Can we give Nebraska back?
Assuming no oher conference changes take place, is there anyway we can give NU back to the conference formerly known as... ?
I was under the impression that the big 12 was imploding and that the teams had to go somewhere. Now that the big 12 (or whatever its called) will stay intact, I find NU a bland pick-up.
More succintly, is there anyone on this board who is lukewarm to cold about the NU pick-up? I ask this, because I sense a lot of excitement.
...as someone that is excited about the Nebraska addition to the Big 10 (12).
On the other hand, I found all the whining for Texas' favor utterly embarassing.
You can't be serious right? We got arguably the best combination of football, academics, and non bullshittery available in the country.
Would I prefer no expansion, yes. Is/was expansion happening regardless of that belief, yes.
Ergo I am completely on board with Nebraska and look forward to going to Lincoln, eating some barbeque, and kicking their ass in football once in a while.
That was almost as good as "douchey twatwaffle" that someone else used a few days ago.
...but isn't that the school that let Tommy Lee in? For what it's worth, I'm actually a fan of the addition of Nebraska.
I totally forgot about Tommy Lee's reality show about him going to college at Nebraska-Lincoln! Well now I just like them that much more. Have you seen his drum kit? It rotates!
-1 for Larry the Cable Guy being a huge booster of theirs.
Former UFC badass Chuck Liddell is also a big Nebraska guy. You can give them a minus one for that, but risk getting KTFO'd for it.
Of course, if you could slip a punch in on his chin you might KO Chuck first at this point.
until you're drumming upside down.
But let's do it more than once in a while. I'd be perfectly happy with "regularly".
Out of the possible teams moving, if you don't count ND.
Big Ten- Nebraska
Pac Ten- Colorado, Utah?
MWC- Boise
Thats a easy call. Nebraska has great history and is on the upswing football wise. They bring a large, passionate fan base. It should be fun playing them in the future.
I would have taken either Colorado or Nebraska, really. The Denver market is sizable, and I love every opportunity I have to go to Boulder. Lincoln... not so much.
even if it is a "bland pichup" if it gives us the opportunity for a championchip game, then keep them
buti too thought the big 12 was imploding
"championchip game"
New Ben & Jerry's flavor?
Victory never tasted so sweet.
I think you just solved our division names - Ben and Jerry. Ingenious.
Nebraska is one of the most storied programs in all of college football, they have a rabid fan base, and they naturally fit into the Big Ten geographically. Sure, their basketball team stinks, but that's a small price to pay.
Look at it this way: the Big Ten had to add someone, and anyone else would have been worse either athletically or academically. If the Big Ten was going to expand no matter what, they could have done a LOT worse than Nebraska. The stature of the conference just increased and the brand of the Big Ten got a lot stronger.
I'm excited about Nebraska. Their basketball team sucks, but damn, that new arena is gonna be sweet. They are spending some $300 million on it. There is some info on UMHoops, in case you wanted to read up on that.
No reason to have a cow over it.
Who are we, Wisconsin?
What happened when the cow jumped over barbed wire?
Let's just put it this way.... it was udder destruction!
I cannot wait to road trip to Lincoln for the first Michigan-Nebraska game. As a wee lad and native Nebraskan (I have not returned since I was one), I was convinced that Nebraska was the true '97 National Champion (no worries, as a UofM alum, my thought process has been cured). In no way, shape, or form should the Nebraska addition not generate excitement!
For all the reasons brought up above and even a few more, they are a near perfect member. And the championship game that their addition will most likely bring is the cherry on top.
I love the pickup of Nebraska. Of all the schools mentioned they were my number two pick behind only Texas.
I would have loved it if UT had joined the B10 .... Tailgates with some honest-to-God Texas smoke barbeque. I'm not picky: brisket, ribs, (beef or pork) turkey, pulled pork.... Damn, now I'm hungry.
I think I need moment.
But pecan-fed, now that's good eatin'.
that many of the young people who don't know the game don't like Nebraska, simply because they don't know Nebraska. But overall, I think the Big Ten would be hard pressed to find a better school to add.
i was praying that we didn't add Texas. This league cannot handle a prima-dona. It's just not what we're about. I've hated Texas ever since Mac Brown went crying to every press member he could find about getting into the '05 Rose Bowl. Yes, it was a great game, but that's NOT HOW YOU PLAY IT.
If we need to add a drama queen, let it be Notre Dame, who is at least a geographically appropriate drama queen.
