Nebraska To The Big Ten Official
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Reports out of Omaha and Kansas City are both saying it is official. Nebraska has been offered in invitation to join the Big Ten, and the Cornhuskers have accepted the invitation.
The University of Nebraska has accepted an offer to join the Big Ten Conference, The Kansas City Star has learned.
Late this morning, Nebraska officials contacted the Big Ten office, informing the league of the decision. Nebraska will become the 12th member of the Big Ten.
I know. That' s what I just said, guy in the blue box.
Sorry. It's just my job. I have nothing else to say.
As for the rest of the Big XII, Texas will think about it over the weekend and hold a meeting on Monday.
And the outcasts of Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, and Iowa State? Looks like the Big East is trying to make a play for them.
Anyone who thought that the Big East was just going to sit around and watch the Big Ten take Rutgers and possibly Syracuse and Pitt simply does now know the passion of the conference.
Once word began to spread that Kansas, Kansas State, Iowa State and perhaps Missouri would be looking for a home the Big East became very interested in talking to them about joining the league.
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To repeat a question
where is there room in the Big East for more schools?
I know about your diabolical plan.
Well
You either have to kick bball schools out or play an unbalanced basketball schedule.
They’ll probably do the former, but they should consider the latter. They could be the first basketball superconference.
God Created the World Out Of Nothing, Paterno Built A National Superpower On Cow Fields...
by For The Glory 1855 on Jun 11, 2010 3:33 PM EDT up reply actions
Doing the former
means no ND or Gtown, which isn’t going to happen. And they’re already at 16, so adding 4 more puts them at 20, which, and I know we’ve said this about 16, isn’t really a conference at all.
I know about your diabolical plan.
We already..
play a horribly unbalanced b-ball schedule.
Never mistake effort for achievement.
Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will. - HJS
by Esteban d' Amur on Jun 11, 2010 4:35 PM EDT up reply actions
They will get raided
The ACC will look at Pitt, UConn, and Syracuse and cast off Virginia Tech and Miami to the SEC.
This would be great for the ACC because it would shift their footprint north into some big markets and strengthen their basketball even more.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
Would the ACC give up VTech and keep Florida State?
I mean the ACC is bad enough as is with their perennial over-ranked “powers” of VTech, GTech, and recently (again) Miami. Would they really give up two of their most prominent programs just to get Pitt UConn, and Cuse?
Not a matter of who they give up
It’s a matter of who the SEC wants. For the SEC, the attractive programs are Virginia Tech, Florida State, and Miami. I think Virginia Tech would win out over Florida State because it would give them some access to the Washington DC market. The SEC already dominates the Florida/Georgia/Alabama area.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
Not saying you are wrong about VTech and the DC market because I keep hearing it but it makes me laugh every time. VTech is like 240 miles from D.C, not exactly close.
Go Go Gadget Gagne
What if Broad Street Didn't Fight Back? History HAS been made. 5-7-10
5-8-10...the day the Purdue Boilermakers basketball team won the 2011 NCAA Championship!!
Absolutely.
Go Go Gadget Gagne
What if Broad Street Didn't Fight Back? History HAS been made. 5-7-10
5-8-10...the day the Purdue Boilermakers basketball team won the 2011 NCAA Championship!!
I'm from about 3 miles outside of DC
And about 45 people out of my graduating class (around 400) went to VT. Almost every one of them has moved home, and almost all their friends from VT happen to be from around Northern Virginia, as well. It’s an awful thing – early in the football season, all you hear is “National Championship, here we come,” but it’s more than made-up for in Mid-October when VT has lost 2-3 games and they’re all saying “we just had a bad couple games, but we’ll win ’em all next year.” Yeah. My arse.
"Every player we have, someone-maybe a parent, a grandparent, someone-poured their soul into that young man. They are handing that young man off to us. They are giving us their treasure, and it's our job to make sure we give them back that young man intact and ready to face the world."
-J.V.Pa.
Crazy stuff!
It was awesome to watch that announcement live. Welcome Nebraska!
I’m not surprised at all that the Big East would be interested in the Big 12 North….. an addition of any of those schools would instantly add more credibility to Big East football.
Let's Go State
I've been saying for years
that the single most important thing to improve the credibility of Big East football would be for my Orange to stop sucking. We managed to fob two major problems off on Michigan (RichRod at WVU, and GERG) and get a decent coach (we think), but still working on that.
