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I'm not actually a Nebraska fan, I like Arkansas. We're probably both going to be looking for new coaches at the end of the year, and I hear people saying Scott Frost to Nebraska is a foregone conclusion. While looking around at potential coaches for Arkansas, I noticed Craig Bohl, the guy who built North Dakota State and won three straight NCs there, is a graduate of Nebraska. If for some reason you didn't get Frost, would he be considered or welcomed? He's having so-so success at Wyoming, but it's Wyoming. Not the easiest place to thrive, and this is only his fourth year. And not to discount the awesome turnaround Frost has given UCF, but I want to say Bohl has proven at least as much.

Bielema could have more money at Arkansas if he wanted. Among the chief reasons for leaving Wisconsin was the inability to keep good assistants due to Barry Alvarez not giving him him more "allowance" for assistants. Bielema forwent a chunk of his own salary to go to that fund. Also, Mississippi State's rise to power has been this year and this year only. Before this season, their last 10-win year was in 1999. I do believe Mullen has the program stabilized, but MSU is the worst team in the SEC West. Texas A&M is a much bigger threat with their resources and recruiting pool. The buyout is kind of weird. I think if Nebraska took him today, they'd actually only have to pay three million, but I can't remember why that is exactly. Nebraska has enough money to make it all happen, but the question is why would Bret want to leave right at this moment? Maybe if he wins an SEC Championship he'll be apt to leave somewhere else, but this is just a REALLY awkward time to walk away from Arkansas. It'll look like he's failed massively when he really hasn't even gotten started yet.

Northwestern went 2-0 against the SEC. What is your point? Michigan went 0-2, and Nebraska went 0-1.

The SEC being from "top to bottom" the strongest conference in the nation is a bit of a missconception, but so is this. The SEC is loaded from top to middle, but the bottoming teams are just as weak or weaker than the weak teams in any other AQ conference (minus the Big East, obviously), and people tend to overlook that. The SEC doesn't field 1-3 great team every year, for the past few years, it's fielded 3-6 every year. Then usually a 1-3 pretty good teams, and then the bottom half which usually suck and don't even make it to a Bowl. Last year, Alabama, Florida, Texas A&M, South Carolina, Georgia, and LSU were all awesome teams capable of competing with most teams from any other conference. The year before that, it was Alabama, Arkansas, LSU, South Carolina, and Georgia. I think Nebraska would actually do pretty well in the SEC… they wouldn't be great, at least not at first, but it would probably improve over time. It's a program rich with tradition and winning, and a team like Nebraska would experience a slight recruiting bump in its recruiting area because it could use the SEC as a selling point, which no other team nearby could do. Players in Nebraska and the bordering states could play for a decent team in the SEC without having to travel very far. The SEC is the best conference. The people for and people against both tend to exaggerate how good or bad it is. It's stacked better than any other conference, but it's not solid from top-to-bottom, that's for sure.