Big Ten Division Name Change

I think the most I've heard is that people are "OK" with it. If the highest approval you get from people is "it's OK," and drops down to "I utterly hate it" from there, you've got a problem. It's good that Delany is willing to listen, because man, they've got a problem.

Go directional, name them after famous coaches, name them after regions - whatever. Just change the names.

 
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Big 12 fans reading that article gotta be thinking "Wow, Nebraska made a great move to the Big Ten. Their commish is clearly a great leader. It's no wonder his conference has had so much success. I mean, would Beebe ever listen to the Big 12 fan base like Delany is? I doubt it."

 
Delany on Thursday acknowledged the negative reaction in an interview with WGN Radio in Chicago. The commissioner also for the first time acknowledged the possibility of re-evaluating the names and changing them in the near future.
"We've had enough experience with names and expansion and development of divisions that we know that you rarely get a 90 percent approval rating," Delany told WGN AM-720. "But to get a 90 percent non-approval rating was really surprising. It showed that we didnt connect with our fans in a way that we wanted to. Its humbling, to say the least, because were trying to build fan bases, not push them away.
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The Big Ten should open an online poll and let the fans vote. We all know how well Husker fan represents the online ballot, maybe...

'Alex Henery' Division and 'Everybody Else' division

GBR

 
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Blaze1up said:
They need to go with the regions, Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic.
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Yes. For all the talk of it not being geographical, throw up a map of the states (as miami did in a previous thread) and it's pretty strikingly not randomly distributed across the map. Ah, here's a map, from HI. Non geographic split? C'mon, Big Ten guys...did you even look at the map first?!

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I'm still pushing for Frontier/Horizon. Both would still satisfy the Big10 desire to recognize the history of the conference (Frontier) but still look to the future (Horizon).

 
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