BuckeyeMike

skersfan: The past, history, tradition, National Titles mean absolutely nothing in today's youths minds. What have you done for me lately, what can you do for me now, and what guarantee do you have to go with it. You win, you get pretty good kids, see Boise State. You win convincingly and on a regular basis see, Bama, LSU, Oregon and a few others. BM: Yea gonna have to agree with this. Perception drives everything now and the SEC has ESPN hyping them 24/7. Combine that with the out of conference games and bowl games and its like you said. I remember in the 90’s when OSU was putting boatloads of players in the NFL and we still couldn’t win the big ones. I remember thinking this crap is going to cost us down the road as we keep losing in front of the whole college football world. My Buckeyes gave ESPN plenty of ammo to shoot us with…But the rest of the top of our Conference has a pretty good record against the SEC. Unfortunately this one is on my Buckeyes. Hopefully UM will help us get our respect back, and we can start doing our part to beat the SEC, and win our big non conference games. I noticed where Wisky has scheduled Bama and LSU? Good for them. My boys have decided to up our non con games also. We have coming up VaTech, Oklahoma, TCU, and Texas…

Accountability: I think so too. I mean, are we really that bad that a team that should've been playing for the National title had to play 4 quarters to beat us? Sure we have bad games, and we have great games too. But we're not exactly Iowa St or Kansas as some claim us to be. BM: I was very impressed with the way the Huskers played the Dawgs. You guys left it on the field and could easily have won that game if you don’t turn it over in the 4th. You were moving when that happened if I recall…Got to give it to the Dawgs that they took advantage of the turnover like a good team does, but still you guys played a really good team to the wire…

Prezbucky: so -- UW alumnus and Badger fan here. Hello people. We've had some pretty memorable moments together already and starting in 2014 we'll be butting heads every year. I'm glad the B1G did it in the East/West fashion because it preserves every main rivalry except Indiana/Purdue... and i'm pretty sure they'll play each other annually. I wish you guys would go back to your old bread and butter -- power football. Even if that meant you'd beat the Badgers. Because a strong Nebraska means a stronger Big Ten. The realignment means that we (UW) get to play all of our traditional rivals every year -- Minniehaha, Iowa, Northwestern, Illinois. I look forward to the annual Wisc/Neb/Iowa battle for the West crown. BM: Excellent points here. Yea I definitely see an intensity level building into some great games between Huskers/Wisky and hopefully IA joins the fray soon… I still see the Huskers as mostly a smash mouth team, which is the way I still think of them…I was reluctant to go spread at OSU but I have to admit coach UM at least does use a power spread where he uses that 230 lb tailback between the tackles…

hey again Huskers...man those were some serious chores..lots of good stuff in thread I would like to comment on Walksalone: I think they moved too quick with the addition of Rutgers and Maryland. If they'd have waited it out for another year or so, they could have lured a couple better schools into the conference. BM: No doubt. I mean no offense to those two programs, but they just don’t fit in a Midwest Conference. But in my opinion the Sooners, KState, Kansas, and the Cowboys would fit no problem. Horns I would like to thing so, but who knows… Walksalone: We are our own worst crictics, like I'm sure you are in regards to your own team. I think the conference will start regaining it's respect when Ohio St, Mich, Neb, and either Mich St/PSU/whoever steps up and becomes a team that people are legitimately afraid to play. Until we start scaring the crap out of teams in the SEC, Big XII, PAC XII, then there's work to do... BM: I whole heartedly agree with all of this…good points…

Hello Husker Nation…Buckeye Mike first post I came over to get you guys take on the Divisions because I respect Nebraska as a great program with a very knowledgeable fanbase. I think it’s pretty good if they would just put the fighting Dantonios in the West. That would still be a good geographical split, with almost perfect competitive balance. Wisconsin has been very good for what 10-15 years now. Iowa has been good in the past and should be again (not sure if maybe time for a change)? NW should be good this year and they have a good coach. Lots of potential in the other programs. 2) I think you guys are selling your program short however. I see Nebraska as an elite program no doubt. Like a lot of other Buckeyes I thought bringing the Huskers into the Big was a huge get for our conference. Unlike a lot of other Buckeyes I don’t see tOSU as a dominant team in our conference or even our division. I don’t thing the Big has a dominant team right now. We have four historical programs but none of them is at their very best right now. I personally would like to see all four PSU, TSUN, Huskers, and tOSU be as good as they can be. I think that is good for our conference. I also want all of our teams to be at their best for the same reason. If my Buckeyes are fortunate enough to win our Division this year, we still would face probably a legit top ten Husker team, and I will not predict a win there. Would be a great game probably. 3) While I’m rambling on here I will give my take on expansion. This may surprise you but this Buckeye would love to see the Oklahoma Sooners come into the Big. Man that would be a great get just like you guys. Not only would it add another great program, but it would bring back one of the great rivalries, and that is good for college football fans everywhere. I would be ok with the Cowboys as the other, or Kansas. A lot of people say the Sooners would never do this even if so inclined, because they don’t want to split the RRR with Texas. But who knows, if we could persuade Oklahoma, then maybe the Horns would join. What a conference! I know not going to happen, but I can dream right. I have to run and do some chores but will stop back and check you guys out on another day. Hope everyone has a good weekend…….