Around the Big Ten

[Jeff Buchanan]

Heh ..... and Heh .....

I new there was something I liked about you.

F osu.

[Wild Hoss]

MSU wouldn't make much sense in the West, except for competitive balance. And they wouldn't provide a lot of that. It just so happens that the conference is going to have to accept a lack of competitive balance and the East team winning the CCG 7 years out of 10.

Sparty will be Westward bound along with either IN or Purdue once we find a dance partner for UVA. That's going to be another Eastern school, for sure.

Sigh. If only the Irish would quit fucking around and join...

[Dr. Strangelove]

Final weekend of the year?

OSU v Michigan
Nebraska v Iowa
Wisconsin v Minnesota
Penn State v Maryland
Sparty v Rutgers
Illinois v Northwestern
Purdue v Indiana

Sparty won't like it but I think PSU would prefer to play an eastern team for the final game.

[DennisT]

preserved so that we can keep playing the Brown Jug game

You can't be serious. I don't remember the Little Brown Jug game ever being relevant and I'm pushing 60.

[WM Wolverine]

Sparty has mentioned it wanted to be in the west yet they previously also stated they wanted to be wherever M is too and its long been assumed M would be in the east with Ohio...

This setup imo is the way it is to prevent OOD rivalry games, other than Indiana/Purdue. I don't see very many significant rivalries lost with this setup. I'll miss playing Illinois from the west but that is about it, it would be nice to play Nebraska more frequently though M will get to play PSU every year, a rivalry I've grown to like.

[Hannibal]

preserved so that we can keep playing the Brown Jug game

You can't be serious. I don't remember the Little Brown Jug game ever being relevant and I'm pushing 60.

I don't care that it's nationally relevant as much as that it's an extremely old tradition that is worth keeping, in a sport that is flushing traditions down the toilet at an alarming rate. If you don't play that game, then it will probably be replaced with a completely charmless game, unless it's Nebraska. Given that we have to play OSU, MSU, and Penn State every year, I don't want to play Nebraska, unless we start making OOC schedules like Kansas State does. It's a warm fuzzy reminder of the game's roots. Plus, I like the fact that we always kick Minnesota's ass. I'd much rather see us play Minny every year than rotate the game.

[WM Wolverine]

If we have to have a OOD rivalry game, hopefully it's Minnesota. But with the east, east setup there is little need for OOD rivalry games. Yes, some rivalries are played less often but with a 9-game schedule, they'd play the Gophers 4 out of every 9 years if my math is correct. Pre Maryland, Nebraska, Rutgers; the Gophers were heading off the schedule for a couple years so it's clearly not a high priority rivalry.

[THE_WIZARD_]

You can't be serious

I am serious. And don't call me Shirley.

[Jeff Buchanan]

I'm with Hanni ..... it ought to be.

If I'm not mistaken the Jug that is played for in the Minnesota-M game is the oldest existing "trophy" in CFB. Tons of history in that.

Sadly, none of that seems to actually matter anymore. Lip service will be payed to it by the deciders but that is about all.

[WM Wolverine]

It's a rivalry that none of my friends are even aware of, none of my friends are even aware that we (Minn & M) play for a trophy each season. It's might've been a rivalry in the 30's 40's 50's, 60's but now all we do is play for a trophy, which we still can just not as often.

[Hannibal]

Are your friends not Michigan fans? If they are, I don't see how they couldn't be aware of it, since the sideline reporter describes the tradition each year, and they make a point of unboxing the trophy and showing it off at the end of the game. There's even a restaurant named after the trophy.

I hope that DB will try and keep it on the schedule every year. Who knows, if the asshole thinks that he can increase the department's revenue by .03% by selling a few T-shirts with the jug on it, his tunnelvision might finally work in our favor.

[whodean]

Little Brown Jug isn't relevant today, certainly not worth skewing the divisions over.

[hack]

I give up. Was trying to make a url joke here and forum formatting just refused to let me.

[Hannibal]

Little Brown Jug isn't relevant today, certainly not worth skewing the divisions over.

You wouldn't be skewing the divisions by preserving it. You would just play Minnesota every year instead of someone else on that side.

[DennisT]

[ame]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brown_Jug_%28American_football%29[/ame]

Goofers have won all of 3 times since 1968. This isn't a rivalry. This is an annual ass raping. Let it go.