kinch

It seems so much more real now! I (Ohio State alum) am so very excited! FWIW, I was just describing to my main college football friend here, a BC guy, how awesome and rational your fans are, and how you applaud other teams etc. as well. (BTW, living in NYC makes strange bedfellows for college football fans. . .) This is pretty rare for power programs. We are very psyched for the new Big Ten.

Anyway, I thought I was pretty knowledgeable about college football but did not realize the Friday after Thanksgiving thing for Nebraska was important historically. As someone said earlier, what these schedules really show right now is the weekend of the games, the day can change. Ohio State plays Marshall tonight (the season freaking begins!) and Ohio State always plays on Saturdays. I think 1997 was our last Thursday game. Anyway, this seems to show a willingness to mix things up, so I bet you get your Friday game given its importance.

Simply cannot wait til we win that game. And I hope it's their only loss in conference play so we can roll them twice before jetting off to the Big 10.. Just to prove it.

This would be perfect.

Obviously, as you know or could guess, the Big Ten fans are pulling for you hard this year. We want you to leave as a powerhouse. If any school wins the MNC other than Ohio State, I would hope it would be you.

But beating Texas, the architect and master of their league, would be fine winnings enough.

While it's true that once the action gets going the love fest will calm a bit, you can also see that we respect each other and each team in the league for their various unique qualities, even here-- it's not like suddenly things will turn to hate. Their also are no "little brothers" in the Big Ten. Every school has its qualities. A simple example: I get along most badly with Penn State, I'd say, right now. However: I recognize that there is no other school in the nation that can turn out a color game like they can, and that they are the hardest road game in the conference. I respect them, I respect their coach, and I respect their fans. I just hope to kick their asses on a Saturday.

Thanks and welcome to the board. I don't want to be a jerk, but I think just about everyone on here are huge college football fans and we watch every game that we can from the major conferences so I don't think it is anything new to us. I think the big10 fans will have to learn far more about us than we will be learning from entering the big10. Again, not trying to be jerky. I just don't think Nebraska is as visible to the big10 as the big10 is to Nebraska fans.

I think you're right. I consider myself to be knowledgeable in college football and I found that I barely knew any of your traditions or history. The Big Ten has always received a lot of coverage, so your Huskers probably know more about us than we do about you.

Tufftiger = best poster ever.

His post is full of win, if not proper English. I have no idea what he was saying yet I am somehow fascinated. . .

The Big 12 has the worst winning percentage of any conference but the ACC in BCS bowl games

 

Big 12 7-10 .438

Big Ten 10-11 .476

The Big Ten also gets "lesser" teams into BCS bowls because of the fan support, so typically you have a lower ranked Big Ten team facing a higher ranked "other" team. And we still do quite well.

NO, I SAY SCREW THE BIG 12. THEY TRIED TO PLAY US, BUT LED BY A GREAT MAN, WE GOT OUT. WE BELONG IN THE BIG 10, AND 10 YEARS FROM NOW WHEN EVERYTHING IS HUNKY DORY, WE'LL ALL SAY WE SHOULDA BEEN THERE FROM THE GET GO. THE BIG 12 IS SICK, A DYING PUPPY IF YOU WILL. SURE, THEY BOUGHT A COUPLE MORE GASPS TODAY, AND NOW THE "POINT THE FINGER AT NEBRASKA" GAME WILL BEGIN, AND BELIEVE ME, IT VERY WELL COULD AFFECT THE OUTCOME OF SOME GAMES THIS YEAR.

Please, there is no reason to shout.

Lastly club seat ticket holders, i.e. docters, lawyers, rich turds and the like are never there at the start and leave before the forth quarter so who want those losers in the stadium anyway, it might hurt their legs if they have to stand for more then five minutes a game.

As a lawyer I am offended by your comment. I can often stand for as much as ten minutes at a time.

I remember reading once that two sports teams from the USA are known around the world: the Yankees and Notre Dame.

One thing is certain: you guys fit right in.

I am sure at some point I will find a reason to have distaste with Nebraska about something. You'll assume a certain "identity" that others in the conference will dislike you for (you already have it, we just don't know). I'll ask the Iowans.

Hey. I am kinch. 34-36-34. Okay I made those measurements up.

I am an Ohio State fan and I am impressed by your board. I am very happy to have your team in our league. I also like, for the most part, brunettes. Is there something else I should say?

Don't trust that jWinslow guy. I know him. He's shady.