I don't know about you, but if I could skip over one state that is not named Ohio for Big Ten expansion, it would be Indiana. Who wants to go to Indiana for any reason?
I did hear their fans are drunkards and hooligans, but like, glass houses and whatnot...
...more like their fans are friendly, slightly overweight fifty year olds with 80 foot long RVs.
Nebraska: welcome!
I would buy an 80 ft RV if they existed, only because it would be so wildly impractical to drive...
In terms of collective behavior, Nebraska fans have actually been compared a lot to us. "Hooligans" does not apply.
friends is a Huge Husker fan. He is one of the coolest down to Earth people I know. If they are like him then they are more than welcome.
For all Nebraska offers on the football side, they offer nothing for basketball. I am sure they bring the academics and all that jazz. Just saying, that their basketball program is rivaled by high school teams across Canada.
Nebraska offers good gymnastics, volleyball, and baseball, which are Big Ten standards. And it's not like our bsketball team has been above reproach in the past decade....
Don't forget wrasslin'
Wrasslin' is kind of an unknown quality-wise to me.
Normally we're pretty decent, in the mix for the Big Ten title, and have at least one guy fighting for an individual NC. Steve Luke won one in dominating fashion last year. Churella (whose father won one for the Woverines in '78) got jobbed out of one a few years back by some of the worst officiating in recent memory (yes, that includes AG v JJ).
This year, we red-shirted our top guy (Kellen Russell) and recruited like hell, so hopefully we'll be back at the top again soon. A pipeline from Blair Academy (NJ) seems to be forming, which would be great to have.
Straight to NBA high schoolers and now the one-and-dones have killed college basketball. The product is a sloppy mess.
Personally, I don't care if Nebraska's basketball nets are woven from discarded corn husk as long as we shuck them repeatedly on the football field.
Is this all that different from adding Penn State in 1990? One of the most celebrated college football programs ever, and a crappy bball program (since 1997, both schools have only made the NCAA tourny 1 time).
You can buy a heck of a basketball team with an extra $15 million per year and still have money left over. Just sayin'.
I am all about adding one of the all time elite football programs to the big ten. I couldn't be happier with the addition of Nebraska.
The Big East teams that were being mentioned a few months ago (Rutgers, Pitt, etc.) as possible new members are not even in the same stratosphere as Nebraska from a football perspective. It's not even close.
This was a great pick-up. Perfect in just about every aspect for the Big Ten, and they are not a bunch of snobs like ND or Texas. The conference just took a huge step forward.
I don't get the bland comment either. Nebraska may not be as sexy a pick-up as Notre Dame, but there aren't that many programs out there that fit as well as the Huskers. Given the fact that the Big 12 team that seemed the most likely to join the Big 10 was Missouri, I think we came out way ahead of where we were sitting a couple of months ago when all this expansion talk started.
And if somebody thinks of Nebraska fans as "hooligans" (which is an old Irish word for "Notre Dame fans from Chicago, who went to Northern Illinois"), then I give you this, in order to remind you that "THIS IS PENN STATE, BITCH!"
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2007/10/31/osu_fans.html
So funny, dude, like even when you go to Pitt and you don't have to...
1. Best team that moved.
2. Top 10 all-time program.
3. Good rivalry potential against top Big Ten schools.
4. Rabid fan base that travels.
5. Allows for championship game.
6. Good academics (AAU), already invited to CIC.
That's it off the top, I assume you were kidding or inebriated in advance of today's World Cup.
To summarize conference expansion this far:
the big10 picks up a huge football power to get a 12th team that ensures a championship game, which, by virtue of one of the b10's top two teams getting a loss in december will strongly reduce the chances of having 2 b10 teams in BCS bowls. BTN gets a national power, but not any large market cities.
the pac10 picks up a decent football school with a fan base in a large metropolitan area and sits at 11 teams, 1 short of a championship game if they don't petition and likely starting a tv network that will include LA, Denver, Seattle, Portland, San Fran, Phoenix.
texas eliminates one major power, one medium power from their conference, eliminates the championship game which they will play in every year and would have caused them to play another tough game en route to the bcs. texas rules this new conferece and will start its own tv network. they had to make no concessions and eliminated two of the stronger members of their conference while at the same time striking fear into the hearts of the remnants of the b12 north.
SEC remains the same second richest conference with low academic standards
ND remains the same, elite national school with its own tv deal and nonfootball in the BigEast.
i am not saying the B10 "lost" in this expansion thing, but i might say that they are the "third winner."