There's a teleconference a half hour before, so at least the division names should be available around 11:35.
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Big Ten Logo/Division Names revealed at noon on BTN
Sweet Dude!
Is Michigan in the sweet division or the dude division?
Gracias.
Maize and Blue
I hope we are in the super fly div.
There are going to be twelve teams. Sixteen is a little premature.
new logo leak
But "Rotel" and "Velveeta" divisions would make the Big Ten Championship game the Queso Bowl
i hope you have some insider info...that would be amazing.
And queso dip.
Oh my, that bowl would be delicious!
My favorite suggestion for division names:
"Why isn't Wisconsin in this division Division"
"Why is Wisconsin in this division Division"
- The "why isn't Wisconsin in this division" Division
- The "why is Wisconsin in this division" Division
stop copying me
Apologies
Our logo is turning into one of those mind tricks where they write out the word "red" but make it blue and you're supposed to say the color that it is and not what it spells.
for the Meat division vs. the Grain division. We're the Grain division. Mmmm... grain.
stream?
I personally prefer the Charles Woodson division and the Tom Brady division.
Division A and Division not A?
Division A and Division A^c. I like it.
Yes and No.
Here's a guess that at least makes sense, if not actually a good idea
Paul Bunyan division (Michigan, MSU, & Minnesota, ...)
Johnny Appleseed division (OSU, Indiana, ...)
Rust and Belt
Anyone have a picture of the original Big 10 logo?
Perhaps the two biggest names in B10ish football history.
Griffin and Harmon. I think Griffin would have to be one if you go that route. FWIW, I would like Schemebchler and Hayes.
3 yards division
Cloud of Dust division
Spread Division
Is Dead Division
/Gary Danielson
I'm thinking its going to be something generic like Atlantic/Coastal
Great Lakes/Midwest??
Will these divisions carry over into basketball as well like SEC or will we go like ACC with no divisions?
Divisions are for football only.
I could be wrong but I think we are going with a round robin basketbal schedual.
Division 1 and Division A. Everyone is a winner!
The divisions will be the:
JIM Division
and
DELANEY Division
Oh Jim Delaney... thought it was worth re visiting this video my friend bobmurph made.
I was in need of cheering up after recent Big Ten news.
Manly Beef Package Power Football Division (MBPPF, the sound you make after eating cheese curds and beer)
and
Gimmicky Undersized Player Spread Division (GUPS, or the Guppy Div.)
The Beef Division, and
The Jerky Division.
Please let them be something reasonably not-mockable. I remember some guy seriously suggesting the "Sportsmanship" and "Character" divisions. Ugh.
I vote for Great Lakes and Midwest divisions personally.
Done and done.
Not for these divisions though. If you went with Lakes/Plains, you'd need to make some sense of the geography, no? If you swapped Neb/Iowa for Wisky/PSU, it might work.
I personally was not a big fan of the somewhat jingoistic "stars" and "stripes" divisions that were also suggested. I know that saying this has put a death warrant on myself to be carried out by Ricky Stanzi, defender of peace, hope, and the American dream, after he's done with the terrorists of course.
and the hippies. Stanzi hates hippies
the velveeta division and the rotel division.
Scholars Division
Leaders Division
Leaders Division
The Best Division
I guess you were half right!?!?!!
Michigan will play in a division named after legendary coach and athletic director: Fielding Yost.
Ohio State will play in a division named after its legendary assistant coach: Bo Schembechler.
Gryffindor vs. Slytherin.
Winner winner.
chicken dinner
Ravenclaw vs. Hufflepuff
I'd be up for a Red Division and a Blue Division.
Long Division and Cellular Division?
Now we know why DB was hired!!!!!
Rich & Rod, would that solidify his coaching status?
For the life of me, I can't kick this fear of a Capital One division and a Tostitos division.
York Division Presented by Rotel
Lancaster Division Presented by Velveeta
Championship Game: War of the Roses Presented by Barbasol
The music on the Big Ten network live feed right now is awesome! Do they sell this tune?
How do I access the live feed? Do I need to be registered at BTN.com? One of Delaney's minions?
is stupid.
But you can't have the same letter be a "G" and a "0"
not a fan...
...here's the new Big 10 Logo:
when you can't figure out how you're supposed to look at it. B-1 G? Big?
I keep looking for a 2. Why is there a random 1? Were they limited to alpha-numerics on this?
The 'G' is also a '0'...B1G or B10 depending on how you look at it...
Or maybe they are going for the vigesimal 16 in the logo so they won't have to update it when we add four more teams next week...
/s
Thoroughly disappointing.
I am completely underwhelmed. Very bland. Hopefully the division names are more interesting than this.
Edit: I'm okay with Legends/Leaders. To be fair though, the logo lowered the bar.
The GERG of logos.
it's terrible. It looks like a 12 year old designed it in art class
That logo is complete b.s.
monuMental could have come up with something 1,000 times better in 30 minutes.
booo.
Wow. This really is quite lame. Typical results of a focus group effort.
That logo is horrendous
Not impressed with the new logo.
I prefer the horizontal logo over the vertical one.
At least the last one was semi-creative with the hidden 11. This just sucks.
Watching Delaney explain that the B1G logo was a "social media" logo was an awesome example of old-people-faux-hipness.
