Around the Big Ten

[WM Wolverine]

Yup, you have to show up against everybody if you want to compete for B10 & national championships. An off day against a 2nd tier team in the B10, is a likely loss... M had probably its worst game of the season against Iowa and of course they lost a close one.

[drok]

If you can't get up emotionally to play against Northwestern in their house in another one of their mediocre B1G seasons then I say they are just a bunch of pussies then

[Rocky Bleier]

MSU was obviously spent when they played Nebraska. No way they lose that badly otherwise.

[THE_WIZARD_]

If you can't get up emotionally to play against Northwestern in their house in another one of their mediocre B1G seasons then I say they are just a bunch of pussies then

I agree. But Nebraska just wasn't very good last year. I never said they were. But people love giving excuses for MSU for some reason. Maybe they weren't all that great either. Ya think? The B1G really wasn't great last year. No dominating teams. Wisconsin was the best and to be honest...I don't think that team could have won the Big 12 in any year since maybe 1998.

[lineygoblue]

I agree with The Wizard, but only because he's my friend.

[THE_WIZARD_]

I love you man

[entropy]

Nebraska could have won it in 1999.... Wait, they did.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Nebraska had a damn good team in 1999. One of the best defenses we ever had.

fuckin' Texas

One friggin' fumble in Austin away from winning another NC that year.

[lineygoblue]

I was starting to like Ent again ...then he had to go and say that ....

[THE_WIZARD_]

You don't have to like Ent liney...I don't.

[Wild Hoss]

He is flatulent.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Understatement

[entropy]

It seems as if Penn State has soured on "Sweet Caroline."

The popular Neil Diamond song will not be used during football games this season, and two university officials denied Monday that had anything to do with the lyrics.

"Absolutely no song changes were made based on lyrics," spokesman David La Torre said. "The song has come up on the list in recent years because it happens to be played in so many other professional and collegiate venues and has no real origination here at Penn State."

Those lyrics -- "Reachin' out, touchin' me, touchin' you" -- could be construed as inappropriate after a jury convicted former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky on 45 counts of child-sex abuse. The Altoona (Pa.) Mirror reported Monday morning that some university officials expressed concern about the lyrics.

La Torre said that was not the case but could not name another song that would be excluded. He and Greg Myford, associate athletic director for business relations and communications, insisted the elimination of "Sweet Caroline" was just part of an annual process.

"While wholesale changes to what happens on game day are not in store, some 'updating' is going to occur, including to our playlist," Myford wrote in an email. "Something that happens every year for both recorded music and Blue Band tunes."

[UMStan White]

Uh,gee yuh think Penn State the lyrics may have had a "special meaning" for your fans?

[Tony G]

So I guess "Brother Love's traveling salvation show" is off the table too due to reference of "Brother Love"?