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PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2010 9:41 am 
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They are now 2-1 vs. the Big Ten in the last two years. I tried to bump the old thread about this topic, but it was "pruned". :?

Basically my point in the old thread was that NIU could hold it's own vs. the Big Ten, outside of the perennial powers (so basically the bottom 2/3 of the conference). Last night is just another piece f evidence.

There were a couple that said that a team like NIU absolutely could not survive (led by a number cruncher who doesn't post here anymore - maybethis can bring hmback :wink: ).

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Basically my point in the old thread was that NIU could hold it's own vs. the Big Ten, outside of the perennial powers (so basically the bottom 2/3 of the conference). Last night is just another piece f evidence.
No one ever doubted that a MAC team could be better than the worst team in the Big Ten. Minnesota is stunningly bad. It's hard to imagine them winning a game in the Big Ten. I guess if Purdue loses it's third string QB and RB like they have the first and second stringers they may beat Purdue.

NIU still has 2 wins against the Big Ten in the past 20 years. One of those comes against a team that could be the worst in the Big Ten since Illinois' streak of 2 years of terrible. The other was against a Purdue team that finished 5-7. The same Purdue team is still 8-2 against the MAC in the last ten games(sample size is important).

Central Michigan is clearly the class of the MAC, and even they couldn't compete in the Big Ten. Just like most MAC teams, they could beat the worst Big Ten team, and possibly be competitive with the second to worst.

There is no case you can make that they could compete with the bottom 2/3 of the conference. Even the 1/3 of the conference is a major stretch. It would probably have something to do with home field advantage(discounted by MAC records at neutral sites and home games where the numbers don't change much).

As I said, take the record of any MAC team vs. the Big Ten in the last 10 games. Take the record of any Big Ten team vs. the MAC in the last 10 games. Choose NIU if you want. Choose Ball State if you want. Choose Central Michigan if you want. Even recent down programs like Minnesota and Indiana and Purdue will have winning records against the MAC and likely better winning percentages vs. the MAC than almost all other MAC teams. I don't really feel like looking up the records of all MAC teams vs. Big Ten but I would guess that the best record in the past 10 of a MAC team is 3-7. Central Michigan looks to be 2-8 in the past 10 games. NIU is. Toledo is 2-5 since 2002. Maybe they went 1-2 prior but I don't really feel like looking past that since the stats I was using only go back that far. I admit I did it very quickly so I apologize if I missed a game.

As I said before. Purdue beat Ohio State last year. That does not mean that Purdue is on the same level as Ohio State. They clearly aren't and did a great job of proving that yesterday. Now, let's say that Purdue was 5-5 vs. Ohio State in the last 10 games. That's becomes a more defensible stance.

Congratulations on your win but I wouldn't cite beating Minnesota as proof that we were wrong last year. I distinctly remember both me and Irish Boy conceding that many MAC teams could be better than the worst team in the Big Ten.

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Minnesota is absolutely horrible. They lost to a FCS school for gods sake. That team needs an enema of their lead man. Brewster is a fucking asshat.


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So - none of the Big Ten teams will be counting their win over Minnesota (bowl team last year) in their "W" column?

I didn't realize they didn't count. NIU should have been told ahead of time.

Classic Brick - in the 1st paragraph of his response about NIU vs. Big Ten, he makes a list of excuses as to why his team probably won't beat the team that he spends the next 4 paragraphs bashing and discrediting. :lol:

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I admit to not understanding your point and feel that you have subscribed views to me that I have never held. I would invoke the John Kirk rule, but since our fearless leader has deleted all the relevant threads in his never ending quest to make this board "better," invoking the JK rule would not be entirely fair.

NIU is pretty much at their peak right now. They are expected to win their division of the conference, and maybe the entire MAC. This team you are watching is pretty much the limits of what you can hope to see from them. In a year or two, they will return back to the middle of the MAC, then rise again, and so on, like the rising and falling of the tides. The 2010 NIU Huskies are 1-1 against Illinois and Minnesota (and lost to Iowa State, but let's ignore that). If they played an entire Big Ten schedule, they would play six other teams. I'll be charitable and say since they had to play Illinois and Minnesota on the road, they would get Purdue and Indiana at home--this would mean they miss two of the seven better Big Ten teams. I'll even be charitable and say they beat Crossroads of America teams at home, even though Indiana would be favored against NIU in Dekalb.

