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From: rjv@ihdev.UUCP (ron vaughn)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: Re: conference comparisons
Message-ID: <402@ihdev.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 10:36:43 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 17 10:36:43 1985
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In article <241@rosevax.UUCP> shari@rosevax.UUCP (Shari Nelson) writes:
>I believe 6 or 7 big 10 teams went to bowl games last year. I know they
>lost most of them, but just the fact that they were respected enough to
>be invited says something I think.
>..!ihnp4!rosevax!shari  a Minnesota Gopher fan forever!!!

you can interpret just about anything in life  any way you want.  last
year any big-10 team .500 or over wasn't on probation went to
a bowl.  and they got whipped all over the place.  

it wasn't respect for the football ability -- the big-10 really wasn't that
hot a conference last year.  it's the fact that at smaller bowls the
bowl reps. try to pick teams that 8zillion fans will follow to the game
and spend big bucks, and their home crowds will watch on tv.  there was
an article recently in the chicago trib about picking bowl teams.  they
interviewd some bowl reps who said "the big-10 states have 1/4 of all the
TVs in america.  and they love their football, and follow their teams."
etc. etc.  big-10 teams were "good picks," but this guy was talking $$$$,
not football.

the respect they had wasn't due exclusively to football ability.

	ron vaughn	...!ihnp4!ihdev!rjv