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Have a great Game Day everyone!!!! GO BIG RED!!!!!!

I say that I like splitting up Ohio State and Michigan. They'll still get to play every year and the divisions look pretty even overall. Maybe the bottoms of the division are a little unequal but you are not going to get a perfect setup.

Very nice move by the football team. I respect that alot. Hope the water goes down soon and things get back to normal. Stick in there Ames.

saunders45 any idea where one is able to get this shirt?

.....and he's smiling. so the rumors are true, he does have dress atire...

I didn't know at all! Great post! Awesome find and share! Really looks natural at quarterback, seemed pretty good.

How about one of these: Right Click to Save Right Click to Save Thank you so much. That works.

would anyone mind pasting the picture in a post? my computer is blocking the link. thanks.

very nice job, awesome looking, professional looking too.

See, this is why I think some of this is interesting. If the Big 10 truly did put some sort of offer on the table towards in Nebraska, Mizzou, Rutgers, and Notre Dame, it still sets up the B10 up for realignment. If Notre Dame says no, then you have added three teams for a fourteen team conference. If ND says yes, then you have fifteen teams and finding a sixteenth shouldn't be that difficult. Either way, the only way I see Notre Dame joining a conference (as far as football is concerned) is if the Big East gets raided and they have to look out for their other sports. ND doesn't want to get left behind any more than any other team does. yep, this is pretty much how I see everything going down as well. whether there will be 14 or 16 teams depends on Notre Dame. I feel for those schools that could get left out when this start going.

Sure they may want to play in their home state, but they will be on TV for every game. If those players want to play on the next level, TV exposure is a definite plus. very good point Sarge, I will say though that family is important to alot of people, players get homesick, like to play close to home

One thing I can think of is like the OP said current players leaving. If say a player is from Texas are they gonna want to play in a conference where they will no longer have the chance of playing in their home state in front of family? I wish this wouldn't be an issue but it could.

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one thing I fail to understand in all of this is how other schools are willing to continue on along with the Texas control. I guess it makes sense for those schools that don't have anywhere else to go really but.

I just don't see this layout at all, because if you played every team in your own division every year, that would only leave 4 games for games outside your own division, so you would either have to do away from outside of conference games (which they will not do - they need those games at the start of the season to make adjustments before conference play), or you would never play teams from the other division. If they go to a 16 team conference, you would just about have to have 4 divisions, where you would play every team in your own division (gotta have rivalries, right?), and then would rotate through the other divisions, that way you could still have 3 out of conference games at the beginning of the year. And if they went to a four division layout, and IF they could get the NCAA on board with the idea, they could have the divisional winners play a two game playoff for the Conference Championship - but I don't see the NCAA getting on board with any kind of playoff system, plus someone would object because of the number of games that good teams would have to play - but just think of the revenue they could bring in for their schools. If Notre Dame don't jump on board, they could always go to three divisions of five teams, and basically do the same thing, and in the "playoff" add a wild card team - because it seems like there is always one division that has a 2nd place team that is better than the other two first place teams... And this would leave one slot open for Notre Dame (this is the team that the Big Ten wants the worst - this is no secret) when they got their head out of their arse and saw that they were about to be left behind if they didn't eventually get on board. Then they could always pull a rabbit out of their hat, and go to 20 teams...and have 4 divisions of 5 teams, and really put pressure on the on the other conferences to do something to compete in the form of combining conferences. As far as a long shot - this is more like shooting the moon...probably never happen. I realize that the conference powers might be a little uneven in this setting. I was looking from a regional perspective.

ya I don't see this happening really soon. maybe after the arena is built. too much at one time I think this would be.

This would be my picture of the new Big "10" West Nebraska Iowa Minnestoa Wisconsin Missouri Illinois Northwestern Indiana East Michigan Michigan State Ohio State Purdue Penn State Pittsburgh Rutgers Notre Dame

There is no way Texas will go Independent. Why leave when you have the power and money?

if I was to have any Big 12 school come with us it would be Kansas for the history. Playing for 100 years or w/e is now. I don't really want to see that end. I would be fine staying in the Big 12 if we could get a commissioner willing to even things all out between all 12 schools. Enough of this southcentric thinking. Move the championship game around. Even things out.

I don't know if I like this expansion talk. I like who we play now. I want to beat who we play now. Whatever is in the best interest of Nebraska though...go for it! GO BIG RED!!!

I have a feeling that the Championship is going to be in Texas for the forseeable future. It's all about money these days and people are willing to play into the South's hand because of it. Osborne is standing firm though, sticking up for Nebraska. This conference move talk makes more and more sense to me.

thanks for the share. nice video. draft about here.

oh, it is so over. as soon as the ball is kicked off for this upcoming season, the big XII championship will be a distant memory (we will be too excited looking forward to the 2010 big XII championship). not to mention, that loss will go down in history as a critical moment for the new era of husker domination. Texas will be in for a rude awakening come the middle of october!! Memorial Stadium will be the loudest it has ever been when Texas comes to town. Oh Man I Cant wait till October 16th!!!! GO BIG RED!!! I so want to go to this game!

not surprising to see...