2016

[Gulo Blue]

Of course it's not. I'm not looking for equality of outcomes or saying that talent should be distributed evenly among teams. I'm looking for a more even playing field. Uofm, OSU, Delaney et al are the corporatocracy but there is no Bernie sanders equivalent in this argument.

Yeah there is. You just don't want to see it. Not doing what the corporatocracy prioritizes is a totally Bernie Sanders thing to do.

 

[Spartanmack]

Yeah there is. You just don't want to see it. Not doing what the corporatocracy prioritizes is a totally Bernie Sanders thing to do.

Bernie and I are both anti-establishment, so in that respect i guess you're right. But that's where the similarities end - in politics and college football.

 

[Spartanmack]

It's the only big 10 rivalry game that gets any national attention. If you look at most rival games in other conferences, most are in the same division.


Cal, Stanford
UCLA, USC
Bama, Auburn


Even smaller ones (but big to the fan bases)


Washington, WSU
AZ, ASU
OLE miss, Miss St
Oregon, Oregon St
UM, MSU

The point isn't about breaking up rivalries for the sake of breaking up rivalries. Nobody would argue UCLA or CAL is a PAC12 let alone national power upsetting the balance of the PAC 12 - but thanks for adding irrelevant nonsense to the conversation again. And even the irrelevant point you're making is weak - how many people are biding time waiting for that Cal/Stanford game? USC fans care more about the ND game than ucla but nobody outside of those teams fan bases care about those rivalries either.

 

[biggunsbob]

we could also just do away with divisions and have the top 2 play eachother at the end of the season.

no idea how tiebreakers would work though.

That solution is just too easy the only problem is lack of non conference games probably because they would have to play 9 conference games for sure. Unfortunately you are still miss playing 4 teams each season. The divisions as they are set up are teriible right now.

 

[byco42]

"It's not fair that M, MSU and OSU are in the same division, and someone needs to do something about it.!"

 

[Gulo Blue]

I've slept on it and I still think breaking up Michigan and Ohio State is the worst idea we've seen on this board since we discussed passing out while smoking on a couch, outside, on your porch.

 

[Michchamp]

I've slept on it and I still think breaking up Michigan and Ohio State is the worst idea we've seen on this board since we discussed passing out while smoking on a couch, outside, on your porch.

i thought we all agreed that was actually a good idea because it's your own couch and porch and [insert typical immature, selfish, libertarian nonsense here].

 

[TheVictors]

Don't get me started on the Constitution and the Right every American has to put indoor furniture on his or her porch.

Dont

Get

Me

Started.



By the way, did M&B09 quit or is he just on MGoBrian full time now? And who there is Uncle Leo...?

 

[Michchamp]

Don't get me started on the Constitution and the Right every American has to put indoor furniture on his or her porch.

Dont

Get

Me

Started.



By the way, did M&B09 quit or is he just on MGoBrian full time now? And who there is Uncle Leo...?

I thought he had a kid in the last year (?) that explained some of his absence in my mind. plus he was usually one of the guys who disappears during the offseason. Didn't know he had apparently defected to the "Mob" side of the fanbase. (ironically abcd posts there too.)

 

[TheVictors]

I thought he had a kid in the last year (?) that explained some of his absence in my mind. plus he was usually one of the guys who disappears during the offseason. Didn't know he had apparently defected to the "Mob" side of the fanbase. (ironically abcd posts there too.)

which poster is abcd? I see a few really old school names over there - heptarch, MGoDiscGolfer - from way, way back in the espn days ...like before Chad Henne era at UM

and 'Uncle Leo' posted to me that he was over here too (or used to be) but that whenever he posted, he drew someone out over here who rarely otherwise posts .....?

 

[tinselwolverine]

USC fans care more about the ND game than ucla but nobody outside of those teams fan bases care about those rivalries either.

People care about rivalries.

The conference did vote to keep the historic California rivalries. The Bay Area schools have played the Los Angeles schools every year since 1946 in rivalries that started long before that. Cal and Stanford will each play UCLA and USC every year in football.

"It was something all four of the California schools from minute one stated as essential to us," Cal athletic director Sandy Barbour said. "We would not have been in favor of any deal or ultimate resolution that did not provide that as an opportunity."

USC athletic director Pat Haden had been vocal in advocating that the Los Angeles schools still play the other California rivals.

"When you think about the history of the games, we've played Cal for nearly 100 years, Stanford for 80-some. They've been historic games, great memories, memorable moments in those games," Haden said. "At the end of the day, the presidents did a great job because they were able to preserve the rivalries -- not only from USC's perspective, as I understand it, but Oregon, Oregon State, Washington, Washington State and all those schools."

Source

 

[Michchamp]

which poster is abcd? I see a few really old school names over there - heptarch, MGoDiscGolfer - from way, way back in the espn days ...like before Chad Henne era at UM

and 'Uncle Leo' posted to me that he was over here too (or used to be) but that whenever he posted, he drew someone out over here who rarely otherwise posts .....?

someone reposted some of abcd's mgoblog comments here in the last year. i forget what his new handle was.

not sure who uncle leo could be... I didn't know there was a "cat and mouse game" on our board going on like that. the last weird interaction i remember was that douglas2k guy and the angry guy he drew in, posting about the brendan gibbons thing. remember that? we were all a little shocked our own private board was google-able like that.

lame.

 

[Gulo Blue]

ABCD didn't last long at MGoBlog

http://www.detroitsportsforum.com/showthread.php?t=17843

 

[TheVictors]

someone reposted some of abcd's mgoblog comments here in the last year. i forget what his new handle was.

not sure who uncle leo could be... I didn't know there was a "cat and mouse game" on our board going on like that. the last weird interaction i remember was that douglas2k guy and the angry guy he drew in, posting about the brendan gibbons thing. remember that? we were all a little shocked our own private board was google-able like that.

lame.

yeah, THAT guy was the weirdo who was attending all the hearings related to Gibbons and as a former U employee, had an axe to grind for sure.

Uncle Leo ...I was guessing was perhaps zyxt but he got mad at me here too, so thought perhaps not. He said he used to post here but that whenever he did, that some other poster here would jump on him every time.

hmmmmmmmm

 

[Michchamp]

ABCD didn't last long at MGoBlog

http://www.detroitsportsforum.com/showthread.php?t=17843

well he was right about Nussmeier not making it to year 2!

 

[Michchamp]

I guess I am just the only person who liked abcd's posts. oh well.

 

[Michchamp]

yeah, THAT guy was the weirdo who was attending all the hearings related to Gibbons and as a former U employee, had an axe to grind for sure.

Uncle Leo ...I was guessing was perhaps zyxt but he got mad at me here too, so thought perhaps not. He said he used to post here but that whenever he did, that some other poster here would jump on him every time.

hmmmmmmmm

it's probably dubbs and the guy who jumps on him is death roh.

 

[TheVictors]

I guess I am just the only person who liked abcd's posts. oh well.

I liked him back at espn for a while ...I think the guy went off the deep end a bit at the end there, though and all the DeBord shit was waaaaaaay over the top and far too after teh fact. So I just ignored him

 

[TheVictors]

it's probably dubbs and the guy who jumps on him is death roh.

Ahhh ...could be. Is Dubbs a big soccer guy?

 

[Michchamp]

Ahhh ...could be. Is Dubbs a big soccer guy?

yeah.