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Big Ten division names: 'Legends' and 'Leaders'
Chicago Tribune ^ | December 13, 2010 | Teddy Greenstein

Posted on 12/13/2010 1:33:31 PM PST by ConservativeStatement

Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said the conference wanted to choose football division names that reflected both the league's past and future.

And here they are: "Legends" and "Leaders."

(Excerpt) Read more at chicagobreakingsports.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bigten; collegefootball
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To: ConservativeStatement

I was pulling for “Three Yards” and “Cloud of Dust”, but nobody asked me.


21 posted on 12/13/2010 2:03:46 PM PST by TonyInOhio ( Live free or die: Death is not the worst of evils.)
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To: ConservativeStatement
The Big Ten now sponsored by:


22 posted on 12/13/2010 2:05:25 PM PST by Carpe Cerevisi
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To: dirtboy
So the Big Ten has twelve teams and the Big Twelve has ten teams.

To provide a degree of dis-ambiguity, why don't we call it "The Big Ten plus Northwestern and Nebraska?"

23 posted on 12/13/2010 2:13:14 PM PST by DrDavid (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

I don’t hate the names as much as I hate them together because they imply that “leaders” are not “legends” and vice versa. Give me a half-hour and I would have come up with something better.


24 posted on 12/13/2010 2:35:02 PM PST by OrangeHoof (Washington, we Texans want a divorce!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

“Pros” and “Cons”


25 posted on 12/13/2010 2:51:51 PM PST by kickonly88 (I love fossil fuel!)
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To: ConservativeStatement

gee, and I thought the NHL was lame back when they had the Patrick, Norris, Smythe and Adams Divisions...


26 posted on 12/13/2010 2:57:17 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: JennysCool

How about:

Anti-Catholic Bigot division (or, “Know Nothing” division (would include Michigan, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Illinois. Purdue and Northwestern); and

Suckhole division (Knute Rockne’s colorful description of a Big Ten referee): all the other suckholes.


27 posted on 12/13/2010 3:00:00 PM PST by nd76
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Just remember that 70 teams out of 120 are going to bowls.


28 posted on 12/13/2010 3:09:52 PM PST by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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To: ConservativeStatement

How about Big Ten West and Big Ten-Don’t-wake-Paterno-he’s-sleeping.


29 posted on 12/13/2010 3:18:50 PM PST by MontaniSemperLiberi (Moutaineers are Always Free)
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To: ConservativeStatement

One Division should have been named “Shembechler” and the other Division “Hayes”


30 posted on 12/13/2010 3:44:08 PM PST by scbison
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To: scbison
One Division should have been named “Shembechler” and the other Division “Hayes”

That would have been perfect.

31 posted on 12/13/2010 3:46:01 PM PST by dfwgator (Welcome to the Gator Nation Will Muschamp)
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To: dfwgator

I just read on espn that they wanted to stay away from names of coaches.. Sort of stupid as these 2 men represtned what Big Ten football was all about,hard nosed, run the ball first and good defense football.. The Names they came up with are stupid.


32 posted on 12/13/2010 3:54:48 PM PST by scbison
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To: ConservativeStatement

Currently Irrelevant and Historically Irrelevant


33 posted on 12/13/2010 3:58:57 PM PST by Despot of the Delta
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To: ConservativeStatement

Fake Left & Fake Right


34 posted on 12/13/2010 4:18:25 PM PST by greatdefender (If You Want Peace.....Prepare For War)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Has there ever been a bowl season with such a large proportion of 6-6 teams playing in a bowl game?


35 posted on 12/13/2010 5:43:05 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

It’s a side effect of adding more bowls.

Dang, something like the “Red” division and the “Blue” division would have been better. Olympic Hockey used to have names like that.

“Hayes” and “Schembechler” would have been better also. It wouldn’t have had to be those two but those are much better than “Legends” and “Leaders.”

“East” and “West” would have been better also.


36 posted on 12/13/2010 7:17:52 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: ConservativeStatement
Update!

Big Ten commissioner says conference may reconsider division names. Sanity prevails.

37 posted on 12/17/2010 1:43:31 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (I'm with Jim DeMint ... on the fringe!)
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