What is each Big Ten university known for?

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<p>Northwestern #12
Michigan #29
Wisconsin #45
Penn State #47
Illinois #47
Ohio State #56
Purdue #56
Minnesota #64
Iowa #72
Indiana #75
Michigan State #79
Nebraska #104</p>

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<p>BUSINESS (US News undergraduate business rankings):</p>

<h1>4 Michigan</h1>

<h1>10 Indiana</h1>

<h1>14 (tie) Ohio State</h1>

<h1>14 (tie) Illinois</h1>

<h1>14 (tie) Wisconsin</h1>

<h1>19 (tie) Purdue</h1>

<h1>19 (tie) Minnesota</h1>

<h1>23 Penn State</h1>

<h1>28 Michigan State</h1>

<h1>34 Iowa</h1>

<h1>67 Nebraska</h1>

<p>Northwestern does not have an undergrad business program.</p>

<p>SELECTED BUSINESS SPECIALTIES (US News undergrad rankings)</p>

<p>ENTREPRENEURSHIP:</p>

<h1>3 Indiana</h1>

<h1>13 Michigan</h1>

<p>FINANCE:</p>

<h1>4 Michigan</h1>

<h1>9 Indiana</h1>

<h1>11 Ohio State</h1>

<h1>12 Illinois</h1>

<h1>20 Wisconsin</h1>

<p>SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT/LOGISTICS:</p>

<h1>2 Michigan State</h1>

<h1>3 Penn State</h1>

<h1>6 Ohio State</h1>

<h1>7 Purdue</h1>

<h1>10 Michigan</h1>

<h1>17 (tie) Indiana</h1>

<h1>17 (tie) Minnesota</h1>

<p>INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS:</p>

<h1>4 Michigan</h1>

<h1>20 Michigan State</h1>

<h1>22 Indiana</h1>

<p>MANAGEMENT:</p>

<h1>1 Michigan</h1>

<h1>7 Indiana</h1>

<h1>13 (tie) Illinois</h1>

<h1>13 (tie) Minnesota</h1>

<h1>16 Ohio State</h1>

<h1>17 (tie) Penn State</h1>

<h1>17 (tie) Purdue</h1>

<p>MARKETING: </p>

<h1>2 Michigan</h1>

<h1>6 Indiana</h1>

<h1>9 Wisconsin</h1>

<h1>13 Ohio State</h1>

<h1>16 Minnesota</h1>

<h1>18 Illinois</h1>

<h1>20 Penn State</h1>

<p>QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS:</p>

<h1>4 Purdue</h1>

<h1>7 Michigan</h1>

<h1>11 Indiana</h1>

<h1>13 Wisconsin</h1>

<p>OK, this has been fun, but after a while it just gets tedious; these guys are good at EVERYTHING! Especially Michigan (LOL). “Typical state schools” indeed! (■■■■■)</p>

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<p>Informative-not worth the effort. Hopelessly uninformed. There’s his new name-Uniformed.</p>

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<p>Re: Post #121: Not very informative.</p>

<p>Perhaps the poster can identify some disciplines in which top students at several of the Big 10 universities could not obtain an education as good as, or better than, that which students could obtain at so-called “more highly ranked” universities?</p>

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<p>So guys . . . what do you think it’ll take for Chicago to be known for D-I football again?</p>

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<li><p>Gather enough student and local supports to convince school administration to recognize and accept the fact that UChicago can be great both in academics and in Div-1 sports like the cross town rivals of NU and the nearby ND. Point to the school that NU is currently racking up no less than $25 million a year just for by playing in the Big Ten regardless of its records!! </p></li>
<li><p>Leave UAA and re-instate your Big Ten membership athletically. Give Godfather - Jim Delany a call to iron out the details by showing your commitment in terms of facility upgrades and other related investment$, such as hiring good coaching staffs. </p></li>
<li><p>Or you can just simply merge with NU like you almost did in 1933. ;p</p></li>
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<p>When there is a will there is a way! If UConn and Rutgers have done it in terms of rising its football relevance in a very short period of time, I don’t see why Chicago could not - especially with its rich football history and strong Big Ten ties. </p>

