Bill says 2 former teams wish they could come back..

[Dr. Strangelove]

Nebraska will start making between 40 and 50 million dollars starting in 2017.

 

The Big 12 is a southern league, where our former biggest rival would rather play Texas than us. So unless you really miss playing Iowa State, Kansas State and Kansas that much, which I do not, the B1G is a better fit no matter how we measure it.

[everybody knows my name]

The Big Ten loves you, Nebraska. Don't go - don't even think about it! You are an awesome cultural fit with the B1G West schools, and everything will be hunky-dory in Lincoln the first time you win a conference title.

[I am I]

I think Snyder has a lot of f'ing nerve speaking our name out loud after throwing out innuendo previously. He sounds like a spurned ex mother law who knows her whore daughter blew it when she left the man who treated her right and took care of her.

 

Just shut up Bill.

[Kiyoat Husker]

All of the current targets for Big XII expansion are farther away than ALL of our current division. If we went back we would be in the "Not Texas" division with the worst 3 of the old North Division plus BYU, WV, Cincy, UConn, UCF, USF, or Memphis.

 

Awesome.

 

[RedDenver]

I love having NU in the B1G. I've said it before, but i feel like the cure for any Nebraska fans wistful of the Big 12 is just winning. If NU wins a conference title or two and can talk some sh#t to the OSU, MSU and UM's of the world, the "fit" is going to feel perfectly snug.

 

It already feels like the bball program has grown significantly since the move.

Yeah, being in the biggest downturn in Husker football of most fans' lifetimes doesn't help.

[Husker Psycho]

SB Nation

"Nebraska's move to the Big Ten has not helped its recruiting at all. If anything, it has hurt quite a bit. The two-year drop of 28 percent compared to the '11-12 classes is one of the biggest in the country, and coach Bo Pelini's perpetual hot-seat status doesn't help either. Nebraska is a weak state for high school talent, and Nebraska has not been nationally relevant in any way since current recruits began elementary school."

 

This is from an article written in 2014. Our recruiting hasn't improved since then.

 

 

We are an outlier in the conference... the team furthest away from the center. The worst part is that the B1G conference put us in a division (west) with other teams that are mostly bottom dwellers. The conference did us no favors in doing this. Our division is routinely called the worst division in the power 5.

 

Teams in the other division (east)... Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State etc... geographically have access to the recruiting hotbeds within the conference and players recruited will know that their families can watch them play.

 

All of these things should be something to consider... and would be things that "Bill", great coach that he is, surly sees.

 

With that said I don't think we will return to the big 12. Too many ego's involved.

[Redux]

^ This is why I want Oklahoma and Kansas to join us so badly.

 

That said, I don't think the recruiting has dropped due to the move like that stat suggests. Other factors ultimately decided any drop offs.

[Stumpy1]

We recruited Texas hard from '07-09 gaining 20 commits in that time period. Other then that, we have routinely averaged 3-4 commits a year from Texas. I think the whole recruiting excuse was just that, an excuse made up by other B12 teams to try and discourage us from leaving.

 

http://dataomaha.com/huskers/state/TX...Here is a list of all the kids from Texas that committed to us.

[Husker Psycho]

We recruited Texas hard from '07-09 gaining 20 commits in that time period. Other then that, we have routinely averaged 3-4 commits a year from Texas. I think the whole recruiting excuse was just that, an excuse made up by other B12 teams to try and discourage us from leaving.

 

http://dataomaha.com/huskers/state/TX...Here is a list of all the kids from Texas that committed to us.

 

The SB Nation article I referred to above was not specific to Texas recruiting and they did not cherry pick a certain state. The article referred to our overall recruiting, wherever the players came from.

 

It also does not refer to the time before we left. It refers to the time after we left... after we had already joined the B1G.

[knapplc]

SB Nation

"Nebraska's move to the Big Ten has not helped its recruiting at all. If anything, it has hurt quite a bit. The two-year drop of 28 percent compared to the '11-12 classes is one of the biggest in the country, and coach Bo Pelini's perpetual hot-seat status doesn't help either. Nebraska is a weak state for high school talent, and Nebraska has not been nationally relevant in any way since current recruits began elementary school."

 

This is from an article written in 2014. Our recruiting hasn't improved since then.

 

 

We are an outlier in the conference... the team furthest away from the center. The worst part is that the B1G conference put us in a division (west) with other teams that are mostly bottom dwellers. The conference did us no favors in doing this. Our division is routinely called the worst division in the power 5.

 

Teams in the other division (east)... Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State etc... geographically have access to the recruiting hotbeds within the conference and players recruited will know that their families can watch them play.

 

All of these things should be something to consider... and would be things that "Bill", great coach that he is, surly sees.

 

With that said I don't think we will return to the big 12. Too many ego's involved.

 

The biggest factor in Nebraska's poor recruiting is that Bo hated the process. Having a coach that truly understands the importance of the process is already changing recruiting for the better.

