OK, dumb question: If a league expanded to 12 teams, is there any rule that requires them to have a championship game? Because I think I would like the Big Ten to expand to 12 games, just so it could add a ninth conference game, not splitting in to divisions.
Theoretical question: How do you split the Big Ten into two divisions, assuming there was a championship game? No matter what, do you not end up undermining the importance of the tOSU-UM game?
You add a ninth conference game, and you guarantee the following cross divisional games each season:
Michigan-Ohio State
Michigan State-Penn State
Indiana-Purdue
Illinois-Northwestern
Minnesota-Wisconsin
Notre Dame/Pitt-Iowa (Make up a trophy, claim it's important)
Have all of those games played on the last weekend of the season, as they already are. Have Thanksgiving weekend off and then have the championship game on championship weekend. Even if there's a rematch, there's been a week between them. Also, with a ninth conference game, you never go more than two years without seeing a cross-divisional opponent. I could even make a case for having a second guaranteed cross-divisional game:
@NovakAintNoJokovic: I'm digging my way through the NCAA rules right now trying to see if the Big Ten would actually have to have a championship game, or if we'd just be better off jettisoning PSU and going the PAC 10 route.
And this is why I prefer Doctor Who so much. Sure, there's always the fringe who takes it too seriously, but anyone who's really a fan of the show knows that not only was it not supposed to be so Sci-Fi (educational show about science and history), but there was no bible, so you know it was written as it went along.
For example, the series had two explanations of why Atlantis sank, and three explanations of the Loch Ness Monster.
@What Would Kornheiser Do?: Huzzah! Dr. Who never made any excuses for themselves, either. They fully embrace the campy, cheesy, cheekiness. Revel in it, really. I mean, you have to love a show wherein Peter Davidson fights off men in Hefty trashbags covered in raisins.
@Sculptor?!?I_just_met_her!: Somewhere, in the Recevermom's basement, is a Tom Baker Dr. Who scarf. Only one person who ever saw me wear it understood.
@Sculptor?!?I_just_met_her!: Yeah, I just caught some of the prequels when they aired on Spike last week (BTW, they now air them in marathons in episodic order). How can anyone not tell he's making shit up as he goes along?
I'm a disgruntled SW geek too, but I liked parts of the prequels and I am on record as willing to spend money on anything Star Wars-related. As for this movie, I got it from Netflix.
@What Would Kornheiser Do?: @Yostal: Gah, for reals. Han shoots first, dammit. it says so in my first edition 'Star Wars:the adventures of Luke Skywalker' book. Leia remembers her mother, but Padme gets her ticket punched? I could go on for a good while, as could many of us - I hereby call bullshit.
@Sculptor?!?I_just_met_her!: I'm sure Lucas meant to say that Leia remembered her adoptive mother. We don't know what happened to Mrs. Organa. Maybe she died young.
@Peter Cavan: I'm sure Lucas meant to say that Leia remembered her adoptive mother. We don't know what happened to Mrs. Organa. Maybe she died young.
And maybe Lucas was going for the Appalachian crowd by having Leia kiss her brother in the first movie (Sure, they didn't know, but didn't Lucas?).
I seriously call bullshit on his claim to having plans for 9 movies all along. Back then, you were lucky to get just one fucking picture, much less three. And you thought you'd get 9?
@What Would Kornheiser Do?: Bwhaha! "The force is strong in my family...I have it, my father had it, my...sister has it..." " I knew! Somehow, all along, I knew!"
@Sculptor?!?I_just_met_her!: Lucas was taken down by the development of the home video market. I am convinced of this. Though it made him brazillions of dollars, it also meant he had plot holes he could not explain away, but he didn't care.
I knew not coming up with a clever screen name would haunt me. I might be mistaken for someone who didn't have the patience to carefully craft comments for a month until I finally slipped in the back door. Damn kids and their sense of entitlement.
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Better keep drinking.
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Theoretical question: How do you split the Big Ten into two divisions, assuming there was a championship game? No matter what, do you not end up undermining the importance of the tOSU-UM game?
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Division A-M: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, and Minnesota
Division N-Z: Northwestern, Ohio State, Pitt/Notre Dame, Purdue, Penn State, Wisconsin.
You add a ninth conference game, and you guarantee the following cross divisional games each season:
Michigan-Ohio State
Michigan State-Penn State
Indiana-Purdue
Illinois-Northwestern
Minnesota-Wisconsin
Notre Dame/Pitt-Iowa (Make up a trophy, claim it's important)
Have all of those games played on the last weekend of the season, as they already are. Have Thanksgiving weekend off and then have the championship game on championship weekend. Even if there's a rematch, there's been a week between them. Also, with a ninth conference game, you never go more than two years without seeing a cross-divisional opponent. I could even make a case for having a second guaranteed cross-divisional game:
Michigan-Notre Dame or Penn State-Pitt
Iowa-Wisconsin
Illinois-Purdue
Michigan-Northwestern or Penn State-Minnesota
Minnesota-Northwestern
Michigan State-Ohio State.
It could work, I think.
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@Yostal: That is pretty damn brilliant. +1
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For example, the series had two explanations of why Atlantis sank, and three explanations of the Loch Ness Monster.
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/fuck Lucas right in the ear
//disgruntled SW geek
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I'm a disgruntled SW geek too, but I liked parts of the prequels and I am on record as willing to spend money on anything Star Wars-related. As for this movie, I got it from Netflix.
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And maybe Lucas was going for the Appalachian crowd by having Leia kiss her brother in the first movie (Sure, they didn't know, but didn't Lucas?).
I seriously call bullshit on his claim to having plans for 9 movies all along. Back then, you were lucky to get just one fucking picture, much less three. And you thought you'd get 9?
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Suuure, you did sweetheart. Bullshit.
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My goodness, does Michigan just not like Billy Sauer any more? The goal support differential isn't even funny between Sauer and Hogan.
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Sauer: 10 goals in 8 games
Hogan: 43 goals in 8 games
It's just, it's crazy.
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Let's not talk about last Friday.
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Oh, and to the Facebook crowd, please remember this before you comment:
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