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Thaillini22
IlliniCaboose said:
...But, as an Illinois and Big Ten fan, going forward I like it. Am I sad I won't get to watch UCLA and Oregon State play at 10pm local time, not really. Am I excited to have USC and Oregon come to Champaign every few years, hell yes...
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This is interesting because this has always been a possibility. But over the last 20 years of terrible incentives leading to cupcake scheduling, we didn't get it.

Now, the schools WILL get it and they will like it!

We didn't need this clustereff to have Oregon on the schedule semi regularly.
 
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Jimbo
This column by Sullivan sounds like a terrible idea that i hope never gains traction. I would cease to be a college football fan.
 

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Thaillini22
Jimbo said:
This column by Sullivan sounds like a terrible idea that i hope never gains traction. I would cease to be a college football fan.
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Given that the olden days are completely over, I kinda like that idea. Relegation would add a whole different level of excitement.
 
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BZuppke
IlliniLifer123 said:
Doesn't all this lead to player contracts, salary caps & a union?

Doesn't this all just lead to the NFL system, but with maybe 64 teams?

Parity is good for the sports business. Spread out the SEC teams. Spread out the talent somewhat equally across the college football league.

Or does college football slowly turn into a southern NASCAR thing?
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Yes. If you’re going NFL lite then you’ll eventually go all in and the quality of your organization will be more important than your history.
 
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altgeld88
ChiefGritty said:
Lol those dots are pretty far off in a couple of cases.
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I noticed that, too. They're all off by the same amount. It's like a slightly-misplaced transparency overlay. Shift all of them up a wee bit to the same degree and it's perfect.

In any event, it's allowing the best be the enemy of the good. It's such a better logo than the Big-Televen one of the '90s after PSU joined.
 
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altgeld88
This is interesting. I found a higher-def old BT logo and the dots are right where they should be but the intersection of the "Minnesota" and "Northwestern" labels is off. Corrected one facet, screwed up another.

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altgeld88
mattcoldagelli said:
False. Big Televen was great - I'm a sucker for anyone creatively using negative space.
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I agree regarding the use of negative space. The logos ringing it, however, are twee, and on its own the block Televen is dull save for that embedded "11." The original one was relatively much better (for its time.) Thank goodness the Big Televen one was developed before the late '90s and the age of the ubiquitous "logo swoosh."

In addition, the Illinois, OSU, and NW logos of that period were awful.

It's Chicago, for goodness sake, a center of great creative advertising. They could have done better.
 
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mattcoldagelli
altgeld88 said:
I agree regarding the use of negative space. The logos ringing it, however, are twee, and on its own the block Televen is dull save for that embedded "11." The original one was relatively much better (for its time.) Thank goodness the Big Televen one was developed before the late '90s and the age of the ubiquitous "logo swoosh."

In addition, the Illinois, OSU, and NW logos of that period were awful.

It's Chicago, for goodness sake, a center of great creative advertising. They could have done better.
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But you're criticizing the individual school logos. I don't think anyone ever thought of what you have there as "the Big Ten logo" - that's "the Big Ten logo with the logos of the member schools surrounding it."

Separate from that, yeesh was "Block I w/ slant Illinois" bad. Easily #11 out of 11 in that group.
 
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altgeld88
mattcoldagelli said:
But you're criticizing the individual school logos. I don't think anyone ever thought of what you have there as "the Big Ten logo" - that's "the Big Ten logo with the logos of the member schools surrounding it."

Separate from that, yeesh was "Block I w/ slant Illinois" bad. Easily #11 out of 11 in that group.
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I was criticizing the choice to use those logos on the periphery of the block Televen. The union is poor. I like the current B1G logo, frankly. Pretty good for what it is. Succinct and somewhat elegant.

Speaking of that terrible slant Illinois and block "I", I never understood why we resisted using a simple, classic block I after the chief logo (my all-time favorite) was taken off the table. Also, why OSU moved away from the block "O" and NW inserted the cat head in what is a fairly cool block "N" was a mystery. I look at those three now and they're hideously dated (and hideous).

I get chills (of horror) looking at that Illinois logo. I still have a pair of gym shorts I picked up at IUB in 2000 (on clearance, which says something) with the slant ILLINOIS across a basketball. I can live with that more than I can the imposition of the Block "I" beneath. TBF, they've worn well over 23 years! Good value.

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