Around the Big Ten

[iam416]

Well, it's going to 9 in 2015 with none of those changes, so....IN YER FACE!!!!!

[entropy]

I should be in charge

[entropy]

People like me

[iam416]

Hoss isn't people. He's a person. And not right in the head.

On the plus side, Wizard seems to hate you.

[Wild Hoss]

Don't be makin' assumptions bubba.

[iam416]

Your mancrush on Entropy is legendary and is only surpassed by your affection for Cool Breeze.

[Wild Hoss]

Now yer gettin' nasty.

[WM Wolverine]

I'd prefer 10. With 9, there are 4 teams you aren't even playing in your conference. OOD schedules can be very unbalanced... That said, you want your '7' home games a year and I can't see that 10 conference games without the season being extended by another week... Those with 70k plus stadiums have too much to lose and those are the ones with the power...

PSU under JoPa always had humiliating OOC opponents (after joining B10), just recently they started to schedule up a lil. I'd guess the sanctions probably made them want to weaken them down for a while....

Crossover games should be incredibly minimal, every cross over game means you play the OOD team that much less often.

[WM Wolverine]

I'd prefer 10. With 9, there are 4 teams you aren't even playing in your conference. OOD schedules can be very unbalanced... That said, you want your '7' home games a year and I can't see that 10 conference games without the season being extended by another week... Those with 70k plus stadiums have too much to lose and those are the ones with the power...

PSU under JoPa always had humiliating OOC opponents (after joining B10), just recently they started to schedule up a lil. I'd guess the sanctions probably made them want to weaken them down for a while....

Crossover games should be incredibly minimal, every cross over game means you play the OOD team that much less often.

[Dr. Strangelove]

I'm fine with 9 and am okay with the unbalanced scheduling. I'd rather see Nebraska and Wisconsin more often than Purdue. Only real positives for the Illinois, Northwestern, Indiana, and Purdue games to me are that they are cheap, convenient road trips.

[Dr. Strangelove]

re: Penn State.

The sanctions have got them dumbing down their schedules even more so than usual. They have only four P5 opponents lined up between now and 2025: Pitt (4x), Syracuse (2x), West Virginia (2x), and Virginia Tech (2x). When Franklin took over at Vanderbilt one of the first things he did was get the Commodes to back out of a number of series in order to play the Murray States of the world instead. I guess you could say that strategy paid off.

Penn State and a lot of their fans are overly obsessed with east coast games IMO. It's difficult to even remember any big time series they have played with anyone west of the Mississippi since joining the conference. Nebraska is about the only one I can think of off the top of my head.

[lineygoblue]

I'd love to go to 9... but with these changes:

1) MSU moves to the West. The East can have back Purdue.
2) Each year their is a crossover Rivalry game played in September. MSU/Mich, Wisky/OSU, Neb/PSU for example..
3) Championship game rotates east/west each year

I do think that someone from the East is going to get moved to the west, and I believe it will be one of these:

a. MSU (most likely with guaranteed Michigan crossover)
b. Michigan
c. Ohio State

The East would then get back one of the Indiana teams.

Great minds, Ent.

[iam416]

Kentucky recruiting in Ohio: http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.s...y_kentuck.html

Heh, Marrow might be a bit overconfident on the ND and M comments...heh....but basically it's a gripe I've had with the middle of the conference that past two years.

[entropy]

Talent... Yep. We had thought Bo would pull 4-6 from Ohio each year. Not the case. Just seems odd he had no ties or ability to do that.


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[WM Wolverine]

Kentucky always should've recruited Ohio better, as should have Pitt and West Virginia.