Nebraska reported to want back into Big XII
October 5th, 2016 at 9:25 PM ^
But think of the awesome flyovers. I love flyovers.
October 5th, 2016 at 9:54 PM ^
Maybe the Army-Navy game once a year, twice if they meet in the CCG.
October 5th, 2016 at 8:42 PM ^
I say highly unlikely,
When thinking about these conference realignments, people tend to forget about the BTAA (the academic consortium of Big Ten member schools). Membership to this consortium has granted Big Ten member schools access to grants and endowments that range in the hundreds of millions of dollars. The biggest benefit to joining the B1G is not access to the Big Ten Network and its revenues, but membership in the BTAA.
It's possible there may be grumbling by some in the AD at Nebraska about 'expanding their brand', but I doubt anyone on the academic side has any regrets about joining the B1G.
October 5th, 2016 at 9:41 PM ^
This has been discussed numerous times on this board before. The BTAA (formerly the CIC) does NOT "grant Big Ten member schools access to grants and endowments..." yada yada yada. It's a purchasing and course sharing consortium. It saves schools millions in volume purchasing discounts. And allows students to cross enroll. Nobody ever awarded a grant because a school belonged to the CIC/BTAA and nobody gained some sort of access to someone else's grant because of membership. It doesn't work that way.
October 5th, 2016 at 8:42 PM ^
So, it's Nebrexit.
Seems to be a thing these days.
October 5th, 2016 at 8:43 PM ^
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October 5th, 2016 at 8:44 PM ^
but this was a stupid clickbait article, so I'm inclined to doubt it. The source is a radio show host in Phoenix. Not sure why he would be the one to get this scoop. Look at this gem.
"He says there is also some bitterness between rivals Texas and Oklahoma over the Longhorns' efforts to build this new conference, which might not include the Sooners."
Oklahoma's president has been the one pushing the most for expansion.
October 5th, 2016 at 8:48 PM ^
sissies
Tuck your cowardly tails and go back to that shitty conference.
October 5th, 2016 at 9:04 PM ^
"Running the read option on the football field and in the classroom"
October 5th, 2016 at 9:10 PM ^
October 5th, 2016 at 8:58 PM ^
I know Sparty would love this move
October 5th, 2016 at 9:00 PM ^
I don't buy it for one second...you are telling me that Nebraska is going to pay a significant fee to go back to a conference they couldn't wait to leave in order to make less money, have less academic prestige, and be Texas' bitch? Not happening
October 5th, 2016 at 9:04 PM ^
I'm still tryin to imagine this fantasy world where they get more money from an even more UT-centric Big12 than the conference they ran from, or the equal sharing B1G. With the new divisions we have they even get an odd years chance of losing a conference championship game. That'll "grow their brand" better than leaving Nebraska just to play in Texas 5 times a year. Personally I think this radio host is just talking out of his ass to get a few clicks
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October 5th, 2016 at 9:48 PM ^
I also don't find it plausible that BYU is getting fed inside information about the future of the Big 12.
October 5th, 2016 at 9:10 PM ^
They'd have to be really stupid to do tha...
Oh.
Well, here's an opinion that seems to agree with me:
http://thebiglead.com/2016/07/26/nebraska-rejoining-the-big-12-would-be…
October 5th, 2016 at 9:07 PM ^
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October 5th, 2016 at 9:29 PM ^
two parties would benefit; themselves and the conference. PSU would continue with their slow, painful death. Their ass whipping by UM two weeks ago is merely a portent of things to come. They should run, run fast and run far.
October 5th, 2016 at 9:45 PM ^
will happen before 6-7 years. They're going to coincide with TV contracts expiring. I think the most likely scenario is the Big 12 imploding. In the highly unlikely event that Nebraska bolts and the Big 12 only loses OU, I'd rather grab OU or Missouri.
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October 5th, 2016 at 9:37 PM ^
would be their second choice. Playing on the west coast isn't the greatest for TV exposure. it's a worse geographic fit and pays less.
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October 5th, 2016 at 9:29 PM ^
Man, there's a lot of fallacies in this thread.
1) I want to get rid of Rutgers and Maryland as much as anyone, but losing Nebraska would have nothing to do with that.
2) OU is not ever coming to the Big Ten, because they're forced to stick with Oklahoma State, and Oklahoma State is a mouth to feed that adds zero TV screens. That doesn't jibe with Delany's idiotic thinking.
3) OU would not be a good addition anyway, because this isn't a game of Risk where you try to amass a large army and take as many territories as possible. If Lincoln isn't a marquee destination, neither is Norman, so when Bob Stoops retires, what's stopping OU from going down the same road Nebraska has? Especially after they lose one of the biggest parts of their identity, which is the Texas game - it's a lock that Texas would tell them to pound sand if OU bolts.
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October 5th, 2016 at 9:47 PM ^
That backwards NU nonsense was a Big XII dealio.
October 5th, 2016 at 9:58 PM ^
If you look at every other school in the B1G West (Purdue, Illinois, NW, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa) --- they have A LOT of their alums land in Chicago. Chicago is sort of a "center of gravity" for finding fellow Boilermakers, Illini, et cetera. Minneapolis also serves this role for UW and Minnesota.
For Nebraska --- Denver (especially so), Dallas, and Kansas City fill those roles. Chicago is a bit lower on the totem pole. Minneapolis is definitely even lower on that totem pole.
The B1G $$$ is too good for Nebraska to leave. But a big part of the fun of college football is rivalries and getting to interact with other school's folk and easy to travel road games. UNL is the one (and only) B1G school which gets more of that in a Great Plains (Big XII) conference vs. the B1G's footprint.
From the Nebraska POV, an ideal solution is bringing 2 of Texas, OU, Kansas and Colorado into the B1G. But I don't think any combination of 2 from that 4 is realistic at all (for various reasons).
October 6th, 2016 at 12:16 AM ^
It would be great, though, if the Big Ten could bring in Oklahoma to beef up the West and give Nebraska a traditional rivalry back.
October 5th, 2016 at 9:51 PM ^
Nebraska wants to leave the BIG TEN while Oklahoma wants to join?
You know what that means:
Texas is joining the BIG TEN!!!!
(They're not. This is a bullshit article).
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October 5th, 2016 at 10:02 PM ^
Yeah, there's no way this is true. Leaving the Big Ten for more TV money? The Big Ten has the most TV money. And one of the key factors in them leaving the Big XII was to get away from Texas, no way they're hitching their wagon to the Longhorns again, especially if it doesn't include Oklahoma. 0% chance of happening.
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October 5th, 2016 at 10:12 PM ^
before I finished reading the article.
October 6th, 2016 at 12:36 PM ^
I had to scroll a long way through this thread before the first reference to that, haha.