so we don't ruin the fuckeyes thread

8/11/2006 1:30:55 PM

hell yeah

shit, we couldve just changed the name of the ohio state thread to the big ten discussion thread

that thread is all fuckered up now

8/11/2006 1:34:27 PM

this is cool, good idea fellas

there will be some GOOD games in the big ten this year

michigan vs. penn state in happy valley (remember last year)
michigan vs. ohio state at the horseshoe
michigan vs. msu in the big house
michigan vs. iowa in the big house
msu vs. ohio state in east lansing
ohio state vs. iowa in iowa
penn state vs.ohio state in the horseshoe

and minnesota and wisconsin playing any of these teams...
and northwestern seems to always have a powerhouse offense

8/11/2006 1:49:43 PM

i hear that Michigan State's Spartan Stadium is a vastly underrated venue and very loud.

8/11/2006 1:51:00 PM

correct, its very loud and underrated

8/11/2006 1:55:30 PM

Minnesota's always one of those teams that bash up the out-of-conference cupcakes and if they go 3-5 in conference it was a good year. That said, surprised they beat Michigan last year finally.

Indiana and Illinois will suck, no surprise.

For the second year in a row, Purdue does not have Michigan or Ohio State on the schedule. Someone explain this to me, there are 2 teams every year that a team will not play in Big 10 football. Does it make a lot of sense for those two in the same year to be both UM and OSU?

[Edited on August 11, 2006 at 2:06 PM. Reason : /]

8/11/2006 2:00:21 PM

purdue is scared, and sucks anyways

8/11/2006 10:52:07 PM

Big Ten #1 football conference in the nation

Theres nothin I love more than the Big Ten style of football, its what saturday mornings are all about

Smashmouth. Hardnose. Gritty.

8/11/2006 10:56:48 PM

i always remember growing up watching the blue and maize with my old man on saturdays. good times

8/12/2006 3:31:54 AM

^yes, much sexier than gray and red

8/12/2006 3:20:04 PM

From Ivan Maisel at espn.com:

Quote :

"After peering into the crystal ball, here are my five predictions for the 2006 Big Ten season. 1. The best quarterback in the conference will be Drew Tate of Iowa. Troy Smith of Ohio State is the hot run-pass prototype, and Drew Stanton of Michigan State has the arm NFL scouts appreciate. But I like the career path Tate has carved. He won as a sophomore, then learned some hard lessons as a junior. With tailback Albert Young behind Tate, defenses will have to be honest. Advantage, Hawkeyes. 2. The Michigan defense will rebound. The Wolverines will rediscover pressure on the quarterback and shine under new coordinator Ron English. The best thing going for the Michigan D the past few seasons has been English's secondary. 3. Of the two 30-something head coaches, Pat Fitzgerald of Northwestern will have an easier first year than Bret Bielema of Wisconsin. True, Bielema has had 12 months to prepare to take over and Fitzgerald has had six weeks. But I think the death of Randy Walker has brought the Northwestern team and the entire university community behind Fitzgerald. There will be a lot less transition there than in Madison, where Bielema made some coaching changes and has a lot of rebuilding to do on the offense. 4. There is long-term optimism at Illinois after Ron Zook brought in the first recruiting class that truly belonged to him and his staff. If Zook plays a lot of those freshmen this season, however, the key word in that first sentence is long-term. 5. This is a critical year for Purdue. Joe Tiller shook up his staff, and he says there is great chemistry among the new coaches. If the Boilermakers don't respond, however, I wouldn't be surprised if Tiller took his fly rod and went home. "

8/18/2006 2:11:19 PM

Quote :

"1. The best quarterback in the conference will be Drew Tate of Iowa. Troy Smith of Ohio State is the hot run-pass prototype, and Drew Stanton of Michigan State has the arm NFL scouts appreciate. But I like the career path Tate has carved. He won as a sophomore, then learned some hard lessons as a junior. With tailback Albert Young behind Tate, defenses will have to be honest. Advantage, Hawkeyes. "

chad henne? its ok, we all know hes gonna be dominant as well as the other three, no need to say it, they gave our defense credit

8/18/2006 8:06:11 PM

i like big 10 football

8/18/2006 8:30:15 PM

OSU is ranked #1 in the AP poll also!

