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  1. 15 minutes ago, nic said:

    NOt sure where else to put this, but thought it was a gerat idea.:thumbs

     

    Austin Peay University, is already calling it a season after just three games — and lots of money coming in to get beat up by some bigger schools. According to Saturday Down South, Austin Peay, which actually won 11 games in the FCS in 2019 and reached the league’s quarterfinals in the postseason, decided to axe their fall campaign after getting blown out by Central Arkansas, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati by a collective score of 134-37. But with the FCS looking to have a spring football season this year — which Austin Peay hopes to play in — the team decided it’d go get its a$$ kicked by a couple big boys before taking the fall and winter off, making out with some serious money for the Athletics Department in the process.

     

     

    Did they only schedule 3 games or did they cancel remaining games? guessing by what i found they only scheduled 3.  Which makes sense with teams moving into conference play going forward.

  2. It seems like our guys starting at Scott Frost and up have gone out of their way to say as much about the BIG as they can - they definitely have a plan and any media face that got burned by NU back in the day is going to get their jabs in now.  It will be interesting to see how the next chapter of this plays out over the season and following year.

  3. 1 hour ago, Frustrated said:

    OMG.  Is this a troll account?  Parody?  You cannot be serious with this?  The COP/C actually bears responsibility to protect the ENTIRE university community because the University really is bigger than just the football team.  They are concerned with the students, faculty, staff, administrators, employees, the entire community!  Have you happened to notice that some NFL teams are playing with limited fans in attendance and others are playing to an empty stadium?  Do you have the faintest idea why that is?  These decisions had to be among the most difficult the COP/C ever made because of the impact, the far-reaching impact (and I am not referring only to the financial ramifications) to the university community and local businesses.  The student experience, athlete development, local restaurants/bars...the impact has yet to be fully realized, BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT SAFE.

    Very interesting question - i have thought of asking the same question to a certain poster

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  4. 1 hour ago, 84HuskerLaw said:

    Well,  all you Big Ten booster clubbers can believe as you wish.  But there is no way the Big Ten acted to minimize economic losses to the conference or any of its members infividually while providing virus protections for athletes in its charge.  Having fans in stadiums poses no significant risk to the players or coaches etv who can easily be separated from each other.  

     

    It's been interesting that everybody arguing your point gives an example of any revenue stream and considers that ample explanation.  I guess the the words minimize and losses are hard to comprehend.

  5. 2 hours ago, Hilltop said:

    I would feel good about 5 wins for Nebraska as well.  The head scratcher to me is Indiana with 5.5.  Their crossovers are Wisconsin and Purdue.  Then they play the east.  

     

    Think the East gets too much credit.  They are top heavy with PSU and OSU after that every game could be a win.  The West has shown that they are not ready to win the title however when you look at the total of all teams on each side it has been pretty even the past couple of years and will be again this year.

  6. 1 hour ago, BigRedBuster said:

     

    This is idiotic.  Kids are in school at UNL.  The team is going to be practicing and playing games.  Now....HS kids still can't come see the campus?

    These types of decisions just make me bang my head against the wall.

    I hear you - with the season potentially happening not sure if coaches want to bring kids in that may or may not have virus. Now with daily testing - it could happen.

  7. 1 hour ago, Branno said:

    I really don't feel comfortable with this decision. We've already seen a player die from COVID (I know he didn't catch it on campus, but it's evidence that these players aren't as special as y'all thought), we've seen multiple games get postponed, we've seen entire units on teams go into quarantine.

     

    Am I going to watch the games? Yeah, because I have a problem. But I really wish we just stayed strong. I think history is going to show the B1G was on the right side of this.

    Interesting take

  8. 37 minutes ago, JJ Husker said:

    I agree that the B1G has screwed the pooch b1gtime handling this particular issue. But if that is anyone's sole focus on which conference we belong in and which is best for Nebraska, that's just being butthurt or myopic or both.

     

    We all want to be playing and a majority of us miss regular games with the likes of OU, CU, KSU etc. but we're best off where we're at. There's much more to this conference thing than only how it directly impacts football and even if that were the whole story, we're still better off.

     

    It's not butthurt to make a little less cash and have the ability to decide your own path.

     

    Do you feel the BIG has NU best interest over the past 21 days?

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  9. 29 minutes ago, Wistrom Disciple said:

    Right, but as Oklahoma has proven, a title game isn't necessary to make the CFP. And the Big Ten already has contracted in to get the top teams in the big games in the postseason so a conference title game is kind of irrelevant this year. 

     

    In short, my argument would be that the conference and the programs would benefit more by getting everyone the ninth game in this weird year. 

     

    Not required but the big12 doesn't have the best record of getting in and the lack of a title game was a mentioned factor.  Again the $$$ for the top games are more important then the difference between the 15th and 18th best bowl.  It's all about getting into the final 4.  The title game is a big +.  Also i'm sure some teams would have hurt feelings if they had 4 home games and 5 away while the next team got 5 home games.

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  10. 34 minutes ago, Wistrom Disciple said:

     

    Maybe I'm missing something but why have a conference title game this season? If money is the reason, I'd assume they could get more by just having a weekend of rivalry games all played as the conclusion of a nine game schedule (six division & three crossovers)? 

     

     

    Because the big money comes from getting teams into the CFP and the top 6 bowls.  

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  11. 1 hour ago, Minnesota_husker said:

    If I was guessing on pure speculation:

    Vote yes to play: Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, Indiana, Illinois

    Vote no to play: MSU, Michigan, Maryland, Rutgers, Northwestern

     

    Deciding vote comes to MN and it seems like they have been leaning toward not playing. 

     

    When they announced the shut down Fleck and the Gophers played good boy and said they fully supported. Not sure if that was just to show conference unity or a directive from the upper brass at Minnesota. 

     

    I hear you about fleck however wasn't it the lady at Minny that said there wasn't a vote.  if so, she may have said that due to the pressure that she got when boosters started to scream - no could become yes.

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