re: Anybody else think the B1G messed up the new divisions set to begin in 2014?

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Look at the map and where the recruiting is. The Big 12 should have realized there were no talent rich states in the Big 12 North and that would be a long term problem


And who would have seen that circa 1995 when Nebraska was winning 3 titles in 4 years? That's just 20/20 hindsight. All those teams played at least 1 game in either Texas or Oklahoma every year.

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It is 20/20 hindsight with respect to the 90s Big 12 but since we know there was a problem in retrospect and since that was a contributing factor to the lack of success of the conference perhaps other conferences should learn from that mistake.

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Im not really arguing for any particular set up.

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you just want to argue without purpose?

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I was just suggesting that if your concern was that only a handful of teams were winning the league, then you'd be better off having those teams in the same division.

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Again, I think you intentionally misunderstand or misrepresent the point. The Big 10 seems to lack a depth of quality teams but the best programs they have are disproportionately placed into one of the two divisions.

This is a problem for several reasons touched on recently in this thread with respect to fairness and parity.

If you want to play the "no one can know the future" card then fine. Abandon all hope of planning for the future. While you're at it rearrange the SEC by putting Alabama and Auburn in the East and Missouri in the West so it makes more geographic sense.