Where does that leave them? NIU would have no chance--absolutely none--against six of the seven teams remaining this year, and they would be very clear underdogs to Northwestern. What you are boasting about in this thread is that the 2010 NIU Huskies--a top version of NIU, not the crappy bottom-feeding versions--could maybe, maybe, go 4-4 in the Big Ten. For that to happen, everything would have to go their way schedule-wise (missing two of OSU, PSU, UM, MSU, Iowa, and UW), and you'd have to assume improbable wins over Northwestern and Indiana (they already lost to Illinois). That's the best case scenario. Worst case scenario, NIU goes 1-7 or 2-6 this season, while they are in top form.

My point has never been that no MAC team will never beat any Big Ten team, because obviously that's not true. But this entire debate feels like a carny game where the clown's mouth is moved on me after taking fire. There will always be some top MAC team that could compete with some Big Ten teams some years. This year, NIU would go 3-5, plus or minus a win, just as CMU would have last year, and Ball State the year before that. That's just the cyclical nature of college football; there are Colonial American Association teams that would beat Minnesota, or Wazzu, or Duke, or Vanderbilt, or Kansas, or Syracuse this year (just to be ecumenical about conferences). That proves nothing about the CAA beyond that some major conference teams blow.

I had, and have, two basic points. The first is that the MAC really, really sucks. Sagarin has the MAC as the 11th best conference in college football (not counting "independents", who are also better), better than the Sun Belt and worse than the I-AA CAA. The MAC has gone 3-20 against BCS competition and 2-10 against the Big Ten. This is a relatively permanent state of affairs. No MAC team has beaten a Big Ten team that finished the season over .500 since 2003, and that's not going to change this year. If the Sun Belt did not exist--and it shouldn't, if not for clever accounting by the NCAA--the MAC would consistently, year after year, be the weakest conference in I-A.

My second point is that there is no team in the MAC that is consistently good enough that it could regularly compete in the Big Ten. That's fuzzy, so let's try to define it further; there is no MAC program that could average three wins a season over a decade in the Big Ten. Take any program in the MAC over any 10-year stretch over the past two decades. Maybe you could strain a muscle trying to prove that Central Michigan could, but remember, the best CMU teams during that period lost to Purdue three times during a 13 month stretch. NIU certainly could not have done so, and remember, it was unconscionable NIU boosterism that prompted all of this.

I don't hate the MAC. I thought Temple would beat PSU. I thought NIU would beat Minnesota. Etc. Also, I don't know what would happen if some MAC team actually became a Big Ten team and received Big Ten revenue, recruiting, etc. I'd assume they'd be something like Indiana as a worst case scenario and Purdue as a best case scenario. Such a team would, at some point, compete well in the conference and have surprise seasons. That is also true of SIU and every school though, and thus unexceptional.

Finally...wait a second, who is taking shots here? Some asshole with a College Napoleon Complex spent the majority of last year reminding me of how much Illinois sucks, how NIU was clearly a better program, and how he would be willing to give Dr. Ken points (seven of them, IIRC) last offseason for the game. Illinois won by six, with the result that close only because Jerry Kill had an endgame strategy designed to keep the game close, rather than try to win. That asshole isn't here, I notice. Now, for some reason, I'm also supposed to also take up the mantle of the Fighting Brewsters? No thank you. My sad-sack uncompetitive program ran the ball down the fucking throat of your sad sack uncompetitive program, despite starting a freshman in his second ever I-A game at QB and having lost most of their secondary to injuries over the first two weeks. And I didn't say a word, because Illinois is supposed to beat NIU. Illinois always beats NIU.

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 Post subject: Re: NIU Huskies
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A 4'2" law student typing a 2,000 word post on an internet message board, calling names and taking random shots and calling people assholes.

Then he has the nerve to say that someone else has a "Napoleon Complex".
:lol: :lol: :lol: :roll:

My post contained far less words, yet you did not understand what I was saying? Take a breath next time before you respond.

