It would be great if they did change them to something simple like "East/West". Right now is sounds like a group of girls are running the Big Ten and came up with a homecoming theme for the divisions.
I know this has been mentioned before, but did the Big Ten ignore focus groups?
ridiculous that they had no idea that the "Leaders" and "Legends" divisions would be poorly received
personally i think they need to seriously re do their Logo more than the divisions name, yeah the division names are lame but the new logo is utterly disgusting---- no wonder people make fun of the big ten and this frankly only adds fuel to the fire. No, true, who gives a flip what the SEC and Texas and friends conference think but as big 10 fans my god, that's just embarrassing.
The old logo was just fine (remove the hidden "11" from it). The new logo is wimpy and probably what many creatively-challenged elementary kids would come up with.
Hopefully they reconsider the trophy names as well.
It doesn't really matter what you call them (legends & leaders is just lame though) and since geography doesn't really apply, I would suggest "Lakes" and "Plains". Two of the geographic descriptors for the general geography. Makes no difference that UM and MSU might be in the "Plains" division, etc.
Just keep in simple.