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Nebraska @ Wisconsin - who are you rooting for?

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Who are you rooting for - Nebraska vs. Wisconsin?

  • Nebraska

    Votes: 91 71.1%

  • Wisconsin

    Votes: 13 10.2%

  • I just want to see a good game

    Votes: 24 18.8%
  • Total voters
    128
  • Poll closed .
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ulukinatme;2001160; said:
If I have to go with one or the other, I choose Nebraska since a Wisky loss is better for OSU. Overall, I just want to see a good game though.
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This is me. I am just excited to see the game.

I guess I would want Wisky to win to show that the B1G is strong, but it is so hard to cheer against Nebraska, their fans are just so damn nice.

This may be one of the best games of the season. That should be enough.
 
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knapplc;2001044; said:
Just say it out loud and you'll feel better, "My name is Muck, and I am jealous of your sweet ride."
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<bkochmc's father-in-law>Depends, if your ride isn't green and yellow then it 'aint worth shit.</bkochmc's father-in-law>

As for the game, with Bucky being in our division... go Nebraska.

This divisional stuff feels weird. It'll be even more weird if the Bucks are ever in the position that they need TSUN to win a game against an OSU divisional foe... man I hope that never happens.
 
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bkochmc;2001216; said:
This divisional stuff feels weird. It'll be even more weird if the Bucks are ever in the position that they need TSUN to win a game against an OSU divisional foe... man I hope that never happens.
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This. When such a situation arises, I'll do my best to ignore the other half of it and hope for the best. I can't, in good conscience, do both yet.
 
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since rooting has nothing to do with the outcome of the game, I will root for Nebraska to win since I hate Wisky. If Wisky wins, I can enjoy the new kid on the block getting knocked down a peg.

win win situation
 
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I voted Nebraska because A) I don't like Wisconsin, 2) I don't want Nebraska facing us after coming off a loss. C) I have to root for the Ohio/Ohio State ties when possible.

And another thing. If Russell Wilson gets injured and can't play until November, all the better.
 
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I'll state first and foremost that the following is a result of my own error - I typically do not read columns by Dennis Dodd and/or Paul Finebaum. I find them both to be more interested in manufacturing controversy so you'll read their articles rather than producing accurate, objective journalism. So it's my own fault that I have read both of their columns just now, and it's my fault that I'm providing them press by responding to them - even linking to them.

Having said that, I do not understand the purpose of either article these two gentlemen have produced in advance of this weekend's historic game - the first game of Nebraska's entry into the Big Ten Conference. Finebaum's article, As Big Ten welcomes Nebraska, conference struggling for relevancy, states in part:

Even with a storied program like Nebraska joining the fold, the Big Ten is on life support. Gasping, wheezing and nearly choking to death. It has no swag. No buzz.

We will all be force-fed endless spin this weekend about how important and historic this first game with Nebraska will be for the league and for college football. No argument here, as the first time for anything is memorable. But this is just a normal Saturday night in the SEC.

The Big Bore Conference just doesn't do it for me anymore. I'll be in Gainesville Saturday night doing what any sane college football fan should be doing -- watching real football when Alabama visits the Swamp to take on Florida. You'll have two schools who own three of the last five BCS titles fighting for spots in the SEC championship game, the winner of which usually plays for the BCS title.
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Finebaum also takes pains to point out several of the Big Ten's losses this year - losses by Ohio State, Purdue, Indiana, Penn State and Minnesota, to be exact, then contrasts that with great games offered weekly by the SEC. He takes jabs at the BTN. He ends with an avowed preference for the SEC, stating that because the SEC is the superior football conference, the Big Ten is irrelevant.

Segue over to Dodd's column, As Huskers make debut, Big Ten football has lost uniqueness, and you almost wonder if these two weren't sitting across the table at the same cafe as they wrote these stories. Dodd gripes that the Big Ten is no longer unique because, basically, it no longer fits his preconceived notion of what the "Big Ten brand" should be. For evidence he cites the fact that Michigan with Dennard Robinson is no longer a three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust team, and the fact that Nebraska's Taylor Martinez slides rather than enduring impact (as dictated by Pelini, because Martinez's backup is not game-ready yet). Dodd says these things as if they are bad, as if they lessen the brand of the Big Ten. Ignoring, like Finebaum, the fact that the teams he's talking about (Michigan, Nebraska and Wisconsin) are all 4-0. And this is despite the fact that the conference's SOS ranking, according to Sagarin, is currently #3 ahead of the ACC and Pac-12, and trailing the SEC/Big XII.

Both Dodd and Finebaum appear to want to denounce the Big Ten, cast it aside, and prop up the SEC. But why? What benefit does this give?

This is what baffles me. Everyone, both journalist and fan, agrees that the SEC has ruled college football over the past decade. This is an undeniable truth.

But for journalists to actively denounce other conferences - especially on the eve of such a historic event as Nebraska beginning play in the Big Ten - is astounding. It is entirely counterproductive to what they should be doing - propping up college football as a whole. The SEC alone cannot carry college football. It is not capable of commanding the attention of all of the nation's football fans, simply because there are so many teams - and fans of teams - out there. The overall health of college football should be what these guys want. They don't have to be the reason the Big Ten is popular, or the Pac-12 is at the forefront. They don't have to actively support Conference X - all they have to do is not actively tear it down.

Go read the articles if you want. Give them clicks if you like. I already did, much to my chagrin. If nothing else, it'll give you yet another example of the myopic nature of today's sports journalism.
 
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knapplc;2001331; said:
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I get it. They've been sucked in to the love affair of SEC football. But all things change. I don't see another 5 years of success equal to the previous in their future. I think in another 10 years you're looking at a very different SEC.

But you're exactly right, these guys are journalists. They are violating cardinal rules of journalism. They are being emotional. And it is classless to see them shred through the conference with the largest fanbase and the richest tradition because another conference has more appeal right now. Unfortunately, it will continue as long as the SEC continues to win when it matters and the other conferences come up short.
 
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knapplc;2001331; said:
I typically do not read columns by... Paul Finebaum.
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neither do his listeners.

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kn1f3party;2001345; said:
I get it. They've been sucked in to the love affair of SEC football. But all things change. I don't see another 5 years of success equal to the previous in their future. I think in another 10 years you're looking at a very different SEC.

But you're exactly right, these guys are journalists. They are violating cardinal rules of journalism. They are being emotional. And it is classless to see them shred through the conference with the largest fanbase and the richest tradition because another conference has more appeal right now. Unfortunately, it will continue as long as the SEC continues to win when it matters and the other conferences come up short.
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No, they really are not journalist. They are nothing more than opinion piece writers.

Also, CBS still has SEC games. Dodd, like those hacks at ESPN, has a corporate agenda to trash everything not SEC related.
 
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