ChipBrownOB:
Big 12 South schools headed for Pac-10 in 2012 caught off guard by Neb move to B10 in 2011. 1 minute ago via mobile web
What open dates do we have in 2011 to accommodate Nebraska? Who would we bump?
and yes
I do have a calendar of future schedules at hung up in my cube like it’s something important and work related.
Do you want the mustache on, or off?
Too bad.
They will rearrange the schedule
that’s my guess. They will move heaven and earth to get Nebraska in as fast as they can. I bet the Big Ten forks over any money they have to pay in penalties to get out of the Big XII and cancel any other games they have scheduled.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
agreed
This move makes the most impact when it’s fresh, b/c the TV ratings will be enormous. The first Nebraska jaOSU game, the first Nebraska Iowa game, the first Nebraska PSU game. They will all be big time TV ratings.
Do you want the mustache on, or off?
Too bad.
I predict
we get screwed. Lose the home games we had, and maybe even end up with OSU and UM in-division.
I know about your diabolical plan.
I don’t see that OSU, UM, and PSU being in the same division is an issue. At least not as long as UM is going 5-7 every year. From a historical standpoint that would definitely be a one sided division structure, but the way things are now I see Neb, Iowa, Wisco as more than enough counterweight to keep the divisions balanced.
by HawkeyeInExile on Jun 11, 2010 3:47 PM EDT up reply actions
I think PSU and OSU alone
are way stronger than Neb, Iowa and Wiscy, and I would say MSU is as strong as the latter from time to time. Michigan will be back, even if it takes 5 years. I think long term that’s going to be brutal and ends up looking a lot like the Big XII did recently (colorado, nebraska winning division).
Just my opinion, obv.
I know about your diabolical plan.
Actually
I’m not yet convinced the Big Ten will split into divisions. I will try to explain it a post next week.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
I hope they don't
Divisions are unnecessary and restrictive, just mix it up and have the top 2 play for the championship in December.
Do you want the mustache on, or off?
Too bad.
Without divisions the tie breakers would be incredibly important.
It would be easy to have 2 teams tied for the number 2 spot who never played head to head against each other.
by VVeRPennState on Jun 11, 2010 3:59 PM EDT up reply actions
Then the champion(s) would be
whoever actually wins and OSU as all-time co-champion.
One man doing the work of 100's for the good of 1000's
by rahpsu92 on Jun 11, 2010 4:15 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
Why have a championship game?
What comes out of it other than a pile of cash? The risk you run is having an 11-1 team knock off a 10-2 team, and now the 10-3 team doesn’t go to the BCS and the conference loses out on $4.5 million.
With the current setup the Big Ten gets two teams in every year. And nobody rotates off the schedule for more than two years at a time. Create two divisions of eight teams and the cycle time until an opponent comes around back on the schedule is 14 years.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
Delaney has stated a few times that expansion wasn't about adding a championship game.
I assumed that was because the extra revenue from a title game would pale in comparison to the extra revenue from the BTN. Although I guess it is possible that they just have no intention of adding a championship game.
Either way, it might be a moo point if we expand past 12.
by VVeRPennState on Jun 11, 2010 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions
only if the divisions are static every year
If you do the 4 “pod” setup, with mixing the pods differently every year, then you’d still play every team at least 3 times every 6 years (which means 3 home games every 12 years).
http://www.blackshoediaries.com/2010/5/13/1470770/can-i-has-rival#37493937
The only tricky thing would be how to keep protected rivalries, but I think it could still be done for the most part by giving each team one main rival, and just putting pairs of rivals together to best keep the secondary rivalries together. Some secondary rivalries might go by the wayside, but thems the breaks.
Also note that I just threw essentially random teams into that mix, so the actual pods would differ based on what teams are actually in the Big Ten. They’d hopefully be evenly matched, but most of that would be alleviated by having to pair up with a rotating other pod to make the division each year.
by The JuggerNitt on Jun 11, 2010 5:17 PM EDT up reply actions
I think you give each team a primary and secondary rival
A team would play its primary rival every year and play its secondary rival every year in which the primary rival would be on the schedule due to intradivison play. So basically you play 4 teams every year (3 pod mates and 1 rival), 1 team 4 out of every 6 years (secondary rival), and everyone else 2 times every 6 years.
by VVeRPennState on Jun 11, 2010 5:26 PM EDT up reply actions
maybe something like that would work
I don’t really care the specifics right now, just wanted to show that it is quite feasible to split into “divisions”, just so long as those divisions aren’t completely static.
