Around the Big Ten

[entropy]

I also hope the big ten is smart enough to hold the baseball championships in Omaha.

[lineygoblue]

I think a long term agreement is in place for them to be held in Columbus...

... yeah, .. that sucks ..

[JRB]

Indianapolis sucks.

[WM Wolverine]

Its a nice city but I'd like to see the B10 CCG in Chicago as well. Not sure if those who pay for the seats will pay the outrageous ticket prices they charge if its not climate control.

[entropy]

Chicago would make it an event. Indy makes it a game.


Liney... That does suck. Baseball should be in Omaha.

[The Oracle]

I like Indy.

[Wild Hoss]

I do as well. I sat through our 2006 CCG game against Oklahoma when it was like 5 degrees, and Arrowhead was covered with a sheen of ice with a half-foot of snow outside...I'll pass on a repeat. Playing outdoors in December is an idea that sounds a lot better being discussed on the internet in June than it is in practice.

I also don't think seeing thousands of fans covered in blankets with frozen snotcicles hanging off their noses is an image the Big Ten wants to project to recruits from warmer climates. Seems like a small thing, but there is enough weather-related stigma to combat on the recruiting trail already.

[Jeff Buchanan]

I also don't think seeing thousands of fans covered in blankets with frozen snotcicles hanging off their noses is an image the Big Ten wants to project to recruits from warmer climates. Seems like a small thing, but there is enough weather-related stigma to combat on the recruiting trail already.

Good point ........

I am past the sort of fun that GB fans seem to have wearing nothing except green and yelllow body paint in the stands when its 20 below.

Football is a fun game to watch but not played on the frozen tundra at an outdoor venue in December unless you're inside watching it on TV. Makes for good NFL highlight films though.

[madootra]

I've been to Lambeau several times in December, and I've thoroughly enjoyed myself every time. I guess not being acclimated to the cold would make you feel differently.

I'd love to see Alabama, et al travel to AA in January for a Bowl Game. I suspect we'd see a different SEC.

Cold weather teams that play indoors in the NFL(Detroit, Minn) lose a natural advantage. Having to travel to GB in January has been a huge boost for the Pack over the years.

[entropy]

madootra... the only reason I want to see a playoff is to see Georgia or LSU play in AA or Happy Valley in Dec

[madootra]

That's valid enough for me!

I attended a Division II playoff game in Marquette in 1979, or 1980....Northern Michigan University (Which used to be a DivII power) played a school from South Carolina. At kick-off, it was below zero and snowing sideways. NMU beat them something like 63-0. Half of the Carolina kids had never even seen snow, and they basically quit halfway through the 1st quarter. If you earn a homefield advantage....let's make sure playing at home is a real "advantage".

[Wild Hoss]

I would dearly love to see LSU or Alabama playing in Lincoln on Dec 6th too, but fact of the matter is nobody in the Big Ten CCG is going to have a weather-tolerance advantage over anybody else so its pointless.

[Hannibal]

Most bowl games are played in netural weather. If anything, occasional big cold snaps in places like El Paso or Shreveport are a bigger factor than heat. And northern teams don't play many games each year in bad weather. We only played one last year (Purdue), and it wasn't worse than what you see a few hundred miles south late in November.

[madootra]

I'm thinking more about January Bowl games.....and FTR, Tuscaloosa is about 800 miles south of AA......Gainseville is about 1000 miles, and Austin is 1300. That makes a difference.

[whodean]

Nobody wants to go anywhere near Marquette (or anywhere else in the north) in January to watch a football game when a sunny Florida, Arizona, California or Texas is an option, its like you are arguing with Mother Nature.