plenty will disagree with this. that's fine.
but, he's 100% right and everyone with a brain has known it for a decade.
culture matters.
but, he's 100% right and everyone with a brain has known it for a decade.
culture matters.
The Quiet Part, Said Aloud
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I would be fine joining the SEC but anyone trumpeting to go back to the Big12 in the current climate is crazy.
I bet Clay Travis can't list 10 Nebraska players from Texas. I bet he would struggle to list even 5. These talking heads go through this every year. They are just regurgitating what the other talking heads said before them.
We've always had a more diverse recruiting base than almost everyone else in the country.
We've always had a more diverse recruiting base than almost everyone else in the country.
Interesting take. Glad it wasn't regurgitated move back to the Big 12 ****.
Nebraska would probably be treated as a valued member instead of a redhead step child.
I would be fine with going back to the Big 12 and I have no issues admitting it’s because we would win more games and are incapable of competing in the B1G in a meaningful way.
Eventually there will only be two super conferences that were the Big 10 and SEC. I would rather have joined the SEC when OU and Texas joined, but now we are better off just staying where we are. Eventually the Big 12 and ACC will die off and half the schools will be brought into the Big 10 and SEC. The rest will just be let behind.
If both conferences expand to 24 we will probably see ND, CU, Arizona, and Utah added. After that it will be a matter of who gets Miami, FSU, Clemson, GT, NC, and VT between us and the SEC. Then, depending on how that shakes out, KU, ISU, KSU, Pitt, BC, and BYU will be given a chance at invites. The rest will be left out
ND will no longer have a choice to stay independent since the winner of the championship game between the two conferences will be the national champion.
Probably not, but I miss the days of looking at our schedule and not chalking in 2-3 automatic losses each year.
Do you seriously enjoy that?
If acknowledging is the same as pointing and laughing - you're welcome.
It doesn't really matter what we enjoy. Nebraska will never voluntarily leave the Big 10
Yeah I’m not asking if you’re calling the shots, I’m asking you a question on a space dedicated to sharing your own thoughts on Nebraska football
Maybe, but I doubt it. Missouri always hated us. Texas hates us. OU clearly doesn't like us or they would have had our back. Teams like Florida and Georgia are going to look down on us just like Michigan.
Sucks, but we really have no friends.
If you need help typing in a user name I'm sure we can walk you through it. Do you know the alphabet schmoopsie poo?
Would love being in the SEC. Could you imagine our 3 yearly rivals being Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas or Texas A&M?
We fit in much better culturally than the liberal bureaucracy of the BIG. Let’s not forget our fellow peers Wisconsin and Michigan spitefully voting us out of the AAU as a “welcome” to the conference. Meanwhile PSU has much worse academics than NU and is still a member. Or the whole Covid debacle when OSU was allowed to have a descending opinion but not lowly Nebraska.
We had the same issues in the Big 12. No reason to think the SEC would be any different. Our peers hate us because we stomped them for decades. The rest of the country sees us as hicks. We won't ever be truly welcome anywhere.
The B10 is not just an affiliation of member universities for athletic purposes. The money flowing through the Big Ten Academic Alliance dwarfs revenue generated by sports and it is for this reason that university Presidents won’t leave the conference.
Hating us for football reasons is completely different than hating us for cultural reasons. If we are nothing but a bunch of football loving hicks then the SEC is where we belong.
Which is why it is a pipe dream that we will ever leave. Plus, I’d imagine a buyout to go to the SEC would be close to $100 million.
The problem with Nebraska has nothing to do with the conference. It has nothing to do with Texas recruiting. The problem with Nebraska has been some awful coaching and administration in disarray.
Also, Nebraska doesn’t fit with the southern rednecks.
Also, Nebraska doesn’t fit with the southern rednecks.
Would be a blast.
Won't ever happen, though.
At the end of the day, it's far more about getting our house in order than which conference we are in.
The SEC would have been MORE than capable of taking most of our teams from the last 10-12 years out behind the woodshed.
I 100% agree with what he is saying. I wish they would go further and make it Southeast, NE and Great Lakes, Midwest and West. For us, it would be the Old Big 12, and possibly add Arkansas, Iowa, and a few others. I'm in favor of the regional matchups and the old rivalries.
The beatings would have been much worse, but I'd rather be playing LSU, Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, etc... over the blowhard institutions in the BIG.
Most people are clickbait kings and they know Nebraska fans will pile on. I like the Big Ten and think Nebraska is a good fit; much better than Oregon, Washington, USC, UCLA, Rutgers and Maryland.
Only reason I like the B1G over SEC is for wrestling. Otherwise, I’d love to join the SEC. I get to travel more often and shorter distances to watch our road games.
Not trying to be facetious, but why do you like the Big Ten? In almost fifteen years of being apart of it it’s always felt foreign to me.
Would being in a conference with West Virginia and UCF feel better? Forget the tens of millions of dollars less in the tv revenue and academic grant money. We would be an awful fit in the SEC. Anybody who can’t see the fit we have with most of the midwestern B1G Universities isn’t trying very hard.
No it wouldn’t. The current BIG XII is nothing like the one we left. It too is a hodgepodge of different schools that seem out of place.
I’m not 100% sure about this. SEC is just as proud as the Big-10. I don’t think Texas or OU are all that welcome since joining the SEC.
I hate the Big-10 but SEC top to bottom is alot tougher football conference. Can’t we just start over and go back to the Big-8 and play OU every year? Sigh
Because, like the SEC, the Big 10 has its own style. After all of the mergers and shuffling, the ACC and Big 12 don't have an identity. They were just slopping teams together and said we have enough. I don't necessarily care for the additions from the PAC 12 but they're good enough to piss off the right people from other conferences.
Nebraska was an outsider in the Big 12 and they would be more so if they were in the SEC. I remember when Penn St joined the conference and thought they would dominate... same with Nebraska. But they didn't. It took PSU a long time to find their identity - Nebraska is still searching.
In the same breath, I do like what Oregon has done in football since joining the Big 10. They play their wide open game and are exciting to watch. Indiana is doing the same.
I have plenty more reasons but I think that's a good start
Big 10 didn't have a buyout. Not sure if that is still the case. No one has ever left IIRC.