B1G Division names will be kept
Looks like were stuck with "Leaders" and "Legends" Division names for the 2011 season, I.E. probably forever.
January 13th, 2011 at 6:54 PM ^
Of course we will. All of Tim DeLaney's decisions defy logic.
January 13th, 2011 at 6:58 PM ^
Jim Delany
January 13th, 2011 at 6:59 PM ^
He doesn't even deserve a name.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:29 PM ^
That Commissioner In Illinois.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:00 PM ^
Bob Devaney?
January 13th, 2011 at 8:55 PM ^
Thanks for making living down south - as a Big Ten fan, even easier. My boss said - jokingly, at least you'll change them...
Yeah ...... or not!
January 13th, 2011 at 8:58 PM ^
a naming contest here. Let Brady pick the winner.
January 13th, 2011 at 8:38 PM ^
I'd rather see the division names "Jim" and "Delaney" then this mess.
January 13th, 2011 at 6:57 PM ^
Wait, they decided to reconsider them... and then kept them?
January 13th, 2011 at 6:57 PM ^
"We can't test them until we play a season," Big Ten chief communications officer Diane Dietz told ESPN.com on Thursday. "We can't know until we use them."
While that's true for a football team (can't say if it's good or not until you see them play) it's not true for this... They are just the names of the divisions - you don't have to play the games to figure out the names are crap... The rabid idiocy in some of these places confounds me - what's even more disheartening is these morons are, probably, getting paid more than most of us and they show time and again to be idiots. Blah...
January 13th, 2011 at 6:58 PM ^
UGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!
January 13th, 2011 at 6:58 PM ^
January 13th, 2011 at 6:58 PM ^
Can people stop writing "B1G"? I know what it means (and what it's supposed to stand for), but I look at it and assume immediately that someone has misspelled the word "big" while needlessly using all caps. My brain makes Lou Holtz noises every time I read it.
It hurts the eyes.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:13 PM ^
And really, that dumb abbreviation doesn't deserve the dignity of being used at all.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:14 PM ^
I'm not a fan of it, I just thought it was fitting for this post.
January 13th, 2011 at 6:58 PM ^
jim delany
you are very stupid
January 13th, 2011 at 7:01 PM ^
Jim Delaney<Lloyd Christmas
January 13th, 2011 at 7:07 PM ^
Lloyd Christmas<Lloyd Brady
January 13th, 2011 at 7:10 PM ^
I was assuming that was "U" understood.
January 13th, 2011 at 10:19 PM ^
Lloyd Christmas + Tom Brady = Lloyd Brady
January 13th, 2011 at 7:02 PM ^
To the perfect week.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:02 PM ^
If Brady Hoke wants to win over skeptical segments of the MGoBlog base, mentioning how dumb the names are on a radio show would go a long way methinks.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:04 PM ^
18 and 96.
Generic and weird? Yes. Soft and lame? No. It's the year the Big Ten was founded. Hard to offend anyone as with "Bo" and "Woody" or "Blue" and "Red", etc. No? Maybe it sucks...I don't know...
January 13th, 2011 at 9:37 PM ^
Your idea sucks.
However, take great joy and pride in the fact that your idea is 1000x better than what the Big Ten and it's marketing bafoons have come up with.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:07 PM ^
How about "Steve" and "Reginald"? Still better than "Leaders" and "Legends".
January 13th, 2011 at 10:01 PM ^
Shit, I'd prefer "Reginald" and "VelJohnson."
January 13th, 2011 at 7:08 PM ^
This make JoePa sad....or angry...or whatever the hell that expression is.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:13 PM ^
I'm not using those stupid names. The divisions are West (the one with Michigan) and East (the one with Penn State). Pennsylvania in the East, Michigan in the West. Got it? Good.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:19 PM ^
Well at least in the lyrics it is.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:31 PM ^
Technically, Michigan did dominate the Western Conference before it turned into the Big Ten, which means that Michigan still is, and always will be, the Champions of the West...
Oh wait. I see what you did there.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:27 PM ^
It mostly works. The hell with Wisconsin.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:17 PM ^
Actually, that's pretty smart. This gives them the pretense of ingraining these names over a season, at which point, most people couldn't give two craps about. They stick with the names, and noone even notices.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:19 PM ^
leaders and legends
we need a snarky nickname
like mepps and merlin
January 13th, 2011 at 7:42 PM ^
These names are so lame
Lou Holtz could write better ones
Bruthhelth and Hilda
January 13th, 2011 at 7:20 PM ^
This conference has lost its mind.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:32 PM ^
...to show the world how the big ten shows its attitude and innovation. much like the uofm football progarm declined under lc after his "charles woodson" national championship...we now have stupidity as the big ten brand...nice. uofm football and the big ten decision makers deserve one another. the whole college football world criticized the divisional names and saw how the uofm football narcissists treated rr. congratulations and way to represent forward thinking. maybe they will set up a drew not so sharp / freep scholarship for journalistic integrity as well. no wonder uofm and big ten is becoming a punch line to a very old joke.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:34 PM ^
well that makes sense because they're idiots.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:44 PM ^
I almost want to neg you for being the bearer of inane news, no matter how on topic it is.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:05 PM ^
The fact that inane news is coming on the board again rather than endless coaching speculation and terror is actually a welcoming sign for me.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:46 PM ^
I heard a suggestion on rivals and thought it was alot better than leaders and legends. It was heartland and great lakes. What do you guys think?
January 13th, 2011 at 7:51 PM ^
Not that much better, and it's ambiguous. East and West.
January 13th, 2011 at 9:41 PM ^
I had heard Lakes and Plains, and although i think that is somewhat silly, it's waaaaaayyyyy better than Legends and Leaders.
I get where they're going with Legends and Leaders, but it's just stupid.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:47 PM ^
...Rustbelt and Flyover.
January 13th, 2011 at 7:49 PM ^
Well, at least we don't have to worry about overcoming the SEC's grip on the college football landscape.
Manball Ahoy!
January 13th, 2011 at 7:55 PM ^
10 percent will be happy!