Great Article about the B1G and its Obstacles

Interesting charts.

What the hell happened to Pennsylvania quarterbacks and linebackers?

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"It hurts sometimes when you think about it," Ohio State defensive back Bradley Roby told me. "We believe we're one of the best teams in the country, and we can't prove it."

At least, not now. Not in this Big Ten.

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But honestly, I don't even know if competitiveness is a real priority anymore, as long as the money keeps flowing.

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Per capita numbers are very nice to look at. So are raw population numbers.

Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi population - 12.6M

Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania population - 34 million

Similar numbers across other states. The number of prospects deficiency in per capita numbers is made up in raw population.

This is why Ohio can have 7 division 1 football teams and be a feeder state for division 1 programs from Michigan, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and others while Louisiana only has 4 division 1 teams. Louisiana does provide division 1 talent to other states but not on the scale (raw numbers) that Ohio does.

Agreed and they have been for a decade now. Michigan only competes because they get a ton of Ohio players. There's enough talent in the state that there are always plenty of overlooked/butthurt/Walmart Wolverines to go up there.

more midwestern teams will need to recruit heavily in the south...

and ND and OSU are the only two that do consistently well, so obvious OSU will dominate the B14 moving fwd...

"And in case you missed it, all of this was hammered home by the high-profile oopsy-daisies of standard-bearing Ohio State in BCS bowl games throughout the '00s."

This is a gem...considering they won a national title over a top 5 team of all time team potentially, won a BCS game against a KSU team that throttled OU the year they barely lost to LSU in the NCG, beat a top 10 ND team in a Fiesta bowl, lost 2 NCGs (1 of which to a superior talent team in LSU), lost to potentially the best team in the country in the 2008 Fiesta bowl, then beat the Pac XII/SEC in back to back BCS bowls...so I come out with 3 losses and 5 wins. Funny how that means they are awful

Yeah, I didn't see that as a great article either.

Sitting center court Row M for the hoops game Friday night. Urban Meyer and the seniors are supposed to speak at the game.

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then beat the Pac XII/SEC in back to back BCS bowls

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ummm what????????????????????????????

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We still have that victory in our hearts, frick what the books say

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i guess i can respect that kind of passion

the word "great" gets thrown around too freely on this board.

All the author did was rehash old information, add a bit about expansion, and package it on Grantland.

OK.

Nothing great or earth shattering or even ground breaking in there.

It was the 2009 Fiesta Bowl and actually we did play USC that season and got our asses handed to us.