Maybe there is some other way where they could almost completely “randomize” the divisions every year (ensuring that teams play each other with the same overall frequency).
by The JuggerNitt on Jun 11, 2010 5:33 PM EDT up reply actions
I would feel dirty about expanding and not splitting into divisions
There’d be no real identity with the conference, and you’d still miss out on other teams quite often in the scheduling.
If the reason it is “bad” for splitting into divisions is because of the BCS, then that’s just one more reason I want that system gone ASAP.
by The JuggerNitt on Jun 11, 2010 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions
So.... 2011? That's awefully fast
I’m going to be really interested to see how the schedules work out, and I’m praying like hell we don’t lose the Ohio State home game.
Do you want the mustache on, or off?
Too bad.
clever
How they built a bye week into everybody’s big ten schedule, isn’t it.
clever
How they built a bye week into everybody’s big ten schedule, isn’t it.
Pitt currently has both a better football and basketball team than Michigan.
by VVeRPennState on Jun 11, 2010 4:44 PM EDT up reply actions
i was totally going to apologize for the overpost
But now you all suck it.
Pitt currently has both a better football and basketball team than Michigan.
by jesse. on Jun 11, 2010 4:50 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
especially since he was the very first to post this picture
by The JuggerNitt on Jun 11, 2010 5:19 PM EDT up reply actions
I posted that with my phone
It was the reason for the original overpost too.
Pitt currently has both a better football and basketball team than Michigan.
Assuming the Texas-to-the-Big 10 rumor is bulls---...
…I guess all that’s left is raiding the Big East until Notre Dame relents. My guess: Rutgers, ’Cuse, and Pitt join, leaving Notre Dame with no other option. Sounds like Missouri is out of the game.
Getting Notre Dame to relent
I think the best push for Notre Dame would be if the ACC and SEC decided they need to keep up and start looking at Big East teams.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
SEC raids ACC, ACC takes Big East’s football schools, Notre Dame to the Big Integer
by HawkeyeInExile on Jun 11, 2010 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Not gonna happen
We’re only taking one Big East team, if any, and it ain’t Pitt. It’s either Rutgers or Syracuse… 75% chance of the former, 25% chance of the latter. As things really start moving, there’s a good chance the northernmost ACC teams will begin weighing the Big Ten as an option… and they’re all better options than the best Big East schools.
14: Notre Dame & Rutgers
16: Notre Dame & three of Rutgers, B.C., Maryland, Va Tech, UVA
This presumes, of course, that Texas and Texas A&M elect to go elsewhere. We’ll just have to wait and see how things play out.
read syracuse may be a nebraska like lynchpin or jenga piece to get nd in the mix
I'm sorry, Bruce. These boys get that syrup in 'em, they get all antsy in their pantsy. Captain O'Hagan
by psu in the w-b on Jun 12, 2010 10:43 AM EDT up reply actions
Can WE possibly get
some additions in the East or are WE still the distant cousin….the schedule will be screwed-up no matter what.
Sure
We can get whoever we want at this point from the Big East. None of them would turn down the Big Ten.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
The Big Least
is rapidly becoming the Red Cross aid camp for refugees of conference expansion. They may have survived in 2003 by adding Cinci, Louisville, and USF, but whatever debacle of a lineup they’ll end up with after this round will have zero identity. They need to stop fighting it and just let the conference die already.
True
But that’s not enough for them to stay viable anymore.
And their expansion to the Big 12 North still makes zero sense.
by HawkeyeInExile on Jun 11, 2010 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions
This has been true for a while.
The football schools don’t want to admit it but just look at ND in the BE. Basketball and then non revenue sports. BE football is a big 0 to the conference big wigs. Some of those football teams may begin to flourish if they got out of a bb league. PSU bb gets hammered for being at a football school, well why play football at Syracuse or Louisville? BE football has been down since the expansion to take all the bizarre bb only schools when VTech, Miami and BC left. I am at the point I would rather take two BE teams or Maryland/Virgina and be done. Let ND whither away as an independent and not support their non revenue sports that do recruit hard against PSU in the east.
Watch out for the ACC
I really think the ACC and SEC are going to make a play to gut the Big East in football. I’m already hearing that the SEC is looking at Virginia Tech. They would probably go after Miami too. The ACC would go after Syracuse, Pitt, UConn, and Rutgers to make Boston College happy out on their island. Then they could move the ACC championship game to Washington or Baltimore and probably save it.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
So
It’s looking more and more like the 4 major conferences of 16 teams will be the Big 10, Pac-10, MWC (the most shocking), and SEC (if they can poach Miami, FSU, and some other powers). Or am I way off here?
