[NU Sports] Eric's idea

[Kenneth Maresco]

Great post! Great idea! But I wouldn't want to touch NIU this year!

KMaresco

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Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2011 13:05:18 -0500
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   First of all Jeff, I am a statistics wonk; I'm not sure what a wonk is but I are one!
   Good points in your post point to something patently obvious to me.   Why do we consistently get 2 teams in the BCS?  Money, and only money.  The Big 10 should do the right thing and tell the BCS to shove it; break ranks and send our champ to the Rose Bowl; end of story. If were not going to have a play-off, we should put our teams in position to win more bowl games. To wit:
Rose:  Ohio St. vs. TCU
Capital One:  Wisconsin vs. Alabama
Outback:  Mich. St. vs. Florida
Gator:  PSU vs. Miss. St.
Insight:  Michigan vs. Missouri
Texas:  Iowa vs. Baylor
Ticket City: Illinois vs. Texas Tech
Little Caesar's: Northwestern vs. NIU


  Would we win all of them? No. But this line-up looks much evenly matched than what we get every bowl season. FWIW, I think we'd have a hell of a time with NIU.

  Later,   Eric



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