Leaders and Legends are Done in the Big Ten (Starting in 2014)

Remember a couple years ago when the Big Ten got a makeover and split into two divisions named the 'Leaders' and 'Legends?' Well, that ill-advised attempt to be different is now history!

The conference has announced that it will be ditching the old names when it realigns in 2014 when Rutgers and Maryland join the fold making the Big Ten a 14-team conference (hey--at least they aren't like the Big 12 who only has nine teams).

The conference leaders had a good idea with the names (honoring the many pasts greats in Big Ten history), but it never really sat too well with analysts, journalists, bloggers, and pretty much anyone else that bothered to share an opinion.

So ditching the names are not going to make anyone depressed.

What will the new names be? This time they are keeping it simple and just going with East and West.

''Big Ten directors of athletics concluded four months of study and deliberation with unanimous approval of a future football structure that preserved rivalries and created divisions based on their primary principle of East/West geography,'' commissioner Jim Delany said in a statement.

The East is expected to be made up of Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State and Rutgers while the West will include Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue and Wisconsin.