No. It’s not a matter of winning or money for me. I have ZERO interest in any B1G teams. Don’t care what’s going on with any of them. I still pay close attention to the B12. That‘s where our home should be. YMMV.
CU to the big12
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Leaving the B1G for the little 12 would be like leaving the B1G for the AAC. The little 12 pretty much is the AAC since they replaced blue bloods like Nebraska, Texass, and Oklahoma with teams like UCF, Cincinnati, and Houston.
I'd rather get rid of conferences altogether. Have the Top 40 or so football programs leave the NCAA and start their own league. Have divisions that make geographical sense. I know it will never happen, but it should.
These schools are really going to fly the women's soccer and softball teams from Oregon to New Jersey, or Seattle to Maryland? Just seems so stupid. I imagine it won't be long before the non-revenue sports become like club teams that mostly just play against other schools within driving distance.
Oregon flies to UCLA, Arizona St, Arizona, Stanford, Cal, Utah now. It isn't like Eugene is close to anywhere except Corvallis and Seattle. Flight is a flight. Plus with 18 teams in the league, they won't necessarily have to visit every school every year.
As long as the athletic departments continue to bring in millions, they will spend the money to fund non revenue generating sports.
I've been against the move since before it happened. i get that some still have that desire, i don't, but i get that people do.
i don't care if we play those teams again.
I remember back in a few years ago games at Purdue were going for that.
I find teams like Cincy and Houston far more interesting than Purdue, Indiana and Rutgers (just to name 3). And the basketball is better as well.
Agreed - my second cousin scheduled her wedding for the same night as the Nebraska game against Minnesota in 2019 - and nobody at the wedding (all native Nebraskans and lifelong Husker fans) could have cared less about missing that game that night.
BYU, Houston, Cincinnati, UCF, and TCU were once G5 teams. Let that sink in. Almost half of the little 12's current members were once G5 teams. A lot of the remaining teams are historically bad P5 teams, Kansas, Iowa State, and Baylor being perfect examples. Sure, maybe the bottom feeders of the little 12 are slightly better than Rutgers, Indiana, and Purdue. However the little 12 also doesn't have anyone close to the caliber of Ohio State or Michigan.
I'm hoping for it.. big time.
Get our old recruiting base back.. and you never know.. OU could come back some day too.
CU has not had any success in the PAC either. If that changes when they return to the Big 12, you can bet more people will be pounding the table for our return.
you sing this same tune often
identical talking points and everything
yet to see a single person agree
Houston kicks the B1G's ass in hoops. 2nd place big 12 team stomped the B1G champ in the national semis
you'r swimming upstream with nothing but rapists, losers and disgusting sexual deviants at your side
So somehow joining a slightly better version of the AAC or the Mountain West is the key to success?
it could help restore our identity, recruiting base, and rivals..
we became the town slut by joining the B1G.. it has never been a good fit, and if you care about the program's on field success, it seems like a no brainer.
You're correct. I was afraid to use that word as it will upset people, but your point is 100% valid.
"She's been plucked more times than the Rose of Tralee. Biggest whore on Fifth Avenue, I'm told"
One could argue that is precisely what is happening
I rode my bike between Albuquerque and Liberal Kansas that afternoon/evening and listened to the game on my headset over the Huskers.com network. That loss was depressing. If your people could give a shit about the game, then they aren't really Nebraska fans.
Most don't really give a shit about Iowa either. That "standard hatred" is contrived and forced.
Anyone who thinks leaving the BIG 10 for the BIG 12 is a good thing for Nebraska, well it's just not a smart move.
When we joined the Big 12, I remember some Big 10 folks coming on this board and telling us we'd be much happier in their egalitarian conference because it's not run by 1 or 2 schools.
Of course at that time, Hoke was coaching Michigan and OSU was getting rid of Tressell. Now that they've stabilized their coaching situations, the league has gone back to its status quo.
