{"id":1828,"date":"2012-06-04T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T19:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2012-06-04T11:29:44","modified_gmt":"2012-06-04T16:29:44","slug":"and-the-big-ten-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/and-the-big-ten-picks\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Big Ten picks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctpost.com\/uconn\/article\/Let-s-end-the-madness-of-conference-jumping-3604761.php\">File this under &#8220;never going to happen in a million years but thanks for the gesture.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Hold that thought, because this idea may sound a little nutty: The NCAA needs to institute a draft to end the torture. &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>7. Big 10 &#8212; Iowa\u00a0State<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The upside: With Texas, Oklahoma, Boise State, TCU and West Virginia, the top of the Big 12 looks a lot stronger than the top of the Big 10 (which now has 14 teams, by the way). Iowa State enters the draft hoping to land in the Midwest&#8217;s other power conference, and this appears to be the perfect\u00a0marriage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ISU was picked after the writer drafted Boise State into the Big 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File this under &#8220;never going to happen in a million years but thanks for the gesture.&#8221; Hold that thought, because this idea may sound a little nutty: The NCAA needs to institute a draft to end the torture. &#8230; 7. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2012\/06\/and-the-big-ten-picks\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}