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Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - IWokeUpLikeThis - 05-31-2018 10:41 PM https://www.landof10.com/iowa/big-ten-realignment-flip-michigan-state-purdue-east-west-divisions Quote:In the geographic setting, Michigan State preferred to play in the West, as did Purdue. Indiana also was under consideration. The Spartans’ move made the most sense. Michigan State wanted to face Northwestern every year to maintain a Chicago presence for recruiting and its alumni base. RE: Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - Wedge - 06-01-2018 01:09 AM LOL, no. This guy's fan-fiction history of the Big Ten fits right at home on message boards, though. Put it on the same shelf with standard message board claims like, "My school's fans buy 45,000 tickets to every bowl game, and [school I obsessively hate] only sells 200 tickets to their bowl games!" RE: Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - Nerdlinger - 06-01-2018 07:35 AM I don't see why the conference would have prevented the Michigans from having a protected crossover but allowed the Indianas to. RE: Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - arkstfan - 06-01-2018 09:40 AM (06-01-2018 07:35 AM)Nerdlinger Wrote: I don't see why the conference would have prevented the Michigans from having a protected crossover but allowed the Indianas to. Because stating otherwise doesn't advance the Spartans got screwed narrative. RE: Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - Fighting Muskie - 06-01-2018 01:04 PM While not a Spartan myself my father-in-law is and they consider Michigan as their biggest rival followed by Ohio St and Penn St. A move west with a protected rivalry with the Wolverines would separate them from the other two teams they care about. If the quality of East and West become increasingly different then it might be a necessity but I'd prefer that Nebraska, Wisconsin, and Iowa start playing like title contenders and we leave the divisions the same RE: Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - bullet - 06-01-2018 04:05 PM (06-01-2018 07:35 AM)Nerdlinger Wrote: I don't see why the conference would have prevented the Michigans from having a protected crossover but allowed the Indianas to. Because everyone wants to play Michigan. Nobody really cares about IU and PU in football. RE: Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - goofus - 06-01-2018 04:14 PM (06-01-2018 07:35 AM)Nerdlinger Wrote: I don't see why the conference would have prevented the Michigans from having a protected crossover but allowed the Indianas to. Because when the decision was made, the Big Ten did not know yet they were going to do "parity scheduling". 4 teams in the west thought they would play Mich 3 times in 6 years. instead 1 team (Wisc) ended up playing Mich 6 times in 6 years and everybody else only playing Mich twice in 6 years. That's why they didn't want Mich to have a protected crossover at the time. All the teams in the west thought they would get to play Mich more often. As it turned out, it didn't matter because the Big Ten went to parity scheduling. RE: Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - goofus - 06-01-2018 04:18 PM Trading MSU and Purdue does create a new issue of who does MSU play on the final day of the regular season. They can't play Mich that day. My favorite idea is to have MSU play NW ON THE FINAL Saturday and then have PSU play MD. That means ILL would have to play Rutgers. RE: Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - Nerdlinger - 06-01-2018 04:56 PM (06-01-2018 04:14 PM)goofus Wrote:(06-01-2018 07:35 AM)Nerdlinger Wrote: I don't see why the conference would have prevented the Michigans from having a protected crossover but allowed the Indianas to. By parity scheduling, you're referring to how the protected crossovers in the 2016-21 schedules match up opponents roughly by football strength? I wonder why they went that route if there was significant desire for diversity in interdivisional play. In any case, if MSU desired Chicago access, they got it through their protected crossover. Although I'm guessing they were matched up with NW more because both of them happen to be the #4 school in their division. RE: Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - GE and MTS - 06-01-2018 05:37 PM (06-01-2018 04:18 PM)goofus Wrote: Trading MSU and Purdue does create a new issue of who does MSU play on the final day of the regular season. They can't play Mich that day. Michigan and Michigan State don't play on the last day of the season already. Michigan plays Ohio State. Michigan State historically played Penn State once they joined the conference up until the conference split into Legends and Leaders. Now they are in a rotation with Maryland and Rutgers to end each other's season (or so I have been told). RE: Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - goofus - 