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ESPN (A bunch of Death-Spiraling maroons)

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Buckeye Nut;2225186; said:
No. But the question only had to do with the Big Ten. The question was is the Big Ten elite and he gave reasons why it's not. For the life of me I don't know why people let this stuff bother them or why they care what guys on TV have to say.
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I chuckled at it, but while he was giving his justifications, I was thinking about Auburn and Arkansas performance this season.
 
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Bucknut24;2225712; said:
OF COURSE the Jim Stillwagon news is on the front page of ESPN :lol:
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A guy with a gazillion speeding citations on 315 over the past couple decades involved in a road rage incident? I'm shocked. Shocked!

Good fodder for the concealed-carry folks though. Popcorn ready.
 
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Buckeye Nut said:
No. But the question only had to do with the Big Ten. The question was is the Big Ten elite and he gave reasons why it's not. For the life of me I don't know why people let this stuff bother them or why they care what guys on TV have to say.
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Wouldn't how other conferences are doing against weaker conferences be completely relevant when you're trying to determine which ones are elite?
 
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BuckeyeNation27;2225731; said:
Wouldn't how other conferences are doing against weaker conferences be completely relevant when you're trying to determine which ones are elite?
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I guess it would come down to one's definition of elite. Not sure comparing records to other conferences would help the Big Ten's arguement this year.
 
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Elite would mean at the top. How can you tell how far from the top you are without looking around? The Big Ten is not elite but it's not the only conference struggling with mid-level programs....so using that as a measuring stick is kind of pointless.
 
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*Warning, do not click - ESPN link*

Ohio State, "poor" TCU to play home and home

Ohio State and TCU will play a home-and-home football series in 2018 and 2019, the schools announced Tuesday.

The first game will be held Sept. 15, 2018, at TCU's Amon G. Carter Stadium. The Horned Frogs will visit Ohio Stadium on Sept. 21 of the following year.

The schools have met six times, the last coming in 1973. Ohio State holds a 4-1-1 series edge, with all games having been played in Columbus.

Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said last week that the Buckeyes plan to beef up their nonconference schedules in the coming years.

"Competing against programs from the state of Texas has always offered exciting experiences for our players and fans," Smith said in a statement Tuesday."TCU continues to be one of the top football programs in the country."

Ohio State president Gordon Gee didn't feel that way two years ago. He angered TCU supporters that fall when he said that neither the Horned Frogs nor Boise State -- who were both undefeated at the time -- deserved to play for the BCS national championship.

"Well, I don't know enough about the X's and O's of college football," Gee said at the time. "I do know, having been both a Southeastern Conference president and a Big Ten president, that it's like murderer's row every week for these schools. We do not play the Little Sisters of the Poor. We play very fine schools on any given day.

"So I think until a university runs through that gauntlet that there's some reason to believe that they not be the best teams to [be] in the big ballgame."
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Muck;2226100; said:
Hit the Merriam-Webster website and see which one is listed, genius.
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You mean just like the baseball term "hit and run" where the base runner starts running before the ball is hit? :roll1: Should be called a "run and hit" play...

I don't give fuck if the term "home-and-home" had been misused to the point inclusion in Merriam-Webster, it's still incorrect and violates plain common sense...genius.

So fuck ESPN and Merriam-Webster. A two-game series where one game is played at Team A's home venue and the other at Team B's venue is a "home and away", because it's exactly that...one home game and one away game for both teams.
 
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MililaniBuckeye;2226108; said:
You mean just like the baseball term "hit and run" where the base runner starts running before the ball is hit? :roll1: Should be called a "run and hit" play...

I don't give fuck if the term "home-and-home" had been misused to the point inclusion in Merriam-Webster, it's still incorrect and violates plain common sense...genius.

So fuck ESPN and Merriam-Webster. A two-game series where one game is played at Team A's home venue and the other at Team B's venue is a "home and away", because it's exactly that...one home game and one away game for both teams.
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Or perhaps it's phrased as it is because the first year team a is home and the next year, team b is home?
 
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Buckeye Maniac;2226111; said:
Or perhaps it's phrased as it is because the first year team a is home and the next year, team b is home?
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Essentially yes, each team gets a home game which is important for financial reasons.

That being said it's usually just best to chuckle and move on when mili is being mili.
 
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