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"Legends" and "Leaders" Here to Stay
Looks like the Big Ten will be keeping our rather, ahem, unique divisional names.
According to a poll conducted, 57% of fans now admit that they do, in fact, like the division names. And while 57% is not a massive majority, 76% of all fans felt the names were unique and 64% felt they honored the Big Ten's history.
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/...y-after-survey
Personally, they've grown on me a little bit and I don't have quite the initial knee-jerk reaction that I did when they were initially announced. I think that in five years the division names will be commonplace. That is, unless we hit full-scale nuclear war with conference realignment.
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I'm not even sure which division NU is in.
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stupid is as stupid does.
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I don't care one way or the other on if they are changed, but I'm glad we are in the Legends division, which is way better than the Leader division.
Honestly, to me, there is "Our" division and "their" division.
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I don't really mind them. It's unique. The B1G office just has to do a better job of promoting which teams are in which divisions. It's been about 7 years since the ACC divided into 2 divisions, and people still don't know which team is in which division. If that problem exsists for the B1G in 5 years, then someone didn't do their job of promoting the conference properly.
It's really not that hard. The Legends are all the "M" and "N" teams with Iowa (Nebraska, Minnesota, Michigan, Michigan st., Northwester, Iowa), and the Leaders are everyone else (Illinois, Indiana, OSU, Penn St., Wisconsin, Purdue)
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The division names blew when they came out, they blow now, and they will continue to blow into the future.
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 Originally Posted by Porkchopexpress
It's really not that hard. The Legends are all the "M" and "N" teams with Iowa (Nebraska, Minnesota, Michigan, Michigan st., Northwester, Iowa), and the Leaders are everyone else (Illinois, Indiana, OSU, Penn St., Wisconsin, Purdue)
I've got the teams down...I'll just probably never keep which are legends and which are leaders.
I don't even like using the names...it's so flipping pompous it just blows my mind.
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Originally Posted by bilsker
I've got the teams down...I'll just probably never keep which are legends and which are leaders.
I don't even like using the names...it's so flipping pompous it just blows my mind.
THIS. Imagine the fit people would throw if the SEC division names were Champions and Winners.
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It's not hard to remember that we're in the Legends division.
Devaney, Osborne, Gill, Rozier, Rodgers, Frazier, Crouch, Suh, Glover, etc., etc., etc.,....Nebraska history is full of LEGENDS.
And to be honest, Legends is the better name of the two.
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Originally Posted by CottonsLeftNut
THIS. Imagine the fit people would throw if the SEC division names were Champions and Winners.
I think the SEC's divisions should be called "Bribery" and "Oversigning"
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Originally Posted by bilsker
I'm not even sure which division NU is in.
I'm with ya. But NU is in the one with teams starting with M and N and Iowa right?
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - Robert A. Heinlein
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Originally Posted by Combat Yeoman
I'm with ya. But NU is in the one with teams starting with M and N and Iowa right?
Hey, I thought I already explained that.
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Originally Posted by Porkchopexpress
Hey, I thought I already explained that.
Guess I should have read the entire thread before responding.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - Robert A. Heinlein
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Originally Posted by Combat Yeoman
Guess I should have read the entire thread before responding.
Just making sure I wasn't on your ignore list.
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Originally Posted by Porkchopexpress
Just making sure I wasn't on your ignore list.
If I remember correctly you are a NWMST Bearcat guy right? That's a potential ignore right there. 
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. - Robert A. Heinlein
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Notre Dame only had one Rudy but Nebraska gets a new crop of Rudys every season
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Originally Posted by Combat Yeoman
If I remember correctly you are a NWMST Bearcat guy right? That's a potential ignore right there.
Holy smokes, good memory! Yes, I'm a Bearcat, and proud of it!
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Everyone thinks they're right
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Originally Posted by Porkchopexpress
It's really not that hard. The Legends are all the "M" and "N" teams with Iowa (Nebraska, Minnesota, Michigan, Michigan st., Northwester, Iowa), and the Leaders are everyone else (Illinois, Indiana, OSU, Penn St., Wisconsin, Purdue)
I hear this all the time, and it's certainly helpful. For me, I always just remember that it's East and West, except that Wisconsin and the Michigans got flipped.
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. Guess now I'll just follow Pittsburgh State...
