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Time For The Huskers To Go Pro


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It’s time to do it. The University of Nebraska football team and university should file paperwork to become a fully “professional” program.

 

Forget the Big Fourteen. Forget the impotent NCAA. Forget trying to make it look like major college football players are “amateurs”. Time to stop the pretending.

 

Football players have already won the right to earn money from their likeness. I’m sure they would like to earn even more. The program “going pro” would make that happen.

 

How do you do it? They would not play games anymore against “amateur” programs who keep wanting to keep that old dying model going. The Huskers would play against other “professional” programs. You already know who they are. The major SEC schools. The top Big Fourteen programs. The top Big 12 and Pac 12 programs. Yes, the long-awaited “Super Conference” except that now they declare themselves full-fledged professional programs at the university level. Whatever schools that want to become professional become your opponent schedule.

 

Oh, but this takes away from the old-school tradition? That innocence of a simpler time is gone and not coming back. It was nice and we have lots of good memories. But time marches on and The Virus is not waiting to further take a wrecking ball to what our lives used to be.

 

The huge money made by major college football programs is too necessary and addicting to go without. Waiting for consensus from conference bureaucrats and others is too confusing and paralyzing. Too many cooks in the kitchen and no one knows what the recipe is.

 

Break free. Go your own way. Become pros representing the State of Nebraska and its major university. In a few weeks, nobody will even notice. New memories will be made. Really, is any true Husker fan going to stop being a fan if the program went pro?

 

There’s just one thing. Whatever you do, never ever schedule a game against a certain program from a Far Southern State capital located directly south of the State of Nebraska. We don’t need to ever live that nightmare again.
 

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5 hours ago, Ulty said:

So in the past couple of days, Landlord gets banned, college football finally dies, and we start getting more daily soliloquys of unwanted nonsense from Roundball Shaman. 2020 continues to be a cruel b!^@h.

I am nominating this for post of the year. :thumbs

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Memorial Stadium/the ground it sits on and all that jazz is owned by the University of Nebraska.  Not sure how you 'go pro' with a college athletics team and facilities.  We could start our own conference with the HQ in Kansas City.  That I could get behind. Lets say this BS continues on to next year and they cancel 2021 as well.  And in the mean time we start playing teams in the local area and start to build relationships with them.  I could fantasize about us bolting from the B1G (and eternally losing to OSU) and putting together a NEW Great Plains Conference (HQ in Kansas City) which would have the following members:

 

Iowa

Iowa State

Kansas

Kansas State

Oklahoma

Oklahoma State

Tulsa

Wyoming

Colorado

Colorado State

Air Force

 

This is a dream conference for Nebraska fans.  Travel is super easy.  Traditions easy to establish with long histories already in play.  Would eventually get our own Great Plains network going.  No more East Coast bias.  Would be the dream.  

 

 

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5 minutes ago, Bledred said:

Memorial Stadium/the ground it sits on and all that jazz is owned by the University of Nebraska.  Not sure how you 'go pro' with a college athletics team and facilities.  We could start our own conference with the HQ in Kansas City.  That I could get behind. Lets say this BS continues on to next year and they cancel 2021 as well.  And in the mean time we start playing teams in the local area and start to build relationships with them.  I could fantasize about us bolting from the B1G (and eternally losing to OSU) and putting together a NEW Great Plains Conference (HQ in Kansas City) which would have the following members:

 

Iowa

Iowa State

Kansas

Kansas State

Oklahoma

Oklahoma State

Tulsa

Wyoming

Colorado

Colorado State

Air Force

 

This is a dream conference for Nebraska fans.  Travel is super easy.  Traditions easy to establish with long histories already in play.  Would eventually get our own Great Plains network going.  No more East Coast bias.  Would be the dream.  

 

 

Yep. You’ve made us part of the old WAC. Livin the dream. 

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