Nebraska to Big Ten as Early as Friday?

[MadBadger]

LINCOLN — An executive at a Big 12 school relayed to The World-Herald on Tuesday that he expects Nebraska to become a member of the Big Ten as early as Friday.

http://omaha.com/article/20100608/BIGRED/306089786/-1#nu-to-big-10-as-early-as-friday

[SpiralHawk]

1. Huskers gonna shake it all up?

The Huskers are gonna have a BIG year. All the elements are in place.

[happyiowan]

14. So, what do you think?

Me? I think Nebraska in the Big 10 would be awesome. God - a much better fit for Big Red than playing all that Texas nonsense.

[Condem]

2. From Chip Brown of OrangeBlood: Nebraska regents just informally agreed to join the Big Ten.

Announcement Friday. http://twitter.com/ChipBrownOB

[Liberal_Dog]

3. End Of The Big 12?

If this does come to pass, then I think that OU and Texas would look for greener pastures.

[RedEarth]

5. Most likely both OU and Texas join the Pac-10

along with OK State, Texas A&M, Texas Tech and Colorado or Baylor.

[Condem]

4. Some more dirt from The Sporting News

http://www.sportingnews.com/college-football/article/2010-06-09/report-nebraska-regents-informally-ok-move-big-ten Mizzou getting the cold shoulder? Texas AD Dodd meeting with coaches to discuss Big 12 future.

[MadBadger]

6. I think Mizzou is a much better fit than Nebraska

Could Bring in st St Louis and KC TV market, solid in both football and basketball, and they already have a rival in Illinois.

[Condem]

7. I don't understand the report that the Big Ten is losing interest in Mizzou

Joe Schad of ESPN reports that order of preference is ND, Nebraska and either Rutgers or Maryland.

[New Dawn]

20. I am pretty sure that both NU and MU will be joining the Big10.

Just from the rumors I've heard, looks like both are locks to join. Everyone is tired of dealing with Texas' bullshit. The Big12 never even should have came into existence.

[Capt. America]

21. +1 Agreed. I thought it was about the TV sets, because Mizzou football tradiationally

has not been all that. Also, they have already been doing the St. Louis game with Illini for the past few years.

[MadBadger]

27. And Mizzou has been a pretty good team the last few years or so.

[fishwax]

16. it's ironic that Mizzou is getting stiffed, since this wouldn't have happened w/o their flirting

Mizzou has been the least stable member of the Big 12 since its inception, and was the least stable member of the Big 8 before that. They've been rumored for the Big 10 (and rumored to have their eye on the Big 10) for years, but Nebraska (despite not liking the power that Texas has in the conference) has always been more satisfied with the conference as is.

Were it not for Missouri playing the field, then the bigger powers in the Big 12 wouldn't have lined up contingency plans, and Nebraska might not have decided to jump. But facing the loss of the south division and Colorado, they were kind of backed into a corner. The word from Nebraska has been that they want the Big 12 to stay together, but the Big 12 without the Texas TV markets, the Texas recruiting pipeline, and their old foe Oklahoma isn't so appealing.

And now Missouri looks like they might be left out in the cold ...

[Condem]

17. I'm more than a little disconcerted by that, fish.

Mizzou deserves to be with us. They still might be.

[davidinalameda]

8. looks like it's nearly official

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=5268408

[Condem]

9. Texas tried to save the world but were unsuccessful..

http://twitter.com/ChipBrownOB LOL!

[Condem]

10. Man. More from Chip. He is the go-to guy now.

http://twitter.com/ChipBrownOB

[madinmaryland]

11. WTF is the Chip thingie?? This is even flimsier than your blogger posts!

Not to worry. It will all be a moot point and the speculation when the Big 10 adds ONE team. ND or Pitt.

[davidinalameda]

12. maryland is rumored now as a gimme to the Big 10ish

Maryland, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Syracuse and Rutgers

[Condem]

13. I see you posted this before me, david.

A station out of Indianapolis aired this. It can't be. TZ said her president, Linda Yow, is much smarter than this. Hey, TZ. Show me the $$$
And Coach Boeheim doesn't "see the fit with Iowa or Illinois." Time to go fishing, Jim.

[madinmaryland]

18. If the Big Ten wants the cash (as you keep saying) then ND will be in the Big

Ten next year. AND ONLY ND.

