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I LOVE the John Hopkins add!!!
If we can get their Lacrosse home games on BTN, that would be awesome!
The BTN is going to thrive!!! B1G football, B1G basketball, B1G Lacrosse, B1G Volleyball, B1G Hockey, B1G Baseball, B1G women's basketball, B1G softball... Wow!
I REALLY want to see more...
IMO it's much easier to turn a low to middle of the road athletic program into a yearly contender than it is to turn a low to middle of the road University into a well respected and highly ranked institution of higher learning!
I think Maryland and Rutgers could turn into consistent thorns in...
I really don't see us going to 17...
We take UVA (they want it if the ACC is crumbling) and UNC (an internal "battle" will end up being in favor of Big Ten over SEC)...
If PSU gets pummeled by the Federal Government (unlikely but could happen)... We take Pitt. A Pennsylvania AAU school...
This uniforms would have been TOP NOTCH if they would have had gray stripes on the sleeve.
I was dreading the helmet... But I LOVE'd it!!!
Pants, very similar to our current ones, but with a modern twist!
I would not mind if this becomes our "standard" uniforms... As long as gray is...
I actually prefer pod re-alignment every year... Decreasing it to once every three seasons. And MOST teams would play at least every other year if the conference bumped to 9 in conference games!!!
I believe NCAA rules state that a conference championship is allowed in conferences with 12 or more teams pairing together the "division" winners.... So, within the Big Ten Conference, you need 2 divisions, but every one feels that 4 groups of teams really helps to limit long periods of teams...
Disagree... Indiana and Purdue need to go with Michigan and Michigan State in order to not make OSU's pod a complete joke! Rutgers, Northwestern and Illinois are by no means world beaters... But they are better than Indiana and Purdue, and historically OSU vs Illinois is better than OSU vs...
Best Pod setup to date - credit to Winchesterbuck on scout:
East - PSU, Maryland, UVA, UNC
Central - OSU, Rutgers, Illinois, Northwestern
North - Michigan, MSU, Indiana, Purdue
West - Nebraska, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa
Make every team have protected rival (OSU's would be Michigan...
NO way the B1G adds UVA, UNC AND Georgia Tech!!! I don't even see GT as truly being in play... Sure, GT would want in, but no way Delany takes them! It's just like a good HC putting the word out he may be interested in another job, just to have leverage at his own school for more money or years...
Sorry... I was referencing my previously mentioned pods. I have a unique way of understanding myself even when no one else does ;)
Pods:
North - Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Illinois
Central - Penn State, tOSU, Indiana, Purdue
East - Rutgers, Maryland, UVA, UNC
West - Neraska...
Actually, I view your opinion as flawed... Even if the "4 kings" were tOSU, PSU, Michigan and Nebraska, 33.3% of the time there would be 2 kings in 1 division and 2 in the other (every time the central groups with the east).
However, why no mention of Wisconsin? Since PSU has joined the B1G...
Think about the quality of schools we would get if we haul in Rutgers, Maryland, UVA and UNC.... Wow! (big question marks in UVA and especially UNC!)
Not only would we lock up major TV markets... We would be locking up amazing universities!!!
With a Pod system, this minor imbalance is really no imbalance at all!!!
For example:
2014: north vs central, east vs west
2015: north vs east, central vs west
2016: north vs west, east vs central
So yes, the east Pod is the weakest of the pods... But any given year they still play all...