I take it you didn’t grow up in the 1970’s…
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Leverage? What leverage? We were in a conference that constantly went against us while the main players were pretty much openly planning to leave. There was zero unity in the conference. Except maybe to go against us.
Okay? All this illustrates to me is that 1) of course other people wanted us, we’re an effing blue blood program, and 2) Tom was the only one dumb enough to jump at it. Or maybe I’m reading your post wrong and you’re actually agreeing with me?
It’s really all your fault. You knew we had a super secret SEC invite, but failed to inform Tom. I don’t know how you sleep at night.
The leverage being that we didn’t have to leave and didn’t have to settle for this crappy conference. Do you remember when we used to laugh at it for the joke that it is before we joined? I do.
See you avoided the part about Devaney.. Believe he was AD at some point in time🤔..
Also you‘re not listing to the part about Big 12 was against us every step of the way from partial qualifiers to where the championship game should be played..
Sorry TO made the right decision, you just can’t admit your wrong..
NCAA is on life support. Schools are starting to realize that they don't need them (never have really).
Yes. But I also remember people laughing about the Big 8 and saying NU was beating a bunch of cupcakes like Kansas and ISU. So I don't know that that is relevant.
I didn’t ignore it. Saying Devany looked into it and decided to pass is just making my point. I said TO was the only one dumb enough to do it. Aka Devaney wasn’t.
How are those partial qualifiers looking for us now? How’s that championship game location looking? Oh wait 😂
And no, TO didn’t make the right decision. It was a horrible one and that has been proven. Still waiting for anyone to list one good thing about the decision. If it’s so clear it was the “right decision” and “I just can’t admit I’m wrong” it seems there would be a litany of positives that have come from it that people could list…let alone just one.
How in the world can you look back now and say this was the right decision? Is our stature better in the CFB world? Is it better within the conference?
I can't see a single thing that is better. No traditional rivals, terrible road trips, a conference that wants us to fail. A conference full of creeps, racists and pedos.
Don't forget the Longwhorn network. People have such fond memories of the Big 12 and seem to block out all the fighting and dysfunction. For god's sake they couldn't even get buy in on a conference TV network. Funny how schools literally bolted in every direction at the first sign of trouble. But somehow it was the greatest conference ever.
has the new media deal been finalized? we're ~6 weeks from the season and I haven't seen any news.
Well if you’re looking for one good thing it’s the $$$. I’m still waiting for my reimbursement of my season tickets under frosty’s tenure but I suspect I’ll be waiting awhile so the $$$ doesn’t mean sh!t to me.
I will say if there is going to be a 12 team playoff then being stuck in a watered down big 12 probably would have been better than being in the B1G so I will concede my previous arguments and say you’re probably correct. A future big 12 team will certainly make the playoffs if indeed 12 teams are in it.
Yep. The University got a bunch of research money that you and I will never see. Meanwhile, our football program is in the shitter and we are stuck in this creepy ass conference.
this is a great example of how little vision TO (and other school reps in the Big 12 outside of UT) had
the opportunity was there to be a pioneer in the conference-specific network space and they instead pissed it away to serve their own selfish interests
We could have used his accuracy during the Frost years.Ain’t that the truth.
Too say that the big 12 wanted us to succeed is just as absurd..
It was about the stability ($$$$) which at the time no one knew how stabile the conference was going to be, especially when texas was talking about moving to the Pac12 conference..
We make way more money than we would ever had made in the Big 12 conference ..
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It's not the conference's fault that we made really bad hires
Fact is Devaney wanted Nebraska in the Big 10 but he didn’t get the invite Nebraska had with Osborne and Pearlman and the regents unanimously agreed to join..
OK. And moving to the Big Ten has sucked and was a huge mistake. But hey, enjoy whatever it is you enjoy about this shit show.
People can't seem to understand that. All they remember is driving to Manhattan in the 90's to kick the shit out of KSU. Now they have fond memories of the greatest road trip ever. Despite the stadium and town being a shithole.
I will say I think it’s easy to say, “We are Nebraska. No matter what happens, we’ll be fine.” That’s a terrible business model.
Complain all you want about the decision that was made, but I do not think that not making a decision would have been right either.
Again, history will tell us if it was the right or wrong decision, but I can’t fault the powers that be who made the decision. Standing pat wasn’t the right decision either.
As Kong has said, maybe exploring a Husker network would have been a better decision, but at the time, trying to be objective here, it was a no-brainer.
Complain all you want about the decision that was made, but I do not think that not making a decision would have been right either.
Again, history will tell us if it was the right or wrong decision, but I can’t fault the powers that be who made the decision. Standing pat wasn’t the right decision either.
As Kong has said, maybe exploring a Husker network would have been a better decision, but at the time, trying to be objective here, it was a no-brainer.
You can’t go to a bar in Florida, let’s say, and watch NU vs illinois at noon on BTN unless they buy the network and/or out of market cable package (PPV)
Yep. Butt plugging? Meh.
Telling a black man to cut his hair?? BURN IT DOWN
What’s our Mich/OSU problem other than they are better right now? We were placed in the weakest division. What have those 2 done to hinder our ability?
I hope they add Kansas too.
I would watch it on my phone, tablet, computer. But that bar likely has the Big 10 network anyway. You are majorly trying to hard when you are clearly wrong. Trying to say that the BIG 12 tv package was as good as the Big 10 is just stupid. You clearly never tried to get a Big 12 game outside of Nebraska outside your house.
All while having more administrators than faculty, and more administrators + faculty than students. Those great people with cutting edge research!
Devaney, at least spell his name correctly if you want to be taken seriously on this board.
this must be coming from a voice inside your head again, because I most certainly didn't say it.
you do strike me as a Goes to Bar to Stream TV on His Phone type, however.
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