Tag: Big Ten Media Days

Five things we’d like to hear Greg Schiano talk about at Big Ten Media Days

Previewing Greg Schiano’s time at the podium during Big Ten Media Days.

It is Big Ten Media Days, which can mean only one thing: Big Ten head coaches are going to get peppered by some pretty asinine questions. So our solution for head coach Greg Schiano? Just try answering these questions from us.

Schiano is entering the fourth season of his rebuild at Rutgers, and he has been consistent in saying that he is now seeing talent coming through the pipeline. Rutgers hasn’t had a winning season since 2014 – its first in the Big Ten – and the program has arguably its deepest roster since that season.

So, instead of the usual, boring and uninspired questions…here are ours. Scroll down and check out what we’d like to see Schiano asked during Big Ten Media Days.

What we want to find out from Ohio State at Big Ten media days

What do you want to find out during Big Ten media days? #GoBucks

When the contingent of [autotag]Ohio State[/autotag] coaches and players embark on their annual trip to Big Ten media days, you know football is right around the corner.

With the Buckeyes scheduled to speak during Wednesday’s events in Indianapolis, we should be able to find out a lot about the 2023 version of Ohio State football.

There are plenty of questions surrounding the program and the hope is there we get some answers from head coach [autotag]Ryan Day[/autotag] and the players. Here are some topics that I would love the find out answers on as the media begins to grill Ohio State and other Big Ten teams in the annual spectacle that can be Big Ten media days.

Media member picks Wisconsin to finish sixth in the Big Ten West

This would be the disaster scenario

The 2023 college football season is here! Well, kind of. Big Ten media days begin tomorrow and the media’s preseason predictions are flowing in.

In unsurprising news, Wisconsin was selected as the Big Ten West favorite for the fourth consecutive year despite the program not winning the division in any of the previous three seasons.

What is surprising: One writer picked the Badgers to finish sixth in the division. Yes, one spot ahead of Northwestern (the likely worst team in the group) and behind everybody else.

It wouldn’t come as a big surprise if last year’s fifth-place finish was met with stagnation and a lack of improvement. That obviously was not the case. Luke Fickell seemingly has this program headed in the right direction.

I will do all the digging I can as Big Ten media days commence to find out which writer is picking a Nebraska-like collapse from the Badgers.

Big Ten football media days complete schedule for this week

See when MSU head coach Mel Tucker will take the main stage at Big Ten Football Media Days this week

Big Ten football media days is upon us.

The unofficial kickoff of the college football season is here with conference media days taking place across the country the past few weeks. It’s the Big Ten’s turn to be in the spotlight: Every head coach takes the stage this week in Indianapolis.

Big Ten media days take place on Wednesday and Thursday and will be televised on the Big Ten Network. So here’s a complete breakdown of when each coach and new Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petittiwill take the stage:

MSU picked to finish in bottom half of Big Ten East Division in media preseason poll

The Big Ten media is not particularly high on the Spartans entering the 2023 season

The Big Ten media is not particularly high on the Spartans entering the 2023 season.

The annual Big Ten football preseason media poll has been released, and Michigan State is listed to finish in the bottom half of the Big Ten East Division. The poll has Michigan State at No. 5 in the division, behind Maryland and only ahead of Rutgers and Indiana.

Michigan was the top pick to win the Big Ten East Division with 27 first-place votes and Wisconsin was the pick for the West Division with 20 first-place votes.

Check out the complete poll below:

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MSU football announces their representatives for Big Ten Media Days

See who will be representing the Spartans in Indy for this year’s Big Ten Media Days event

Believe it or not, Big Ten Football Media Days are only a few weeks away.

The Big Ten Media Days will officially take place on July 26 and 27 in Indianapolis. The Spartans announced on Wednesday who they’ll be bringing to this year’s event in Indianapolis.

See below who will be representing the Spartans in Indy for this annual season kickoff event:

Wisconsin announces player representatives for Big Ten Media Days

Wisconsin announces the three players it’ll take to Big Ten Media Days

College football is creeping up on the sporting world. Only 51 days, or seven Saturdays, separate us from Wisconsin’s September 2 opener against Buffalo.

One of the first milestones towards that schedule beginning is Big Ten Media Days. Well, that event will take place two weeks from now on July 26-27.

At Media Days last year, a big deal was made of the conference returning all 14 coaches from the previous year. This year could not be a bigger contrast, with Wisconsin, Nebraska, Purdue and now Northwestern set to enter the event with a new face leading the program.

Each school always brings several player representatives with them to Indianapolis. Wisconsin’s last year were Graham Mertz, Nick Herbig and Keeanu Benton.