ACC isn't going anywhere, I don't think
It’s possible for the MWC could exist with four other 16-teamers.
I know about your diabolical plan.
ACC is the next
Big XII. It’s sitting around half-interested, waiting for the Big East to get pillaged out of the corner of its eye when BAM the SEC and Big Ten start pulling the rug out from under them. Maryland, Virginia, VaTech, Clemson, Georgia Tech, Miami, Boston College and Florida State are all on the table.
It would be amazing/hilarious to see the Big East come out of this whole ordeal alive (but not unscathed).
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jun 11, 2010 4:33 PM EDT up reply actions
This is my favorite remaining scenario
I think adding VT, UVa, Md. makes sense for several reasons, and while BC doesn’t make much sense, it would mean Big Ten football 50 miles from my house, which should absolutely be a consideration here. It’s consolation for not adding URI.
by Nittany Lawyer on Jun 11, 2010 5:03 PM EDT up reply actions
The only way BC is involved
is if Notre Dame requests their presence to cement a deal with the Big Ten. VaTech would never get into the Big Ten, but the VA state legislature would allow UVa to accompany UMD to the Big Ten provided VT receives a safe-haven in the SEC.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jun 11, 2010 5:13 PM EDT up reply actions
Agreed on all points
Just wishful thinking on my part.
by Nittany Lawyer on Jun 11, 2010 5:18 PM EDT up reply actions
Ugh, no.
I would not trade having a game within a few miles every other year for having BC in our conference. Never.
by PSUinBOSSton on Jun 12, 2010 9:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Maybe
I’m thinking the PAC-10, Big Ten, SEC, and ACC are going to come out of this alive. The Big East will go back to being basketball only. Just the way they wanted it when they gave Paterno the finger back in the ’80s.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
SEC goes for VTech, WVU and Clemson
Arkansas leaves for the New conference, since they hate the SEC and becomes part of the new Texas Sports Network conference. ACC makes a grab at Pitt and Syracuse, Big Ten takes UConn and Rutgers and ND finishes 8-4 every year and can’t schedule anyone worth a grumpy from Oct 1 to end of Nov because conferences are going to be filled and their won’t be open dates. No more 8 team conferences means full schedules during the regular season. Big Ten finally quits on ND and they slowly become history.
great idea wvu will give the sec a much needed boost in academic prowess
I'm sorry, Bruce. These boys get that syrup in 'em, they get all antsy in their pantsy. Captain O'Hagan
by psu in the w-b on Jun 12, 2010 11:10 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
I dunno
If you guys mostly leave us alone, and the SEC and ACC stand pat (SEC has no real profitable way to expand if they can’t get Texas or A&M, and the ACC just signed a relatively lucrative new TV deal) and we grab the Big 12 North leftovers, ditch the non-football schools, and pick up enough of the usual suspects to get to 12, it’s a pretty nice conference. Definitely a basketball-first conference that happens to play FBS football, but a nice conference that I think can hold together.
Won't happen...
conference commissioner is a Providence guy I believe.
Never mistake effort for achievement.
Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will. - HJS
by Esteban d' Amur on Jun 11, 2010 4:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Who cares?
The super-sized Big East is set up so that it can split this year with no penalties to anyone. If all the football members want to split, it happens.
You can't ditch the non fb schools
because they RUN YOUR LEAGUE! Providence is a non fb team and that is where your headquarters are.
Actually,
Connecticut, Syracuse, Rutgers, Pittsburgh, West Virginia, Cincinnati, and Louisville should leave the Big East, partner with Missouri, Iowa State, Kansas, and Kansas State, and form a new all sports conference. They could then invite either Temple, Buffalo, or both, split into divisions and play a championship game. This would be a conference strong enough for BCS inclusion that would also immediately be on a par with the ACC where it concerns basketball. To me this is a more attractive line-up than the collection of miscreants that form the present Big East. This constellation is also contiguous since South Florida is one of the ditched miscreants. So what if there is a big chasm in the middle. Hell, call it the Big Chasm Conference.
"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway
Great idea but going to be tough to do.
These schools will be vulnerable to poachers for a couple years.
Funny thing was...
Temple was a football member only of the Big East. Never joined for basketball.
Never mistake effort for achievement.
Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achille's heel, if you will. - HJS
by Esteban d' Amur on Jun 11, 2010 4:49 PM EDT up reply actions
This is funny
I'm sorry, Bruce. These boys get that syrup in 'em, they get all antsy in their pantsy. Captain O'Hagan
by psu in the w-b on Jun 11, 2010 6:57 PM EDT up reply actions
Traditional Rose Bowl Match Up
Nebraska (Big Ten) vs. Colorado (Pac 10)? Not that I expect that, but it just feels strange to think that its now in the realm of possibility. I’m sure I’ll get over that real quick.
From what I read,
Schools need to apply to the Big 10 and are not invited. It sounds like Nebraska has simply started the application process. So technically it is not officially official until the Big 10 reviews the application and votes them in.
The application may have been behind the scenes. Nebraska to the Big Ten is official.
by HawkeyeInExile on Jun 11, 2010 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah
They would not apply unless Delany gave them the go ahead. And Delany wouldn’t give them the go ahead if the Big Ten presidents didn’t give him the go ahead.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
That's true.
Its obvious that everything is agreed upon before the actual application is submitted and the voting is just a formality.
I am probably just picking nits but they are officially applying to the Big 10, they are not yet officially a member of the Big 10.
by VVeRPennState on Jun 11, 2010 3:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Most news sources are simply reporting the story wrong.
Nebraska didn’t accept an invitation (at least any formal invitation), the Big 10 is accepting their application. It’s really just semantics, but I figured it was worth correcting.
by VVeRPennState on Jun 11, 2010 4:54 PM EDT up reply actions
Nebraska made it official Friday and applied for membership in the Big Ten Conference… Nebraska must be accepted by Big Ten presidents and Perlman said he expected that vote to come soon. The Big Ten confirmed it had Nebraska’s application but offered no timeline for a decision.
by VVeRPennState on Jun 11, 2010 4:58 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm laughing hard if the Big Ten rejects them
I would hate for it to happen, but it would be quite funny.
by The JuggerNitt on Jun 11, 2010 5:22 PM EDT up reply actions
It would be horrible.
You think other conferences find the Big Ten now, just wait to see what the fallout from that would be (although UT and A&M may come to the Big Ten just on principle at that point)?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jun 11, 2010 5:48 PM EDT up reply actions
Yeah
Just saw this on ESPN. “Nebraska applies. Expects to be accepted.”
by HawkeyeInExile on Jun 11, 2010 5:02 PM EDT up reply actions
Well that would be really embarassing for Nebraska
if they went totally public about the intent to leave the B12 and then we voted them down. I doubt they would have filled out the paperwork if there were any doubts left.
So since Nebraska is now in the Big Ten
can we broadcast their Big XII home games in 2010 on the BTN? You know those will be huge ratings!
(and yes, I know we can’t, but it would still be awesome)
The Big Ten just added the real Big 12 Champ
Nebraska was screwed out of the Big 12 Championship.
Colt McCoy’s last throw should’ve been intentional grounding, as the TE on the play was covered by the wide receiver, making him ineligible, making him part of the tackle box.
We just got the real 2009 Big 12 Champion.
No alarms and no surprises please.
they had changed the rules
it’s now a distance out from the center, i think it’s like 5 yards out to each side
Check out that pic
Nebraska is definitely “too country” enough to be in a league with Penn State!
"God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy"
interesting bit from ESPN
Nebraska is only guaranteed what they got in the Big XII. They only get more than that to the extent revenue for the other 11 teams increases. Theoretically nebraska could get several million less than Northwestern.
Pitt currently has both a better football and basketball team than Michigan.
by jesse. on Jun 11, 2010 4:45 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
That definitely is interesting
I always assumed that new members would be full and equal partners from day 1, but apparently there are conditions.
by VVeRPennState on Jun 11, 2010 5:03 PM EDT up reply actions
Nebraska board of regents meeting
there was something on this.
It was something along the lines of nobody (existing teams or nebraska) will receive less than they otherwise would haev and at some point in the (I assume relatively) near future Nebraska will become a full member without qualifications in regards to equal revenue sharing.
this is probably just to protect the current teams in the case of immediate drop in per team revenue
since the BTN cable deals (and other contracts) might not be worked out immediately, so there will be more slices of the pie, but the pie might not get much bigger right away. This way teams that have basically already budgeted their $22 million won’t get screwed if it temporarily goes down to $20 million.
by The JuggerNitt on Jun 11, 2010 5:28 PM EDT up reply actions
yeah definitely,
but more important was the part about them becoming an equal member at some point. I assume thats some point less than 5 years from now.
