Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.7.0.10 $; site uiucdcs Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!ekblaw From: ekblaw@uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.sport.football Subject: Re: BIG TEN VS PAC TEN Message-ID: <13000046@uiucdcs> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 13:11:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.13000046 Posted: Fri Nov 1 13:11:00 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 22:55:03 EST References: <1274@ihuxi.UUCP> Lines: 26 Nf-ID: #R:ihuxi.UUCP:1274:uiucdcs:13000046:000:1578 Nf-From: uiucdcs.CS.UIUC.EDU!ekblaw Nov 1 12:11:00 1985 Obviously this poor deluded fool would prefer to antagonize than to be informative. As I read and write to this notesfile for a purpose, let's shatter some myths: The Big Ten last won the Rose Bowl in the mid seventies (I don't remember the exact year), so it hasn't been all that long. Too, despite the last few years of a consecutive Pac 10 streak, the Big Ten still leads in career victories in the Rose Bowl. NOW Who's Zooming Who? Too, the records of the Pac 10 rep in the Rose Bowl has been worse than the record of the Big Ten rep for the last five years! The Big Ten team goes in expecting it to be easy, and it hasn't been. Once reason is hhome field advantage. For the last five years, the Pac 10 rep in the Rose Bowl has been USC or UCLA, both really close to the Rose Bowl site. I know for a fact that the Big Ten does NOT receive the selling rights to half of the seats in the stadium (a third if we're lucky, usually a fourth to a sixth of them), so the majority of spectators are Pac 10 fans. And since that d*mn stadium is like an echo chamber, crowd noise is a big factor. If the Pac 10 fans would be good sportsman and let the teams themselves battle the game, perhaps the Pac 10 would not have enjoyed its "dynasty" of Rose Bowl victories in the last few years. At least the Big Ten can say that they had huge streaks of consecutive victories at the Rose Bowl when good and proper sportsmanship was in vogue, so the Big Ten team beat the Pac 10'er fair and square. I doubt the same thing can be said of the Pac 10 presently. Robert A. Ekblaw