Mitch Again

August 26th, 2010 at 5:08 PM ^

New Coke was terrible. As a matter of fact, old Coke was terrible. I like to think of The Game as Pepsi. Drink Pepsi!  If the Big Ten decides to do what we don't want them to do, then we'll definately have a New Coke Mutiny on our hands. 

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johng

August 26th, 2010 at 5:29 PM ^

If the announcement is not coming until mid-September, how about some futile fan statements at the UConn game:

Face away from the field for the first drive?

Green out?

Something else?

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winterblue75

August 26th, 2010 at 5:37 PM ^

Those are the absolute dumbest ideas I have ever heard.

Stop watching the product on the field? The players and RR aren't moving the game!

Wear green at a UM game to protest a UM/OSU potential date change? What would wearing green accomplish?

How about a more than futile effort and stop posting?

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johng

August 26th, 2010 at 8:25 PM ^

 

But nobody cares.  There's been a week of save-the-game screaming already.  All that has gotten us is vomit-inducing PR-speak from the athletic department.  My "suggestions" above are petty and misdirected, but the athletic department's rolling on this makes me daydream about lashing out in counterproductive and childish ways.

Players have to graduate.  Bo and Ufer had to leave us too.  Being in a conference means we are going to get shafted for the sake of others sometimes.  Fair enough.  But the athletic department's trying to sell that this as a good thing makes me sick.  I'll pretend Northwestern and Minnesota bring as much to the conference as U of M and OSU and deserve equal shares of revenue.  But we have to give up the game too?  For what?  Enough revenue sharing for an extra crew scholarship for each school?  Blech.  

But nobody cares.  There's been a week of save-the-game screaming already.  All that has gotten us is vomit-inducing PR-speak from the athletic department.  My "suggestions" above are petty and misdirected, but the athletic department's rolling on this makes me daydream about lashing out in counterproductive and childish ways.
 
Players have to graduate.  Bo and Ufer had to leave us too.  Being in a conference means we are going to get shafted for the sake of others sometimes.  Fair enough.  But the athletic department's trying to sell that this as a good thing makes me sick.  I'll pretend Northwestern and Minnesota bring as much to the conference as U of M and OSU and deserve equal shares of revenue.  But we have to give up the game too?  For what?  Enough revenue sharing for an extra crew scholarship for each school?  Blech.  But nobody cares.  There's been a week of save-the-game screaming already.  All that has gotten us is vomit-inducing PR-speak from the athletic department.  My "suggestions" above are petty and misdirected, but the athletic department's rolling on this makes me daydream about lashing out in counterproductive and childish ways.
 
Players have to graduate.  Bo and Ufer had to leave us too.  Being in a conference means we are going to get shafted for the sake of others sometimes.  Fair enough.  But the athletic department's trying to sell that this as a good thing makes me sick.  I'll pretend Northwestern and Minnesota bring as much to the conference as U of M and OSU and deserve equal shares of revenue.  But we have to give up the game too?  For what?  Enough revenue sharing for an extra crew scholarship for each school?  Blech.  

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wile_e8

August 26th, 2010 at 5:38 PM ^

So I was reading through the comments, and one of them made me (even more) sick.  So first the set up:

I assume the Big Ten’s current plan is to have UM vs. OSU and Penn State vs. Nebraska as protected cross-division rivals. Over at The Rivalry (I think) they had a post explaining that the protected cross-division rivals in the SEC (LSU-Fla, Aub-Ga, Tenn-Bama) had never played each other for the championship because one of each pair always gets a key loss. Thus, the winner of Fla-LSU, for instance, is more likely to play against the winner of one of the other cross-division rivalry games than to have a rematch with the loser of Fla-LSU.

Point being that the anticipated UM-OSU championship game is very unlikely to happen (even if UM gets good again).

Nothing except pointing out the should-be-obvious about how screwing The Game up for a possible championship game is a bad idea.  But then a reply:

If you see below in the byu post, someone quoted the UM official as saying they were probably only going to count division games to avoid that problem.

Yeah, so there's a chance The Game might count for *nothing*

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Njia

August 26th, 2010 at 7:38 PM ^

So it's not plagiarism, per se....

Jim Delany (and all of the ADs and university administrations) need to change their last names to "Coke". Therefore, when someone sends them a note that says, "Dude! Are you on crack?!"

He can reply, "Why yes, and thank you very much for asking."

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jmblue

August 26th, 2010 at 11:00 PM ^

Great post by an influential blogger.  We've got virtually everyone in the media on our side.  At some point, the conference has to stop and take notice. 

By the way, if you read the comments, someone there said that Gordon Gee is actually encouraging fans to email, especially with as many facts and figures that they have.  If true, maybe OSU might end up on the right side of this - and maybe Mary Sue can join it.

EDIT: By the way, "New Coke Conference" has a nice ring to it.  I propose that we give the league that nickname if they do split UM and OSU up.

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