RedNeckHusker

I tend to agree with Junior although I'm the eternal optimist. I see it all as a big gamble. Sure there is a pot of money to chase after, but I don't go to Huskers games to watch money. And I don't think that Texas kids - or recruits from any of the other southern states for that matter, are going to get too excited about playing all of these teams a thousand miles away from family and in the cold. If that wasn't an issue then all of the other Big 10 teams would be getting quality recruits from the south and they do not. None of them. What would make us any different? And I don't think we have to abandon the Big 12 because of Texas. Just let Texas be Texas. Let Nebraska be Nebraska. I don't want Texas - and what they are and are not going to do - to dictate all of these other quality rivalries that we have enjoyed for darn near a century. Do I have a beef with Texas? Yes, but to let them dictate what conference we might go join, leave, etc., is the ultimate irony. The Big 12 would survive as a BCS conference without Texas, and without Nebraska for that matter. Maybe not both leaving, but I think the Big East is proof that you can plug in some really marginal programs (Louisville, etc.) and still have a BCS conference. Let's just stay with the date that we've got. At least we know how she dances. The Big 10 thing might work out fine, or it might work out really ugly, and the trouble is, you can't really shift out of a deal like that if things go south and you wake up and find you can't be competitive. One more thought: The "anchoring" of a championship game is the norm. Don't think for a second that when the Big 10 puts on their championship, that it would ever be within 500 miles of the state of Nebraska - it will not. Nothing's changing in that regard - only the location of the game.