We had a chance, during that covid year, before all the reshuffling of the Big 12. Heck, we could have moved and already been invited to the SEC too, but that window is gone.
The only hope of getting out of this conference, is for a better conference to form or to be kicked out.
Unfortunately, for the administration, it's not about winning football anymore. Try as they may, to fit in to this conference, UNL will never be seen in the same standing academic wise, or any other metric for that matter, and will always be seen as the black sheep of the conference.
So in hindsight, we went from being a big influencer of one conference to being an outcast of another. Probably one of the worst ill fated decisions in Nebraska history. A program that sold out.