I'm calling it now
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Youre the expert on getting butthurt on message board shit posting, so you have that feather in your cap.
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The divisions in the Big 10 should have already happened, but they won't because the powers that be want to game the system and set up schedules the way they want to and in the Big 10 they do not want to have to have Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State stuck having to take each other out.
It makes no sense we don't play the west coast schools home and home forever and that we don't play the western Big 10 schools like Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa as our main schedule to at least lessen some of the travel load.
I don't think it's a coincidence that the three flagship Big 10 programs have take trips to Husky Stadium in the first 3 years.
One funny thing is they probably gave Indiana easy schedules and thought who fucking cares, they'll never win anything and now they've set up a monster.
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agreed 100%
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I remember some savvy guys on Dawgman in the late 1990s said that super conferences would be formed…UW would be part of that.
Then 10-12 of the biggest teams would eventually leave those super conferences and try to get Notre Dame-type TV deals.
The B1G will continue to protect their top 2 moneymakers through corrupt ref-officiating. I've been watching Big 10 games for 40 years. Somebody should make a compilation of all the bad calls, which go in Ohio State and Michigan's favor. It could be hours long… Watch a bunch of Minnesota vs Michigan games, and you'll puke at how bad Minnesota constantly gets screwed over…4-6 bad calls in those games every year, and always in Michigan's favor. (Every play needs to be reviewable.)
I want the Pac 4 in the B1G to stay strong. The B1G heads will try to weaken them over time.
I'd say UW stays in the B1G until close to 2040, then the Pac 4 will be very tired of their crap by then.
UW constantly ranked between 15th-40th is going to frustrate a lot of UW fans.
ESPN will die, I'm not going to pay $100/month for ESPN in 10 years.
A new Pac conference with fractional shares will inevitably be formed. Maybe USC will get one of those Notre Dame deals. Seattle will be one of the top 5 biggest cities in the US, so maybe UW will eventually get an ND deal too. -
Do we? alternate USC/UCLA or has that just been happenstance?
I think divisions are stupid but having 3 locked-in regional opponents annually makes sense (vs 1). SEC just went to 3 annual rivalry games with the new 9 game scheduling. That would take care of it for the 4 west coasters.
Am I wrong, but don't some of the B1G teams already have more than 1 "rival" game per year?
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Yes, at the minimum, UW, UO, UCLA & U$C should all be playing each other every year.
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Every original team in the BIG 10 gets some dumb trophy every time they beat one of the other Midwest schools.
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I mean, Oregon beat Ohio State and Michigan last year when the wefs were B1G wefs
That said, the wefs suck ass, but this level of conspiracy ain't it
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Yes, but there are "protected games" played annually.
Here's the list:
Punch line: Iowa has 3, Purdue 2, Illinois 2, Wisconsin 2, Minnesota 2, Michigan 2.
One team already gets 3 locked-in opponents annually. Make it so for every team, just like the new SEC model. Solves the west coast travel thing for football.
