Nebraska's return to the BIG XII

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Would you like to see the Corn Huskers return back to the Big XII?

  • Yes

    Votes: 33 21.7%

  • No

    Votes: 119 78.3%
  • Total voters
    152
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.  
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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.

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

 
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.

 
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.
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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? 

 
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