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Topic: Who will win the B1G over the next decade?

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Brutus Buckeye

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Re: Who will win the B1G over the next decade?
« Reply #14 on: December 31, 2018, 11:23:57 AM »
Yes. Even Illinois.

Among the B1G West, only Iowa and Wisconsin have more recent Conference Titles than the Illini. 
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Re: Who will win the B1G over the next decade?
« Reply #15 on: December 31, 2018, 11:26:13 AM »
So, you're saying there's a CHANCE?
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Re: Who will win the B1G over the next decade?
« Reply #16 on: December 31, 2018, 11:37:28 AM »
None.
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Re: Who will win the B1G over the next decade?
« Reply #17 on: December 31, 2018, 11:44:33 AM »
none while Lovie is in charge
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Re: Who will win the B1G over the next decade?
« Reply #18 on: December 31, 2018, 11:51:36 AM »
At least possibly, Illinois gets some big donor who starts writing checks and swinging his D around and gets changes made.  It could happen in ten years.  We've seen programs like Baylor go from nothing to substantial in a decade.

It's not very likely.
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Re: Who will win the B1G over the next decade?
« Reply #19 on: December 31, 2018, 11:53:05 AM »
Depends on what you mean by jump up?  Have sustained top end success like Wisconsin?  Or even a few years of elite like MSU?  I think Maryland is best postioned if they can get out of their own way.  Obviously the path is clearer in the West.  So I'll go a little off the board and say Illinois' with the right coach.  There is plenty of talent, but they can't he star struck.  Do what Wisconsin and MSU did and build up with 3* kids.  No offense, but the big recruits who choose Illinois right now over better options, may not be the kids right for the job.  (Sort of my thoughts on the 5* kids choosing UM over Bama or Clemson or OSU, but that's for a different thread)

But just looking at built in geogrpahical advantages and lack of in state competition, the fact that Illinois and Maryland lag behind MSU, Wisconsin and Iowa makes no sense.  So if I'm going off the board, I'll pick that to correct itself.
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Re: Who will win the B1G over the next decade?
« Reply #20 on: December 31, 2018, 11:53:40 AM »
Having sneaky great seasons among a sea of outright mediocrity has sorta been the Illini's MO this century.

So far this Millennium they have only twice won more than seven games.

The first time resulted in an outright Big Ten Title, and the other time they went to the Rose Bowl.

The Huskers, by comparison, have zero Conference Titles since 1999.
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Re: Who will win the B1G over the next decade?
« Reply #21 on: December 31, 2018, 11:55:48 AM »
thanks
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Re: Who will win the B1G over the next decade?
« Reply #22 on: December 31, 2018, 11:56:02 AM »
Illinois is a basketball school and they can't even be good at that. That program is run about the same as the entire state. Laughingstock all around.
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Re: Who will win the B1G over the next decade?
« Reply #23 on: December 31, 2018, 12:12:10 PM »
Would your guess in 2008 have been decently close?

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Re: Who will win the B1G over the next decade?
« Reply #24 on: December 31, 2018, 12:20:12 PM »
MSU's emergence was unexpected. 

Wisconsin, OSU and PSU would have been easy to predict, by merely extending the trends that had developed by the late 20-ots.
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