Nebraska Excerpt From Mizzou To SEC Story (PowerMizzou)

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Came across this on twitter and thought it was worth sharing. There is phenomenal insight into the Big 12 meetings that led to UNL going to the B1G and the Pac 16 almost being a reality. There are a lot of excerpts in here regarding UNL, but I'll paste my favorite one below:

JUNE 1-4, 2010: BIG 12 MEETINGSEXCERPT FROM JUNE 2010 BERRY TRAMEL COLUMN IN THE DAILY OKLAHOMAN: “This isn't about Missouri. Nobody cares about Missouri. Stay, go, drop football, get mad all over again that the Insight Bowl invited Iowa State. Doesn't matter.

If only Missouri leaves the Big 12, the league is fine. Heck, the league thrives. TV revenues wouldn't go down, plus there's one less mouth to feed. Heck, the NCAA might even give the Big 12 a waiver and let it keep the football championship game.

This is about Nebraska. Everybody cares about Nebraska. Nebraska helps make the league go. Without Nebraska, Texas' and Oklahoma's enthusiasm for the Big 12 wanes.”
Full Article: https://missouri.rivals.com/news/zero-trust-inside-mizzou-s-move-to-the-southeastern-conference

 
Thanks for sharing. It's nice to read the complimentary notes about TO as well.

'ALDEN: “This is before Nebraska had announced that they were going to leave. We were at one of these meetings and Dan Beebe was running it, there was all this tension in the room and Coach (Tom) Osborne was just so, he was always so class, I just loved being in meetings with him. He was very thoughtful. When all this was going on, there was one athletic director in particular, I can’t remember what school it was, but it’s in Austin. Anyhow, I heard a guy in that chair, he just started flipping out—flipping out is probably too strong a term, but he got pretty agitated, this person—and started dropping expletives about this and firing them kind of at us, at Mizzou, because Mizzou was rumored maybe the Big Ten is looking. And I was trying to be very professional. You know who stood up for me? For us? Tom Osborne.”'

'GARY PINKEL, MIZZOU HEAD FOOTBALL COACH: “Nebraska, rich tradition in the Big 12. They saw what was happening. They were sitting in meetings, they saw what was happening, they saw what had happened with one of our members and the control that they had and the influence that they had and they just said ‘We’re not doing this.’ Tom Osborne, I remember a quote, when they were in the Big Eight, they had a fierce competition with everybody, even Oklahoma. Fierce competition. But at the end of the day they always did what was best for that league. It was never about one team.”'

p.s. - It's also fun to read about how Oklahoma featured as a villain, as well as Texas. That wallflower comment didn't make sense to me at first...but I'm guessing it was a matter of indicating that they would be getting picked up by someone.

 
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It's good to know how much weight we carry in the overall landscape of college athletics. We were coming out of the worst period our football program program had scene since football became such a big money generator and we still controlled wherever we wanted to go. The best part about the article is how we were to being left out when OU and UT were going to the PAC 10 and now they are the ones scrambling.

 
Karma: always a b!^@h.
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How do we get this for Nebraska. I want a verbal recount from those involved from the point where the BIG 12 was created to our first year in the BIG 10. I could absolutely read people talk sh** on OU and Texas all day long - to know first hand the back stories on our time in the BIG 12. Id buy that book. Id buy that documentary. Hell I would help crowd fund either of those into creation if it was a thing.

 
Whenever something like this comes forth it both validates what we've all felt but also is kind of a bummer. Kind of stokes some long dead hot coals of anger.

Losing to a team is rough, even repeatedly, in fact almost every time, but it doesn't put you on my list. After all it's just football.

It's when stuff is done off the field to undermine/control things, that's when a team really bothers me.

 
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How do we get this for Nebraska. I want a verbal recount from those involved from the point where the BIG 12 was created to our first year in the BIG 10. I could absolutely read people talk sh** on OU and Texas all day long - to know first hand the back stories on our time in the BIG 12. Id buy that book. Id buy that documentary. Hell I would help crowd fund either of those into creation if it was a thing.
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