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I think you're forgetting one thing... more than half the years in this new conference, those are probably not going to be the two best teams. Michigan has to get their act together sooner rather than later for that to be an even halfway compelling match-up. tOSU and Michigan would theoretically win their divisions say, 2 out of 3 years with Wisconsin and Penn State winning in the third year, leaving us with theoretically only one Big Ten Championship every 3 years between tOSU and Michigan. The game would have much greater implications in the last week of the regular season, deciding who goes to the Championship Game. The Big Ten is stupid if they'd split tOSU and Michigan.

Hmmmm. Columbus is the farthest east, so I assume them. But to make the divisions geographically pleasing, the northeast would have to be broken up, and move Buffalo, or Boston into the Atlantic. Wouldn't the Jackets just slide right into the Atlantic Division with Pittsburgh? Makes sense to me.

I know you are an Akron fan, and I am a University at Buffalo fan, but there is no way Akron gets in before Buffalo. UB has more students (28,192 v. 27,380), a larger endowment ($410M v. 133M), in a bigger market size (1,170,111 v. 694,960) and is a member of the AAU, which Akron is not. There are only 3 AAU members that field a FBS football team that are not in a "Big 6" conference Rice, Tulane and UB. The only thing I think Akron has over Buffalo are better athletic facilities, especially the new stadium. That is obviously a major factor, but I think UB would get in before any other MAC school. Yeah seriously vmd9, what the hell are you smoking?

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Good luck getting fans in Major League cities to pay Major League ticket prices for a team that for all intents and purposes is considered Minor League. -Dan The only way this works is if say the playoffs consist of 6 "A League" teams and 2 "B League" teams. Which would be stupid for a lot of reasons. Exactly.

Good luck getting fans in Major League cities to pay Major League ticket prices for a team that for all intents and purposes is considered Minor League. -Dan The only way this works is if say the playoffs consist of 6 "A League" teams and 2 "B League" teams.

Actually, I think several people would think a tournament in flyover country is indeed a step down from playing at MSG. Hey, we're not that bad! EDIT: Also, we get the Final Four once every 5 years is it? MSG is home to the NIT. Talk about big time. Yeah that would be awesome... If the Big Ten tournament was played at Lucas Oil Stadium. Only it's at Conseco. Fair enough. I was talking about the city itself not the venue.

Actually, I think several people would think a tournament in flyover country is indeed a step down from playing at MSG. Hey, we're not that bad! EDIT: Also, we get the Final Four once every 5 years is it? MSG is home to the NIT. Talk about big time.

Ah, good point. I know the SEC splits them up so I was forgetting about how the ACC does it.

If it's say Mizzou, then it works perfectly: Illinois Iowa Minnesota Missouri Northwestern Wisconsin Indiana Michigan Michigan State Ohio State Penn State Purdue If it's say Pitt though, it begins to cloud up some more. This is how I would do it to keep the IU/Purdue rivalry together. Also remember that in college basketball, you'd play the teams inside your division twice as opposed to once outside of your division. This is why you cannot split up Michigan and Ohio State (IMO). Illinois Indiana Iowa Minnesota Purdue Wisconsin Michigan Michigan State Northwestern Ohio State Penn State Pittsburgh

The biggest two issues are: 1. You wouldn't play everybody And more importantly: 2. How would you break ties? With a divisional format there's always head-to-head games for tiebreakers and you play the relatively same schedule.

Zing! So if Mizzou continually gets passed over as far as the better bowl games go, they should go to the Big Ten to create more revenue from going to a better bowl game. Also if Mizzou's pissed at the Big 12 and their revenue sharing, then leaving would be a good idea.

If Missouri's rumored complaints are accurate, this is not exactly a huge hit. The two years notice issue is slightly more problematic, but it can be worked around. For all I know, this could be completely wrong, but this is what I have heard in the past.

Isn't there something in all the Big XII's team's contracts with the league that if they leave they must give 2 years notice and will receive no money from the league's revenue sharing... basically committing Athletic Suicide? For this reason (and throwing out the AAU thing) Louisville and UC would be perfect fits for the Big Ten IMO. But, because of the AAU thing, IMO Pittsburgh is really the only candidate here as I don't see the Big Ten going after Rutgers. Syracuse could work, but IMO they wouldn't leave the Big East. Also, getting an up-and-coming MAC program could be a possibility (i.e. Central Michigan) but I don't think they'd have the athletic budget to compete. Just my two cents.

Maybe because many stadiums aren't designed for the hanging of banners or flying of flags? Gillette Stadium's the only outdoor one I can think of where they actually hang banners.

I always thought it would be cool if someone did basketball requests for your normal athletic shorts with piping on them if you get what I'm saying. Like someone making a top and the bottom for these shorts (obviously on a Paint template): Thanks if someone would do something like this (once again obviously Paint-compatible ).

I think I am going to do College Basketball, with vmd's basketball template if he doesn't mind Before you start, you should just put out an SOD template to start with. well he's template actually looks like SOD jerseys, but I am going to modify it a bit for the ones that aren't SOD, but it will be a while before I post 'em, because I am going to wait till football season is kinda out of the way That's fine. I guess with the SOD comment i meant putting the silver (for most teams) part onto the template. Well duh, I am not going to leave that off I meant just releasing one before everything else with the silver part and nothing else if you get what I'm saying.

I think I am going to do College Basketball, with vmd's basketball template if he doesn't mind Before you start, you should just put out an SOD template to start with. well he's template actually looks like SOD jerseys, but I am going to modify it a bit for the ones that aren't SOD, but it will be a while before I post 'em, because I am going to wait till football season is kinda out of the way That's fine. I guess with the SOD comment i meant putting the silver (for most teams) part onto the template.

I think I am going to do College Basketball, with vmd's basketball template if he doesn't mind Before you start, you should just put out an SOD template to start with.

Well, now that we have NFL and NHL Paint templates would anyone be interested in NBA ones for Paint?