Nebraska to Big Ten
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It ran across on ESPN that they have accepted the invitation
and heres a article and Video
1st Ezekiel Ansah, DE, BYU 3rd Darius Slay, CB, Mississippi State4th Landry Jones, QB, Oklahoma5th Earl Wolff, S, N.C. State6th Lucas Reed, TE, New Mexico -
From all I heard it is not a done deal . Let's just wait till it is to be sure .
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From all I heard it is not a done deal . Let's just wait till it is to be sure .
From all I heard it is not a done deal . Let's just wait till it is to be sure .
If ESPN is reporting they have accepted and Tom Osbourne is telling coaches there moving to the Big Ten I'd say its fair to discuss it
How bout them to Youngstown coaches in the Big Ten, Tressel and Polini.....Pretty exciting
Would this go into effect this year?
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I think what is happening is this:
Big Ten comes out a few months ago saying they are on a 12 to 18 month investigation on expansion.
Rumors state 2 to 4 Big 12 teams could be targets of such an expansion.
A few months after all this talk, the Big Ten announces that no expansion vote will be held at the latest meeting. I think its actually about 6 months after the initial announcement.
Then a month or so later, the PAC10 announces it is most likely going to expand, and the rumors are, its going to take 4 to 6 of the Big 12. Boise State also announces that it is going to hold off on deciding whether to join the Mountain West until the PAC10 has finished its business.
The Big 12 then gives Nebraska and Missouri a deadline on whether they will join the Big 10 or not.
Now when the Big 10 initially made its announcement, they said that part of their process will first be to privately gauge interest without embarassing either side. So if an invitation is made, it will be accepted. They also indicated that they would talk to the respective conferences first before an invitation or formal inquiry about interest is made.
My guess, is that the Big 10 decided they wanted either Nebraska or Missouri and informed the Big 12 that they might make an invitation.
The Big 12 is trying to end-run this possibility by creating a dead-line way in advance of the Big Ten making any kind of decision. Basically making Nebraska and Missouri choose without knowing whether they actually will be invited by the Big Ten or not.
The PAC10 I think is jumping the bandwagon here, or after realizing that the Big 12 could be sinking should the Big 10 get one or two teams from them, they wanted to sweep up some of the Texas/Oklahoma power teams.
Tom Osborne's interview seemed to indicate that Nebraska is seriously considering joining the Big 10, but by all reports there has been no official invitation. They've indicated that they will not do anything (as far as leaving the Big 12) without an official invitation.
This means that Nebraska is essentially telling the Big 10, "Hey, we are interested, we want in, but if you don't invite us by Friday, we are staying with the Big 12."
Now its up to the Big 10. Send the official invite by Friday, or lose out. Problem is, they already had their conference meetings and weren't planning to meet for like another 6 or 9 months. So they need to have an emergency conference call or give Delaney the power to make the invite by proxy.
My guess, the Big 10 waits and loses out on Nebraska and Missouri because they are still hoping that Notre Dame will change their mind.
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They know ND wont join, they have it to good why would they? If anything adding Nebraska would entice ND to join more.
The Big Ten's not going to say no to the kinda money Nebraska will bring to the conference.
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It ran across on ESPN that they have accepted the invitation
and heres a article and Video
nmills said:
It ran across on ESPN that they have accepted the invitationand heres a article and Video
This is a good thing for the Big Ten........and if it is a done deal.........Missouri will be in as well. I would also expect the unknown shoe to drop is that Oklahoma and Oklahoma St come as well and Notre Dame...............WOW WHAT A CONFERENCE that would be.................too cool...........thanks in advance
btw ND is between a rock and hard place................or just being irrelevant..........BIG Ten makes these deals .......ND sucks wind or joins................and they have sucked wind for ten years ............the NBC thang is over
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nmills said:
It ran across on ESPN that they have accepted the invitationand heres a article and Video
This is a good thing for the Big Ten........and if it is a done deal.........Missouri will be in as well. I would also expect the unknown shoe to drop is that Oklahoma and Oklahoma St come as well and Notre Dame...............WOW WHAT A CONFERENCE that would be.................too cool...........thanks in advance
btw ND is between a rock and hard place................or just being irrelevant..........BIG Ten makes these deals .......ND sucks wind or joins................and they have sucked wind for ten years ............the NBC thang is over
This is a good thing for the Big Ten........and if it is a done deal.........Missouri will be in as well. I would also expect the unknown shoe to drop is that Oklahoma and Oklahoma St come as well and Notre Dame...............WOW WHAT A CONFERENCE that would be.................too cool...........thanks in advance
btw ND is between a rock and hard place................or just being irrelevant..........BIG Ten makes these deals .......ND sucks wind or joins................and they have sucked wind for ten years ............the NBC thang is over
Its being reported that Oklahoma, Oklahoma St., Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M and Colorado will join the PAC 10
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Zombo said:
And then the ACC and Big East merge and we have four Super Conferences?I guess we are headed in that direction...
