The month of January was named after the Roman god Janus who had two faces, one on each side of his head.

Janus was the god of waging war and making peace, of beginnings and endings, and of change in passages. And while there's no... of Stay tuned while I answer listener questions on the 14th question and answer installment of everything everywhere daily. The first question comes from Sean Vergauvin who asks,

Curious as a Wisconsin fan, which we don't hold against you,

what are your thoughts on the new Big Ten?

Well for those of you who don't know what the Big Ten is, it's a college sports conference.

It used to consist of ten large colleges in the Midwest that would play each other in various sports. And these tended to be large land grant institutions like Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio State, Minnesota, and Iowa.

In 1990, they expanded to 11 teams allowing Penn State to join, but they kept the name Big Ten.

And this edition really wasn't that bad.

Then in 2010, three more universities joined, Nebraska, Maryland, and Rutgers.

Nebraska sort of made sense, but Maryland and Rutgers were completely out of whack, and

they took away from the Midwest nature of the conference.

And recently, USC, UCLA, Oregon, and Washington announced that they would be joining

the Big Ten, bringing the number of teams to 18.

So my thoughts are 18 teams is too much for a conference

and the conference no longer has any regional focus.

The reason this is being done of course is for money. College

sports especially football and basketball are big business. The current trend of

dismantling and emerging conferences makes no sense especially considering that it's only for a few sports.

College football should consider a complete reorganization that only affects football and leaves every other non-revenue generating sport alone.

Even the current system of determining a national champion in Division 1 football is a bit ridiculous,

selecting four teams by committee rather than determining the champion on a field.

Graham McIntosh asks, how do you another American celebrate the New Year?

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