Trust me you'll get service soon. As Fox owns 49% of the Big Ten Network, and all of DirectTV, the ploy is to get so many people to switch to DirectTV for the games that eventually every other broadcaster adds the Big Ten Network. Shrewd and a bit callous, but that is how it has worked so far.

I'm old school when it comes to watching Husker football games. I just tune into AM 1400 KLIN on the radio and mute the TV.

I do something similar. I tune in to 1460 online, a Columbus station, for Ohio State games. There is a bit of a lag, so I pause the DVR on the game and play when it lines up. Many television announcers are bad, though some are getting much better. I may be biased, but I like Spielman, who announces "lighter" match ups. He speaks much more about the Xs and Os and reality of the game than about Erin Andrew's good looks or the latest sob story going around.

For what it's worth, in NYC on Time Warner we get the Big Ten Network in HD with I think four other channels, though they typically broadcast the exact same programming unless a number of events are going on at the same time.

In the Big Ten there's an even distribution so the Indianas and Northwesterns just love to see those extra dollars without even attempting to become better teams

Hey now: those teams are trying. Northwestern with Fitzgerald may be much better than people expect very soon, and Indiana wants very badly to join the "big boys" in football. They are on the way up now (not that there was any other direction to go). I was especially impressed with my visit to Northwestern. The fans are knowledgeable and the administration is trying very hard to field a continuously winning program.

Lunch down at the Manhattan Deli in the Haymarket is great for a Nebraska invention (the Reuben). After that, most salt-of-the-earth Nebraskans enjoy a steak without much seasoning, a side-salad and a baked potato like you'd find at the VFW in Lexington. We don't have a lot of quirky food.

 

As for coming for a game, better make it the Texas one so you can truly see what you will be getting a taste of in the future.

 

As for the ethnicity. Lincoln is predominantly white, true. Drive out to Lexington and other parts of the state and our Hispanic populations are far exceeding the Caucasians. I saw a school trip from Lexington Public down at the stadium and saw only one white kid out of about 80.

I guess I meant the year of your first season in the Big Ten, which I understand to be 2011. We may, I'm not sure, just catch a game in Lincoln this year instead of going to an Ohio State game (we go to one away game a year).

Ohio State also doesn't have that "one crazy weird awesome grub" place like many universities do. It may be more prominent in small college towns. And I am more than happy with a good steak, which I can only assume is better out there than here (NYC). Actually, if you want a laugh, when NYC restaurants that aren't steak only places have steak on the menu, it is usually skirt steak or hanger steak. WTF? At least NYC invented the porterhouse. I would have thought the Reuben was an NYC or Chicago thing. Good to know.

Penn State's "rivalry" games that must be included every year, in the current system, are Ohio State and Michigan State. Michigan's are Ohio State and Michigan State. Given also the geography of the East, I don't see Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, and Penn State in different divisions.

In all likelihood more teams will be added to make much of this discussion irrelevant, and weaker teams may be added from the East, with stronger teams from the West. We shall see.

Regardless, even if we stick with the twelve teams we have now, I am fine with Nebraska being in a separate division with Wisconsin and Iowa as the other "powers." Iowa has been stepping things up the past ten years, and if a good rivalry develops between Iowa and Nebraska than Iowa will only get stronger with the publicity and action from seeming to go head to head with Nebraska. The divisions, even with the current "big three" all in the East, may even out over time.

For what it's worth, I still like the idea of having no conference championship and instead having each team play one more game (if it is allowed by the NCAA). Every team plays half the conference one year, the other half the next, and then there is a reshuffle. It is fair and I don't like the conference championship games, even with a large league, and other than being a money grab (but six or seven or whatever extra games would net more), it hurts the league's chances at good bowls and serves little purpose. But hey, that's just me.

Great. There are Penn State fans here now.

I'm leaving.

Husker Nation,

 

Welcome to the B10 and you are MOST welcome here! UNL to the B10 is huge... a perfect fit. I can't wait for the 1st Buckeye game in Lincoln and will start banking points with the woman to make sure I'm there.

 

This last year you play with the B12 seems a bit awkward...like meeting the X out on the town. Well one way for Bo and UNL to reduce this awkwardness is to beat the living crap out of the B12 and give them one giant s%!t burger to eat as you part ways.

 

You can be sure that there are millions of B10 fans rooting for UNL this year!

 

Go Big Red!

 

 

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dont worry you're not the only one struggling with the meaning of that icon. I've been here awhile and i still don't know what it means.

