All Big Ten Honors-Tangible signs of improvement

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One way to think about how the program is improving is to look at All B1G honors historically. Of course it isn't a comprehensive indicator of improvement (like conference wins or championships, which is THE point). Such honors, however, can represent a general trend of player on-field performance quality, which, ideally, translate into wins/championships.

Also, if you count the POY & COY awards (3 this year, none in the past 7), that too suggests the same upward trend that our all-conference 1st/2nd/HM team awards indicate. In fact, you need to go back to 2005 (Eslinger received O Lineman of the year award; 1st Team-Eslinger, Maroney, Setterstrom, Spaeth; 2nd Team-Montgomery; HM-Brinkhaus, Lipka, Russell) to find a year that appears to match 2014's quality and number of awards.

We ARE heading in the right direction, even with lower "rated" players coming in.

COACHES​

YEAR	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
1ST TEAM	4	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	2
2ND TEAM	1	0	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	5
HONR. MENTION	3	3	1	1	3	1	1	1	4	4
TOTAL	8	4	2	5	4	1	1	1	6	11

MEDIA​

YEAR	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
1ST TEAM	4	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	5
2ND TEAM	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	1
HONR. MENTION	6	2	2	2	5	3	3	3	6	5
TOTAL	10	4	4	6	5	3	2	3	8	11

SPECIAL AWARDS

YEAR	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
POY/COY	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
NAME	ESLINGER	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	MORTELL, WILLIAMS, KILL