What if Nebraska didnt join the B1G until next year?

[JTrain]

We would lose one conference game we definitely should win, fight our way into the CCG, then lose in heartbreaking fashion. Then we'd play an average Pac-10 12 team in a bowl game.

 

[Blackshirt316]

If we hadn't joined the B1G when we did, I think it would have been far more difficult. The AAU thing is a load of horse hockey, but it's that kind of weird academic "prestige" thing that looks very bad on a resume. If we had waited, I think we still would have gotten in (we're the same academic institution today as we were pre-AAU ouster), but it would have taken much more back-room discussions.

Actually that is a moot point.

Nebraska was voted out of the AAU BECAUSE they joined the Big Ten (or more specifically because Nebraska joined the CIC). The AAU sometime in the next decade or so wants to significantly trim it's membership to become more exclusive. While there are several other universities still in the AAU that are comparable to or weaker than Nebraska in the AAU rankings, Nebraska was the only one who in the forseeable future was put on a path to significantly alter their standing in that ranking with their addition to the CIC. The AAU felt that if they waited to vote Nebraska out when they go to vote out the other members they want to drop that Nebraska by that point would be seen as un-cuttable due to it's ties to the CIC and the funding that will come from it so they felt it best to cut Nebraska before that could occur.

Lets put it this way, had Nebraska stayed in the Big 12 and Missouri gone to the Big Ten, Nebraska would still be an AAU member right now and Missouri would not.

This is also why Syracuse voluntarily withdrew from the AAU right after the Nebraska vote. Syracuse said they would rather walk away on their own now than wait to get voted out later.