Kevin Warren apparently had a sit down meeting with Trev when he got hired and told him he needed to muzzle Frost and his anti big ten agenda. Kevin Warren despised Frost during the Covid season and made no secret about it in private circles. Trev had to make this change to keep our big ten status intact. I guess when USC and UCLA were in discussions Warren brought up the potential to choose Stanford and kick Nebraska out if Nebraska didn’t clean up their act.
Crazy Rumor that will blow your minds.
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Gosh, it sure was crafty of Warren to give Scott another 23 games after the 2020 season finally began, knowing that he’d fail and thereby punishing the Nebraska faithful even further in the process. That’s some Machiavellian stuff right there.
May not be as far-fetched as some think. Nebraska was invited to the B1G for one reason and one reason only: football. And since the school has joined the conference, it hasn't done anything but get progressively worse in that sport. First with Mike Riley, then Scott Frost. (They were decent with Pelini despite the blowout losses. They were still going to bowl games and winning nine games.)
Being kicked out of the AAU, even understanding why that happened, is still a bad look. Then on top of all that, you add in the drama with COVID and, well, yikes.
I'm not saying the OP is true. I'm just saying there may very well have been some grumblings.
Ohio State was grumbling, too, about not playing during COVID. But they can grumble. They're OSU and they win a lot of games.
Being kicked out of the AAU, even understanding why that happened, is still a bad look. Then on top of all that, you add in the drama with COVID and, well, yikes.
I'm not saying the OP is true. I'm just saying there may very well have been some grumblings.
Ohio State was grumbling, too, about not playing during COVID. But they can grumble. They're OSU and they win a lot of games.
No again BS. NU will bring more eyes and revenue than 80 percent of the schools in the BIG 10. And that is all the big 10 cares about. They could careless about championship football. Again OSU has the only Natty in the big 10 for how long again? Do better
You don't remember Trev and Scott having to butter up the Big Ten after Trev was hired last year?
That was the very first order of business after Trev got hired.
It was obvious that Trev had a big talking to Scott about all that insubordination that was going on in the covid year.
Even during Big Ten Media Days this summer, there was still tension.. although Warren was able to give nice comments about Scott Frost and say nice things, and then Scott gets up to the stage and doesn't say any kind word back, in fact doesn't even make an opening statement.
It would not surprise me in the least if there were indeed discussions on replacing Nebraska and using academics as the route to do it.
If you have never mingled in high academic circles, I can tell you first hand, it is a very tight club with some of the most pompous, arrogant, and brilliant people who have egos with God complexes.
Nebraska is still on thin ice with the league in my opinion.
Again, that's actually one of the main reasons they were brought in. I remember watching BTN back then and they were all excited because - and I remember this distinctly - they said it gave the B1G a much needed edge because the national perception of the conference was that it was soft.
NU would help overhaul its image. That just hasn't happened because of bad coaching.
Thanks for joining this board minutes ago just to be able to post this. Your concern to bring us the latest truth is so touching.
Interesting take. I do think the anti-Nebraska bias is real. I also think Warren is one thin-skinned s.o.b.
But the part that pushes the BS needle into the red for me is the timing. Frost just lost to a directional school at Memorial Stadium in year 5 of his tenure—even Fielding Yost would have lost his job after that.
Oh I don't think Warren had any impact on Frost's firing..
But I am sure some things were said, and then you had Trev talking up the B1G and how we need to compete and Frost too started saying he can't comment on the league or how he would say this or that is good for the league, like when he recently got asked about the new expansion.
So it got swept under the rug, but the tension was never actually fixed.
I think Trev got it mostly calmed down, but then this summer was like another rub with how Scott handled those things at media days.
I agree with you on KW being thin skinned. He's absolutely capable of saying nice things about someone he dislikes, and making it seem believable, and that is why he's a good administrator. Trev can play that game too. Never forget that those kind of guys realize that you have to keep appearances to make things run smooth, but behind the scenes, all kinds of crosscurrents can be going on.
Smo-king rose hips in the hooka out back.
(I had to put a space between Smo and king because the stupid board substitutes a smo-king emoji in there if I don't. Rivals version of auto-correct.)
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Unfortunately for your fictional story Warren doesn’t have the power to do any of that.
