2020 NU posts first W
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As we know and this article also got wrong - the season wasn't cancelled. It was postponed.
Frost, Day, Harbaugh... it was all posturing: be seen as THE GUY, the Tough Guy. Be the mensch that you want your kids to play for.
This was a lot of chest thumping and flag waving.
I hope to Gawd we don't go back to the B12. It was all about Texas, all the time. Nothing has changed. I don't think it would help us record-wise. I think our players are still going to have trouble with "W's" as they're not acclimated to Frost's system yet. Sitting out a year isn't going to help that.
Dunno what the answer is but not the B12,or at least not IMO.
Dunno what the answer is but not the B12,or at least not IMO.
The B1G is by far Nebraska's best option. I know saying that won't make me too popular right now, but it's true.
We where in the Big12 once. I seem to remember everyone wanted out. Do they have anything other than the Long Horn Network yet? I still maintain if we move back to the Big12 I will not watch Husker Football. I don't need to watch us take it in the shorts over and over again while we turn the other cheek.
SOC
We just had to play by there rules and never win. Also crotch grabbing is a penalty on us not them.
SOC
I never had a year that pissed me off more than our final season in the Big XII>
It is kinda funny we blew that thing up. Unfortunately it didn't die, it is kinda like a robot that will not die, but it has no legs so it is just dragging itself around the floor in circles.
SOC
That's a rather specious argument. We have a contract with our conference- the same is true for any team in any P5 conference today.
And if Texas really was/ran the Big 12 then sure they told us what we could and could not do through the funding mechanisms and the scheduling.
I'm not making an argument for or against either conference. Just asking if there is a benefit other than financial that we can point to for why the Big10 is better for us than the Big12.
Academics. And as I have been arguing for a long time that is why Harvey Perlman let us move. If it was because of athletics alone we might have stayed. Now the money sweetened the pot a lot but Academics allowed those who don't give a damn about athletics on board so there was no peanuts in the back quietly whispering.
We will not go back. Why? I don't think the Big12 has the money to offer us to come back. And to leave... The screams from the Academic side of the equation would be so loud that Lincoln would have to do some ordinance enforcement for disturbing the peace.
SOC
Re-invent the original Big 8 and I am right there with them but the Big 10 and it's perks really is in my opinion also our best option for the future.....I hated the Texas 12 and still have a bug up my you know what for anything Longhorn related or burnt Orange.....
DOC HOLIDAY.
DOC HOLIDAY.
Not only was the old Big 8 the one that fit us the best culturally, it made it easy for fans to attend away games.
But that said, OU and OSU were the outliers and the Sooners were, to be perfectly frank, the University of Texas at Norman. If you look at the old Big 8, we literally dominated the conference with the exception of OU. Not only did we have dominant w/l records against our conference foes, we won the majority of those games in dominant fashion.
As Doc Holiday said, the Big XII was the Texas 12. When the Big 8 "expanded", it immediately became a Texas-centric league and we found ourselves with little in common with TU and its in-state homies.
The B1G is much more balanced than the old Big 8 was and we have much more in common with its members (well, maybe with the exception of Rutgers and Maryland) than all those Texas schools. Once we start winning again on the national stage (and we will), we'll see the real value of being in the B1G.
Culturally, it's probably a somewhat better fit. I think the state of Nebraska has more in common with Iowa and Wisconsin than it does with Oklahoma and Texas.
But why dismiss the financial aspect of it? That's a huge part of the discussion.
Nebraska gets $54 million/yr. from the B1G; The Big XII pays in the upper 30s. So that's about 15 million reasons right there.
Nebraska is first and foremost a university. Sam McKewon had some numbers in a story the other day about research money increases since Nebraska joined the B1G. Endowment is up to $1.72 billion.
I know the B1G isn't a perfect fit, but I doubt such a fit exists. We KNOW it doesn't exist in the Big XII. That is reserved for the Whorns.
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