ND news
Army-Irish tilt in 2013 off the books
wonder if this has anything to do with them being in a new league in 2013
hmm
I doubt it
Might have something to do with them just signing a new deal with Boston College.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
ESPN seems to think Texas is going to the Pac10
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5276668
Disappointing if so, and a bit ridiculous that they’d be flying from Austin to Washington/Oregon for games fairly often. Hope its not totally true.
Eh
I could take or leave Texas at this point. I would love to see Big Ten games 80 miles from my house, but at the same time I think their ego would not be good for the conference.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
You would think
But I hear the eggheads in Austin don’t like the SEC academics. Ironic since they don’t mind 50% graduation rates on their football team.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
I’m on the fence with Texas. Would obviously be a great add from an academic and athletics standpoint. But they’re the Conference Killers. They come with so much extra baggage.
by HawkeyeInExile on Jun 11, 2010 5:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Right
I just can’t see them joining the Big Ten where they know they will be outvoted 13-1 on every decision.
Mike
Black Shoe Diaries
hey
you’re still on my Pitt bandwagon, right?
by Mr. Rosewater on Jun 11, 2010 6:09 PM EDT up reply actions
agree completely
I'm sorry, Bruce. These boys get that syrup in 'em, they get all antsy in their pantsy. Captain O'Hagan
by psu in the w-b on Jun 11, 2010 7:00 PM EDT up reply actions
If the “Pac-16” comes to fruition, I expect that they will divide into the original Pac-8 (Stanford was reluctant to include the AZ schools, IIRC) and a second division consisting of the AZ pair and the Big 12 transfers. If a school plays the other seven teams in their division annually, there would be fewer inter-divisional games, cutting down on travel. If so, I feel sorry for Colorado, which has wanted closer ties with the Pac-10 schools for years.
This is the most exciting partition since Poland 1795!
by Cairo on Jun 11, 2010 5:19 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs
+1 for non-geographic alignment
West Galicia is clearly north of Galicia-Lodomeria.
by Aaron PSU on Jun 11, 2010 5:35 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
They were no Prussia
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jun 11, 2010 5:48 PM EDT up reply actions
The people
or the dog of Walter Sobchak’s ex-wife?
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jun 11, 2010 6:29 PM EDT up reply actions
HEY NOW did we need to bring this up
I'm sorry, Bruce. These boys get that syrup in 'em, they get all antsy in their pantsy. Captain O'Hagan
by psu in the w-b on Jun 11, 2010 7:01 PM EDT up reply actions
Very Instructive...
for those who wonder why contemporary Poles often exhibit a militant nationalism.
"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway
Exactly why do u think we are all for those missiles
I'm sorry, Bruce. These boys get that syrup in 'em, they get all antsy in their pantsy. Captain O'Hagan
by psu in the w-b on Jun 12, 2010 6:01 PM EDT up reply actions
If the Big XII is destroyed
Who will Minnesota lose to in the Insight Bowl every year?
by Cairo on Jun 11, 2010 5:22 PM EDT reply actions 3 recs
That's hilarious
because you imply Minnesota will ever play in another bowl…
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jun 11, 2010 6:29 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
We'll end up with at least 12 bowl games, and 5-7 teams from BCS conferences will be eligible.
3 OOC wins + Indiana + Illinois = GO! FIGHT! TRY! INSIGHT! FAIL!
The 16
Add:
Nebraska
N.D. (No, not North Dakota)
Oklahoma
Texas
Texas A&M
Screw Notre Dame.
Let’s just add North Dakota, and laugh at the Irish as they float on alone….
by Tailgate Shogun on Jun 11, 2010 6:12 PM EDT up reply actions
So now that it is "official"
where do we start the campaign/petition for the 1982/1994 rivalry game/trophies?
Excited to join you guys in the Big Ten.
As a Wisconsin native, I’ve always been a fan of the conference, and it’s really fun to see the rest of Husker Nation suddenly come around on the Big Ten.
A lot of you guys have wandered over to Corn Nation and probably already seen this, but here’s a quick primer on Nebraska sports.
Thanks for the link
It looks like our Women’s VB and men’s BB teams are about equal. How’s Nebraska fencing??
Welcome to the Big ##!
"God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy"
I HATE WIRE!
Or did you mean a different sort of fencing?
"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway
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