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<blockquote data-quote="Buckaineer" data-source="post: 129488576" data-attributes="member: 1428007">You need to go back and read this story:excerpt;According to <a href="http://www.omaha.com/huskers/barfknecht-during-realignment-four-others-from-big-took-a-look/article_2d507fc0-3337-11e5-8cc1-4373847a1bfe.html?TNNoMobile">a story in the Omaha World-Herald</a> this weekend, a group of five Big 12 schools made a pass at the Big Ten at the time to see if the Midwest-based league was interested in moving from 11 to 16 schools during the first major round of realignment. The Big Ten, according to the story, was interested, but the two sides couldn't agree on a revenue-sharing plan. Instead, Nebraska ended up making the leap on its own and a few other Big 12 schools peeled off in different directions.&quot;Was this a concrete proposal for realignment?&quot; writes columnist Lee Barfknecht. &quot;No. But it was much, much more than cocktail-napkin speculation.&quot;The move could have brought Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas A&amp;M and Iowa State into an intriguing West Division, one that would have enough heavy hitters to at least pull even to the East Division in competitive balance. When plans fell through, the Big Ten decided to court television markets on the eastern seaboard.<a href="http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/121087/big-ten-flirted-with-major-big-12-programs-in-2010">http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/121087/big-ten-flirted-with-major-big-12-programs-in-2010</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Buckaineer, post: 129488576, member: 1428007"] You need to go back and read this story: excerpt; According to [URL='http://www.omaha.com/huskers/barfknecht-during-realignment-four-others-from-big-took-a-look/article_2d507fc0-3337-11e5-8cc1-4373847a1bfe.html?TNNoMobile']a story in the Omaha World-Herald[/URL] this weekend, a group of five Big 12 schools made a pass at the Big Ten at the time to see if the Midwest-based league was interested in moving from 11 to 16 schools during the first major round of realignment. The Big Ten, according to the story, was interested, but the two sides couldn't agree on a revenue-sharing plan. Instead, Nebraska ended up making the leap on its own and a few other Big 12 schools peeled off in different directions. "Was this a concrete proposal for realignment?" writes columnist Lee Barfknecht. "No. But it was much, much more than cocktail-napkin speculation." The move could have brought Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M and Iowa State into an intriguing West Division, one that would have enough heavy hitters to at least pull even to the East Division in competitive balance. When plans fell through, the Big Ten decided to court television markets on the eastern seaboard. [URL]http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/121087/big-ten-flirted-with-major-big-12-programs-in-2010[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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