[Mavric]

[Husker Psycho]

 

SB Nation

"Nebraska's move to the Big Ten has not helped its recruiting at all. If anything, it has hurt quite a bit. The two-year drop of 28 percent compared to the '11-12 classes is one of the biggest in the country, and coach Bo Pelini's perpetual hot-seat status doesn't help either. Nebraska is a weak state for high school talent, and Nebraska has not been nationally relevant in any way since current recruits began elementary school."

 

This is from an article written in 2014. Our recruiting hasn't improved since then.

 

 

We are an outlier in the conference... the team furthest away from the center. The worst part is that the B1G conference put us in a division (west) with other teams that are mostly bottom dwellers. The conference did us no favors in doing this. Our division is routinely called the worst division in the power 5.

 

Teams in the other division (east)... Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State etc... geographically have access to the recruiting hotbeds within the conference and players recruited will know that their families can watch them play.

 

All of these things should be something to consider... and would be things that "Bill", great coach that he is, surly sees.

 

With that said I don't think we will return to the big 12. Too many ego's involved.

 

The biggest factor in Nebraska's poor recruiting is that Bo hated the process. Having a coach that truly understands the importance of the process is already changing recruiting for the better.

 

 

It hasn't improved the results so far.

 

We don't know what this years recruiting class will look like account it hasn't happened yet. Hopefully it will improve.

 

But we simply cannot continue to recruit only 4 or 5 elite athletes every year and expect to play at a high level... especially when other teams are routinely recruiting 15-20 elite athletes every year. When that happens year after year after year, it quickly adds up to a huge disparity in team talent (athletic ability).

[huKSer]

I went over to 4 different KSucks message boards. Only one of them mentioned Snyder's comments, and there were only about 5 posts total. NU and CU or NU and MU were mentioned and they were rational that it was unlikely and that maybe some coach or some one in the AD dept off the cuff mentioned it.

 

It was interesting to see other topics being covered. Some thought that the Arizona schools might want to join the big12, many mentioned Cinn as a playmate for WVU, along with Houston and CSU/BYU talk and adding a football only school or two

 

One site replaced the hatred against NU with hatred against CSU. Weird.

 

Another questioned Bill's mental ability - I guess he really stumbled through a presser. Then a poster went absolutely BALLISTIC that ANYONE would dare challenge Bill the Great.

[AFhusker]

 

 

SB Nation

"Nebraska's move to the Big Ten has not helped its recruiting at all. If anything, it has hurt quite a bit. The two-year drop of 28 percent compared to the '11-12 classes is one of the biggest in the country, and coach Bo Pelini's perpetual hot-seat status doesn't help either. Nebraska is a weak state for high school talent, and Nebraska has not been nationally relevant in any way since current recruits began elementary school."

 

This is from an article written in 2014. Our recruiting hasn't improved since then.

 

 

We are an outlier in the conference... the team furthest away from the center. The worst part is that the B1G conference put us in a division (west) with other teams that are mostly bottom dwellers. The conference did us no favors in doing this. Our division is routinely called the worst division in the power 5.

 

Teams in the other division (east)... Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State etc... geographically have access to the recruiting hotbeds within the conference and players recruited will know that their families can watch them play.

 

All of these things should be something to consider... and would be things that "Bill", great coach that he is, surly sees.

 

With that said I don't think we will return to the big 12. Too many ego's involved.

 

The biggest factor in Nebraska's poor recruiting is that Bo hated the process. Having a coach that truly understands the importance of the process is already changing recruiting for the better.

 

 

It hasn't improved the results so far.

 

We don't know what this years recruiting class will look like account it hasn't happened yet. Hopefully it will improve.

 

But we simply cannot continue to recruit only 4 or 5 elite athletes every year and expect to play at a high level... especially when other teams are routinely recruiting 15-20 elite athletes every year. When that happens year after year after year, it quickly adds up to a huge disparity in team talent (athletic ability).

 

 

We have had tons of time for improvement to take place.

[AFhusker]

SB Nation

"Nebraska's move to the Big Ten has not helped its recruiting at all. If anything, it has hurt quite a bit. The two-year drop of 28 percent compared to the '11-12 classes is one of the biggest in the country, and coach Bo Pelini's perpetual hot-seat status doesn't help either. Nebraska is a weak state for high school talent, and Nebraska has not been nationally relevant in any way since current recruits began elementary school."

 

This is from an article written in 2014. Our recruiting hasn't improved since then.

 

 

We are an outlier in the conference... the team furthest away from the center. The worst part is that the B1G conference put us in a division (west) with other teams that are mostly bottom dwellers. The conference did us no favors in doing this. Our division is routinely called the worst division in the power 5.

 

Teams in the other division (east)... Ohio State, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State etc... geographically have access to the recruiting hotbeds within the conference and players recruited will know that their families can watch them play.

 

All of these things should be something to consider... and would be things that "Bill", great coach that he is, surly sees.

 

With that said I don't think we will return to the big 12. Too many ego's involved

Have you not looked at the America's Crappiest Conference Coastal Division? That is by far the worst division in the country and has been for some time with Miami, Duke, GT, UNC, Pitt, UVA, and VT. Now the SEC Leastern Division is probably as bad or worse than our division.