Glen Keeney wrote:
 
>   I don't see that additional Big 10 programs "requires a splitting off".
>  Conference games can be played as part of the regular conference - see
>  Ive League - The Big 10 schools play other schools in addition to Big 10
> conference
>  games now is all sports.
>
 
Sure, but those are non-conference games.  I'd like to see some sort of
format that would lead to regularized Big 10 conference play and the
determination of a league champion.  And, no, this couldn't be like the Ivy
League does it; all of the Ivies are in the ECAC.  Being split between two
conferences, the Big 10 teams are going to have to come up some other format,
using a fair number of non-conference games to accomplish it.
 
J. Michael Neal
 
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