For those who like the Big Ten, it’s great that you have that feeling. No one should be trying to step on that. But others have a different perspective about it. That fact that this issue keeps coming up proves that.
Most Husker fans understand and respect the decision to leave the Big Texas Conference. They honestly left Nebraska little other choice if the Big Red were to keep their pride and self-respect. But given that, this doesn’t automatically mean that Nebraska is a good fit in the Big Fourteen.
Some are speaking up. Others are afraid to say... those who long for the “good old days” of the Big 8 (not Big 12) really are saying they miss feeling at home in a conference that they fit into. Nebraska does not fit with those Rust Belt schools and the East Coast emphasis of bringing in those addition Eastern big city-oriented schools. This is not a “get off my lawn” fondness for the past. This is simply recognizing a fit that is less than ideal.
Nebraska has little choice but to stay where they are right now. But sooner or later, there will be more realignment in major college ball. When that happens, Nebraska needs to get away from a conference that will never accept them as an equal (does that sound familiar?) and get back to the feeling of those great Big 8 matches that are remembered so fondly. Leave Ohio and Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and New Jersey and Maryland to themselves. If the money is right, we’d see how fast somebody might jump to a new conference home.
Until then, get to love Interstate 80.