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Riley's lifetime dream is to make and win a Rose Bowl. Help get him there Husker Nation. I think within 4 or 5 years he can do it. Granted Oregon might be in the Playoff and it could be a year the Rose Bowl is not a national semifinal.

I lived in Oregon for all of Riley's years at Oregon State. You can win and do well with him if you help guide him. Advice: 1) Don't let him get too pass happy. Sacks and too many incompletions stall drives 2) Develop two good backs and run around 53% of the time. His best years 2008 and 2009 he ran around this amount. His offense can click with thus 53/47 run/ pass ratio. Start dipping below 50 and losing odds increase. Don't let him go there. 3) Don't run it out of endzone on kickoffs more than say 7-9% of the time. 25 yard line is fine. 4) Get an OC who will up his tempo some and who can call plays. Riley can call them decently but a good OC he can trust will help manage the game. 5) Don't let him get away from run game too early either. He tends to do that if even down just a TD. Stick with the winning balance of 53/47 run to pass until into the 4th quarter and then assess. Good luck Husker Nation. Will be rooting for you. Help guide Riley along in a positive manner. He functions better in that light. His offense can work with committed balance and with a good OC and a little more tempo it can succeed to give Nebraska a real shot to win B1G West if Wisconsin can be knocked off. Also recommend you get a tough DC.

I just hope the Pac-10, Big Ten and SEC all get to 16 teams within a few years. I don't want to draw this out for a decade. That would be torture. A Pac-16 and 16 team Big Ten and SEC would give an ideal balance of powers and give us 3 major powers that keep any one from getting too dominant. Honestly, the Pac-10, Big Ten and SEC commishioners should just meet like the Allies did after World War 2 and draw up the most fair way to balance it out for the long term and still make geographic sense. That might even be possible except for the fact that Texas is such a pain in the butt..hence why we left!

The PAC-12 should be the PAC-16 by 2016 at the latest..but I am hoping it will be in the next 2-3 years. The Big 12 isn't bothering to change its name because it won't be around, or if what is left joins the MWC, Texas won't care what they call it because they and OU will have bolted for the PAC-16 by then.

The Lame 12 will not exist in 5 more years. The whole nation knows that when it is all said and done the 3 best conferences will be the Big Ten(16), PAC-16 and SEC. The ACC will follow along with the Mountain West/Big 12 dinner scraps. The only one they are courting is the PAC-12. I expect UT, OU, OSU and TT to join a real conference and challenge us and the SEC, otherwsie the jokes will only get worse. Ames and Manhattan are prime MWC material and should be treated as such. In the Big Ten we have stepped up to play in a great conference and the Longhorns and Sooners will soon realize the nation thinks they have no real competition now that we moved on to greener pastures and a stable conference. I have some friends in Texas who wish the PAC-16 was already a done deal, because superconferences are gonna happen so we might as well just get it started. The Big Ten wants into the NY market and the SEC has a good idea who they want too. Get it all in place, get our 8 or 10 team playoff started and lets begin the most golden ages for college football with multiple very strong and competitive conferences. We want to challenge the SEC and having the Big Ten and the PAC-16 finish expanding will balance out the powers the best and be good for the whole of college football.

Nebraska won't struggle at alWe will consistently be in the top 4 of the expanded Big Ten. Ohio St and Penn St are the big dogs followed by us, Michigan, Iowa and Wisconsin in most people's eyes I would imagine. Will be nice to improve our acedemic standing also with all the research dollars spent in the Big Ten.

No way. They will be good and we will be better. Ohio St, Penn St and us will be juggernauts. Throw in Michigan some years. I think when this is all said and done by 2012 the Big Ten, Pac-16 or whatever and SEC will dominate for good and will all likely have 16 teams. The USC sanctions will hurt the Pac until then. I think we will improve the level of play in conference even more and the Big Ten is poised to play for many national championships. Gonna be awesome!

Very pumped! Congrats BIG RED! Going to be so sweet to take on all the Big Ten. I am thinking once the Pac-16 becomes official that the Big Ten will then add Rutgers and Missouri. ND wants to stay independent until forced to grab the last spot. We probably will start as a Big 14. I see a conference championship matchup with Ohio St in the Shoe looming!

NU is moving to a great conference. OU looks like they will have a solid conference too. The change won't be that much for them. The Pac-16 inland division would have just Southwest teams and the divisional play will be largely the same with 5 or 6 teams from the South. Championship games will just involve USC or Oregon some years and Oklahoma is a nice counterpart to Oregon as is Texas to USC and those games should be intense. Just makes it more important for OU to beat TU. We will have to see how our division plays out in The Big Ten but if we beat Mich., Penn St, and Ohio St I bet we see OU in the Rose Bowl before long. There also will still be room to schedule a couple games too so I expect we see that.

Big Ten is going to be awesome with us! We are going to come in and kick some behind. Iowa matchup is gonna be sweet. Even Wisconsin and Minnesota will be fun. But most of all I can't wait to beat Michigan, Penn St and then Ohio St in a conference championship.

No kidding. So do you think we will finish in the top 2 or 3 of Big Ten conference play our first year? I think we will be atleast top 3. Can't wait to give Ohio St. a run for their money.

There have been a couple of polls here on this site, which were mostly positive about the move. There are people with concerns, and that likely won't change, but they're in the minority, I believe. 2/3 or more of Huskers want to join the Big Ten. It is the best scenario and I am glad we appear very close now. There will be many great rivalries, ALOT of money, and we are a solid fit. Very happy to be joining a strong, coherent and stable conference.

I agree. The Big Ten is the clear choice for Nebraska and Missouri. Once NU and the Big Ten make it clear that this is the plan, then all the rest will quickly resolve itself. If you set up the path to the superconferences now then you will take care of what is necessary to lay the groundwork of the next half century. Relatively evenly matched superconferences is where we need to go or we will still have problems in a few years. Nebraska desrves its upgrade to the Big Ten conference. Lets win a Rose Bowl! GO BIG RED!!

ND will join the Big Ten/16, just in a year or so is my bet. With Ohio St, Penn St, Nebraska, Michigan, Iowa and eventually ND there will be enough strong schools to recruit well and our increased revenue with them and the NY market will make us the richest conference. The top 4 or 5 programs in the future Big Ten will be balanced better than anywhere in the nation with optimal hard fought competition to win their division and fight for the comference championship. We will be balanced better than in the SEC where just a few teams at most will probably regularly be at the top. The Big Ten allows the Nebraska brand of football where we know we can compete with and beat anybody to best function. I think there is slight worry about ND joining but there shouldn't be as soon enough they will have to. They will come in before the superconference era likely starts play in 2012. Once NU and MU get the invites all the drama can end.

Notre Dame wants to stay independent and should for now. The superconferences are coming but ND has a year or two to wait if they want. NU and MU should be invited this week if the Big Ten is smart. Let the landscape evolve in the best way and ND can then be team 14, 15, or 16 when they choose. They will NEVER risk being left out. They have a spot up to the last one no matter what. In a couple of years we will have a very evenly matched PAC-16, BIG-16, SEC and a bit weaker combined ACC/Big East with nice national geographic divides that will consistently produce the most compelling football and probably lead to a great playoff system and national championship. NU is ready for Ohio St, Iowa, Penn St and BIG TEN football. Hell, I even am looking forward to helping push Missouri down the Big Ten standings!