Wisconsin football announced this year’s representatives on Twitter yesterday. They will be RB Braelon Allen, QB Tanner Mordecai and LB Maema Njongmeta.

Having a transfer entering his first year with the program in that situation is an interesting dynamic. Maybe my thoughts go to the pre-portal era, but it always felt like four-year vets at the school were the ones to attend.

I guess none of that really matters since Rutgers brought its punter Adam Korsak last year. And nobody is better prepared to answer the onslaught of questions about Wisconsin’s new offense than its signal-caller Mordecai.

Trio of Ohio State players to make trip to Big Ten media days

A solid trio to represent Ohio State in Chicago for Big Ten media days this year. #GoBucks

The annual spectacle that is Big Ten media days is almost upon us, and that ushers in the realization that the college football season is just around the corner.

And thanks to the Ohio State Football Twitter account, we now know which Buckeye players will be representing the scarlet and gray in Chicago this year. On Wednesday, it was announced via graphic that three of the team’s most important players will accompany Ryan Day on the trip. The four will take part in the unofficial countdown to the season by appearing in front of reporters and being available to field questions.

If you are even a casual Ohio State football fan, you know the trio well. Generally, some of the most respected leaders of the team make the annual trip, and that’s certainly the case here.

Here is a rundown of the three players looking to represent Ohio State on Wednesday, July 26. The three will be made available separately after Ryan Day gives his scheduled press conference at 12:15 p.m. ET.

Huskers basketball forecasted for Big Ten cellar in poll

More of the same is expected from the Huskers men’s basketball team this year. Can a new batch of transfers begin to turn things around?

A Big Ten men’s basketball preseason poll conducted by writers from The Athletic and The Columbus Dispatch was released on Monday as Big Ten media days kicked off in Minneapolis.

After nearly slipping out of the NCAA Tournament last season, the Indiana Hoosiers were tabbed as the preseason favorites in the poll, which is not the official Big Ten preseason poll. Trayce Jackson-Davis (18.3 points per game, 8.1 rebounds per game in 2021-22), who was the poll’s preseason Player of the Year, returns for Mike Woodson’s squad, along with second-team honoree Xavier Johnson. Five-star recruit and now Indiana freshman Jalen Hood-Schifino joins the fray as well as the Hoosiers look for their first conference title in seven years.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers did not receive such a favorable prospectus and were predicted to finish last in the Big Ten after a 10-22 season overall and 4-16 record in conference play last season. The Huskers’ mark in Big Ten action matched Minnesota for the worst in the conference.

None of the Huskers’ hoopers received a vote in any all-conference team voting but Nebraska’s youthful new-look group could be candidates to surprise.

Head coach Fred Hoiberg no longer has the services of Alonzo Verge, Kobe Webster and both Trey and Bryce McGowens, the latter of which was drafted in the second round of the NBA Draft by Charlotte Hornets.

Transfers Sam Griesel (14.3 PPG, 6.6 RPG, 3.4 APG in 2021 at North Dakota State), Emmanuel Bandoumel (10.6 PPG, 3.6 RPG at SMU) and Juwan Gary (6.5 PPG at Alabama) will infuse new blood on the court in Lincoln, along with a crop of JUCO transfers and freshman Ramel Lloyd, a four-star recruit out of nationally-ranked Sierra Canyon High School in California.

The Huskers’ biggest returner is senior forward Derrick Walker, who started every game last year. Walker led Nebraska in rebounds and broke the Huskers’ single-season record for field goal percentage by shooting 68.3% from the field.

The results of the poll are listed below, with each team’s number of total voting points, first-place votes and all-conference honorees, according to the poll.

Big Ten media day comments from Ryan Day, Ronnie Hickman, C.J. Stroud, and Jaxon Smith-Njigba

Video and audio of Ohio State head coach Ryan Day, along with players Jaxon Smith-Njigba, C.J. Stroud, and Ronnie Hickman at Big Ten media days. #GoBucks

Big Ten media days are in the books, and there was plenty to digest — especially in a day and age when there are so many monumental changes occurring across the college football landscape.

Ohio State is front and center in helping to shape where things go, and head coach Ryan Day was the last head coach to speak at the podium on during the two-day event. He had plenty to say then, and then had an additional media session afterward along with players Jaxon Smith-Njigba, Ronnie Hickman, and C.J. Stroud.

In case you missed some of those side session comments the four Ohio State representatives made in Indianapolis, we’ve got significant video and audio of the responses to some of those questions that were lobbed their way.

Of course, the Michigan game came up, but so did Name, Image, and Likeness as well as conference expansion and realignment. Here’s the video of each as they took their turn in front of the media at Lucas Oil Stadium.