8/18/2006 11:19:12 PM

go bucks!

8/19/2006 11:53:17 AM

damn right they are

8/19/2006 12:50:29 PM

that should last until the texas game

8/19/2006 1:10:19 PM

^ Tejas won't be s*** without Vince Young.

8/19/2006 2:46:33 PM

big blue will rise again!

8/19/2006 2:57:30 PM

big blue, what a gay nickname

8/19/2006 3:27:13 PM

^buckeye,,,,,, oooooooo fear the NUT?

8/20/2006 12:00:42 AM

[insert obligatory genitalia joke]

8/20/2006 10:29:54 AM

overrated... overrated...


enjoy texas beating up on you

8/20/2006 1:59:14 PM

Too bad NCSU never has to worry about being overrated. Because you usually atleast need to be ranked for that to happen.

8/20/2006 3:17:56 PM

who wants to put money on OSU rolling all over Texas? I have a feeling their noob quarterback is gonna be flat on his ass all day long.

8/21/2006 10:01:57 AM

^ I thought you were an ECU guy?

8/21/2006 12:38:45 PM

^^^^So why are they overrated? Because they beat NCSU two years in a row and you still can't get over it? Yep, that has to be it.

8/21/2006 12:49:04 PM

they're overrated because they're too dumb a school to have their own messageboard like this so all the bandwagoners who never got a degree from OSU post here

8/21/2006 12:53:42 PM

I went to ECU but I'm from Ohio and my moms went to OSU

oh, and I work for NCSU so I'm just all over the board

^oh, and good reason

[Edited on August 21, 2006 at 1:22 PM. Reason : .]

8/21/2006 1:22:01 PM

the "what, your school doesnt have a message board so you have to post on TWW" works with anybody on TWW that posts about any school other than NCSU lol

8/21/2006 3:49:30 PM

sigh

8/21/2006 4:01:56 PM

haha, overrated AND they cheat, tressel is dirty

8/21/2006 6:00:27 PM

Every major college football team cheats you moron. So I guess OSU better at that too. They cheat and win, and isn't that the point of cheating....to win?

8/21/2006 6:24:48 PM

Quote :

"Every major college football team cheats you moron."

[Edited on August 21, 2006 at 6:41 PM. Reason : /]

8/21/2006 6:40:35 PM

^^ your dad is dead

8/21/2006 7:39:00 PM

Damn, after 3 years, I almost had forgotten. Thanks for the reminder

8/21/2006 9:13:13 PM

^haha this guy is soooooooo angry right now

smile buddy, its football season, and your team cheats

8/22/2006 1:06:37 PM

^ as a non-college grad, he doesn't have a team, just some fantasies

8/22/2006 1:10:51 PM

Quote :

"Every major college football team cheats you moron"

just not as much as Ohio State, Miami and Alabama

8/22/2006 1:15:10 PM

^^I actually graduated from Georgia State this summer, so before you try and act like you know me, do some research.

8/22/2006 1:21:48 PM

why dont you stick to cheering for Georgia State then

8/22/2006 1:23:05 PM

GO GEORGIA STATE!!!!!!!!!

