August 2010
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Final Answer on Big Ten Divisions
For the last year I have been preoccupied with the topic of Big Ten expansion and now divisional alignment. Upon listening to the commissioner’s comments at the introductory news conference announcing Nebraska’s addition to the league and more recently Big Ten media day, I have finally arrived at an alignment that meets all of the Big Ten’s criteria. They are insistent that competitive balance...
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Parity based Big Ten Divisions
During Commissioner Jim Delany’s question & answer session at the conclusion of football media day in Chicago, he reiterated his comments from the June announcement in Lincoln, Nebraska, that divisions will be based on competitive fairness, geography and the maintenance of trophy games. Today he commented that the league is working on models based on football records since 1993, when...
June 2010
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2011 Big Ten Divisons (Davision style)
Big Ten North
Wisconsin: protected: Nebraska & Iowa, rotating: IU, PU & PSU, ILL
Minnesota: protected: Iowa & Indiana, rotating: UNL, PSU & ILL, PU
Northwestern: protected: Purdue & Illinois, rotating: IA, IU & UNL, PSU
Michigan: protected: Indiana & Nebraska, rotating: PSU, ILL & PU, IA
Michigan St: protected: Penn St & Purdue, rotating: ILL, IA & IU,...
February 2010
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NCAA Re-alignment, Part II
It has been two months since the Big Ten released their statement about exploring expansion and I’m still obsessed with the concept. I’ve been reading Frank the Tank’s blog and he has laid out the case for the inclusion of the University of Texas repeatedly and each time more convincingly.
http://frankthetank.wordpress.com/
However, as attractive as the candidacy of the...
December 2009
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Big Ten contraction & NCAA realignment
I am a Fighting Illini. One of the things that gets us all testy on occasion is we are actually rival-less. Northwestern, although ascendant under Pat Fitzgerald, is a pretty weak in-state rival; with them being a small private school without a large vocal fanbase. Iowa is too stupid to take seriously, Wisconsin has Minnesota, Indiana has Purdue, Michigan has Ohio St. In basketball we have the...
October 2009
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What does Limited Government entail?
At the American Liberty Alliance, one of our chief aims is to defend the cause of limited government. Many so-called conservative politicians pretend to run on a limited government platform, but what have they truly done to limit government spending? Today, Republicans can do little more than try to obstruct further decay in our rotten Republic. However, the status quo is not worth preserving,...
July 2009
3 posts
“We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human...”
– President John Adams
(particularly applicable to our present difficulties with secular non-representation.)
Truth, Justice and the American Way.
Happy Fourth...
“That whenever any form of government...
June 2009
4 posts
Less is More
The minimalist quote “Less is More” is attributed to Mies van der Rohe and his Bauhaus school. I have recently adopted it to describe my political philosophy. Since I am a proponent of limited government, I believe less government is more Liberty. Similarly less taxation is more prosperity.
I am aggravated that people that seek political offices think they have to do something to...
“Less is more”
– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Hello there internet land!
I’m Charley Davis and these are my visions on how the world should be designed. I’m an architect by education, but philosophically I ruminate on how people can live more comfortably via the free market and limited government principles.
I live in northern suburban Cook County, affectionately called Crook Co. Chicago does not have the best reputation politically, nor should it. The...