Roundball Shaman Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 (Note: If this topic is not “unique” enough, kindly fold it into another. Thank you.) 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. Quote Link to comment
DevoHusker Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Interesting take 3 Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 50 minutes ago, Roundball Shaman said: Too many cooks in the kitchen and no one knows what the recipe is. There's no reason to make personal attacks against Roxy like that. 1 4 Quote Link to comment
Ulty Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 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. 2 1 1 Quote Link to comment
lo country Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 13 minutes 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. Didn't know Landlord got banned.....Why? Quote Link to comment
Ulty Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 1 hour ago, lo country said: Didn't know Landlord got banned.....Why? 5 Quote Link to comment
Jason Sitoke Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 And the winner for ‘Most Words Without Actually Saying Anything’ goes to... 1 3 Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 2 hours ago, Jason Sitoke said: And the winner for ‘Most Words Without Actually Saying Anything’ goes to... Yo can pry that trophy out of my cold, dead hands. 2 Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 5 hours ago, lo country said: Didn't know Landlord got banned.....Why? A genteel society can only handle hair "so" perfect. He achieved a level of coif that surpassed acceptable levels. He had to go. 4 Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment
JJ Husker Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 14 minutes ago, knapplc said: Yo can pry that trophy out of my cold, dead hands. Is this your way of telling us HuskerLaw is buried in your basement? 1 6 Quote Link to comment
knapplc Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 2 minutes ago, JJ Husker said: Is this your way of telling us HuskerLaw is buried in your basement? Full disclosure. That's my sockpuppet for when I feel a little wordy. 1 Quote Link to comment
Jason Sitoke Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 51 minutes ago, knapplc said: Yo can pry that trophy out of my cold, dead hands. There are some serious up and comers. 2020 has been quite a standout class on HB. 1 Quote Link to comment
Bledred Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment
Jason Sitoke Posted August 11, 2020 Share Posted August 11, 2020 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. 3 1 Quote Link to comment
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