knapplc

You're making the mistake of thinking that the decision-makers in this situation have the same concerns as the average joe posting messages in an online forum. These are men and women in control of hundreds of millions of dollars in assets, responsible for the success of their institutions. This has nothing to do with "emotion" and not feeling "appreciated," and everything to do with what's best for the institution. Period. What evidence do you have that moving to the Big 10 will hurt NU athletically? Why should it?

Hell Temple's probably as far from me as Austin. You know where Temple is? temple, texas? yes. anyone associated with health care knows where temple texas is. i can see that you are more than just curious. you want to somehow diminish my opinion because you think i live somewhere other than salina. fine go ahead if you please but just come out and say it from now on. Sorry for the questions, but when your ISP is clearwire, which isn't available in Salina, and your IP shows that you post from Temple, TX, I get a bit curious.

that network thing is something that they already have - bevo tv or something of that order - it's a joke. I wouldn't get too worked up about it. heck if it's that big of a deal then we should have our own "network" too. (hey, we do already - the pinnacle sports network!!!). this bevo tv thing is way over blown. Is Bevo TV available in Salina?

Hell Temple's probably as far from me as Austin. You know where Temple is?

Curious that it says you post from Temple, TX though. And through Clearwire, not Hughes.

But your provider doesn't cover Salina, KS. That's what's most strange about it.

That's weird, because the IP you post from resolves from Texas.

Dan Beebe throws a Texas-sized hissy fit.

If you don't mind me asking, RedNeck, who's your internet provider?

So what happens if Nebraska and Missouri say, "Sure, boys, we're staying in the Big 12" and then six months from now when the Big 10 gets in gear and lets NU and MU know their applications would be accepted? What are they going to do, demand hostages as signs of good faith from these two schools? Legally they can't force them to stay, and whatever contractual bind they put on us would have to apply to all schools, meaning Texas and Co. can't go to the Pac-10 at their discretion, either. Further, this kind of thing makes no sense. The Big 10 would take Texas in a heartbeat. Texas would make more money in the Big 10. The travel distances aren't much different via air for the Big 10 vs. the Pac-10 for Texas. The academic money from the CIC dwarfs what Texas would get from the Pac-10. This appears to be a lot of saber rattling, and not much else. The scenarios that would have to take place for this to have teeth are less likely than those involving a move to the Big 10 by Nebraska and Missouri. If it were me, I'd call their bluff.

Sorry bud, but that ship sailed for knapplc a looong time ago! By all means, bob, if you have any information to refute the information that I've presented in this discussion, feel free to share them with the group. We're all ears.

You drive to most games? From where? Which state do you live in?

He's not a Senior yet. His birthday is in August, so when he's a Sr he'll be 21. Several of us posted earlier in this thread that we have August birthdays and were in the same situation as Paul in school.

There are no guarantees that anyone gets invited anywhere, including the rumored six teams invited to the Pac-10. Judging by the standards of the Pac-10 and the Big 10, it seems far more likely that Nebraska will get invited to the Big 10 than all six teams, including OU, Oklahoma State and Texas Tech, will get invited to the Pac-10. Tying schools into package deals due to political maneuvering doesn't make the host conference happy - just ask Stanford. Further, all ten Pac-10 schools have to agree to allow all six of those rumored teams to join or that whole scenario is dead in the water, and Stanford has very little interest in schools like Texas Tech, OU and Okie Light, none of which are AAU schools. Nebraska, however, is an AAU school, along with Missouri, Kansas, Texas and aTm. That makes schools like Nebraska and Missouri very attractive to a conference like the Big 10, as does Missouri's population base and Nebraska's national following, both of whom would draw large ratings for the BTN. Again, you seem very uninformed about what's going on. Sometimes it's best to listen more than speak.

