Jon, In the immortal words of Ricky Bobby.....

fufred said:
Bingo. The B10 title game along with the UM-OSU game are the 2 marquis games nation wide. Why have weather be a determining factor on the title game if it can be avoided?
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Ok, so besides the snow game in the 1940's how many Michigan/OSU games have been played where weather is the determining factor?
 
okeefe4prez said:
Because we're realistic Iowa fans and we know that Iowa is never going to have game changers on the outside like Charles Woodson, Ted Ginn, Braylon Edwards, Joey Galloway, David Boston, Desmond Howard, Cris Carter, Anthony Carter and Santonio Holmes. I assume Michigan will come back to normal strength and if we are in a one game shootout for the Rose Bowl or the national title game against OSU or UM, I'd much rather take my chances with old man winter instead of watching some total stud striking a Heisman pose in the endzone three times against us.

Furthermore, I understand that all of the prole hillbillies who live in flyover country just love Indianapolis because the strip malls remind them of home, but there is only one stadium in the midwest fitting of hosting such an event - Soldier Field, Chicago, IL. You guys aren't thinking strategically - you tell your old lady to pack up the family truckster, you roll into Chi-town, send Ma out to do the trading on Michigan Avenue with all the other tourist gals and you go to the ballgame. It's a two for one deal.

At the end of the day, if you want the game held indoors, I think we'd pretty much be stuck with alternating between Indy and Detroit. Both of those towns suck. Bad. Indy's just a big Neck Moines with a racetrack and a few more TGI Friday's, Crapplebee's and Red Lobsters and Detroit is, well Detroit is freaking Detroit. No thanks.
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This is possibly the best post...ever.
 
JonDMiller said:
There is a huge difference between the weather on Nov 20-ish and the first week of December.
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It snowed on the morning of October 10 when we played Michigan last year. It was 32 in Chicago on December 5 last year. The weather is different everyday. Changing weather is an integral part of Big Ten football. You might play in wind, rain, snow, cold or perfect 50 degree "football weather." And besides, with global warming, Soldier will have an average temperature of 50 in December within 2 years anyway.

There are only three reasons I can think of why someone would want to have the game indoors. First, they are shills for the Indianapolis or Detroit Chamber of Commerce. Second, they want to make the game more of a track meet to figure out which team is likely going to do better in the dome/warm weather conditions in which the winner will play when pitted against an SEC or Pac-10 team (i.e., they're afraid of a bad weather game that would favor a team like Iowa that historically has won ball games through superior play in the trenches rather than through speed on the outside). Third, they're an America-loathing yellow belly who doesn't want to put on a pair of long underwear to sit outside for a few hours.

Which one is Jon's reason?
 
JonDMiller said:
The SEC doesn't play any of its games in indoor stadiums...except for the most important game of the year, their title game. That doesn't have anything to do with their 'brand'

The Big Ten plays football for two thirds of its season more often than not, above freezing...in fact, I am guessing more than 75% of its games are above the bad elements. Why in the world would you want your title game to have a strong chance of something like that being a part of the outcome?
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Exactly. In title games you have to "level" the playing field as much as you can. You'd hate for the game to be decided by rain or snow or worse. While it would be interesting, I can see Iowa coming out on the wrong side of games like that.
 
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