8/22/2006 2:10:36 PM

Week 1 Schedule:

Thursday, August 31st

Northwestern Wildcats @ Miami of Ohio RedHawks , 7:30pm (ESPNU)

Minnesota Golden Gophers @ Kent State Golden Flashes , 7:30pm (ESPN360)

Saturday, September 2nd

Idaho Vandals @ Michigan State Spartans , noon

Vanderbilt Commodores @ #14 Michigan Wolverines , noon (ESPN)

Northern Illinois Huskies @ #1 Ohio State Buckeyes , 3:30pm (ABC)

Montana Grizzlies @ #16 Iowa Hawkeyes , noon (ESPNU)

Indiana State Sycamores @ Purdue Boilermakers , 1pm

Akron Zips @ #19 Penn State Nittany Lions , 3:30pm (ESPN2)

Western Michigan Broncos @ Indiana Hoosiers , 6pm

Wisconsin Badgers vs. Bowling Green Falcons @ Cleveland Browns Stadium, 7pm (ESPN Gameplan)

Eastern Illinois Panthers @ Illinois Fighting Illini , 7pm

Predictions: I am thinking all Big 10 teams win except for one of the Big 10-MAC matchups, maybe Minnesota-Kent.

[Edited on August 28, 2006 at 6:20 PM. Reason : /]

8/28/2006 6:19:52 PM

i'm interested to see how the akron - penn state game is going to be. i imagine that we will get a pretty good idea of what to expect from akron.

8/28/2006 6:25:08 PM

Perhaps Iowa should beat one of the worst teams in all of the BCS conferences today (of course Duke gets that honor of being the worst)? 7-0 cuse.

[Edited on September 9, 2006 at 4:22 PM. Reason : x]

9/9/2006 4:22:17 PM

Michigan 1-0 4-0
Ohio State 1-0 4-0
Iowa 1-0 4-0
Purdue 1-0 4-0
Michigan State 0-0 3-1
Northwestern 0-0 2-2
Indiana 0-0 2-2
Wisconsin 0-1 3-1
Penn State 0-1 2-2
Minnesota 0-1 2-2
Illinois 0-1 1-3

All three of the odds-on favorites are undefeated, with my Boilermakers joining them by temporarily masquerading as a good team. But oh well, bring on the Irish.

And for the Buckeyes on here, I'm thinking Hawkeyes for the win. It's gonna be a great game.

This coming week:

Wisconsin @ Indiana
Illinois @ Michigan State
Purdue @ #12 Notre Dame
Northwestern @ Penn State
#1 Ohio State @ #13 Iowa
#6 Michigan @ Minnesota

I'm not really a Michigan hater (any more than any other Big 10 team anyway), but here's a song a Penn State fan passed on to me (for Ohio State fans to enjoy).

"Hail to those Mother fuckers,
Hail to those big cock suckers,
HAIL! HAIL! To Michigan, the cesspool of the west.

Hail to those fornicators,
Hail to those masturbators,
HAIL! HAIL! to Michigan, the cesspool of the west.

Hail to those autoworkers,
Hail to those circle jerkers,
HAIL! HAIL! To Michigan, the cesspool of the west.

Hail to those closet maggots,
Hail to thos fucking f*ggots,
HAIL! HAIL! to Michigan, the cesspool of the west."

9/25/2006 7:59:39 AM

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/12349646/big-ten-considering-ineligibility-freshmen

2/19/2015 11:54:12 PM

no discussion? this is possibly huge news

2/20/2015 11:47:49 PM

If every conference did it, it wouldn't be a big deal and would help the quality of college sports (specifically basketball) overall. If only the Big Ten did it, it would be hilarious and their bball recruiting would take a huge hit.

I wonder what Maryland thinks of the proposed rule?

2/21/2015 12:05:16 AM

Ahhh, the big ten. Always pining for the way things used to be.

I mean, it's a great idea if you love watching the D-league. You might never see a guy in the high school top 25 play college basketball again if this got implemented

Football is a bit of a different story since there is no minor league football anywhere and almost no freshmen are ready to play in the NFL. I mean, even a super freak like Mario Williams or Julio Jones wouldn't have been drafted coming out of high school. It's a totally different universe physically even between college and the pros let alone high school.

This proposal isn't even going to make it to a vote.

2/21/2015 10:01:28 AM