Zombo
atleast it would force them to have a playoff, you would think.
1st Ezekiel Ansah, DE, BYU 3rd Darius Slay, CB, Mississippi State4th Landry Jones, QB, Oklahoma5th Earl Wolff, S, N.C. State6th Lucas Reed, TE, New Mexico -
It's about time the Big 10 got with the program......now we can play cards. The Big 10 and Pac 10 have bodgered this thing up the last 15 years by insisting on maintaining the the Rose Bowl.
Screw the NCAA......go to 16 team conferences, dump the NCAA and do it right. The SEC could easily add 4 quality teams....NC, Va, Clemson, Fla St come to mind( not to mention Ga Tech, Louisville, W Va, or VTech) if you don't include traditional southern teams out of Texas.....which makes some sense.....Texas and A&M seem SEC to me.
It's time to move up and on.
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All of this stuff makes me very nervous for my precious Bearcats
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All of this stuff makes me very nervous for my precious Bearcats
All of this stuff makes me very nervous for my precious Bearcats
Why? They are a member of the Big East. I doubt they leave anytime soon.
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If I'm the teams in the big ten right now (especially osu and psu) I worry about this. Nebraska may not be a power house but they are definately competitive. I think that Bo Pelini is a good coach and the huskers will be in the top ten in the next couple of years. It's better for the big ten if they join, but it should scare Jimmy T.
Also, as a huge Notre Dame fan, let me just say that I would love to see the Irish join. It gives them a consistent schedule every year, it puts an end to the argument of "Notre Dame doesn't play anybody", they already play 3 or 4 big ten schools every year, and it gives them some identity. Also, I agree with Alo: the Irih may be getting nervous about being left out in the rain when these new "super conferences" emerge. They will want to be a part of that.
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All of this stuff makes me very nervous for my precious Bearcats
Why? They are a member of the Big East. I doubt they leave anytime soon.
Why? They are a member of the Big East. I doubt they leave anytime soon.
Not that they leave but that they will get left out and end up in a conference with no BCS ties
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Not that they leave but that they will get left out and end up in a conference with no BCS ties
The Big East is contractually one of the 6 BCS conferences. I think the only way the Big East gets left out is, if, as a conference they continually score lower (on the new BCS conference formula) than say the Mountain West or the WAC.
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It's about time the Big 10 got with the program......now we can play cards. The Big 10 and Pac 10 have bodgered this thing up the last 15 years by insisting on maintaining the the Rose Bowl.
Screw the NCAA......go to 16 team conferences, dump the NCAA and do it right. The SEC could easily add 4 quality teams....NC, Va, Clemson, Fla St come to mind( not to mention Ga Tech, Louisville, W Va, or VTech) if you don't include traditional southern teams out of Texas.....which makes some sense.....Texas and A&M seem SEC to me.
It's time to move up and on.
It's about time the Big 10 got with the program......now we can play cards. The Big 10 and Pac 10 have bodgered this thing up the last 15 years by insisting on maintaining the the Rose Bowl.
Screw the NCAA......go to 16 team conferences, dump the NCAA and do it right. The SEC could easily add 4 quality teams....NC, Va, Clemson, Fla St come to mind( not to mention Ga Tech, Louisville, W Va, or VTech) if you don't include traditional southern teams out of Texas.....which makes some sense.....Texas and A&M seem SEC to me.
It's time to move up and on.
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I have to disagree on your view. Traditions are dying everywhere- at least the Big 10/Pac 10 honored their agreement on the Rose Bowl as long as they could.
Traditions have taken a back seat to money, what a surprise. I happen to take the opposite view, that the SEC & Big 12 actually hurt college football by having these conference championship games to grab $$ from Dr. Pepper.
I could also see Texas & Texas A&M joining the SEC, but it will really screw some of those teams up who've never traveled more than 500 miles to play a football game (outside a bowl game). The SEC is tough indeed, but is certainly the most pampered conference in football, playing in pristine conditions all year, and then hardly budging from home for a bowl game.
Gordon Gekko was wrong....greed is NOT good.
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suns said:
Texas and Texas A&M are going to the Big 10.was that reported or is that your prediction?
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suns said:
Texas and Texas A&M are going to the Big 10.was that reported or is that your prediction?
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