Around the Big Ten

[entropy]

http://btn.com/2014/02/06/ranking-big-ten-schools-on-recruiting-appeal/

Pretty descent list...

[Mike]

I found it quite depressing, actually.

[hack]

Hence entropy's use of the word ``descent'' instead of ``decent''?

[entropy]

Nice catch. Missed the apple change before I posted...

[entropy]

I actually am not sure PSU is number two. I never thought of them as a destination school outside the NE

[WM Wolverine]

It used to be for the kids in the North East; Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland; PSU's reach wasn't much further than that under JoePa but it didn't need to extend any further as the Lions plucked whoever they wanted from those states...

[whodean]

http://btn.com/2014/02/06/ranking-big-ten-schools-on-recruiting-appeal/

And game day isn’t an electric experience, as is the case at some other places.

Is there just no way to fix this?

[hack]

So many kids say precisely the opposite. It's quantity over quality in terms of the kind of fans and all that, but the bottom line is that I don't think that's true. Game Day in The Big House is a pretty big sales point.

[Jeff Buchanan]

The one thing that has changed in the 40 some years I've experienced it is a shift from the game itself and enjoying it with fellow students/friends to an increasing focus on entertainment.

The pre-game things I did as a student was party the Friday night before Game Day, get up about 10, get dressed (usually in sport coat and tie - yes, we actually did that back then), walk to the stadium to be there about 15 minutes before kick-off, pull out whatever beverage we had snuck in, drink, watch the game, leave the game and party post game. It was a Friday - Saturday ritual ending when I got up on Sunday and started to study. Sure, I was entertained but I was entertained by the pre and post-game ritual, the game itself, the band and not by $25 Prime Rib sandwiches (there wasn't any food or what there was amounted to a soda and hot dog), big screen score boards and the human interest stories that come from them, pop music and luxury suites.

I don't think that shift is unique to The Big House. It's happened everywhere in college sports. I suspect not doing these things, trying to maintain a game day atmosphere the eschewed them on the basis of some high minded moral stand would produce empty stadia. So, I understand some of the shift. One has to feed American culture whatever that might be now.

But not all of it and what galls me is Branadon's apparent disinterest in acknowledging the value of maintaining contract with the roots of CFB and bringing on second and third generations of Michigan football fans. It's become hard for aging Michigan football fans to have their sons and daughters experience the roots of the game, not only because they are being edged out by commercialism but also because it is becoming prohibitively expensive to do it.

[entropy]

as I've told you guys before, Michigan stadium is quiet compared to a other larger stadiums. I think that plays a part in the game day atmosphere.

I'd agree with OSU #1.. I think 2-4 you could rank Nebraska, Michigan and PSU in any order and it would make sense.

I've never been to Indiana, but Id be surprised if anything really is worse than Northwestern. Outside the school, nothing about the football program could be considered a recruiting plus.

[whodean]

Michigan stadium is a veritable mausoleum in comparison to other college football venues I've visited.

[whodean]

I don't think that shift is unique to The Big House. it.

I'm afraid it is. Look at all the frat boys in coat & tie and pretty girls in dresses at SEC games. The game day experience is different.

[hack]

I don't think anyone disagrees. People make excuses about the shape of the bowl, which are probably just excuses. One thing's for sure -- there is only one biggest stadium in the country.

[hack]

I'm afraid it is. Look at all the frat boys in coat & tie and pretty girls in dresses at SEC games. The game day experience is different.

Definitely more People You'd Like to Punch down there.

[whodean]

only one biggest

As your wife ha told you Hack, size isn't everything