After the APP State and Toledo Wins Michigan ...

[BGIF]

is so afraid of Div AA and MAC teams they'd rather go In-Conference to find patsies to Out Of Confernce "buy" games. Trying to bolster RichRods record they offered Minnesota, a fellow Big 10 member, $1 million ( or more) to play fellow so they could avoid a rematch with APP ST.

The Gophers are looking for two football games on the 2010 schedule, and with Michigan not on the slate the next two years, the Wolverines suggested that the Gophers play one of those games at Ann Arbor next year in their remodeled stadium and consider it a nonconference game. With the Big House seating more than 100,000 fans, the Gophers would have received $1 million or more. But Gophers athletic director Joel Maturi turned down the idea. "We've already scheduled Southern California next year [2010], and it wouldn't be fair to our players to add a road Michigan game to our schedule," Maturi said,

-- Star Tribune

 

[phork]

Really... Its Minnesota Mr. Maturi. Your chances at a NC are less than me getting pregnant. Maybe you should ask the players what they want? I know if I was a player I'd love to take Michigan next year, when they are still down.

 

[pani_nasz]

I know it's a losing argument (too much BCS $ at stake), but I am in favor of a full conference schedule. In the case of the Big 10, it would be ten conference games, and two non-conference. While it provides little wiggle room for padding a schedule, a true conference champion would emerge as a result. But such a plan would only be effective if all conferences had the same requirement.

 

[jason_h537]

The Pac 10 does this already

 

[BGIF]

I know it's a losing argument (too much BCS $ at stake), but I am in favor of a full conference schedule. In the case of the Big 10, it would be ten conference games, and two non-conference. While it provides little wiggle room for padding a schedule, a true conference champion would emerge as a result. But such a plan would only be effective if all conferences had the same requirement.

Really if you don't play all the members of your conference what's the point of having a conference. The axiom in the SEC before Divisions/Playoff Game was "You can't win the SEC with 2 Losses" Now you could win a NC.

The Big 10's scheduling creates tremendous disparity. The PAC 10 is chided for having a statistically weaker conference but they end with more member losses because they don't schedule to maximize wins like the SEC has for more than a decade.