You constantly tell us that when comparing NIU (or similar team) vs. the Big Ten, we cannot look at anything but the present - even though extended years in a "power conference" (read: more $$$) would only increase the strength/ potential for success of NIU, not decrease it. Yet, you want to remind us of the past records (some going back decades), and you want to constantly remind us that you think NIU is "at it's peak" right now vs. other years - an opinion of yours, and probably not accurate... but, once again you choose to allow yourself to use extended years when making your point but don't want anyone else to do so.

One last thing: good point about losing on the road to Iowa Sate this year. So NIU is 1-1 this year against bowl teams from BCS conferences from last year, both games on the road. I'll put that in the column that supports my stance. Thanks, Nap. :wink:






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I was clearly referring to NIU Huskie when I made the Napoleon Complex crack. If you are overly sensitive, well, I cannot do anything about that. The present situation is that NIU went 1-2 against three of the worst BCS conference teams and barely beat an FCS team.

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Napoleon Complex crack. If you are overly sensitive, well, I cannot do anything about that.

Quickly review the thread, and tell me when it first seems that someone acted as though they are a little "overly sensitive".

NW beat Vandy and Duke (two of the worst BCS teams) and barely beat a MAC team at home. How would you rate them? Remember that you can only use what they have done so far this season, according to you.

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I would rate them seventh, ahead of Illinois, Indiana, Purdue, and Minnesota, in that order. And no, I don't understand what you are saying. NIU could compete in the Big Ten, if you don't count six of the teams?

As for the sensitivity issue, you've taken several personal cracks at me, including the very first post, and I have taken precisely zero at you. Consider my response to be filling in the gaps left by Bigfan's ruthless campaign of rescission. It used to be I could just quote a thread. Now, I have to rewrite everything, and I prefer to have everything in one post than play the broken-up quotation game over and over again.

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As for the sensitivity issue, you've taken several personal cracks at me, including the very first post, and I have taken precisely zero at you. Consider my response to be filling in the gaps left by Bigfan's ruthless campaign of rescission. It used to be I could just quote a thread. Now, I have to rewrite everything, and I prefer to have everything in one post than play the broken-up quotation game over and over again.

Listen, you brought up the "sensitivity" issue, not me. Saying "number cruncher" is offensive to you? Really? That's all I can find in that first post. Then you make that post at which you are taking shots at everybody and everything that you can possibly dream up that relates to this topic (seemingly several at me) - but now you want me to believe that it wasn't meant for me rather somebody who not only never posted in this thread but hasn't posted on the board for almost a year? Please. Nice back tracking.

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Maybe read a little closer next time. I didn't say "number cruncher" was offensive. I said it was a shot. It was.

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Some asshole with a College Napoleon Complex spent the majority of last year reminding me of how much Illinois sucks, how NIU was clearly a better program, and how he would be willing to give Dr. Ken points (seven of them, IIRC) last offseason for the game. Illinois won by six, with the result that close only because Jerry Kill had an endgame strategy designed to keep the game close, rather than try to win. That asshole isn't here, I notice.


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So - none of the Big Ten teams will be counting their win over Minnesota (bowl team last year) in their "W" column?
It counts. In fact, beating Minnesota proves you are better than them. There will likely be 8 Big Ten teams who do it this year. It's possible that Minnesota pulls it together for a game and goes 1-7.
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Classic Brick - in the 1st paragraph of his response about NIU vs. Big Ten, he makes a list of excuses as to why his team probably won't beat the team that he spends the next 4 paragraphs bashing and discrediting. :lol:
Classic spanky - intentionally misunderstanding a point while ignoring the clear and indisputable evidence that his whole stance is wrong. My paragraphs were filled with evidence that any MAC team, even NIU, have not proven what you say especially the ludicrous statement that NIU is comparable to the 5th best team in the Big Ten(bottom 2/3).