I can't access the feed. Is anyone offering any explanation on logo design? Why?
look at the logo and say, 'yea, I like that'
The names better not be this bad
Facebook and Twitter divisions?
is bad too, why is it like Tarheel blue? The more I look at it the more I hate it. I hope the names are better.
This intro on leadership gives me a great deal of fear.
This is going to be legendarily terrible.
wait is it just an awesome coincidence that you guys just happened to mention "Leadership" and "Legendarily" or had the names already been announced by this point?
Looks like it favors OSU. Did Pryor make this?
Joe Girardi and the Yankees suck!!!!
FAIL!
This video is setting up these division names for failure. I hope I'm wrong.
what about the division names?
Leaders and Courage?
Leaders and Best?
I can feel it:
The HUMILITY and the INTEGRITY divisions!
HARD EDGE!
Is making me laugh outloud in the grad stacks. I feel bad, but this is just so aweful.
WHAT. THE. HELL. This is bullshit. Worst names ever.
Can you imagine the SEC with division names like these? Good God.
...
Ugh!!!
Legends and Leaders.
Legends and Leaders...WTF
Legends and Leaders
boooo
Legends and Leaders
Video on Leadership. This is not setting up well for the division names. Please don't burden us with abstract-idealized division names.
Legends and leaders? That is the best they can do?
Is that really what they just said the divisions are?
Michigan ISN'T in the leaders division? It's in the fucking fight song for christ's sake!
Leaders and best...not in the leaders division. Something about that doesn't seem right, haha.
How do you have a Leaders division that does not include Michigan?
Jim Delany Fail. Big surprise.
fuck this
Well guys, I, for one, cannot WAIT to be LEGENDS DIVISION CHAMPIONS!
So we're in the Legends division. I can't deal with how bad that was.
and Best.
Aren't legend guys that are now too old to play?
I don't mind them. They're kind of catchy, and will provide for a lot of jokes while tailgating.
We, obviously, should have been in the Leaders division though.
just horrible...your gonna hold a special show for this shit?
Did LeBron announce where he is going?
A thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters came up with the great division names of all time.
Stupid monkeys.
... or were, as it were.
Logo looks like it was sourced on fiverr.
It's a cornhusker-clusterf#ck!
Stagg-Paterno??? wtf! PSU has been in the conference for how long? ARGH!
the old school Big Ten Commish type names that had been thrown out.
Given the lack of feisability of directionality (East/West), school affiliation (Bo/Woody), or region (Great Lake/Great Plain) the names were bound to suck no matter what.
Wow. They just keep piling on the crap, don't they!
Stagg-Paterno for championship game
Grange-Griffin for MVP of championship game
cue suicide
Paterno gets a Trophy and we can't be in the Leaders division? Crap. Reminds me of the CCHA naming the Mason Jar (cup) for the CCHA before Mason retired.
Doesn't Michigan have some kind of record for most conference championships...of anybody that's ever played the game?
We outnumber PSU 42-3 in Big Ten titles and it's their coach's name on the trophy?
I'm not sayin...I'm just sayin.
It just keeps getting worse!
stagg paterno trophy is terrible
stagg from uni of chicago - not in conference
paterno - less than half of career in conference
michigan's namesake trophy is gerald fucking ford.
this is going so poorly.
Once upon a time when the league was actually the Big Nine (funny how it was OK once not to have an even number - I guess it was just the style at the time), U of Chicago was a member athletically. Later it decided to drop out when it couldn't admit players who could both have hopes of ever graduating AND also play at the rising caliber of play. They do however participate as noted in academic superstructure meetings.
It seems like the trophies and awards were named with an old-new theme. Find someone from the past and then find someone more recent. When these things pop up (like New Coke, the "new" NBC logo, the original Infiniti car ads which showed NO cars) one has to wonder what the brainstorming sessions were like and what ideas were rejected.
When the "new" part of a name is Paterno, you know you have issues.
THIS IS MY NIGHTMARE!
for best coach
they got SOMETHING right
They were bound to stick some words in the right order in the right place eventually. There's only a finite set to work with, after all.
That I can live with.
This was the one trophy name they actually got right.
I can't get over how they felt the need to "represent" generations and teams with these odd pairings. Yeah, Pat Fitzgerald and Dick Butkus are practically football equals... right. Tim McGarigle was as good as Fitzgerald. Jonas Mouton will do more in the NFL than Ftizgerald.
I think we should update all trophies. Let's call it the Heisman-Tebow trophy from now on
Why do we need two names on every trophy? Are they that worried about offending someone? I hate political correctness.
You almost have to respect how spectacularly this is bombing. It's pretty awesome. I fully expect the next announcement to be that they're adding New Mexico State but plan to remain a 13-school conference for the foreseeable future.
are stupid.
How stupid would the best player of the year trophy sound if it was called the "Heisman-Smith Trophy"
http://www.bigten.org/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/121310aaa.html
Why give Purdue and Wisconsin sole ownership of the QB and RB trophies???
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Words escape me at how insane this all is...
This is what took so long?
Did they decide they don't want Nebraska after all and trying to scare them away?
A thought on the Great Lakes / Plains concept: doesn't just about everyone agree that was the best solution here??
As to it not making sense, doesn't every Big 10 school state have a connection to the lakes, except Nebraska and Iowa? So put those 2 in the freaking plains division! and every school state has something approximating plaines.
Goddam this fail just makes me upset. I'M CALLING THEM GREAT LAKES AND PLAINS DIVISIONS.
so glad ND isn't a part of this crap