How will switching conferences alter our recruiting in New Jersey, Oregon, California, Florida and Louisiana? We recruit there now, why would we stop, and what would make us stop? Because many of the teams in the Big 10 choose to recruit regionally, you believe that Nebraska will too? What evidence do you have to show that this will happen? We recruit all over the country, including the aforementioned states, as well as Texas, Oklahoma, the Big 10 region, etc. We already pull recruits out of Ohio and Michigan. Why would that change if we join the Big 10? What "fix" would we get into by joining a conference whose schools are superior academically as a conference to any other conference out there? What "fix" would we get into playing football against a bunch of teams that recruit primarily from the north, while we recruit nationwide? It's pretty clear the person who needs to wake up is you. Your conclusions are baseless or completely made up. You seem terribly misinformed about what Nebraska does in recruiting and how this move might benefit the University.

I'm glad the barista at the joint in my building isn't a lawyer - she wouldn't be making my coffee if she was, and she's kinda cute. I asked her about the 220 degree thing, and she kind of got pissed. I said a buddy online told me it's a chemistry thing and that water wouldn't boil in Nebraska up to that temp because of altitude or whatever, and she said, "That's what the machine is set at" and she wouldn't say anything else. It's an industrial cooker, not a standard drip machine, so maybe it pressurizes the water. Who knows? This AM we went to the same place I went to in example one in THIS POST and I got a drip coffee, and I asked the manager to stick a thermometer in it again, and this time it was only 170 degrees - but it was also at the end of its freshness, meaning it had been brewed about an hour ago. So in one hour it had cooled down about 30 degrees, but it was still served to me at just ten degrees below McDonald's "callous disregard for the safety of their customer" temp. That, combined with my knowledge of how trials work, and the various conversations I've had with attorneys I rub elbows with at my gig, is what prevents me from ever buying into the notion that McDonald's was wrong to the tune of millions of dollars for serving coffee at that temperature to that lady.

I'm one of the few people who doesn't like Rachel Ray, I guess. She's very popular, but I don't like the food she cooks, and her personality gets on my nerves.

Did you just throw a dart at a list of football positions and pick that out? What does that have to do with anything? Edit - for comparison's sake: Ndamukong Suh - **** Jared Crick - *** Thadd Randle - *** Terrence Moore - *** Baker Steinkuhler - ***** Ty Steinkuhler - *** Zach Potter - **** Barry Turner - *** Pierre Allen - *** Cameron Meredith - *** Jason Ankrah - **** I know I'm missing a bunch of guys in the last few years, but these guys are the ones I could remember off the top of my head in the past few years. In that group there is ONE five-star recruit, and that's while we're playing in a conference including Texas. Really, really junior - you have to calm down. It's going to be OK.

Google says there's a couple open in Omaha, one downtown and one by 680 & W Center (Rockbrook), All the ones in Lincoln went out of business, which is really too bad. They were a fun place to go.

Of course that's a cool idea. Post pics when you're done.

We're not getting it done, fellas. There are still five or six other entries with more stars. Our boys only have four stars, so we're clearly behind. Let's get cracking!

It's not retroactive, sadly.

That's not a reassuring letter for Cyclone Fan. I would really hate to get that letter about my school.

You're displaying a fundamental misunderstanding of the process of recruiting. No team is hidebound to recruit in their backyard, or their conference. Some teams do that because that's their philosophy, and that's fine - let them. This has never, ever been Nebraska's philosophy, and it never will be our philosophy. Due to our small population we have had to develop recruiting relationships all across the country, from New Jersey to Florida to Ohio to Texas to California to Oregon, and all points in between. We simply do not have the luxury of limiting ourselves to one geographic location. The kinds of relationships built during recruiting aren't one-sided. These are high school coaches who get to know our staff, get to know our philosophy and trust how we train and, in part, raise these kids. They are sending their kids to Nebraska - recently without even having the kid visit Lincoln - based on that trust. That trust is not going to stop because of conference realignment.

It was written over a week ago. 5/25/10