Yep. 100%. Many corporations over the decades are no longer around because they didn't make any changes when the competition did.
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Yep. 100%. Many corporations over the decades are no longer around because they didn't make any changes when the competition did.
I would love playing traditional area foes. Never going to happen. Damn. The old Big 8 was a great conference. You could drive to every game and you played every other team in your conference every year. I guess I'm just a dinosaur. Didn't love the move to the B1G but understood why we did it. OU and UT going to the SEC makes no sense to me. It's all about the money.Nebraska back to the Big 12?
The time is right to make the western population of the country Big Ten territory. Then you keep taking shots at cracking the east coast over the coming decades.
Jiminy Crickets. As if flying to play at Rutgers or Maryland wasn't bad enough.... This whole deal where logical geographic conferences were torn apart makes zero sense to me. I guess global warming really isn't a thing or none of the pointy heads stirring this pot would be making these moves requiring air travel for just about every game.
a b1g manifest destiny that results in rutgers + arizona would be such a hilariously perfect fate
Yep. When Delany was trying to do that the environment wasn't ripped to do it then. It is now. Time to strike. Then keep trying to crack the east coast in the future.
this is the new reality I am looking forward to! and it's coming to a P5 campus near you.
I listened to a college football analyst a year or so ago that proposed that at some point traditional conferences would be eliminated and there would be 4 regional divisions for football aligned geographically. It amazes me how little geography seems to matter in these deals given how expensive it is for a football team to fly across the country.
There's no value in that combo. The Big Ten makes a lot of money and adding those two together wouldn't bring anything groundbreaking for growth or more money.
4 regional divisions will happen, and the product will be awesome.
gone will be the days of cupcakes in Aug/Sept. 12 games, all against peer programs, leading to a playoffs that will produce a true champ.
Adding ISU would definitely be lame. Adding KU wouldn't be anything great. You have certainly proven that you are the dumb one here.
If the Big Ten answers the OU/UT move with KU/ISU it might as well hand out JV stickers to put on the helmets.
I think some sort of NFL model awaits as well. Too much entertainment competition to be playing Fordham anymore. Just hope NU is a part of it.
Very good point, ".....they have watched them kill two conferences already". let that sink in WTF texans
from the brilliant mind who brought us 'ku and isu have no value', behold: b1g receptive to oklahoma state!
the gopher board beckons you home, fraud
My thoughts as well. Not sure Iowa is thrilled and Everytime they have a Minnesota vs ISU game on TV they can't help bring up the Jack trice incident
remember when the big12 whatever his role is was said to be the front runner for our AD position?
rough couple weeks for that guy
rough couple weeks for that guy
Ohio St & Mich are talking to the SEC. They are going to form a super conference and lock up big money.
is this your AAU education talking? or your brown eye?
very tough to tell the difference
Probably not going to happen, yes, but not closing the doors right away is not the correct approach. OSU at least has better athletics than Iowa State and most Kansas sports.
Whatever happens, Nebraska will be in a much better conference than ISU. Sorry about that.
I am not the least bit worried. We have a top 10 team. Most on this board should remember what that is like. We are strong academically. We have the hottest young coach in college football. We will be just fine.
To an NU fan, KU and ISU add a lot of value.
Two regional teams that have history with Nebraska.
Games that are easy to travel to.
Most importantly, two teams that are unlikely to take over Nebraska in the B10 pecking order.
Why exactly are WE wanting teams with more prestige that bring a little more cash that is going to be split 16 ways? The difference between adding Notre Dame or Iowa State probably won’t amount to more than a couple million on the bottom line for each team in the conference, but adding a team that is probably likely to lower Nebraska’s standing in the conference IS bad for the fan experience and also the athletic department’s bottom line.
to be fair, if I'd been stuffed into a locker & had my lunch money stolen as much as isu, I'd probably be just as delusional
Texas has to retire the LHN but word is that ESPN is going fulfill the contract if they go.
Thankfully the Big Ten has the best leadership in the entire country at the helm, so we have nothing to worry about or fear.
As a Nebraska fan we better hope Michigan and OSU do not go to the SEC. Without those two big hitters the BIG Ten money is like a fart in the wind.
See what happens when you suck for 20 years, you become very unattractive. 25 years ago Nebraska would have been the BIG team everyone wanted, now we are hoping we are not left at the alter.
See what happens when you suck for 20 years, you become very unattractive. 25 years ago Nebraska would have been the BIG team everyone wanted, now we are hoping we are not left at the alter.