That was not an excuse because it hasn't happened. As currently constructed, I expect Purdue to beat Minnesota even while playing the third string QB and the third string RB and missing a likely all Big Ten WR. That shows just how little I think of Minnesota. Now, let's say that the current starters at those positions go down. We'd likely have to move a WR to QB. That's right, we'd have a WR starting for us. They'd possibly burn the redshirt on Sean Robinson but I doubt it. Our current starting running back is somewhat productive but ironically, more of a MAC level talent who has worked his way into being a player. If he were to go down, we'd have a somewhat capable replacement(scored a TD yesterday). So yes, I will make an excuse if we drop down that far on the depth chart.

You have looked at what Minnesota has done this season right? You have read Irish Boy's thoughts before the season started on just how bad they are?

I don't hate NIU either. My dad went to NIU and it was one of three places I applied to for school. I was accepted and did visit. They've done a good job. They've built a pretty good MAC program. That still doesn't change the clear case I and Irish Boy have made above. Using a sample size that could never be considered relevant(three games) to judge things doesn't change that.

If you want to address my points I made I'll be happy to respond. Just try and be fair to me and not make things up when they don't exist. I fully expect Purdue to beat Minnesota. In fact, I expect Purdue to beat more Big Ten teams this year than NIU did.

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I admit to not understanding your point and feel that you have subscribed views to me that I have never held. I would invoke the John Kirk rule, but since our fearless leader has deleted all the relevant threads in his never ending quest to make this board "better," invoking the JK rule would not be entirely fair.

NIU is pretty much at their peak right now. They are expected to win their division of the conference, and maybe the entire MAC. This team you are watching is pretty much the limits of what you can hope to see from them. In a year or two, they will return back to the middle of the MAC, then rise again, and so on, like the rising and falling of the tides. The 2010 NIU Huskies are 1-1 against Illinois and Minnesota (and lost to Iowa State, but let's ignore that). If they played an entire Big Ten schedule, they would play six other teams. I'll be charitable and say since they had to play Illinois and Minnesota on the road, they would get Purdue and Indiana at home--this would mean they miss two of the seven better Big Ten teams. I'll even be charitable and say they beat Crossroads of America teams at home, even though Indiana would be favored against NIU in Dekalb.

Where does that leave them? NIU would have no chance--absolutely none--against six of the seven teams remaining this year, and they would be very clear underdogs to Northwestern. What you are boasting about in this thread is that the 2010 NIU Huskies--a top version of NIU, not the crappy bottom-feeding versions--could maybe, maybe, go 4-4 in the Big Ten. For that to happen, everything would have to go their way schedule-wise (missing two of OSU, PSU, UM, MSU, Iowa, and UW), and you'd have to assume improbable wins over Northwestern and Indiana (they already lost to Illinois). That's the best case scenario. Worst case scenario, NIU goes 1-7 or 2-6 this season, while they are in top form.

My point has never been that no MAC team will never beat any Big Ten team, because obviously that's not true. But this entire debate feels like a carny game where the clown's mouth is moved on me after taking fire. There will always be some top MAC team that could compete with some Big Ten teams some years. This year, NIU would go 3-5, plus or minus a win, just as CMU would have last year, and Ball State the year before that. That's just the cyclical nature of college football; there are Colonial American Association teams that would beat Minnesota, or Wazzu, or Duke, or Vanderbilt, or Kansas, or Syracuse this year (just to be ecumenical about conferences). That proves nothing about the CAA beyond that some major conference teams blow.

I had, and have, two basic points. The first is that the MAC really, really sucks. Sagarin has the MAC as the 11th best conference in college football (not counting "independents", who are also better), better than the Sun Belt and worse than the I-AA CAA. The MAC has gone 3-20 against BCS competition and 2-10 against the Big Ten. This is a relatively permanent state of affairs. No MAC team has beaten a Big Ten team that finished the season over .500 since 2003, and that's not going to change this year. If the Sun Belt did not exist--and it shouldn't, if not for clever accounting by the NCAA--the MAC would consistently, year after year, be the weakest conference in I-A.

