Did the Big Ten Network Just Tip Its... er... Helmet on the New Big Ten Divisions?
by Maize n Brew Dave on Sep 1, 2010 4:32 PM CDT
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Massive HT to reader Dan TrueBlue for spotting this on the Big Ten Network's main page. Anyone else think this particular alignment looks surprisingly balanced? This limits Penn State's western travel, means Nebraska doesn't have to play in Happy Valley (travel) every year, and seems amazingly well grouped. Right down to Iowa and Wisconsin and Michigan and Ohio State being opposite each other.
As Beauford points out:
If you "save image as" the default name of that image is: "Big Ten Helmet Divisions"
A preview of what's to come? This puts the divisions as:
1: UM, Penn State, Wisconsin, Indiana, MSU, Northwestern
2: Ohio State, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Purdue, Minnesota.
For the record, I think we all like this much better... More to come...at 7PM EDT. Or was this all an evil plot by Jim Delany to give us utter crap to look at before giving us something slightly less bad? What do you guys think?
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For those inclined:
When you hover over that image on the BTN’s homepage, it is called “Big Ten Helmet Divisions” or something similar.
I think this is probably the right one, unless the BTN was taking a stab at it and just ran that picture prior to being informed of the actual results…
http://maizenbrew.com
Get it?
Doubt this.
No way OSU and PSU aren’t in the same division. Besides, Big Ten has nothing to gain here from leaking false information. And they’ve certainly leaked plenty of info to just about everyone today. They’d be pissing off a lot of people, including everyone at ESPN, if that photo is the divisional breakout.
That being said, I could certainly be wrong.
welllllllll
Not really. Delany is the king of disinformation and by leaking bad information (re: false) infor through schmucks he doesn’t like, he gets all the nastiness out of the way before he jumps into the spotlight with a decent sensible division alignment.
On the other hand, if what ESPN did release is correct, he just stoked the fires of hell for no reason too.
Maize n Brew
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by Maize n Brew Dave on Sep 1, 2010 4:45 PM CDT up reply actions
You don't think the slit above would cause hell too?
It’s not like the leaked version is any better. If anything it’s worse because you’re going to piss PSU fans off with the split above by taking away the OSU game (which is the conferences second biggest draw and not in line with the commitment to TV revenue above all else), not to mention the existing pissed off OSu and Um fans, plus you’re also screwing Iowa and is some ways Wiscy with both splits.
Misinformation is important when you’re negotiating, ie spread a rumor to scare ND into joining or getting Texas to leak something, but when the cement is already dry it doesn’t make any sense to piss off every major beat writer covering your conference for little or no PR gain. My take, anyway.
I don't know
I would think PSU fans wouldn’t mind trading OSU for UM and MSU (especially once UM got healthy again) if it meant they’d be grouped with more of the eastern teams too. But since you seem to be a PSU fan, I could be wrong.
As much as I think ESPN’s divisions would do just fine, I think these would be outstanding. Guess we’ll find out soon!
Can’t blame you for no knowing, but you’re wrong. I don’t know if it’s the border thing or what, but the OSU game has always drawn more interest than the Michigan game. Michigan is still a great game, don’t get me wrong, but OSU has been the biggest game of the year for at least a decade now. It’s basically PSU’s only true half-rival, and I can’t image that pull that. Plus the TV thing I mentioned.
It's just a random image
@BigTenNetwork already tweeted the images aren’t intended to be the divisions.
hmmmmmmmm.....
Could be. I saw the tweet. Maybe it’s crap. Maybe it’s not.
This is a lot more palatable than the alternatives floated so far.
Maize n Brew
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by Maize n Brew Dave on Sep 1, 2010 4:43 PM CDT up reply actions
I love that photo: MSU helmet
right where it belongs. Way in the back, obscured from all view. :)
Go Blue!
Protected Rivalry Games aka MSU is the Little Bro of the entire conference
So if this is the two divisions, then this is how I see the protected rivalry games:
M-OSU
Wisc-Iowa
Indiana-Purdue
Illinois-Northwestern
MSU-Minnesota???
It looks like MSU gets treated like the little bro of the entire conference and gets a non-traditional protected rivalry game.
You're right - but it's MSU against Indiana
it sucks to be going from losing 3 of 4 games against PSU to winning at least 3 of 4 games against Indiana. SPARTY GETS SCREWED AGAIN.
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