This has the potential to be REALLY good. Popcorn at the ready.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/blogs/...ools--possible-expansion-votes-195405779.html
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/blogs/...ools--possible-expansion-votes-195405779.html
Seen this act before.
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So glad we left that show behind. Can't believe there are people who still wish we were under the thumb of Texas.
Yep. I know everyone has differing perspectives, but at the end of the day, Colorado isn't there anymore. Mizzou isn't there anymore. Nebraska isn't there anymore. Their BROTHER TAMU isn't there anymore. And if this plays out like it might, a couple more aren't going to be there anymore.
I have a friend that's been divorced 3x. Guess who was at fault? Those 3 women. Just ask him.
just heard a conversation on the radio here in okc and it was mentioned by the host that Nebraska is really not happy with the move to the B1G. too far to travel to other schools, no great rivalries and i guess i've heard a few people say that, but mostly IF i hear people say they miss something, its the big8...not tx or the b12.
I'd miss the B12, if it ever was what it could have been.
I'm sure UT is resorting to damn near blackmail to keep TT under their thumb.
This line has been said by the media in Oklahoma ever since we left. But there has never been anything to back it up other than complaints by a relative few malcontents. Every single poll that has ever been done on the subject since we left shows a clear majority support being in the B1G. The media in Oklahoma says we are unhappy in the B1G just because it serves their purposes.
If we were 8-1 against Texas instead of 1-8 I suspect people around here wouldn't have such a huge problem with them.
I am not a malcontent and I liked the Big 12 a lot...more than the Big Ten. Travel is way easier for the road games.
That is probably pretty accurate
I agree with this statement 150%! We look at Texas the same way Kansas State looked at us. Everyone that lives in Texas couldn't give a rats behind about Nebraska. Most of them actually like Nebraska.
Our little brother syndrome towards Texas is crazy.
I disagree a little bit... The problem wasn't our record against Texas... It was the way Texas took over the conference that was the issue. Maybe the record didn't help but the real issue to me was Texas' condescension.
I agree...but I have about 6 good friends that all hang out and watch Husker games with me and we all like the ease of road games better in the Big 12. You don't have to love the Big Ten to love the Huskers.
Just bring Kansas and Oklahoma in and call it a day. Two perennial powers in basketball and football, both bring national followings, enough TV sets across the country would tune into a KU-Michigan State basketball twice a year no doubt. Same for a Oklahoma-Ohio State football game in Norman.
Push Purdue east and you have two 8 team divisions, East is in the Eastern time zone and the West is in the Central Time Zone. Rotate east divisions games a year and it'll work awesome.
Push Purdue east and you have two 8 team divisions, East is in the Eastern time zone and the West is in the Central Time Zone. Rotate east divisions games a year and it'll work awesome.
Bull. If we're 8-1 we'd be thinking to ourselves.."Whatever, we owned your ass and dumped you for a better conference, suck it Texas". But 1-8? That kind of ownage brings out the people still haven't figured out how to break up with somebody and move on.
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It's all about being 1-8...don't kid yourself.
Beat Texas the last 2 times we played them and we would have never left the Big 12.
I don't agree with the never leaving the Big 12 part, seems like our relationship with the Big 12 and Texas and Beebe was broken beyond repair and we were going to leave if the opportunity presented itself, but I am certain there wouldn't be anywhere near the dissatisfaction with Texas if we didn't invent new ways to lose to them. How could that not sour how you feel about it? Does me. It's similar to getting rejected by multiple girls at the bar and at the end of the night you say to your buddy as you're leaving "Man that bar had a lot of lesbians in it tonight".
I'm talking about where I'm coming from... You're telling me I and many others have a problem with 1-8 more than I do Texas taking over the conference?
Thanks for telling me what to believe. Now if you could only tell me what I'm supposed to be watching on Thursday nights, because I can't think for myself...
You have no clue why I am glad to be in the B1G... And I suspect that there are a lot more people than you realize who are glad to be done with Texas, not because of our record, but because they are a-holes...
This I can agree with more... I hated losing to Texas. And yes, we even made ways up to lose to them. But I don't believe the reason many hate Texas is because of the record. It's the screw job they repeatedly applied to Nebraska throughout the years of the Big 12 conference.
THIS ! Look what they did with the Pac -10 when they were going to join - sprung their stupid network on them; hoping they could get it in, because all those quality schools would be to embarrassed to back out at the alter - thank goodness ( literally ), the true good guys, sent them back to their lackeys. Lots of great Texas fans; they just have an imperial few at the top screwing it up - probably has been affecting their record recently.
Isn't it always about the money? That's what we have always been told... If we dominated the Big 12 and Texas wasn't in the market for their own network then I agree. But as long as Texas was gonna have it's own network and the rest of the conference had nothing, then I can't agree with this sentiment.
Edit: And living in the twin cities, I whole heartedly agree about being glad we're in the B1G.
I don't remember us looking for another conference when we couldn't beat Oklahoma year after year. TO always felt that if he out-worked and out-coached his opponent, he could eventually overcome them. This was different with texas. The deck was stacked and that was the problem, not the win-loss record. The feeling that no matter how hard you worked or how well you coached, texas would just call in as many favors as they needed to stay on top. That was the REAL issue. The TV contract situation also factored in.
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