<p>Anyway, Best of Luck! Go Maroons!! The Monsters of the Midway!!! lol~</p>

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<p>Ha! Watch Second City’s famous skit, “Football Comes to the University of Chicago”:</p>

<p>[-</a> Media - - The Second City - 50 Years of Funny](<a href=“http://secondcity.com/media/mediaplayerfull/41/0/]-”>http://secondcity.com/media/mediaplayerfull/41/0/)</p>

<p>It’s hilarious.</p>

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<p>Here’s a more complete version of the U of C football skit:</p>

<p>[YouTube</a> - Football at Chicago U.wmv](<a href=“Football Comes to the University of Chicago - YouTube”>Football Comes to the University of Chicago - YouTube)</p>

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<p>oh 
 yea, almost forgot!! Alumni Support!!! Anyway, I have no doubt that IF Chicago ever picks up games against NU, ND or Michigan, the stadium will be filled. Chicago will be playing with Wisky, Illini, NU, Minnesota, Iowa and perhaps Nebraska in the Big Ten, traveling cost would be cut at least in half compared to the current UAA members. It would be great for Chicago, especially the olympic sports teams.</p>

<p>In short, never ever underestimate the power of alumni, especially for private schools!! ;p</p>

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<p>“Anyway, I have no doubt that IF Chicago ever picks up games against NU, ND or Michigan, the stadium will be filled.”</p>

<p>Too bad the current seating capacity of Soldier Field is only about 61, 000. </p>

<p>Of course, back in the early '60s, you could get 90, 000 into Soldier Field for the Chicago Prep Bowl.</p>

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<p>Is the return to Division I athletics something Chicago is even considering? Is it an idea that Delany is toying with? Anybody know if this is even a concept at this time?</p>

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<p>Hehe, I have no idea, although it would be cool to raise Chicago’s profile. (ZIMMERRRRRR!) Moar Yield! Someone should do a cost-benefit analysis.</p>

<p>I brought it up mostly because I’m tired of seeing the billboard that says, “Northwestern: Chicago’s Big Ten Team.” Although “Chicago, Chicago’s Big Ten Team” sounds funny too . . .</p>

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<p>Rny2, how do other Chicago students feel about it? I know back in my day (mid 90s), the thought of returning to Big 10 athletics appealed to very few Chicago students. Has that changed?</p>

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<p>“Too bad the current seating capacity of Soldier Field is only about 61, 000.”</p>

<p>That is plenty enough if you ask me!! :)</p>

<p>Ryan Field (Northwestern) 47,130
TCF Bank Stadium (Minnesota) 50,805
Memorial Stadium (Indiana) 52,929
Ross–Ade Stadium (Purdue) 62,500</p>

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<p>Maroons throw back to storied football past</p>

<p>By Michael Drapa
10/19/2009</p>

<p>Coach Dick Maloney’s office overlooking Stagg Field is a glimpse into Maroons football past and present. </p>

<p>A tattered, oblong game ball from 1896, its stuffing falling out, sits on a shelf below a signed poster of 1935 Heisman winner Jay Berwanger. Plaques and players’ pictures line a wall above a table displaying the silver Founders Cup from last year’s win against Washington–St. Louis. </p>

<p>But there’s another memento the 16th-year coach hopes to add to his office: A picture of this year’s team, standing on the same Stagg Field where a group of “radicals” stood in 1969, when they helped realize a coach’s dream to bring the “Monsters of the Midway” back to the University of Chicago campus. </p>

<p>The Maroons will celebrate the 40-year anniversary of the return of varsity football Saturday during the team’s 1 p.m. Homecoming game against Denison University. Members of the 1969 squad, the first to play varsity football after it was eliminated 30 years earlier, will serve as honorary team captains for the pregame coin toss. </p>

