Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature currently requires accessing the site using the built-in Safari browser.
Follow us on Twitter @buckeyeplanet and @bp_recruiting, like us on Facebook! Enjoy a post or article, recommend it to others! BP is only as strong as its community, and we only promote by word of mouth, so share away!
Consider registering! Fewer and higher quality ads, no emails you don't want, access to all the forums, download game torrents, private messages, polls, Sportsbook, etc. Even if you just want to lurk, there are a lot of good reasons to register!
This trend started years ago, with the Big East (Cincy & Pitt especially) pulling Ohio guys that traditionally would have chosen to play in the Big Ten. There are too many guys to count that decided on Cincy over offers from MSU, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Indiana, Purdue, and Iowa. Now...
Exactly. I'm not sure that BYU requires its football players to be Mormon, but the players are expected to behave accordingly. ND recruits more non-Catholics to play football than Catholics, it seems. I remember when they recruited a Jewish quarterback. I don't think religion would play any...
I think that Maryland, Missouri, Rutgers, and perhaps Virginia would be the best fits (large state schools, AAU) if expansion moves forward. I don't see ND being a good fit, and they would demand special concessions that would give them an advantage ($$, exposure) over other conference members...
After some good back-and-forth discussion on this subject with others, I think I've found the best possible division alignments:
Div 1
OSU
UM
Wisconsin
MSU
Minnesota
Indiana
Div 2
Nebraska
PSU
Iowa
Illinois
NW
Purdue
This achieves competitive balance while splitting the big 4 evenly. 1 annual...
If ND were to apply, a few things should be made perfectly clear to them:
1. The days of having your own network (NBC) are over. The Big Ten is not going to allow ND to profit from a boost in ratings due to playing other Big Ten schools in conference. The Big Ten also is not going to...