Of course at that time, Hoke was coaching Michigan and OSU was getting rid of Tressell. Now that they've stabilized their coaching situations, the league has gone back to its status quo.
2 of those teams have been in the CFP the last 2 years. Let that sink in.
It's not just the bottom feeders. Get past Ohio State and Michigan, and the rest of the teams are pretty much a wash top to bottom. If anything, the Big 12 has an edge when you get past the blue bloods just for what I posted above.
Plus West Virginia. Houston isn't exactly next door either. I rode in the car to Lubbock for a Husker game once. Not exactly like driving to Grand Island.
Apparently what people desperately want back is to have a road game against the Kansas schools every year. Which is so laughable. So what they really miss is beating the snot out of KU and KSU. Which wasn't going to happen anyway these last few years.
Does that analogy really apply? I would say we were a poor servant in the Big 12. Maybe you have fond memories of the way we were treated in the Big 12. I don't. And these so-called friends in the Big 12? They hated us. And gladly screwed us every chance they got. The Big 10 gave us a hard schedule to maximize profit. Cry me a river that we fielded a bunch of average to shitty teams. That's on us.
I don't think most people truly understand how vast the western U.S. is. LA isn't next door to Seattle. LA isn't next door to Boulder. The Big 12 proves that travel doesn't matter anymore.
What recruiting base? It took Rhule 7 months to prove what I've always said- we didn't need to be in the Big 12 to recruit Texas. Recruiting is about coaches, not conferences.
And Texas was never the key to our success anyway. False narrative by the national media.
I love how whenever the few B1G fanbois come out of the woodwork, you always want to play the "KU, KSU, TT, whatever" card while conveniently overlooking the "Indiana, NW, Rutgers, Maryland, whatever" card.
I'm a Husker fan. You follow BYU and UCF instead of Wisconsin and Michigan State. Great. I think most of America would say you are watching mediocre football either way, regardless of the conference.
I wonder what sort of TV deal the Big 12 will be able to negotiate. One of the significant factors in Nebraska leaving the Big 12 was the difference between the Longhorn Network and PPV games versus the Big 10 Network.
Good lord you are so deliberately obtuse. Way to continue to use one extreme example after another to try to make your point. He was obviously talking about the current Big 12.
It's not fanboy. It's called reality. People keep talking about all these Big 12 road games when in reality the real difference is the Kansas schools. Everything else is a wash. Somehow everyone keeps overlooking how the Big 12 goes from Orlando, Florida to Utah. Cincinnati is right in the heart of Big 10 country. Can't forget how easy a road trip is to Morgantown, West Virginia.
On a positive note I see that the BIG 12 has all their games available to watch now. Looks like on average 3 to 4 games are only available on ESPN+. Love it. People think the world of that conference and they have 1/4 to 1/3 of their games that aren't available on regular TV.
what I would like to see happen is big kick nw to ivy and plug nd in their spot...
then add oregon, houston, miami and nc..
(think recruiting footprint outside rust belt)
(the pac and acc can merge)
what seems like what might happen is the big adds washington, oregon, stanford
(for a 5 team west pod)
then nd...
It was insane to ditch geographically logical conferences in the first place.
Soooo true!
It is shocking just how bad teams in the Big Ten are but for some reason fans pretend like they are tough games.
I don't see anyone talking about the quality of Big 10 teams. What I do see is a bunch of people with revisionist history. Talking about how poorly we are treated in the Big 10 while ignoring how we were treated in the Big 12. Bringing up how many close road games the Big 12 has when in reality the Big 12 is just as spread out as the Big 10 and the 2 Kansas schools are the only difference. Acting like all these Big 12 schools love us when in fact they hate us and we're perfectly fine with us leaving.
The Big 10 took us at a time when we were in a precarious position and they didn't have to. It showed me they wanted us much more then the Big 12. Lots of schools wanted in the Big 10 then and now. They basically took us first. That is more loyalty then the Big 12 has ever shown.
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