Big Ten Names Divisions "Leaders" and "Legends," Reveals New Logo

• osu45804

  

  Legends & Leaders --- Ohio State is in the Leaders Division
• ts1227

  

  "Legends" and "Leaders"? Come on son.
• krambman

  

  Division Names:
  
  LEADERS:
  Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Illinois, Purdue, Indiana
  
  LEGENDS:
  Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan State, Northwestern, Nebraska
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  Michigan's division is Legends
  OSU's is Leaders
• gorocks99

  

  Legends and Leaders. Hrm. I guess Michigan can't be the Leaders and Best anymore.
• OneBuckeye

  

  ptown_trojans_1;599173 wrote:"Legends" and "leaders" are the names.
  
  Interesting.....

  Yuck. too cheesey
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  Seems too clique to me. I understand what they are trying to do though.
• OneBuckeye

  

  ptown_trojans_1;599179 wrote:Michigan's division is Legends
  OSU's is Leaders

  
  That makes sense.
• jordo212000

  

  ehh not a fan
• jordo212000

  

  krambman;599178 wrote:Division Names:
  
  LEADERS:
  Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, Illinois, Purdue, Indiana
  
  LEGENDS:
  Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan State, Northwestern, Nebraska

  
  Sounds like a promotion that the US Army would come up with
• FatHobbit

  

  The more I look at it, the more I hate it. Which division is Legends and which is Leaders?
• krambman

  

  At first I thought the division names were kind of dumb, but I'm glad OSU is in the "Leaders" division because it will be fun to say things like "OSU is leading the Leaders," "OSU is the best of the Leaders," "OSU is the champions of the Leaders," and "Jim Tressel is the best coach among the Leaders."
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  Trophies for awards named after players and leaders? Sounds like hockey and the larger NCAA awards.
• krambman

  

  ptown_trojans_1;599179 wrote:Michigan's division is Legends
  OSU's is Leaders

  
  Makes since since OSU has been leading the conference for the past decade and all Michigan does is talk about their legends of bygone days.
• FatHobbit

  

  This is terrible.
• OneBuckeye

  

  krambman;599194 wrote:Makes since since OSU has been leading the conference for the past decade and all Michigan does is talk about their legends of bygone days.

  
  Also Nebraska is in the Legends division. That must mean when ND joins they will go there too.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  A trophy named after JoPa? Really?
  So, how awkward would that be if they win it next year. Winning a trophy that has his name on it.
• osu45804

  

  Championship Game MVP Trophy named: Grange-Griffin Trophy
• krambman

  

  For most fans of Big Ten teams these will just be referred to as "our division" and "the other division." Stewart Mandel just made a comment on Twitter which is probably how most of the rest of the college football world will refer to these divisions "One's the Ohio State Division, one's the Michigan Division. Good luck remembering the rest."
• NilesPacMan

  The logo is decent, except for the color of blue that was used, I think. I'm not a big fan of that, but the B1G was creative.
  
  On the name of the divisions, I think it's a good idea, but I don't think it's actually good in use. To Big Ten followers, it'll be easy to know which one is which. However, I think it'll be really confusing to those outside the conference.
• NilesPacMan

  ptown_trojans_1;599197 wrote:A trophy named after JoPa? Really?
  So, how awkward would that be if they win it next year. Winning a trophy that has his name on it.

  
  Well, we all know who is going to win it in his last year now.
• ts1227

  

  FatHobbit;599189 wrote:The more I look at it, the more I hate it. Which division is Legends and which is Leaders?

  It's bad enough that they split up the divisions so that they're a bitch to remember who is in what, and then the names do absolutely nothing to help.
  
  It's like the ACC - randomly split teams, name them "Atlantic and Coastal" when all of the fucking schools are Atlantic and Coastal. The rest of the country (and half of Big Ten country) will just watch Big Ten games aimlessly now and whoever shows up in the game shows up in the game because they have no idea who is where. This is how we all view the ACC for the most part.
  
  I still think they screwed the pooch by not splitting East/West when all they had to do was add in 1 permanent crossover (or 2 if you go to 9 games) to preserve everything that needed to be, by and large. In terms of national exposure, as I mentioned, everyone's going to be completely lost and will just kind of wait and see who appears from the clusterfuck to play for the BCS berth.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  Not a fan of the dual name trophies. Pick 1 name.
• gorocks99

  

  What are all the trophy names? Can't watch at work.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  Coach of the year is Hayes-Schembechler
  
  That makes sense.