Linking Laconically is Preparing Its Induction Speech

If they split UM and OSU into separate divisions it will prove that all of Delaney’s supposed criteria were nothing more than talking points.

Clearly if they go down this road, the only criteria that will have mattered will have been trying to set up the biggest possible television audiences for a B10 Championship game.

I understand that money was the driving force behind expansion anyway, but this will simply reinforce the notion that in football not all teams in this conference are created equal.

Splitting UM and OSU doesn’t make sense in protecting the rivalry, because as Brandon says it will likely mean they won’t play their traditional last week of the season game, it makes 0 sense geographically. I know I’m preaching to the choir on the dangers of trying to predict competitive balance in the future, but I think we’ve all seen plenty of divisional set ups that are plenty competitive with UM and OSU together. Not to mention that if they do this under the assumption that UM will return to form, it does a major competitive disservice to these two teams to have to play the “strongest” opponent in the other division every year.

And for what it’s worth as an MSU fan, it would probably be good for us if you assume that we would stay with UM to protect our rivalry and would therefore get to miss OSU more often, especially when one of the divisions “top teams” had to play them every year. So yea I guess selfishly as an MSU fan this would be a good thing.

But I still think it’s just a terrible idea.