B10 wrestling going to divisions?

[Sportfan2017]

I see no problem with it.....really. Assuming PSU wins the east....they will wrestle Iowa every year in the final Big 10 dual of the year instead of early Jan. possibly. If Iowa doesn't win the west or PSU doesn't win the East.......they have no claim. Plus....no matter what......there will still be the Big 10 tournament to determine individual qualifiers for NCAAs. More trophies....more PSU-Iowa matches...no Undefeated Co-Champs. I'm good

 

[matter7172]

The sort of obvious (to me, at least) problem is determining the division champ when the interdivision schedules are different - unless you only count intradivision results when doing it.

 

[CurtisLoew40]

What happened to the leaders and the legends lol

 

[El-Jefe]

What happened to the leaders and the legends lol

Loser of the 7th vs 7th match gets the Land Grant Trophy.

 

[District four]

Loser of the 7th vs 7th match gets the Land Grant Trophy.

Winner of it all gets an extra scholarship the following year that will keep anyone from running or sticking second string guys in there. Lol.

 

[smalls103]

Willie's responses above lead me to think that there won't be 2 designated "rivals" from the other division. Just the 2 schools that happen to rotate in that year.

Which means we'd get Iowa once every 3 years, except when we meet at B10 Duals.

If they win their division, they earn the right to face us.

Great ? Jefe. i wish i could answer it but i honestly don't know. it was my impression (not fact nor 'told') that the 2 cross-divisional duals would be tbd each year and not 'guaranteed'

 

[RoarLions1]

I don't hate the idea if it results in a B1G dual championship between the divisions, as some here are suggesting, because then we'd probably get an Iowa PSU dual more often than is presently the case, assuming the quality of both teams remains the same.

I imagine that if you looked back ten years and ran the numbers assuming this format was in place, Iowa and PSU would probably have won their hypothetical divisions and thus faced each other in a conference dual championship, with Ohio State

I guess the question is what drops out if you're suddenly squeezing in another championship (with travel) the week before the traditional conference tournaments (travel) followed by the NCAAs (travel). Seems like you're going to have to either trim duals or perhaps kill the traditional conference tournament.

I'd not be entirely opposed to replacing the conference tournament with this. On the one hand guys who would presently wrestle 3 or 4 matches (at a conference tournament) would instead wrestle 1, but a conference championship based on duals is a better reflection of the "regular season" and so perhaps more fitting to end it as a team.

Or maybe you combine the dual and traditional conference championship into a single event by doing the dual championship on day one, and the traditional on day two, but narrow down day two to only, say, the top 8 seeds.

Appears possible, with six duals in-division, and two duals in the other-division, the conference dual match-ups (1vs1, 2 vs 2, etc.), there will still be nine conference duals, same as now. Doable the second or third weekend in February.

 

[nitlion6]

What happened to the leaders and the legends lol

We are going instead with Bo's and Woody's divisions. Thereby assuring non stop wrestling highlights featuring OSU vs UM and of course UM vs OSU.

 

[NoVa Lion]

Any thoughts of where the championship match might be held?

For scheduling purposes the only way that makes sense is for the East division to host all of the 1 vs 1, etc. one year and then the West division the next year. That way teams know their home schedule, just not who the opponent is the last week of the regular season.

Doesn;t make sense to me to hold all of it at one school as then 13 schools have to travel instead of just 7.

 

[RoarLions1]

For scheduling purposes the only way that makes sense is for the East division to host all of the 1 vs 1, etc. one year and then the West division the next year. That way teams know their home schedule, just not who the opponent is the last week of the regular season.

Doesn;t make sense to me to hold all of it at one school as then 13 schools have to travel instead of just 7.

Agree, plus a neutral site adds $$$ to the equation, meaning that's not going to happen.

 

[SetonHallPirate]

For scheduling purposes the only way that makes sense is for the East division to host all of the 1 vs 1, etc. one year and then the West division the next year. That way teams know their home schedule, just not who the opponent is the last week of the regular season.

Doesn;t make sense to me to hold all of it at one school as then 13 schools have to travel instead of just 7.

Problem is, those 7 schools wouldn't be able to book flights until the week before, and would therefore be scrambling for flights on short notice.

 

[NoVa Lion]

Problem is, those 7 schools wouldn't be able to book flights until the week before, and would therefore be scrambling for flights on short notice.

Sometimes (not usually) flights on short notice are cheaper. OTOH some of the schools will drive, not fly. In any case 7 teams traveling will always be cheaper than 13 teams traveling.

 

[SetonHallPirate]

Sometimes (not usually) flights on short notice are cheaper. OTOH some of the schools will drive, not fly. In any case 7 teams traveling will always be cheaper than 13 teams traveling.

More often than not, 13 teams flying on several months' notice (or, heck, 14 years' notice) is almost always cheaper than seven teams flying on notice inside of a week...

 

[SUPERTODD]

The sort of obvious (to me, at least) problem is determining the division champ when the interdivision schedules are different - unless you only count intradivision results when doing it.

Probably very similar to the way football does it to determine who goes the the conference title games. Division record, head to head, conference record etc.