No cliffs. I posted a link. You can read it or not. Up to you.
I will however, give my own thoughts on what you said.
On recruiting. Yeah, that would be an improvement. Although that really hasn't helped Missouri all that much. Granted, Missouri is not Nebraska, but the idea that moving to the SEC would make you better because of recruiting and competition is not necessarily the case, unless your school is already in the south. Missouri has straight up disappeared. They were far better in the Big 12.
On payout. No. Not even close. You can say what you want about the B1G (and I've said a lot myself) but they lap the field when it comes to media negotiations. Especially once the LA schools join, those numbers are only going to increase. The SEC has a superior product on the field. But the networks really only care about eyeballs. And nobody in the nation has bigger fanbases and alumni bases than the Big Ten. Which means more money for NU. Hopefully they actually do something with it, instead of losing to Purdue and Minnesota.
SEC coaches are not only arrogant and sophomoric, but are cutthroat. Husker fans would be in for a rude awakening when they take their plains states sensibilities and values down south. That southern hospitality does not extend to football. If you are only looking through the prism of politics and stupidass culture wars, then yeah, you might think the SEC "is a better cultural fit." But you might want to look closer. That's something that actually was pointed out in that Reddit thread. Nebraska and the south are nothing alike culturally.
On not taking teams from two time zones away. Well, yeah. That's because there is no benefit for them to do so. The best football and the best talent in the country are all within their geographic footprint. What do they stand to gain by trying to poach Oregon or Washington? Dilute their brand? They already did that by taking Missouri.
On actually winning games. This is a big one for me.
Nebraska is 18-35 since the Big Ten West was formed. That is wholly embarrassing. Northwestern has had more relevance than NU in the conference.
And that record is against bad teams. We're talking the worst division in P5 football. If you think that somehow playing in the nation's toughest conference (the SEC) would improve Nebraska's record then I have some swamp land in Florida to sell you.
Oklahoma better get used to being everyone's homecoming game very quickly. But hey, at least they'll be getting boatraced by Alabama, Georgia and LSU instead of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Illinois.