That bunny is Oolong. A Japanese guy trained his bunny to balance stuff on its head. Eventually, pictures of this bunny, and the ridiculousness of its existence, became an internet meme for "I have no idea what you are talking about, so here is a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head" or something similar.

The bunny is now dead.

The more you know. . .

Whoever above named "winning" as one of your traditions is freaking brilliant.

I didn't know about most of the traditions named, even as a rabid college football fan who watches games from all conferences (one good thing about the BCS: it makes you follow the schools you want to lose).

Good stuff. This is awesome to have a school with such excellence and tradition join our conference: seriously.

Okay, and I am thinking wayyyy ahead now, but just for kicks I'll ask anyway: my away game traveling Ohio State buddy (who is a pilot for Delta, yay free tickets!) and I are going to see your stadium next year, even if you don't play Ohio State. We want to do the proper away game routine: one day for football, and one for local food. College areas always have the best, unique, weird but strangely awesome grub. What is the food joint for you guys?

Edit: so being obsessed with the ongoing football shakeup I was just reading about Lincoln. Interesting history (especially with the name). Two things I learned: 1: it is a lot bigger than I thought and 2: my god you guys are all white.

As a die hard Ohio State fan, I would totally rip the Michigan fan that started this thread. . . but she's sorta hot. So never mind.

It's nice to see a number of Big Ten fans coming here with their salutations and welcomings.

 

Now where are the Purdue & Indiana representatives? Don't make us come looking for ya.....

Oh you will have to look for them. I thought I saw one once, out of the corner of my eye, but it was just a banana walking down the street in a trench coat (I mean corn, sorry).

Let's just say they don't post much. Michigan, Mich. State, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, and Iowa are the posters. Illinois and Indiana mainly post about basketball. Purdue is primarily upset that they have few girls there and the ones they have have faces that could rot the skin off a cow.

 

Um, that's a banana. Just saying.

 

(And yes I made amends and came back-- deal with me. )

Not by the long and storied tradition of this, the best message board ever the emoticon's name is "corndance" (look at the post in edit mode)

 

Welcome back, be nice. Remember: attack the post and not the poster and things will work out great. I always welcome different view points, but tend to use the ignore function on people who let their emotions get the best of them.

And I tend to use the smackdown on trolls. Apparently I will not do so here. I respect that different boards have different cultures.

Some even call bananas corn. But what do I know.

And for the enjoyment of our new friends from OS

 

The vest

 

 

The anti-vest

 

 

And now, the dancing corn-cob

Um, that's a banana. Just saying.

(And yes I made amends and came back-- deal with me. )

Manhattan, though a bit more acerbic, made the point I will. I only meant that we will be very excited to see your stadium and fans, which are both legendary, and that in the first year or three (as teams get their first chance to visit) we will be very excited to visit. I know you have had no problems in the past, I just meant that some welcome arms would be much appreciated so that we could see everything at your school.

 

In short: it was a compliment you absolutely moronic idiot.

 

Crap. I was trying to be nice. (I'm in Manhattan too, ha!)

 

Your warning level has been increased. Please read the board rules. No name calling and or personal attacks.

Is this 1984? (*peers with fear at the television beside him*). Wow. This board is awesome. So I bash in the head of an obvious idiot a bit with, oh my god, reason (and horribly a few harsh words at the end!) and I am "warned?" Is this the kiddie room for Nebraska posters? Read all my posts. I have been nothing but respectful and honorable, and shown honor to you. This is a trip and ridiculous. Goodbye kiddie board. And welcome to the Big Ten: where intellectualism wins out over idiocy. You won't have to do this anymore.

BYE!

We will treat you guys like family don't you worry and if it makes Ohio State fans feel better we totally embarrassed the gators 62-24 in 1996 Fiesta. And you guys looked great against Thuggy Duck U

Yes! We are honored and excited to have you in the conference. I hope the first game against you for Ohio State is an away game, if not I may have to watch some other team at your stadium, because we are pretty dead set on visiting ASAP. You have the national focus of a Michigan with the fanbase of an Ohio State (in my appreciation, anyway), and I am excited to see fans who REALLY care about their school and team. I have also heard, unendingly, about the good nature of your fans.

Sorry, btw, for bashing in your trolls. I know it's your job.

I can't wait to see the schedule. If you are in for 2011 for real this is going to be epic. I hope any other additions, if there are any, start a year later.

And to your trolls: as you can see you are in the Big Ten now. A conference consisting of members that can not only form words but sling them into sentences, a conference befitting Nebraska's high academic and research esteem. You'll have a harder time now kids. Go away.