HawkeyeMcNutt
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His ego.Not that big of a deal, but who appointed Alvarez spokesman for the Big Ten? He announced ahead of everyone that the Big Ten would be expanding, now he announces this.
His ego.Not that big of a deal, but who appointed Alvarez spokesman for the Big Ten? He announced ahead of everyone that the Big Ten would be expanding, now he announces this.
I like this move, but at the same time is there a real big difference between the Sunbelt (FBS) and the MVC (FCS)?
As far as the upper teams in the big ten are concerned having teams like Illinois, Iowa, Indiana,Maryland, Purdue and so on is the same as scheduling cupcakes.
This is fine by me. No more games against UNI? Boo Hoo. It's like the ISU game x10 for Iowa in the respect that it has nothing to gain by playing UNI, and everything to lose. Win the game, and it's just a game we were supposed to win. Lose, and it's an embarrassment. But I guess we can replace FCS games with playing bottom feeders from other FBS conferences instead.
Well I guess the Hawks won't be playing ISU anymore then.
Gary Rima was already on Des Moines sports talk today delivering a ******* sob story. Maybe UNI will just take Iowa's yearly game against MooU since the BoneG is going to a 10 game conference schedule. They were made for each other anyway.
The Big Ten is dumb if they do this. The SEC will still schedule every cupcake they can get. This will only hurt the big ten if they take D-1AA teams off the schedule. Alvarez needs to look at the big picture before stating that.
Yes, it's dumb to schedule D-1AA teams, but every other conference will continue to do it. All the big ten will do is make its collective schedule tougher and will fall that much more behind the SEC in national status.
FreedComanche
The Big Ten is dumb if they do this. The SEC will still schedule every cupcake they can get. This will only hurt the big ten if they take D-1AA teams off the schedule. Alvarez needs to look at the big picture before stating that.
Yes, it's dumb to schedule D-1AA teams, but every other conference will continue to do it. All the big ten will do is make its collective schedule tougher and will fall that much more behind the SEC in national status.
FreedComanche
Disagree... I think this will help the B1G when SOS and committees start picking who's in the playoffs. The SEC will finally get a check mark against them for scheduling weak OOC games.
Yes and no, the B1G playing harder teams will open them up for more potential losses while the SEC continuing to play a weak non conference schedule helps get them multiple teams in the playoffs.
Do you really think there is a significant difference between UNI, North Dakota State or Sam Houston St and New Mexico State, South Alabama or Tulane?