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Wetzel Rips on new UNL/UW Trophy

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Post by Floyd Robertson Tue 11 Nov 2014 - 8:29

Big Ten's latest marketing ploy: manufacturing a rivalry

The Freedom Trophy. Really.

The Big Ten is trying to let the rest of college football know it:

A) still exists, and
B) is still important.

You can't fault the effort. It has to do something. The top of the league is actually strong (seriously) but Ohio State needs some marketing to get itself in the playoff.

Part of the league's perception problem is because of years of non-conference losses and part is due to the unintended consequence of the Big Ten Network doing such a fine job broadcasting games that really shouldn't be broadcast. Such as last weekend when Penn State visited Indiana in the sporting equivalent of finding a body floating in Griffy Lake.

So the conference is falling back on its default position and inventing something rather than just counting on the merits of this weekend's excellent Nebraska-Wisconsin game to stand on its own.

Land Grant trophy, anyone?
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Post by InTenSity Tue 11 Nov 2014 - 8:32

Why did they call it the Freedom Trophy? Delaney needs to step down.
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Post by Floyd Robertson Tue 11 Nov 2014 - 8:37

InTenSity wrote:Why did they call it the Freedom Trophy? Delaney needs to step down.

Yeah, I don't get it.

Grain & Cheese trophy would have been better.
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Post by HT Tue 11 Nov 2014 - 14:08

It's a shitty trophy, like the Land Grant. The whole Nebraska-Wisconsin thing just feels so forced, especially because Barry Alvarez has been publicly pining for Nebraska to become Wisconsin's rival ever since they were added to the conference.

Stuff like this I think makes it less of a rivalry. You need time and hate for a rivalry...not some stupid trophy and begging from Barry Alvarez.
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Post by steveschneider Tue 11 Nov 2014 - 15:18

B10 jumped the shark after they added Rutgers and Maryland.
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Post by Turtleneck Tue 11 Nov 2014 - 17:34

Floyd Robertson wrote:

Yeah, I don't get it.

Grain & Cheese trophy would have been better.

Wisconsin dairy is overrated. It's been that way for some time. They cling to their agricultural past like UM fans cling to wins over Alma High School. The people of Wisconsin know this and they get all bent out shape when it is brought up in conversation. I would rather see Nebraska and Vermont in a basketball game battling for the Grain and Cheese Trophy. BTW, your post make me want a bean and cheese burrito from Taco Bell, so thank your that.
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