas, which would it be?"

Guess which college in Evanston came in first place with 6.5 votes? 19 of
the stars were solid enough to insist no one be kicked out, but the results
were:

None 19
NU 6.5
Minn 2.5
Illinois, Indiana, MSU and Purdue also received votes for the boot.

In the comments section of this question, Joe Thomas said "Northwestern is
the obvious choice to kick out because they are the only private school in
the Big Ten and have shown they can't compete with the other schools
athletically."

Apparently Thomas is a former star OT for Wisconsin, but I've never heard of
him and not sure when he played. Perhaps he is really old and unaware NU has
a winning record against Wisconsin over the past 15 years, including last
year?