Big Ten Division Name Change

[HuskerNLimbo]

I just read that Delany may change the Big Ten division names.

 

ESPNBigTenblog

 

I sure hope so.

[knapplc]

I think the most I've heard is that people are "OK" with it. If the highest approval you get from people is "it's OK," and drops down to "I utterly hate it" from there, you've got a problem. It's good that Delany is willing to listen, because man, they've got a problem.

 

Go directional, name them after famous coaches, name them after regions - whatever. Just change the names.

[ESPY]

Big 12 fans reading that article gotta be thinking "Wow, Nebraska made a great move to the Big Ten. Their commish is clearly a great leader. It's no wonder his conference has had so much success. I mean, would Beebe ever listen to the Big 12 fan base like Delany is? I doubt it."

[Husker_x]

I thought the Legends division was a good name. Leaders was nothing short of PC pathetic.

[Blaze1up]

They need to go with the regions, Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic.

[CENTEXHUSKER]

Delany on Thursday acknowledged the negative reaction in an interview with WGN Radio in Chicago. The commissioner also for the first time acknowledged the possibility of re-evaluating the names and changing them in the near future.

 

"We've had enough experience with names and expansion and development of divisions that we know that you rarely get a 90 percent approval rating," Delany told WGN AM-720. "But to get a 90 percent non-approval rating was really surprising. It showed that we didnt connect with our fans in a way that we wanted to. Its humbling, to say the least, because were trying to build fan bases, not push them away.

 

The Big Ten should open an online poll and let the fans vote. We all know how well Husker fan represents the online ballot, maybe...

 

'Alex Henery' Division and 'Everybody Else' division

 

GBR

[zoogs]

They need to go with the regions, Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic.

 

Yes. For all the talk of it not being geographical, throw up a map of the states (as miami did in a previous thread) and it's pretty strikingly not randomly distributed across the map. Ah, here's a map, from HI. Non geographic split? C'mon, Big Ten guys...did you even look at the map first?!

 

[ESPY]

I'm all for Great Lakes and Heartland. Or Great Lakes and Great Plains. Regional references, but fairly unique considering the status quo is cardinal directions.

[GSG]

If the Big Ten schools have a crappy bowl season, they can just name them "Will" & "Grace"

[killer cacti]

I still like Midwesterners and Yankees, personally.

[kchusker_chris]

I'm still pushing for Frontier/Horizon. Both would still satisfy the Big10 desire to recognize the history of the conference (Frontier) but still look to the future (Horizon).

[husker_99]

I'm all for Great Lakes and Heartland. Or Great Lakes and Great Plains. Regional references, but fairly unique considering the status quo is cardinal directions.

 

it's only the status quo because the other conferences are not really imaginative.

[GSG]

I still like Midwesterners and Yankees, personally.

 

Aren't we all considered "Yankees" to y'all?

[killer cacti]

I still like Midwesterners and Yankees, personally.

 

Aren't we all considered "Yankees" to y'all?

No, but Ohio, Pennsylvania, and those folks out yonder are.

[C N Red]

They need to go with the regions, Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic.

 

Yes. For all the talk of it not being geographical, throw up a map of the states (as miami did in a previous thread) and it's pretty strikingly not randomly distributed across the map. Ah, here's a map, from HI. Non geographic split? C'mon, Big Ten guys...did you even look at the map first?!

 

 

With the map I could sure see a North/South split, but That would put us in the North Division again and I am definitely not for that. It didn't work the first time and I don't want to take any chances.