Nebraska's return to the BIG XII

[jaws]

2 minutes ago, B.B. Hemingway said:

 

I can't wait to watch it flip if Nebraska goes 4-0 over the next 4.

 

But, yeah. Northwestern can't get here soon enough.

 

 

Winning cures a lot of problems. However, even on a message board for a top 5 team, people still find a reason to complain. 

[Frostberg]

1 hour ago, BigRedN said:

This post is another good example of how the board would benefit by having a new member have, say, 500 posts, before they can start a topic in a thread.

 

It would serve the board well, IMHO.  

 

As someone just over 500 I fully support this.

[knapplc]

14 minutes ago, jaws said:

How many schools actually want to be in the Big12? When conference realignment talk happens, it isn't like big time schools are lining up to join that conference. You usually hear about schools exploring other options. I guess there are smaller schools wanting in a P5 conference that would jump at the chance. I understand the tradition but I find it hard to bring up tradition when talking about the current iteration of the Big12 conference.  

 

This is spot on. That conference isn't adding marquee teams anytime soon, and they're more likely to lose their good teams than add new, good teams.

 

Nebraska is NEVER going back to that conference, and that's fantastic. We are 1,000% better off in the Big Ten. It feels like home to a lot of Nebraska fans already. I love playing every team in the Big Ten West, and there hasn't been one time I've thought, "Gosh, I wish we could play Kansas State again."  That program and its fans are trash, and we are far better off without them. They add nothing to our experience.

 

 

[knapplc]

10 hours ago, I am I said:

@KnappIc actually can you post one of the articles? 

I got into a fun, good ol times argument with an OU fan. I told him I’d send him an article about f’ing texass and the B12

 

 

Here you go.

 

 

[B.B. Hemingway]

7 minutes ago, knapplc said:

 

This is spot on. That conference isn't adding marquee teams anytime soon, and they're more likely to lose their good teams than add new, good teams.

 

Nebraska is NEVER going back to that conference, and that's fantastic. We are 1,000% better off in the Big Ten. It feels like home to a lot of Nebraska fans already. I love playing every team in the Big Ten West, and there hasn't been one time I've thought, "Gosh, I wish we could play Kansas State again."  That program and its fans are trash, and we are far better off without them. They add nothing to our experience.

 

 

 

All of this, AND we've have to leave our new rival, Iowa.

[Redux]

Some people just want an easy path to an undefeated record.  The Big 12 is a Group of 5 conference + OU and Texas.

[skers83]

17 minutes ago, B.B. Hemingway said:

 

All of this, AND we've have to leave our new rival, Iowa.

Iowa is not our rival... are they?             

 

 

 Sorry back to topic.

[Nebfanatic]

I thought this guy wasn't logging back in? @knapplc has been abusing posters for decades?? Someone call the cops we have a serial a$$ beater over here

[knapplc]

When's the last time you saw a Husker fan call us the "Corn Huskers" like he does in the poll?

 

 

HuckFuskers, is this you?

 

[CapoValley]

It would be weird if the 8 people who voted yes in this poll were all Big 8 members 

 

Besides, conferences are too 20th century. It’s time to embrace pods. 

 

https://www.bannersociety.com/platform/amp/2019/8/15/20734585/college-football-divisions-pod-system?__twitter_impression=true

[dubsker]

Bring.  Back.  Down.  Votes.

[Roundball Shaman]

For those who like the Big Ten, it’s great that you have that feeling. No one should be trying to step on that. But others have a different perspective about it. That fact that this issue keeps coming up proves that.

Most Husker fans understand and respect the decision to leave the Big Texas Conference. They honestly left Nebraska little other choice if the Big Red were to keep their pride and self-respect. But given that, this doesn’t automatically mean that Nebraska is a good fit in the Big Fourteen.

Some are speaking up. Others are afraid to say... those who long for the “good old days” of the Big 8 (not Big 12) really are saying they miss feeling at home in a conference that they fit into. Nebraska does not fit with those Rust Belt schools and the East Coast emphasis of bringing in those addition Eastern big city-oriented schools. This is not a “get off my lawn” fondness for the past. This is simply recognizing a fit that is less than ideal.

Nebraska has little choice but to stay where they are right now. But sooner or later, there will be more realignment in major college ball. When that happens, Nebraska needs to get away from a conference that will never accept them as an equal (does that sound familiar?) and get back to the feeling of those great Big 8 matches that are remembered so fondly. Leave Ohio and Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and New Jersey and Maryland to themselves. If the money is right, we’d see how fast somebody might jump to a new conference home.

Until then, get to love Interstate 80.

[Nebfanatic]

3 minutes ago, Roundball Shaman said:

For those who like the Big Ten, it’s great that you have that feeling. No one should be trying to step on that. But others have a different perspective about it. That fact that this issue keeps coming up proves that.

Most Husker fans understand and respect the decision to leave the Big Texas Conference. They honestly left Nebraska little other choice if the Big Red were to keep their pride and self-respect. But given that, this doesn’t automatically mean that Nebraska is a good fit in the Big Fourteen.

Some are speaking up. Others are afraid to say... those who long for the “good old days” of the Big 8 (not Big 12) really are saying they miss feeling at home in a conference that they fit into. Nebraska does not fit with those Rust Belt schools and the East Coast emphasis of bringing in those addition Eastern big city-oriented schools. This is not a “get off my lawn” fondness for the past. This is simply recognizing a fit that is less than ideal.

Nebraska has little choice but to stay where they are right now. But sooner or later, there will be more realignment in major college ball. When that happens, Nebraska needs to get away from a conference that will never accept them as an equal (does that sound familiar?) and get back to the feeling of those great Big 8 matches that are remembered so fondly. Leave Ohio and Michigan and Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and New Jersey and Maryland to themselves. If the money is right, we’d see how fast somebody might jump to a new conference home.

Until then, get to love Interstate 80.

Its never gonna happen so you might as well get over it. Conference realignment is coming but if you think that means Nebraska can find a better conference thats a better 'fit' you are way off base. If anything the next round of realignment will gut the Big XII and make it a thing of past leaving just 4 major conferences. Do you think we fit better in the Pac 12, SEC or the ACC? 

[Jarhead In Red]

57 minutes ago, Nebfanatic said:

I thought this guy wasn't logging back in? @knapplc has been abusing posters for decades?? Someone call the cops we have a serial a$$ beater over here

If knapplc is a serial abuser, I guess I'm feeling left out. He hasn't beaten my a$$ yet......maybe I haven't been around long enough yet...... 

[Nebfanatic]

2 minutes ago, Jarhead In Red said:

If knapplc is a serial abuser, I guess I'm feeling left out. He hasn't beaten my a$$ yet......maybe I haven't been around long enough yet...... 

Knapp is a tough guy but not a stupid guy...he knows not to mess with a jarhead!