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12-10-2007, 07:25 PM
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Actually I'm intrigued by this easy assertion that finishing early is a detriment to the conference. (And that's not a knock on lv, but more the media who keep saying such things each week following the TSUN game until the bowls are chosen). So, with the exception of TSUN last year getting dropped and leapt, just as Georgia was dropped and leapt this year - when has the Big 10 finishing typically one week, or at most a fortnight early actually, really hurt the Conference?
(And please don't come back with 51-day lay-off arguments, that is a totally diferent matter entirely).
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12-10-2007, 07:38 PM
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And we did not gain much from our preseason scrimmage with the Penguins.
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Home and Home series cost the school several million dollars ($60 x 105000 + a bunch of hot dogs).
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12-10-2007, 07:42 PM
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37-21, 25-21, 42-39, 14-3. Bite it, Chad.
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the break between The Game and bowl game is as long as the break between the end of winter conditioning to the start of Spring ball.
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12-10-2007, 08:11 PM
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Actually I'm intrigued by this easy assertion that finishing early is a detriment to the conference. (And that's not a knock on lv, but more the media who keep saying such things each week following the TSUN game until the bowls are chosen). So, with the exception of TSUN last year getting dropped and leapt, just as Georgia was dropped and leapt this year - when has the Big 10 finishing typically one week, or at most a fortnight early actually, really hurt the Conference?
(And please don't come back with 51-day lay-off arguments, that is a totally diferent matter entirely).
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Well, why wouldn't the 51-day lay off be a valuable arguement?
tOSU consistently has to wait from mid-November until after New Years, resulting in over 42 day layoffs, and even longer when they reach the BCS Championship.
Not playing in a game for over 6 weeks is a huge factor, and while it does help them that they can wait and watch teams drop off while they have completed their schedule, I would rather see them not have to be sitting around as long.
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12-11-2007, 06:33 AM
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Ohio State football game with Michigan will be after Thanksgiving, starting in 2009
Football game to be after Thanksgiving
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 Doug Lesmerises
Plain Dealer Reporter
The Ohio State-Michigan game is moving back on the calendar. Starting with Thanksgiving week 2009, the Big Ten Conference is choosing football over Butterball.
On Dec. 2, Big Ten school presidents voted to support a 13-week conference football schedule, pushing the final weekend of the season to after Thanksgiving, Big Ten spokesman Scott Chipman said Monday. That would allow teams one week off during the 12-game regular season. Since the NCAA adopted a 12-game schedule in 2006, many Big Ten coaches have been clamoring for a bye week to give coaches and players a mental and physical break instead of three straight months of football.
Other coaches, including Ohio State's Jim Tressel and retiring Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, staunchly supported the Big Ten tradition of ending the season before Thanksgiving, though no other conference in college football finishes as early. This season, 48 major college football games were played Thanksgiving week, in every conference but the Big Ten.
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12-11-2007, 09:31 AM
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Well, why wouldn't the 51-day lay off be a valuable arguement?
tOSU consistently has to wait from mid-November until after New Years, resulting in over 42 day layoffs, and even longer when they reach the BCS Championship.
Not playing in a game for over 6 weeks is a huge factor, and while it does help them that they can wait and watch teams drop off while they have completed their schedule, I would rather see them not have to be sitting around as long.
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the only reason I don't find the 51 day layoff as an excuse is this will be OSU's 5th BCAS bowl. Three of which took place the week of or on January 1st. that is only a week longer than the BCS bowl and we certainly played well in the previous BCS games.
That being said the long layoff whether it be Jan 1 st or later does OSU no good. It is becoming clear that ending the season early may not help them in polls either. Like it or not the media has a voice in the polls and if they keep harping on us finishing early it will hurt us at some point.
As a fan I am all for extending the season. There is nothing more boring then when the season ends and the time you wait for the bowls (good ones at least) to start up. A season that ends later reduces that wait and my anxiety.
Tradition is nice and all but times changes and we have to be willing to change with them.
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12-11-2007, 12:28 PM
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I don't mind playing Michigan 2 days after Thanksgiving. They'll just have a little less to be thankful for each year.
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12-11-2007, 01:28 PM
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