Legends and Leaders

[pup]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5915147

Might be the worst division names I have ever heard of.

Conference Champions win the Stagg-Paterno Championship Trophy? Gross. Does this mean Mount Union should be watched out for?

MVP of Big "10" Championship Game - Grange-Griffin Trophy.

War hyphens!

[pup]

Oh, and the new logo:

[danwismar]

They could have come up with something more stupid...but it would have taken a blue-ribbon panel, a bipartisan commission, AND a congressional investigation to do it.

[Triple-S]

Oh, and the new logo:

do I see a "6" in that g?

[Erie Warrior]

Hard to imagine they could screw up the entire conference. From the awful names to the awful divisions, the entire thing is like a monkey copulating with a door knob.

[drum]

That... is going to take some getting used to.

Who did they run this by who thought it sounded good? Maverick Carter? I haven't seen a positive reaction to it yet.

[fairvis]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=5930029

Thank god. Hopefully they get something better.

[pup]

Can they get them worse? They could go with 'A' & 'B' and be 1000 times better.

[hermanfontenot]

Nice to see JoePa's name on the COY trophy. I guess all those years of beating up on Army and Temple paid off.

Fun fact: Barry Alvarez has won as many Big 10 titles as JoePa.

[motherscratcher]

It's so easy. If they don't want directional names, they should go with the Hayes and Schembechler divisions. So what if it's "exclusionary". Fuck, if Iowa doesn't want to be excluded they should hire a legendary coach who is the face of the conference for a few decades.

[danwismar]

Some of the early talk had them picking the names from among the great Big Ten players of yesteryear. I would have been okay with Grange and Butkus if they hadn't coincidentally gone to the same school. Any way you do that, I guess somebody's going to be unhappy....but that beats everybody being unhappy.

[swerb]

Thank God they're changing this. What a horrific miscalculation.

Me personally, I would love to see em go to the Black & Blue. Simple, and it sends a message about midwestern football. Would help with the identity of the conference.

[mattvan1]

Finally

http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9191768/big-ten-conference-realign-teams-replace-division-names-east-west-sources-say

[fairvis]

And it's official official. http://espn.go.com/college-football/sto ... e-schedule

I also like the scheduling guidelines- no FCS teams, and at least one major (hopefully interpreted as Group of Five) FBS conference opponent per year.

This means, for OSU, most likely 2 "gimme" games every year against the MAC/Sun Belt/Conference USA, with an alternating home/away with a major opponent to coincide the home games with the years that they only have 4 home B1G games. OSU needs 7 home games per year to make the budget work, I'd think.

[jb]

Thank God they're changing this. What a horrific miscalculation.

Me personally, I would love to see em go to the Black & Blue. Simple, and it sends a message about midwestern football. Would help with the identity of the conference.

Or, you know, east & west.

This is so much better now, although not sure the west would win the MAC in any given year anymore.