<p>“These are the pioneers. These are the people who rejuvenated the torch. These are the people who rebuilt the city after it burned down,“ says Maloney. “I think it’s great to bring the old guard back.” </p>

<p>Charlie Nelson, AB’73, is among a half-dozen players from that 25-member squad who will return to campus. Nelson, a freshman center on that inaugural team who went on to start all four years, relishes the opportunity to revisit his past. </p>

<p>“It didn’t mean that much to me when I started, but being someone in the counter-culture of the University of Chicago was kind of a badge of honor in itself,“ says Nelson, who still proudly wears his UChicago letterman jacket and jersey. “I can’t believe that we would be part of history and changing the atmosphere at the University of Chicago into a complete collegiate experience.” </p>

<p>Phoenix Rising from the Ashes
More than a century ago, the Maroons were a national power under Amos Alonzo Stagg, who led them to seven Big Ten Conference titles over four decades before retiring in 1932. </p>

<p>But Chicago failed to field a winning team in the 1930s amid the changing face of intercollegiate athletics. So in 1939, University President Robert Hutchins, underscoring the importance of scholarship and research, pulled the plug on the storied program. </p>

<p>“By getting rid of football, by presenting the spectacle of a university that can be great without football, the University of Chicago may perform a signal service to higher education throughout the land,” Hutchins wrote, calling the sport “a major handicap to education in the United States.” </p>

<p>Tom Weingartner, UChicago’s Director of Athletics since 1990, says that although Hutchins may have gone too far in disbanding the program, he was right to focus on the value of education. </p>

<p>“He recognized the core values of the institution, he recognized the role that sport ought to play, and he made some tough decisions,” Weingartner says. </p>

<p>The gridiron remained quiet until 1956, when new athletic director Walter Hass organized a football “class” that swelled in popularity to 45 members in 1968. Despite hundreds of protestors at Stagg Field, Hass lobbied for the return of varsity football as a Division III program (Stagg’s teams were Division I). Armed with 1,300 student signatures, he petitioned and won the backing of the University Senate. </p>

<p>“It was a million-to-one shot,“ Hass told the Chicago Tribune in 1969. “I guess stubbornness sometimes pays off.” </p>

<p>Hass’ team finished 2-6 in its inaugural season, and he never enjoyed a winning record in his seven years as Maroons coach. But Maloney and Weingartner feel he is just as important to Chicago football’s modern era as Stagg once was to its birth. </p>

<p>“Let’s remember: This was 1969. This was the University of Chicago. This was an era where varsity lettermen did not wear their letter jackets around campus because you were thought to be part of the military-industrial complex,” Weingartner says. “It was a radical move. Without that vision and without that sense of adventure and energy, we wouldn’t have had a football program.” </p>

<p>Connecting the Old with the New
In fall 2003 Weingartner arranged for the dusty relics of an old, locked-up Bartlett Gymnasium trophy room to be featured in the lobby of the new Gerald Ratner Athletics Center. Front and center is Berwanger’s 1935 Heisman Trophy, the first of its kind. </p>

<p>“We did that in part because we like the history, and we connect with the history,” Weingartner says. “The fact that we dropped football doesn’t prevent us from being proud of Stagg and Berwanger and all the people before us.” </p>

<p>Maloney, a former Ivy League assistant, has added to the program’s lore in the modern era. He has won three conference titles in the University Athletic Association, which includes eight of the country’s top research institutions. </p>

<p>“Football at the University of Chicago is a teaspoon of sand in the giant sandbox that we exist in,” says Maloney. “I’ve been at places where it’s been a shovel, and I think it’s a great mix here.” </p>

<p>Senior linebacker Cory Swaim, a state champion at suburban Lincoln Way-East High School, was drawn to Chicago for its academics and rich football history. But the opportunity to play football in front of his family has its demands. </p>

<p>The Public Policy/Political Science major and aspiring lawyer is balancing three classes this quarter, a 50-page BA thesis, and football six days a week. The team’s captain, Swaim broke his wrist in the 2008 preseason but played the year with his arm wrapped like a club. </p>