06-01-2018 05:52 PM Exactly, other than Pur-Indy, the annual cross-over opponent was determined by the recent historical strength of each program. So from 2016-2021, the annual cross-overs ended up being OSU-Neb Mich-Wisc PSU-Iowa MSU-NW MD-Minn Rut-ILL Indy-Pur If they were redone today with the same divisions based on the last 6 years, I imagine Wisc and MSU would move up and Neb and Mich would move down, and the annual cross-overs would look something like this OSU-Wisc MSU-Iowa PSU-Neb Mich-NW MD-Minn Rut-ILL Indy-Pur Now, if MSU and Pur traded divisions, then the annual cross-overs would look maybe like this Mich-MSU OSU-Wisc PSU-Iowa MD-Neb Pur-NW INDY-ILL Rut-Minn But again this invites the question. Other than Mich-MSU, why even have the annual crossover opponent? RE: Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - Fighting Muskie - 06-02-2018 10:43 AM (06-01-2018 05:37 PM)GE and MTS Wrote:(06-01-2018 04:18 PM)goofus Wrote: Trading MSU and Purdue does create a new issue of who does MSU play on the final day of the regular season. They can't play Mich that day. That rotation peaves me. Penn St and Mich St have created a bit of a rivalry and that match up is more likely to have division title and national playoff implications. Make the two new comers play annually. RE: Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - ken d - 06-02-2018 03:06 PM (06-01-2018 05:52 PM)goofus Wrote: Exactly, other than Pur-Indy, the annual cross-over opponent With an 8 game league schedule and no protected crossovers, any schools that wish to can easily fit each other into a four game OOC schedule when they aren't slated to play each other in conference. RE: Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - DawgNBama - 06-02-2018 03:42 PM This is going to sound stupid, but hear me out: PSU hates the Land Grant Trophy!! It’s not so much as rivalry with Michigan State I don’t think, but PSU really despises that trophy. But since MSU coach George Perles came up with the trophy, PSU and MSU are afraid to discontinue it for fear that it might hurt his feelings. The US Post Office came up with a stamp commemorating both PSU & MSU as the first land grant institutions, and I believe that would be a far superior trophy compared to the monstrosity they compete for now. If they want, they can add a gold medallion with Sparty on one side & the PSU lion on the other. RE: Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - goofus - 06-02-2018 04:55 PM (06-02-2018 03:06 PM)ken d Wrote:(06-01-2018 05:52 PM)goofus Wrote: Exactly, other than Pur-Indy, the annual cross-over opponent That's an interesting idea but would be unfair to Indy and Purdue using the current divisions. Or unfair to Mich and MSU if MSU moved to the west. Not sure if anybody else would need to play extra games OOC. Also if the Big Ten did away with protected crossovers and went with 8 conference games, they would need to go to a 7 year rotation instead of 6 years. Each team in opposite divisions would play only twice in 7 years. So cross -division teams wanting to play every year would have to play 5 times OOC in 7 years. Still, if you could get Indy and Purdue to agree to it, it actually could work. RE: Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - goofus - 06-05-2018 12:23 AM https://www.landof10.com/iowa/iowa-ad-ga...ball-games We got some clarification on this question about the Big Ten potentionally reducing the conference games from 9 to 8. Iowa AD Gary Barta says this has not been discussed. The Big Ten has no plans to go back to 8 conference games. What has been discussed is getting rid of "parity scheduling" or the protected cross-over so that Nebraska does not have to play OSU every season. Instead they are talking about just doing a regular cross-over rotation. This would make it less likely that Nebraska ends up playing 3 of the big 4 from the east in 1 year RE: Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - TerpsNPhoenix - 06-05-2018 04:50 AM (06-05-2018 12:23 AM)goofus Wrote: https://www.landof10.com/iowa/iowa-ad-ga...ball-games That link didn't work for me. I think this is the article from Land of 10 about conference games you were referencing. I can understand the frustration of Nebraska about having to play everyone in their division and then also 3 of the top 4 in the east. It should make for a fun (very tough) schedule but when the season is over the fans probably see less wins than they want (expect). Part of me says : "to be the best you have to beat the best" and not just padding the schedule with Maryland, Rutgers and Indiana. But what I expect will happen is that Nebraska will have 1 or 2 of the top east teams and then also 1 or 2 of the bottom every year. Have a good mix of everyone, play everyone in the conference more often. RE: Should B1G flip Purdue and Michigan St? - Fighting Muskie - 06-07-2018 09:27 PM Just get rid of the dumb parity scheduling cross division game-- |