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Wih the Big Ten hell bent on throwing everything but the kitchen sink into its Brave New Conference, how about we here in the conference’s home town put in our bid for the local guys and bring the University of Chicago, an original member, back in the fold, as we resurrect the Midway.
Go Maroons!
At least the U of C would add something to the conference that Nebraska....or a number of the potential “others”....doesn’t:
class.
Some musings about the Late Great Big Ten, once an incredible source of pride to the Midwest. For here gave true birth to the notion of the comprehensive American public university, an institution that so shaped what this country was to become and sadly no longer is.
In our land across the Appalachians, the equalitarian interior removed from the colonial east coast and its elitist roots of private Ivy League institutions, the state university was truly born.
East of the Appalachians and loaded with excellence and tradition, UVa and UNC introduced the concept.
But it was in Ann Arbor, not Charlottesville nor Chapel Hill, that the model for today’s public flagship was born. The University of Michigan set the standard and the example of what was to follow.
So I do that musing with:
• Sorry Nebraska. You may be in the conference. But you’re not who you think you are. In your new home, NU is in Evanston, not Lincoln. Get used to it, UN or U of N or be happy calling yourself by your official moniker, UNL. NU you’re not.
• If the Big Ten thinks that all small, agrarian states can produce public universities like the University of Iowa: guess again. Nebraska isn’t the real deal. And Lincoln is no Iowa City. In Iowa City, you can practically jump across the Mississippi. In Lincoln, you probably can't even spell it.
• Indeed, we now find ourselves with a conference of ten extraordinary public universities....and the University of Nebraska. MSU’s quality is far closer to U-M’s than UNL is to MSU’s. Wright Jr. College's quality is closer to UNL than UNL is to MSU.
• If Rutgers were any further east, would it be in England?
Amos Alonzo Stagg must be turning over in his grave. Bo and Woody, turning with him. Hey, we had a nice century plus; it had to end sometime.
What is even weirder is the Texas schools joining the Pac 10! Go on the Austin TX forum and TX forum and see what they think of California and Californians!
But I guess if DePaul, Marquette, Notre Dame, Louisville and Cincinatti are Big EAST schools then anything is possible. Maybe conferences should be renamed after annual payout to schools for true prestige purposes. You can have the 20M league, the 15M league and the pitiful 10M league.
It's too much about the money instead of tradition.
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