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Mar 31, 2015
10:41:36am
Barry Alvarez was wrong. The quote from Jim Delany directly addressed that.

Did you read my post? It's merely a "goal" which has no penalties if teams schedule FCS teams. Like I said, shaming teams into never scheduling FCS teams won't work because teams in the Big Ten are shameless.

Here is more of the quote: "It's a goal is the best way to describe it. We don't have any penalties for those that don't. It's not like a violation of our rules. But everybody agreed when every game is televised, every game matters and the fans matter. Interest in those games is less. They're from another division. They have 20 less scholarships. It's like a junior college team playing against a high school team or a high school team playing against a JV team. And not to say you can't lose the game because certainly Appalachian State and obviously Furman beat NC State and there are a lot of good teams. But when we went to 12 games, we really increased the number of those games. I don't think the players are as excited. I don't think the fans are as excited. I don't think the media is as excited. I don't think the television companies are as excited." http://www.foxsports.com/wisconsin/story/jim-delany-talks-wisconsin-new-playoff-system-and-big-ten-081513


Notice the date on your Bleacher Report article. It's from February 2013. Jim Delany, who actually has the authority to speak for the conference, directly contradicted Barry Alvarez a few months later. And in fact, teams are scheduling FCS opponents. A quick perusal shows that several teams have future FCS teams on the schedule after 2016:
Minnesota -- South Dakota State (2019)
Illinois -- Western Illinois (2018)
Northwestern -- Western Illinois (2018) 

I only checked a handful of teams of the Big Ten. I'm sure if I checked all 14 teams, I could find several more.
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