Major B1G Upset Opens Door for Iowa

[Fryowa]

Fry, don't make me prove you wrong linguistically!

Yes, "Championship" suggests that the "champion" is better than all others. True. However, you kind of ignore that the word is modified with the "Co" thing at the beginning. Co, means joint or mutual or together. So, the 2 (or 3 or 4) teams that are declared cochampions are all jointly champions. They are all mutually and as a group better than anyone else. Co does not mean "tied with." For your argument to have validity, you would need the letters "Co" to mean something they do not. Sorry, give it up. You be wrong on this one!

I'm not a lawyer, but I can still twist language around all day long with the rest of you.

As intelligent as I am you'd think I would've made something out of myself, but alas here I am parked in my aunt's expired tag Corolla outside a Super 8 leeching wifi and posting on HN.

 

[Fryowa]

Fry, don't make me prove you wrong linguistically!

Yes, "Championship" suggests that the "champion" is better than all others. True. However, you kind of ignore that the word is modified with the "Co" thing at the beginning. Co, means joint or mutual or together. So, the 2 (or 3 or 4) teams that are declared cochampions are all jointly champions. They are all mutually and as a group better than anyone else. Co does not mean "tied with." For your argument to have validity, you would need the letters "Co" to mean something they do not. Sorry, give it up. You be wrong on this one!

No one was saying "co-" before I brought it up as being a tie. People were saying Iowa had won a Big Ten championship which is false.

As an olive branch of kindness, I hereby make a rule that 02/04 will henceforth and in perpetuity be referred to on HN as the year Iowa won the co-Big Ten championship. That is my final offer, and I'm conceding way more than any of you are. Take the deal.

 

[Fryowa]

It's not what I think. The conference issued a trophy to the both/all teams that finished in first place. You'll have to take it up with the B1G office.

So Iowa doesn't have the '04 B1G trophy in the case, it has a '04 B1G trophy in the case...

 

[HawkeyeHypnosis]

So Iowa doesn't have the '04 B1G trophy in the case, it has a '04 B1G trophy in the case...

well played

 

[hawkdrummer1]

So Iowa doesn't have the '04 B1G trophy in the case, it has a '04 B1G trophy in the case...

That's what Co-Champion means. More than one team shared the title. In a word, Duh.

If the B1G said "Neither gets a trophy" you'd have a better point.