this may help some understand about the possible move being very valuable to nebraska-Talk about living up to your user name. This move would be worth it for the CIC money alone and if you don't agree with that you don't understand what schools are about. Remember that UNL is and always will be an academic institution first.i think it's disingenuous to say that this Big 10 thing is about boosting academic reputation and that we make a move based on that.
This is about one thing: we don't feel appreciated.
because of that, we're being emotional, and we may well make a decision based on emotion. and you get yourself in trouble when you do that.
the big 10 might indeed be a great deal for NU for academics, but it is highly debatable whether it will be good for our athletics. it's a big question mark and only time will tell.
but let's stop with all of the academics b.s. If NU was about academics first, we would have long since petitioned to join the Ivy League.
NU is a football factory. We all know it and we love it. and it's going to suck big time if we aren't any more. and I see the Big 10 as a one way ticket to football irrelevance, and sooner than later. and that makes me sad. call me simple.
this is the link to the CIC
http://www.cic.net/Home.aspx
CIC- committee on institutional cooperation.....it is a consortium of the big 10 and the university of chicago, which was a founding member of the big 10.
it recieves 6 BILLION in funded research
12% of the federal research funds
18% of the national science foundation total
15.7% of the usda total
remember osborne will have his say in the matter but the people deciding this matter, if we get an invite, will be the chancellor and president
of the university.
i think what is holding texas back is the last word in cic.