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Only a Zips fan  Group: Members Posts: 10513 Joined: 18-July 06 From: The edge of the Allegheny plateau Member No.: 483  |
Leggings and Lederhosen divisions.
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Dec 17 2010, 05:29 PM
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 Zips Junkie Group: Moderators Posts: 6271 Joined: 23-February 04 From: The Burg Member No.: 5 |
--------------------  "One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings"--Diogenes of Sinope |
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Dec 17 2010, 05:45 PM
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Zips Junkie Group: Members Posts: 5425 Joined: 5-December 04 From: Green, Ohio Member No.: 120 |
Nice to see that the Big Ten pays attention to popular opinion on ZN.O.
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Dec 17 2010, 05:47 PM
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QUOTE(Dave in Green @ Dec 17 2010, 05:45 PM)  Nice to see that the Big Ten pays attention to popular opinion on ZN.O. They should contact Zips Win! for several big ten naming options!!! |
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Dec 17 2010, 11:53 PM
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 Zips Junkie Group: Members Posts: 2889 Joined: 26-February 05 Member No.: 142 |
QUOTE(Zips Win! @ Dec 17 2010, 05:47 PM) QUOTE(Dave in Green @ Dec 17 2010, 05:45 PM) Nice to see that the Big Ten pays attention to popular opinion on ZN.O. ;) They should contact Zips Win! for several big ten naming options!!! I doubt they would use a name that had to be censored every time they say it.  I haven't heard or read one person say they like the name. I think the B10 is getting a lot of negative feedback. Dumbest names for a conference I have ever heard. -------------------- Half Buck, Half Zip, All Man.
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Dec 18 2010, 11:52 AM
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Zips Junkie Group: Members Posts: 6713 Joined: 12-September 04 From: Parts Unknown, USA Member No.: 91 |
The Big Ten commissioner was caught not just with his pants down, but completely off, by this stupidity and isn't sure what to say so he unleashed one of the most dreaded statements in college athletics. In the last paragraph of the link DrZ provided, he says something along the lines of "we are trying to build a fan base". Are you freaking kidding me? It's a BCS level conference and they are trying to "build a fan base". Attention Big Ten commissioner....your teams play in front of sold out stadiums every weekend and you have some of the largest alumni associations in the United States. THE FAN BASE IS THERE YOU MORON. Whenever you hear someone in college athletics bring up "building and growing" it should make you cringe because it is a sign that person has no idea what to do and is buying time until his next job. He may be able to slip that nonsense by the limited intellects of Big Ten graduates, but he isn't getting it by the intellect of this University of Akron graduate (twice).
The second thing the Big Ten should stay away from is marketing the past. I mentioned this on this board when I first saw the stupid division names and I was right. The way they named their divisions tells me they don't have much in the present to market and they know it. Major League Baseball markets the past and did anyone see the TV ratings for the World Series this year? Terrible. Market the present. If what you have in the present is not good, make what you have better. Americans like to look forward, not backward. The one idea I like about the way the Big Ten is organizing the divisions is they are trying to make each division equally competitive. If they were really smart and creative, they would rearrange these divisions every 4-5 years. You can't make a decision in 2010 expecting to know what the conference is going to be like in 2020 or even 2015. -------------------- "...you want it to be one way. But it's the other way." --Marlo Stanfield, The Wire
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