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GeorgeFlippin

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Nebraska went independent? The Huskers could play Notre Dame, BYU, and Army every year, and maybe get annual battles with Missouri, OU, and others. It would be interesting to see what it would be like.

I know it will never happen , just throwing it out on a slow day. Carry on.
 
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HUSKERFAN66

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I think if you look at the"whole university" it would be a bad decision. ND is who they are. BYU is similar to ND in their relevance to their religion etc. Army is west Point. See where I am going??

NU isn't a highly regarded educational institution. Heck we got kicked out of elite group.

I think it would make for good football but don't see too much upside.

My 2 cents
 
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MOHUSKER

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Would be the final nail in the coffin, ND and BYU have national bases on a religious level, Nebraska can’t pull that off.
 
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Jmurphytn1

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That would be a terrible idea for a team that's barely holding on as it is.
 
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NikkiSixx_rivals269993

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When NU was dominating, we absolutely could have gone independent, but not right now. There is going to be a huge shift in the number of enrollees at Universities nationwide, and not quite sure how that will affect football, but you can be sure that it will be safer to remain where we are for the time being.
 
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9and4_rivals188421

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Scheduling wouldn't be that easy unless we remain hapless and horrible at football. No one wants to schedule a late-season competitive non-conference game. So the early-season schedule would be a mix of payday road games for us (think @OU without a return date), and a couple of national games, while the late-season schedule would be a mix of games against other independents (but not always ND because they have a scheduling agreement with SC, Stanford, Indiana schools and the ACC) and Group of 5 schools. It might look something like this:
  1. @ Oklahoma (payday game)
  2. Kansas State
  3. @ Washington (home-and-home)
  4. Texas Tech
  5. @ BYU
  6. Air Force
  7. New Mexico State
  8. UMass (in Foxboro)
  9. @ Wyoming (our new rival)
  10. South Dakota State
  11. vs. Northern Illinois (in Chicago)
  12. Akron (makeup date from 2018)
 
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Sinomatic

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Could work if football revenue migrates to Google or Amazon internet contracts and away from TV contracts.

Less commercial timeouts and more pay. Somewhere around 100% pay increase for participating schools. If other schools did the same there would essentially be one conference nation wide consisting of nothing but "Autonomous 5" teams and most likely only the schools with nation wide appeal.

The season would be the playoff.

I read about this in an article somewhere. Where the payout for this route would be pretty darn substantial and no need for a traditional conference.
 
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LeftyLarry

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Bugeater said:
Nebraska went independent? The Huskers could play Notre Dame, BYU, and Army every year, and maybe get annual battles with Missouri, OU, and others. It would be interesting to see what it would be like.

I know it will never happen , just throwing it out on a slow day. Carry on.
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So, your AD is willing to leave 30 million minimum on the table?
What are you dropping, men's baseball first?
Then swimming, maybe gymnastics.
The payoff from the Big Ten is $51,000,000 per school.
Think Nebraska football will get what, $10,000,000/ per on a local/regional TV contract, wake up.
 
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HUSKERFAN66

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LeftyLarry said:
So, your AD is willing to leave 30 million minimum on the table?
What are you dropping, men's baseball first?
Then swimming, maybe gymnastics.
The payoff from the Big Ten is $51,000,000 per school.
Think Nebraska football will get what, $10,000,000/ per on a local/regional TV contract, wake up.
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Refer to OPs last sentence
 
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HuskerLLM

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LeftyLarry said:
So, your AD is willing to leave 30 million minimum on the table?
What are you dropping, men's baseball first?
Then swimming, maybe gymnastics.
The payoff from the Big Ten is $51,000,000 per school.
Think Nebraska football will get what, $10,000,000/ per on a local/regional TV contract, wake up.
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This right here...would be just a horrible idea and that isn't even taking into consideration the HUGE dollars available to the university through the CIC (think it was renamed) which even dwarfs the athletic money through the B1G
 
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gw2kpro

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The reason you don't go independent is because going through a cycle like we are now could kill the program.

We need to

1) start winning games and

2) hold up our end of the deal in the BIG
 
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RealTucoSalamanca

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ffjoey44 said:
Please do. Then the B1G could replace them with a decent team.
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Like Rutgers??????

The last 3 schools to be added are Nebraska, Rutgers and Maryland. I am not sure I would have any sort of confidence the league would make a good decision.
 
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DerHusker_rivals270018

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Bugeater said:
on a slow day.
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Baxter48_rivals204143

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TFrazier said:
Why is everyone worrying about a move like this and the impact on the football program? Nebraska is a volleyball school so it only matters what John Cook thinks!! Winking

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Probably kill the volleyball program because the big 10 has made them better because of the competition.
 
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redwine65

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lets stay in the big and just make football independent, that's fair because they took our "aau" or whatever it's called because we couldn't included the university of Nebraska medical system.
then all NU fans can become orthodox Presbyterians, and gather round that...then we won't need a touchdown Jesus, cause that breaks a commandment. and we will still see marriage as 1 man and 1 women.

Hawaii
Kansas
iowa state
Washington
army
northwestern
lsu
Colorado state
baylor
Michigan

we could have a schedule like that, a few cup cakes a few middle of the road teams, and a few tough teams...and a few team you can travel in a car to see.
 
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