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I think it makes much more sense to split a 16-team conference into 4-team subdivisions. Then you play a rotating 3-year selection of the other subdivisions, your subdivision and 1 protected game for a conference like the Big Ten. What is nice, is that essentially splits the conference down the middle with 2 4-team subdivisions paired on a rotating schedule to make up each years division sending one school to the championship game. The mathematics behind it are a bit cumbersome but easily doable. The thing is you need to schedule so that teams get to protect their guaranteed games with the +1 game and the division alignment. They are limited to 8 conference games plus the conference championship game. No increases necessary over the 12-team format. Group 1: Minnesota Wisconsin Iowa Group 2: Notre Dame if Applicable Ohio State Michigan Group 3: Michigan State Penn State Group 4: Indiana Purdue Illinois Northwestern Protected: Illinois - Indiana Michigan - Michigan State Notre Dame - Purdue Ohio State - Penn State Group 1 is a no-brainer. Protects all the current rivalries and makes scheduling much simpler. Group 4 is not ideal, but protects the rivalries while opening other groups to create the right alignment for traditional rivalries. Notre Dame would lose their protected rivalry with Michigan State sadly. There is not a very logical layout that would cause a year-in year-out game. This also produces one group which is sub-par to the others. The beauty of this is that the conference game eliminates the necessity for equally productive divisions when the weak subdivisions pair with any other given subdivision. It may devalue the conference championship at times, but protects the integrity of the tradition. Furthermore, when Notre Dame's group is paired with the Purdue group, it allows them to play MSU. Another cycle pairing them with MSU's group leads to 2 out of every 3 years playing their current active rivalry. If Pittsburgh is added and joins the Notre Dame group, it would be a strong group, but also protects this active Notre Dame rivalry. In order to make this a strong layout, and protect the championship game, 2 quality teams need to be added to Group 3. Even though it is not geographically friendly, I think Nebraska joining Group 3 would create the ideal layout in terms of team strength, group strength and division strength (which protects the championship game's draw). Ideally you would also add a strong team to the Minnesota-Wisconsin-Iowa group. Possibly Missouri? Dealing with uneven geographical pairings can be eliminated by stipulating that travel expenses come out of the Television revenue pot before the revenue is split evenly among the teams. Cap cost to eliminate abuse. I believe this type of format is much more appealing to the Big Ten than to create 8-team divisions that are not dynamic. Note: All present protected games are included in this layout, so no protected games are lost from current Big 1T1en format It also opens up new and interesting rivalries by allowing things like an Iowa-Nebraska protected game, and other possibilities from the open slots for current teams and added teams.

If I were Rolle, I wouldn't care too much. Can always go back to working a traditional career and make bank.

If we slid into the top tier in the U.S. News rankings, I am unaware. We had been 2nd Tier when I moved to Lincoln 10 or so years ago. Regardless, we are a fine institution but do not hold the same status as many top public universities (Michigan, Wisconsin, U.C. Berkley. We are also probably higher in the rankings due to the affordable nature of UNL. We are currently 93rd among Universities. If you look at Universities above us in the Rankings with quality football programs, it is obvious that Stanford, Cal, Michigan, Wisconsin, UCLA, UNC, USC, Duke, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, Virginia, Georgia Tech, Illinois, Ohio State, Texas, Florida, Pitt, Washington, Penn State, Maryland, Georgia, Clemson, Purdue, Texas A&M, UCONN, Rutgers, Michigan State, Indiana, Iowa, Virginia Tech, Colorado, Auburn, and Iowa State is a big list to be above us. And I don't believe that is exhaustive. We do, however, have a great Agriculture program that is a considerable draw to certain individuals and some other programs are individually solid. All told, this means we're behind 1/3 of Division 1 schools. The good news: We're tied with the current National Champion and Kansas We're ahead of Florida State, Arizona, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, South Carolina, Washington State, Oregon, Arizona State, Utah, LSU, Arkansas and Kentuckey.

Pros: Tradition Coaching Fan Support Academics (Agriculture) Smaller City (to small-town recruits) Defensive Players in the NFL Offensive Linemen in the NFL Negatives: Distance Weather Smaller town (to big-city recruits) Misconceptions about the State Academics (2nd tier school) Smaller Alumni Base Less high-profile QBs, RBs and WRs in the NFL The issue is, what weight does each individual recruit put on each factor. The big issue is that Distance will eliminate at least 1 in every 5 prospects. Weather will eliminate a good number due to the proliferation of high-caliber talent in the southern areas (where they can play year-round). Academics eliminate the occasional good student recruit. Also, the number of QBs RBs and WRs we send to the pros impacts our recruitment in these areas. We've sent one high-profile (Ahman Green) RB to the present NFL rosters and some big-bodied backs, linemen and defensive personnel. We do fine recruiting those areas, but look at our RB, QB and WR recruitment over the past 10 years. It's been pretty laughable, the high-star recruits we get are still not considered as elite as what some major programs are getting. We really need to get a first-round pick out of our impact positions on offense to increase awareness and allow us to be more picky.

Not looking good, off of ESPN it states that he has grown friendly with Wilder II and may end up becoming a package deal with him. They are looking at a lot of the same schools and may be interested in becoming bookend DEs at the same school. He also didn't list us as being on his summer visit list of about 8 schools. We are not on Wilder's Top 5 as well... Furthermore, he's visiting some far-off locales, so we're not talking about it being a distance issue with his summer visits. He's going to places like Ohio State and USC as well as the strong schools near his region.

Listed in his recent Top 5 on ESPN's Recruiting Section. Notre Dame, Kansas and two schools with almost matching uniforms fill it out (Alabama/Oklahoma)

Is he joining ROTC?

You have to remember, this only pertains to Suh's initial Contract. Once he is a force and has experience he can free agent elsewhere.

Waterboy!

He was just doing his taxes and found out he needed a write-off after that huge Nike deal he got. Am I right?

Just search it on YouTube, the feeds off of these links are ridiculously slow today.

My bro uses that previously-prescription now available in any store stuff and it works wonders I guess

Suh needs some Anti-perspirant

Naturally

Turner, Moore, Reeves, Green and Coe

Under, we're seasoned football watchers and always wear our sunscreen ======================================================================= Over/Under: Crick makes 6 tackles

Quite amusingly, the first result when I googled "Husker Student Shirt" was this Huskerboard thread.

I'd normally guess that they would watch the Big Ten matchup. However, the ending to the Big XII Championship game will surely change things. I hope to god they don't schedule those two games on top of each other. They are both must-sees for me as a Wisconsin fan and a Nebraska alum.

Next year's First Round Quarterback crop is heads and tails above this years. You've got Andrew Luck, Jake Locker and Blaine Gabbert all with NFL arms and bodies who all have uncanny instincts and generally high football IQs. And that's just the start. You can pick a franchisesque QB with a late-first round next year meaning you can trade up your 2nd round pick and some later picks and take 2 First-rounders next year and get a great DT and OT with the other 2 this year and next.

ESPN Big Ten Blogger wrote the following:

If he grows out of football he'll just play for Bo Ryan and win games at UW in Basketball. Not a bad choice for him in my opinion. They play with low rated recruits every year and still make the dance every year.

Try to get ESPN360 so you can watch the regional games on 360 when you get Big Ten teams on your ABC/ESPN(2) channels.

Probably belongs more than the Idaho game. Rose-colored glasses.

If the rest of our recruiting is as solid as our start, we'll have around 15 in the top 300. Impressive.

About time this controversy was put to rest