My second point is that there is no team in the MAC that is consistently good enough that it could regularly compete in the Big Ten. That's fuzzy, so let's try to define it further; there is no MAC program that could average three wins a season over a decade in the Big Ten. Take any program in the MAC over any 10-year stretch over the past two decades. Maybe you could strain a muscle trying to prove that Central Michigan could, but remember, the best CMU teams during that period lost to Purdue three times during a 13 month stretch. NIU certainly could not have done so, and remember, it was unconscionable NIU boosterism that prompted all of this.

I don't hate the MAC. I thought Temple would beat PSU. I thought NIU would beat Minnesota. Etc. Also, I don't know what would happen if some MAC team actually became a Big Ten team and received Big Ten revenue, recruiting, etc. I'd assume they'd be something like Indiana as a worst case scenario and Purdue as a best case scenario. Such a team would, at some point, compete well in the conference and have surprise seasons. That is also true of SIU and every school though, and thus unexceptional.

Finally...wait a second, who is taking shots here? Some asshole with a College Napoleon Complex spent the majority of last year reminding me of how much Illinois sucks, how NIU was clearly a better program, and how he would be willing to give Dr. Ken points (seven of them, IIRC) last offseason for the game. Illinois won by six, with the result that close only because Jerry Kill had an endgame strategy designed to keep the game close, rather than try to win. That asshole isn't here, I notice. Now, for some reason, I'm also supposed to also take up the mantle of the Fighting Brewsters? No thank you. My sad-sack uncompetitive program ran the ball down the fucking throat of your sad sack uncompetitive program, despite starting a freshman in his second ever I-A game at QB and having lost most of their secondary to injuries over the first two weeks. And I didn't say a word, because Illinois is supposed to beat NIU. Illinois always beats NIU.


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Fun fact.

Purdue is 3-1 vs. Ohio State and Michigan in the previous two years. I can take solace in the fact that we've proven we are equal or better than the two biggest perennial powers in the Big Ten.

Purdue is only 2-2 vs. the MAC in the same time frame. So Purdue is better than the perennial powers in the Big Ten but about equal to the MAC.

Aren't incredibly small sample sizes fun to come up with any conclusion you want?

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There were a couple that said that a team like NIU absolutely could not survive


NIU absolutely could not survive.

The Huskie would have to be put down.

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NIU could DEFINITELY survive if it lived in the Big Ten. You'd be surprised what a nice upgrades you can add for $22 million a year just in BTN money. Add that to bowl appearances dough and ticket sales and you got a pretty nice budget for buying whores for high school recruits... um, I mean a new weightlifting room.


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NIU could DEFINITELY survive if it lived in the Big Ten. You'd be surprised what a nice upgrades you can add for $22 million a year just in BTN money. Add that to bowl appearances dough and ticket sales and you got a pretty nice budget for buying whores for high school recruits... um, I mean a new weightlifting room.


As Irish Boy pointed out, that could be said for any number of programs.

There is nothing special about NIU that would make it especially true for them.

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My_name_1s_MUD wrote:
NIU could DEFINITELY survive if it lived in the Big Ten. You'd be surprised what a nice upgrades you can add for $22 million a year just in BTN money. Add that to bowl appearances dough and ticket sales and you got a pretty nice budget for buying whores for high school recruits... um, I mean a new weightlifting room.


As Irish Boy pointed out, that could be said for any number of programs.

There is nothing special about NIU that would make it especially true for them.
I wonder if the University of Chicago regrets giving up on football. Academically, they obviously do fine but you would think that the profile of the entire University would be enhanced even more.

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Academically, they obviously do fine but you would think that the profile of the entire University would be enhanced even more.


Your definition of "fine" needs to be recalibrated.

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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
Academically, they obviously do fine but you would think that the profile of the entire University would be enhanced even more.


Your definition of "fine" needs to be recalibrated.
My point is that if you took another school, and gave it everything the University of Chicago has now, that it could compete with the University of Chicago.

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Do you guys intentionally make my brain hurt? If so, I'm going to send Bernstein over to give you a good tsk-tsk-ing.

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There were a couple that said that a team like NIU absolutely could not survive


NIU absolutely could not survive.

You're right. Some of the standards that schools such as current "bottom 4-5" have set are way too lofty for NIU. They would probably drop football all together if they only won 2-4 games in the conference every year.

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