<p>“Our guys are playing football because they truly love it and not because they’re on scholarship, going to school for free, and hoping to get drafted into the NFL,” says Swaim. “We’re just out there because we want to be, and there’s no ulterior motive.” </p>

<p>Just like it was in 1969. </p>

<p>Link: [Maroons</a> throw back to storied football past | The University of Chicago](<a href=“http://www.uchicago.edu/features/20091019_football40.shtml]Maroons”>http://www.uchicago.edu/features/20091019_football40.shtml)</p>

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<p>Ah, Chicago. Where football is the counterculture.</p>

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<p>You know that Northwestern put on this ad campaign because very few people in Chicago care about NU at all, right? It’s like the Bears campaign: “If you’re not a fan, you’re a tourist.” They had to use that campaign because no one cares about the Bears anymore because they suck so bad. Whenever you have to run a campaign like that for a sports team, you know you’re not doing well. It’s almost like you’re begging for people to cheer for you.</p>

<p>You know, as much of an academic as I am, I would certainly like to see UChicago sports make a comeback. With new marketing, Chicago finally has the attention needed to attract big players to the University. UChicago would certainly benefit from the attention that would naturally come from re-joining the Big Ten, and in addition the “where fun comes to die” mantra that has really been killing Chicago’s yield/overall desirability would meet an effective end. </p>

<p>That being said, it’s undeniable that academics would take a hit as well, and Chicago wouldn’t be able to maintain its standing as an extremely respected, difficult, and well-tested research institution. At best, it would become the Stanford of the Midwest, and I’m not so sure I support that idea. Probably much better to be the Harvard of the Midwest or maybe even the MIT of the Midwest. Or, better yet, become so prestigious that no one would dare call us $institution of the Midwest anymore.</p>

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<p>^ “You know that Northwestern put on this ad campaign because very few people in Chicago care about NU at all, right?”</p>

<p>Southsider?</p>

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<p>Big Ten Network growing by leaps and bounds</p>

<p>By Jon Lafayette – Broadcasting & Cable, 9/6/2010 12:01:00 AM</p>

<p>It’s already a great football season for the Big Ten Network. Roy Seinfeld, Big Ten Networks VP for advertising, says commercials during the channel’s football schedule are already sold out. It’s also making progress with the next item in the playbook: adding sponsors for programming in other dayparts.</p>

<p>The network scored a touchdown in getting Discover Financial Services to become presenting sponsor for its new primetime series Big Ten Icons, which will profile great players from the conference’s rich athletic history. Icons is hosted by legendary announcer Keith Jackson.</p>

<p>Discover has been bulking up its already considerable support of college football. Last week, the company became presenting sponsor of the Orange Bowl.</p>

<p>Other major advertisers joining Big Ten Network’s roster this year include International House of Pancakes, Sprint, Home Depot and General Mills for its Chex Mix brand.</p>

<p>All of the network’s previous key sponsors are returning, including the Marines, which will present the network’s football telecasts; Buffalo Wild Wings, which presents the halftime show; Auto- Owners Insurance, which has its name on the pregame show; and State Farm, presenter of the football wrap-up show. Other returning sponsors include Conagra, GMC and Nissan.</p>

<p>The Big Ten Network generates about two-thirds of its revenue during football season. This year, Seinfeld projects that football-season revenue will be up 25% from a year ago. And last season, when other networks were struggling with the recession, ad sales were up 30%. Ratings for football were up 22%. “We’re trying to build the network off of that strength,” Seinfeld says.</p>

<p>The network now has about 20 million subscribers in the eight states where the Big Ten has universities?Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin?and about 23 million subs elsewhere. Cable operators pay more for the network in the Big Ten states. But while the net generates most of its distribution revenue in the Big Ten’s Midwest footprint, 90% of its ad revenue comes from national advertisers and buyers. “I don’t call myself a regional sports network,” says Seinfeld, adding that he can’t split copy so that one ad runs in Ohio and another airs in California.</p>

