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After the league voted to include Maryland and Rutgers, here's a post that showed geography could work in a second realignment. After Maryland and Rutgers were accepted as Big Ten members beginning on July 1, , the league re-evaluated the Legends and Leaders divisions. Maryland and Rutgers are Eastern schools that wanted to establish a relationship with Penn State. Six months later, the league divided on geography with Purdue shifting West.

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More Stories. Here's a look back at my part series in on how Legends and Leaders were formed: Chapter 1: Geographically challenged At a defining moment in the history of the nation's oldest athletics conference, Big Ten Conference officials and the schools' athletics directors had options for slicing its team football league into two parts.

Chapter 2: Balance of Power The painstaking process of dividing 12 schools based on competitive equality with special attention paid to rivalries and geography.

Chapter 4: Rivalries, Reunions and Resignation The league's football schools compete among one another for some of the nation's most recognizable traveling trophies. Chapter 5: Wisconsin's Melancholy The Badgers are left isolated in a division without border rivals Iowa, Northwestern and Minnesota, and Wisconsin's longtime annual game with Iowa becomes collateral damage. Chapter 6 A : Culture Shock Nebraska joins the Big Ten without voting power but moves forward nonetheless in a league where Tom Osborne hopes the cultural ties are stronger than those that formed the Big 12 Conference.

Chapter 7: Heavyweight Headache Michigan and Ohio State, the league's perennial football giants, became the public storyline when discussions had them splitting into opposite divisions and possibly moving 'The Game' into early November. Chapter 8: Dollars and Sense Financial issues play a huge role in college athletics, but how much were they discussed when the league formed the divisions? Chapter 9: Scheduling Overhaul The league put together its first team schedule with an emphasis on power matchups on each weekend, culminating with the six powers competing against one another in the final weekend.

Related Stories. Jeff Johnson Iowa Football 55m ago. Pilcher Prep Football 90m ago. Gazette Visuals 4h ago. Nathan Ford Prep Football 1m ago. Pilcher Iowa Prep Sports Nov. And you know what that means: Goodbye, Legends and Leaders. OK, the truth is that hardly anyone is going to miss those haughty division names. The Big Ten decided to scrap the three-year alignment and names after adding Maryland and Rutgers, with commissioner Jim Delany saying in January that "obviously, we got some acceptance [with Legends and Leaders], but not as much as we would have liked.

The league opened itself up to several easy jokes with those names, and it also suffered from unfortunate timing. The two most prominent teams in the Leaders Ohio State and Penn State did not show a lot of leadership by getting themselves embroiled in scandal and landing on probation.

The two schools most befitting of legendary status in the Legends Michigan and Nebraska didn't win a Big Ten title during the three-year span. The "Building Leaders, Honoring Legends" motto made for a decent slogan, but as I always argued, division names aren't really an ideal marketing opportunity. The league put itself in a bind by not aligning along geographic lines and therefore not creating easy solutions for what to call the divisions.

That all changes in , when the conference will split into simple East and West groupings. There will no longer be confusion as to which teams are on what side. The division names are boring and predictable instead of billboards. Proponents of Legends and Leaders always said people would get used to the names over time, and I suppose that was true. We didn't hear too many cracks about the divisions this season, and it started to feel more a little more natural to say and write those monikers.