Our history with the Big 8 schools went back even further than that - Nebraska, Kansas, and Missouri were founding members of the MVIAA in 1907 - with Iowa State, Kansas State, and Oklahoma joining shortly after and our history with KU, Missouri, and Iowa State went back to the 1890s. I've accepted the fact that we'll never go back to the Big 12, but I'll never consider myself a "Big 10 Man" - I really couldn't care less about any of the Big 10 schools - since 2011, I basically think of NU as an Independent that has a financial arrangement with the Big 10 to play a slate of Big 10 teams.