<p>Seinfeld says the Big Ten Network got a boost on Madison Avenue from all the talk earlier this year about realigning college conferences. The amount of money the network could generate as new schools joined the conference was a door-opener. The addition of powerhouse Nebraska, which joins the league next season, should also help. “It gave a very positive spin to what we were doing,” he says, and helped reinforce the message that people who attended Big Ten schools retain ties to their alma maters. For many fans in the Midwest, after ESPN, the Big Ten Network is the place they turn to for sports.</p>

<p>“We’re reaping some of the seeds we sowed,” says Seinfeld, a Bronx native who arrived at Big Ten Network in Chicago via a stint in Minneapolis.</p>

<p>Big Play After Slow Start</p>

<p>The Big Ten Network got off to a slow start when its attempt to get cable carriage was blocked by Comcast and several other major operators during its first year, 2007. But once Comcast signed on, the channel has been steadily moving the chains.</p>

<p>Owned 51% by the Big Ten conference and 49% by News Corp.’s Fox Cable Networks, the network started turning a profit shortly after Comcast and the other cable operators signed on?a very quick exit from the red zone for a new cable net. The network paid the conference $72 million in 2009.</p>

<p>As the Big Ten Network kicked off, other conferences weighed launching their own channels. Despite BTN’s financial success, none have gotten off the drawing board.</p>

<p>“Partnering with Fox was a good move. There are rumblings about more launches, but it’s so tough to get carriage,” says Derek Baine, senior analyst at SNL Kagan.</p>

<p>As part of its arrangement with the Big Ten, the network does not accept advertising from marketers of alcoholic beverages, a key category for most sports broadcasters. That means that while you can see a beer ad when, for example, Penn State plays Iowa on ESPN, you can’t when Ohio State plays Illinois on the Big Ten Network.</p>

<p>“People like us for having a different environment,” says Seinfeld, putting the best face on a lost opportunity. “No alcohol helps us with some companies.” Without alcohol ads, the Big Ten Network is more dependent on other categories, notably cars, insurance and even food, even though most food products tend to skew female.</p>

<p>Beyond the Gridiron</p>

<p>This week, Big Ten Network launches several new primetime shows. Some focus on football; others on Big Ten sports in general. In addition to Big Ten Icons, which airs Tuesdays at 9 p.m. ET, the new offerings include:</p>

<p>The Next Level, Thursdays at 8 p.m., with each episode spending a day with former Big Ten stars, focusing on their lives after school in professional sports and society. Among those featured on the show are Lavar Arrington, Dallas Clark, Joe Girardi and Dhani Jones.</p>

<p>Big Ten Film Vault, airing Tuesdays at 8 p.m., features rarely seen football footage, including some games never seen on national television. The show is hosted by Dan Dierdorf, who played at Michigan before becoming an NFL Hall of Fame player and a broadcaster.</p>

<p>Other shows debuting are Big Ten Pulse, Thursdays at 9 p.m.; Big Ten Football Report, Fridays at 8; and Big Ten Football Saturday: Kickoff, Saturdays at 10 a.m.</p>

<p>Source: [Rivals.com</a> College Football - Message Boards](<a href=“http://collegefootball.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=2150&tid=147022348&mid=147022348&sid=1144&style=2]Rivals.com”>http://collegefootball.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?fid=2150&tid=147022348&mid=147022348&sid=1144&style=2)</p>

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<p>Big Ten Network is not only an excellent collegiate media outlet for our conference in terms of sports. I also enjoy watching BTN showcasing the strength of Big Ten Institutions in various respective academic departments and programs whenever I am free in the afternoon during the weekdays. Big Ten Network is money in so many ways
 Believe or not, the Network is not only national. Given the right local cable provider, it can also be watched in Asia according to my friends in Japan, Taiwan & Korea who are Big Ten alumni. Similar to ESPN, it had gone global when teamed up with Foxsports!! :)</p>

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NU went to Alamo and Capital Bowl the last two years. That’s not good enough? UChi people sound funny when they try to enter discussion on football. :rolleyes:</p>