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“I don't see any indication that Nebraska is looking to go to another conference at this point,” Nebraska Athletic Director Tom Osborne said Monday on a radio show. “There's a lot of history in the old Big Eight and then the Big 12. But if they decide to add a team, it will be interesting to see who they choose." OK, maybe I'm reading too much into this, but sounds like a very carefully orchestrated statement. Lots of wiggle room words and phrases such as... "I don't see any indication" "...that Nebraska is looking to go to another conference" "...at this point." I interpret this statement as "We haven't yet been invited. If we are, we will consider our options." Am I out of line on this? Please tell me I am.

Not indicative of anything. You can't swing a stick in Lincoln without hitting two grads who don't give a tinker's damn about the school, the football team or anything N. There's a LOT of anti-UNL sentiment from grads and non-grads alike. Having earned an MBA here doesn't automatically qualify you as "on Nebraska's side." Mahatma Gandhi said, "Stupid is as stupid does, sir!" Well then, allow me to be more direct: I like Nebraska. Does that do it for ya?

You may not be intending to start flame wars, but let's face it, you are getting to be pretty good at it, and you certainly don't do anything to put the flame out once you have "unintentionally" started it. Makes me wonder if you really love Nebraska as much as you say. T_O_B I shelled out about $72 jack for an MBA from UNL over the course of 2 years, so I'd say it's where my heart is.

How much CCG hangover will we have? U of A seems to be pumped about getting into the Holiday Bowl. It's a big deal it seems. Are we going to be one of these bowl games when one opponent isn't ready to go and gets their asses kicked? (namely ours) Thoughts?

shouldn't it be "Mo than Bo?"

Kids from the South play in the Big 10 all the time. It depends on the kid, and if that kid wants to play in front of friends/family, they're not coming to Nebraska whether we're in the Big 12 or the Big 10. Kids want to play for winners. They want to have a chance to win, and they want to be a contributor. If we've got a need and we're a contender, no matter which conference we're in we'll get those recruits. We had zero teams from Texas in the Big 8, yet we had Texas kids on our roster all the time. Same goes for those New Jersey kids we had, Florida kids, etc. It's a tough argument to say that we're going to succeed/fail at recruiting because we're in This Conference or That Conference. This is a good conversation for fun, but it's very unrealistic. Bottom line, for me, is that this is OUR conference. We need to get our butts in gear and play better ball and take this conference to the woodshed, North AND South. I disagree with some of this. 1. Most recruits WANT to play in front of mom and dad. Schools that are more than a day's drive are often not considered. I know this first hand from two friends of mine whose kids went on to play in a couple of Big 12 schools that also were recruited by the WAC and the PAC. 2. The only schools in the Big 10 with a lot of kids from the south are OSU and Michigan - the two "power" schools. The rest, it's just a smattering. 3. While the Big 8 was not a Texas conference, it was still very much a south and lower midwest conference. OU and OSU had rosters full of Texas boys then, just like they do now. If conferences and school locations don't matter, is it merely coincidence that we have more Texas boys on our roster than we ever did in the Big 8?

Short answer: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$+ another 12 million. Last year alone. When your budget is 74.8 million, that is a huge donation. That includes TV, although that is ran through the B12 as far as I understand it. If that's the short answer, then we ought to join the Big 10. They generate a lot more revenue for their schools than the Big 12 does, according to this blog post. http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/20...e-sharing-funds yeah that is from 11 teams spread equally. If you take those numbers and divide it by 12 teams (assuming revenue stays roughly the same) we would then get 12.8 million. according to the annual report, that would be a 900,000 per year raise. Not a small chuck of change. In our athletic budget, that's lunch money. That $900K number isn't right. It assumes Nebraska doesn't bring any new revenue to the Big 10, which it would with a conf champ game and probably another bowl, plus any other revenue it brings; and it compares $12M for Nebraska in the Big 12 now (source unknown) against the Big 10 money from the report I quote which claims $9.1M for Nebraska now in the Big 12. There's no way the Big 10 adds a team if it doesn't increase the size of the pie they split. I think you could assume we'd add as much as we take, so we'd get $14M using the report I posted, vs $9.1M. That's ~$5M, it's not lunch money, it's dinner and drinks at least. You're making a huge assumption: That Nebraska remains competitive. The recruiting landscape would be forever changed, and NU would be sailing into completely uncharted waters. We would lose a hefty chunk of our southern states recruits, and we'd have to pick them up somewhere else. The question is, where?

Short answer: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$+ another 12 million. Last year alone. When your budget is 74.8 million, that is a huge donation. That includes TV, although that is ran through the B12 as far as I understand it. If that's the short answer, then we ought to join the Big 10. They generate a lot more revenue for their schools than the Big 12 does, according to this blog post. http://espn.go.com/blog/big12/post/_/id/20...e-sharing-funds yeah that is from 11 teams spread equally. If you take those numbers and divide it by 12 teams (assuming revenue stays roughly the same) we would then get 12.8 million. according to the annual report, that would be a 900,000 per year raise. Not a small chuck of change. In our athletic budget, that's lunch money.

We get to compete in quite possibly the best conference in America. The only legit rival in all sports would be the SEC. That's enough for me. Goodbye Big 12. Hello irrelevance. Just call us the Wisconsin Badgers of the lower midwest from now on. But you can bet we'll be competitive with Indiana and Purdue with all of our 1-star recruits. A snarky remark about 1 star recruits and another dig at Wisconsin. Wow, I never saw that coming! hey I love 'Sconsin!!! It's the other BIG RED.

this is getting so stoopid.

No...Harrison Beck was a Callahan recruit and played all of one game for us.

a move to any other conference would be the folly of all follies, and one we would look back on for the next century and ask "Why again did we do that?" Tom Osborne once said "When you're successful, it's very easy to lose perspective." Anyone that thinks the Big 12 doesn't deliver us the goods, and the thought that another conference would suit us better, has clearly lost perspective.

We get to compete in quite possibly the best conference in America. The only legit rival in all sports would be the SEC. That's enough for me. Goodbye Big 12. Hello irrelevance. Just call us the Wisconsin Badgers of the lower midwest from now on. But you can bet we'll be competitive with Indiana and Purdue with all of our 1-star recruits.

Does it have an impact, yes. Does it have a huge impact? I doubt it. Besides we're talking about the difference between having the game in their backyard once every two years, or every single year. I just don't see this as an advantage for NU, or being a big factor in a recruits decision. And if it is, maybe they need to rethink their priorities a bit. have fun telling that to an 18-year-old.

It's not ridiculous, and it's not a minimal impact. Having that game played right in their back yard brings immediacy to these kids. Playing in the biggest, coolest venue in the conference's neighborhood impresses these kids. Knowing that if they play for Nebraska they'll have a legitimate shot at the CCG every year where their family/friends can come watch them more easily also has an impact. knapplc, you're starting to grow on me. I LOVE YOU MAN!