As I’ve posted before, I don’t have a dog in the Michigan sign stealing hunt, which is a good thing, because it makes it easier to enjoy dopey shit like this:
What a country, eh?
Category Archives: Big Ten Football
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Filed under Big Ten Football, Political Wankery, The Blogosphere
Just do something!
I definitely don’t have a dog in this particular hunt, but it sure is fun to watch the turmoil being generated in the Big Ten over Michigan’s alleged sign stealing operation. Coaches want action, man.
And are they gonna get it? Welp…
He’s probably right about that, but even so, it’s nice to welcome Michigan into the ranks of the cynical.
Filed under Big Ten Football
The Big Ten follows LSU.
The Big Ten said Friday it will make football availability reports mandatory on game days during the 2023 season, making it the only Power 5 conference to actively distribute such reports.
Big Ten schools will be required to submit availability reports at least two hours before kickoff to the conference office. Each program’s reports will be released on the conference’s website and on X (formerly Twitter). If a school doesn’t send in its injury report within two hours of the start of the game, it could be disciplined.
“The well-being of our students, coaches, and staff, as well as the integrity of our competitions are of paramount importance,” Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti said in a statement. “Enhanced transparency through availability reporting and partnering with U.S. Integrity (USI) strengthens our efforts to protect those who participate in our games as well as the integrity of the games themselves. I’m grateful for the collaboration of our schools, coaches, and administrators.”
Look for this to be followed by the other major conferences. It’s another sign of the growing impact of gambling on college sports.
Filed under Bet On It, Big Ten Football
Nice conference you got there. Shame if anything were to happen to it.
While conference realignment has both benefitted and hurt certain aspects of college football this offseason, one major change on everyone’s mind is the impact of expansion on the College Football Playoff.
According to a recent report from the New York Post’s Ryan Glasspiegel, sources claim that any conference not named the SEC or the Big Ten attempting to get in the way of how the two leagues construct the future playoff is risking out of the tournament.
“One source cautioned to The Post that the other conferences risk implosion along the lines of the Pac-12, which greatly overvalued itself in network rights negotiations, if they stand too obstinately in the way of what the Big Ten and SEC want,” Glasspiegel writes.
“Pac-12-ing themselves” is about as cold a threat as you can make, especially considering that it’s the Big Ten that stuck the knife there in the first place. This is how a real alliance acts, Kliavkoff.
Filed under BCS/Playoffs, Big Ten Football, SEC Football
If you can’t beat ’em, break ’em up.
Reading this Barrett Sallee piece ranking the conferences by their overall strength, it dawned on me that one of 2023’s little ironies is that the Pac-12 from top to bottom will be a better conference than the Big Ten.
Just not where it counts. And if that’s not an example of what’s wrong with college football these days, I don’t know what is.
Filed under Big Ten Football, Pac-12 Football
TFW time’s a wastin’
Jeez, what’s left of the Pac-12’s body is still warm…
https://twitter.com/FOS/status/1690902636323606528
Well, the December weather’s certainly nicer. But, if true, that’s a helluva kick in the wallet to those fans following a team playing in that championship game and then going on to the CFP. Then again, in certain quarters that’s probably seen as a feature, not a bug.
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UPDATE: I see the tweet has been removed, so apparently it’s either wrong or premature. Good news for the wallets of Michigan and Ohio State fans, I guess.
Filed under Big Ten Football
Not for love or money… well, maybe for money
How it started ($$).
With a wave of then-commissioner Jim Delany’s wand, Rutgers, the New Jersey school that famously won college football’s first game in 1869, magically escaped the crumbling Big East for the sport’s most lucrative conference…
“Rutgers had a good reputation, although they hadn’t lived in the big leagues,” Delany says. “In one moment, they thought they were Penn State. In another moment, they thought they were Bucknell. So they hadn’t made the investment.
“I consider it a long-term play, but I don’t feel like I need to defend it. … I knew that it would be a big climb to begin with.”
How it’s going.
Rutgers’ time in the Big Ten has been a competitive and financial nightmare, compounded by a few salacious scandals. Entering its 10th season in the conference, the football team has gone 13-66 in league play. Meanwhile, despite astronomical increases in shared Big Ten revenue, the athletic department has racked up more than $250 million in debt, according to financial documents obtained by The Athletic and first reported by NorthJersey.com.
Eh, what does Big Jim care? He got his cable numbers for the Big Ten Network. Fine work, everyone.
Filed under Big Ten Football
Today, in the annals of chutzpah
From a University of Michigan regent, this is right up there with the son who murdered both his parents and threw himself on the mercy of the court, claiming he was an orphan.
First off, yeah, I find the NCAA’s stance on NIL especially hypocritical, given what’s happened over the past few days. But you don’t have the privilege of sharing that opinion, Jordan, given that your school has just welcomed the program in Eugene to your conference, and, more significantly, given that the NCAA answers only to the beck and call of its member schools.
In other words, fuck off with your righteous indignation. Asshole.
Filed under Big Ten Football
TFW the screwer gets screwed
This is so on brand for the Big Ten.
Too bad, so sad. Maybe they could leave for another conference.
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UPDATE: This is on brand, too.
Create desperate conditions and then take financial advantage of them. Well played, assholes.
Filed under Big Ten Football
Not our problem
Shot.
Chaser.
Time to give it a rest, Ohio State. Unless Marvin Harrison, Jr. was playing both ways in that game, that is…
Filed under Big Ten Football, Georgia Football
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