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Message: [QUOTE="Townie72, post: 40414, member: 780"] Since you are our Michigan expert; I have relatives through marriage and friends in several Midwestern states. There are graduates of several of the Big Ten schools in this group. I am continually surprised how strongly these people identify as Midwesterners and how irritated they are by what they perceive is the slights they must endure from Easterners. "We know to you Easterners we're in fly-over" country", they say and they don't much like it. Much of the Big Ten identity has to do with this "Midwestern" thing. I can see this as a real impediment to inviting a quintessentially Eastern school as Rutgers. You can make the argument that Upstate NY is just like Michigan. But Rutgers is thoroughly New Jersey. To invite RU is to make the Big Ten into a different animal. [/QUOTE]