Why does Big-10 Football suck?

The Big-10 used to have so much prestige when it came to the gridiron. The last national championship came in 2003. I'm not much of a Miami Hurricanes fan, but that pass interference call against DB Glenn Sharpe that all Canes and Buckeyes fans remember was certainly not pass interference, not in my opinion at least. Nevertheless, the Buckeyes won.

Five years has passed and the only the Buckeyes have been back to defend for national titles in 2006 and 2007. They were embarrassed both years. Michigan has looked bad every time they have been to the Rose Bowl. Illinois and Penn State looked equally as bad in their past Rose Bowl trips as well.

Last year, the Big 10 went 1-6 in bowl games, losing both of their BCS games. Yes, Ohio State and Michigan were in rebuilding years last year, but what is to be said about the entire conference? Where was Wisconsin, MSU, and Penn State?

Big surprise here, the entire conference recruiting efforts suck. I delegate Florida, Texas and California as the speed states to recruit from in you want to win in college football. The Big-10 team with the most players from these states in 2008 was Northwestern with 19 players. Yes, they lost their bowl game. Much of their recruiting is because of their high academic standards so they are not going to get the cream of the crop from those states.

The Big-10 has only 20 ESPN top 150 recruits attending their schools compared to 52 kids going to SEC schools. It's not hard to see why the SEC all ways takes care of business and is the best conference in football. They also take care of all their Big-10 opponents in bowl games also.

If the Big-10 wants to get back to their roots and tradition of being winning and respectable football, they need to ambush Texas, Cali, and Florida high school football players as soon as possible. If they don't want to do that then they could get used to losing consistently and slowly watch the MAC or the WAC conference surpass them as one of the top conferences and watch their automatic BCS bid fall into another conference's lap.

That's all I got,

Riverboat Ricky