(06-30-2020 07:59 PM)XLance Wrote:  

(06-30-2020 12:47 PM)Erictelevision Wrote:  How would you move the P5 dead weight to a reasonable G5 conference? I'd move WSU and OSU to the MWC
ISU and Northwestern to the MAC
can't decide any more, mostly because they don't have G5 homes readily available

Maybe the Big Ten doesn't consider Northwestern to be dead weight.
Iowa State has the third or 4th best football attendance in the Big 12, very competitive basketball and colorful uniforms....their dead weight?

This debate about who is dead weight and who is not is interesting. Iowa State has great attendance in both football and basketball. But is that a standard for dead weight? Iowa State has not won a conference championship in football since 1912. That seems like a long time. Oregon State was co-conference champions in the Pac-12 in 2000. They crushed Notre Dame in the Fiesta Bowl and ended up the No. 4 ranked team in the nation. Yet they are considered "dead weight." Iowa State basketball is good, but they lost to Oregon State this past season. In the past 12 years, Iowa State has had 7 players drafted into the NFL. Oregon State over the past 12 years has had 27 players drafted into the NFL. Oregon State, as we know, has one of the top college baseball programs in the nation.

Indiana and Minnesota have not won a conference championship in football since 1967, when they were co-champions of the Big Ten. Northwestern won three Big Ten conference championships in football (1995,1996,2000). Indiana and Minnesota have better basketball programs than Northwestern. But they have not won a Big Ten Championship recently and Northwestern has. So who is the dead weight in the Big 10?