I wonder who gets to hit it every game, the world's largest band geek?
Posted on 08/02/2007 12:24:56 PM PDT by GOP_Raider
I agree.
It just seems “traditional” for the Big 10 schedule to be screwy.
It’s not just the 90,000 home team fans. It’s the band marching onto the field before the game. It’s the fight song. It’s the O-H-I-O and all the other pageantry.
My step-daughter is a native to the bay area and a Raider fan. I took her and my wife to a Buckeye game a few years back. Neither my wife or daughter will ever forget that experience.
It’s something I’ve tried to explain to my Pro only friends but unless you experience a Buckeye ( or other great college venue) home game it’s hard to understand or appreciate.
Right now they are playing commercials in the bay area to drum up ticket sales for Stanford. I can barely imagine a major university struggling to sell out a home game.
Buckeye home games are truly one of the greatest joys I’ve experienced in life.
No, I was making a little joke that most years they could just use the OSU-Michigan game as the championship game and wouldn't need a separate game.
I’ve never been there either. If I hadn’t moved out of state, OSU would’ve been my first choice for college.
When I was a kid in the Bay Area, Stanford football games didn’t have fans show up then, either. The old Stanford Stadium before it was renovated was a dump, but football in general in this part of the country doesn’t induce quite the same passion that it does in the Midwest and the South.
I’ve been to Raider games in both Oakland and LA and the vibe with an NFL game compared to a college game—even college games around here—is so much different. We could debates the merits of each from a fan experience all day, but there’s a certain charm that college games have that nothing else anywhere in America has.
I took my nephew to last years Penn St-OSU game and he had a great time. He even enjoyed picking on the Penn St cheering section which was right next to us. When we got home his wife was wondering if he was switching sides since afterall he did graduate from Purdue.
Well, if they do go to 12 teams, Mich and OSU should be in the same division — boo to the Lake/River idea....East/West is more natural.
Maybe one team from the opposite division for a permanent rival, as in the SEC:
Purdue-Illinois (campuses are very close)
Michigan-Minnesota (little brown jug)
Penn St.-New Team
Indiana-Northwestern
Mich St-Wisconsin
Ohio St.-Iowa
Well, if they do go to 12 teams, Mich and OSU should be in the same division — boo to the Lake/River idea....East/West is more natural.
Maybe one team from the opposite division for a permanent rival, as in the SEC:
Purdue-Illinois (campuses are very close)
Michigan-Minnesota (little brown jug)
Penn St.-New Team
Indiana-Northwestern
Mich St-Wisconsin
Ohio St.-Iowa
I wonder who gets to hit it every game, the world's largest band geek?
It’s difficult deciding how to split teams in regards to principal rivalries. Florida and Georgia are in the same division, but Miami and FSU are in different ones (they still play every year). The question is whether the rivarly should be seen as the unofficial division title game (like Florida-Georgia and Texas-Oklahoma) or if the rivals could have a rematch in the title game (Georiga-Auburn or FSU-Miami).
Louiville is a good match, but I wasn’t kidding when I suggested Rutgers. Like most of the Big 10, it’s a large state university with a long history of football. It’s also strong academically, has a well rounded athletic program, and brings the NYC area TV market and recruiting ground.
Those two towers in the background are Lincoln and Morill. Morrill was named after Justin Smith Morrill, who drafted the Morrill Land-Grant Acts — United States statutes that allowed for the creation of land-grant colleges.
The SEC and Big 12 took the four directional names (I think a couple of brides-maid conferences took them as well) so the “East Division” is already associated in the media with Gators, Vols, etc. and “South Division” is associated with Longhorns, Aggies, etc. The ACC split their teams on a non-geographic basis with “Atlantic” and “Coastal”. I was hoping they would go for “Appalachian” with FSU, Georgia Tech, Clemson, Virginia Tech, Wake Forest and NC State and “Atlantic” with Miami, North Carolina, Duke, Virginia, Maryland and Boston College.
Hey saftey, ever heard of Maurice Clarrett? How about Reggie Bush? Do you know where they played?
Put up or shut up, but try to stay on topic.
Well that's certainly understandable, since Florida has beaten THE Ohio State University like a drum three straight times in hoops and football. At UF, we don't really care much about tOSU either way, since they just don't put up much of a fight against us.
Urban F. Meyer (born July 10, 1964 in Ashtabula, Ohio)
Our only consolation is knowing it took an Ohioan to bring out the best in your football team.
John L. Smith didn’t do anything that Bobby Williams and Nick “I never won a bowl game in East Lansing” Saban weren’t guilty of as well. MSU football has pretty much stunk for ten or fifteen years, aside from the year they beat Florida.
Not to say that that's bad...I mean, as my profile indicates, it took that same Ohioan to bring out the best in my own team. :)
Ahhh ok, that makes a little more sense to me. What keeps MSU from being better in that time frame? Are they “in the shadow” of Michigan at all or do they have a tough time recruiting?
That’s a good idea about adding Louisville.
ND isn’t going to join because they can make more as an Independent.
Penn State should have joined the Big East.
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