Does the Big Ten really want rejects and also rans from the Big East or the Big 12?

I think not.

[Capt. America]

23. Werent you always saying the ND should join the MAC? I'm sure ND would love to join the MAC, so that

their competition would consist of service academies and MAC schools. If they joined the Big 10 they would be battling for 5th place with Sparty.

[TZ]

25. Okay Condem

THE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR...DEBBIE YOW....is not the President of the Campus. And Maryland gets a lot more revenue from its basketball program than it does from its football program. Two national championships in the last 10 years in basketball kinda makes the point there. Which is WHY Maryland will stay in the ACC.
Oh and the other programs that Maryland prides itself on, LaCross and Field Hockey are also ACC superior sports.

[Capt. America]

22. No way. Maryland and Syracuse? No thank you.

[happyiowan]

15. Oh Mr. Maryland...

Where's your sense of adventure? I've said this before, ain't it a little fun to be speculating?

[TZ]

24. No way Maryland moves out of the ACC

I don't know where the rumor mongers are getting this. This isn't even a WHISPER here in Maryland.

[Dave Caputo]

19. Looks like Pac-10 football is now Pac-16

There's a big shakeup in college football coming, and there looks like there will be some real winners and some really bumming losers when
Pac-10 football becomes Pac-16, which it looks like it's fixing to do very soon. Could be curtains for the Big 12.

[Capt. America]

26. Maybe KU and KSU can join Conference USA and ISU can join the MAC! Ha!

[LisaM]

31. We're all losers if this happens

If you don't realize it now, you'll see it later. And what about all the non-football sports? How are they going to afford to fly all over the country to play their games? This could particularly hit women's sports.

[TZ]

32. Yeah thats what bothers me.

You know how they say they don't want a playoff system because that will mean missing too much school? Well if you have your players flying all over the place for these long distance matchups isn't that going to mean MORE school missed?

[LisaM]

28. I can't help it. My throat is constricting and I want to cry.

Years of tradition, vanished, gone. I feel ill, literally ill.

Those who think this is a good idea must not have gone to a Big Ten school. Why not knock down the Law Quad at Michigan? Build classrooms on the Diag?

The Big Ten, the oldest sports conference. This is a very very sad day for me. If I were a Pac-10 fan, I'd be pissed, too.

Goodbye old rivalries. Oh, and alums? Here's a big fricking slap in the face to you and all those memories you've cherished. Wrapped up in bow and tossed into the Huron River.

What a bunch of assholes we have running things, excuse my language.

[TZ]

29. I hate to say this

but I feel like my conference the ACC started this with their stealing of Big East teams. Ugh. I'm not opposed to change, per se but this is really out of control...

[LisaM]

30. Yes, that was pretty sad too

I didn't like that at the time, and was really against it.

This is just how people run businesses these days. Greed is so endemic that no can see what's really dear. This is what's collapsing the economy - people so driven by profit that they are destroying the integrity of their company.

I've never shopped at Wal-Mart. But, if I have heard correctly, when Sam Walton ran it, they sold made in America products and treated their employees halfway decently. Once he died, it got out of control. And it's just a pattern that's been repeated in every business sector in this country.

[Dr Morbius]

33. Used to be, if I remember correctly, that each team would play every other team every year.

Right? Nine game conference schedule. I do know that the Big 10 basketball season was a double round-robin; each team played each other team home and away, every year. You'd always have Northwestern at Illinois, and Illinois at Northwestern.

Meh. Conferences are turning into pro divisions, it seems. College sports has gotten too professional.

[Condem]

34. For the nay-sayers.

What better time for this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmxyj6iInMc

[happyiowan]

36. LisaM - don't be soo sad

Yes, big changes are acoming our way. Think of the conferences as big rivers. A flood comes and shifts their banks and their paths. The river, however, remains the same. And so will the tradition. Here's a word from my cynical side - the old rivalries will remain. Why? Because they are worth gold and the price of gold is still rising. Your president, Michigan's president, knows more about money that she does academics. I can promise you that! She was our president once. She understands that "Michigan tradition" is a brand and so are your rivalry games.

Hell, when I was a kid cutting my teeth on football, Penn State was an independent. Now they seem natural in the Big Ten.

It's raining hard, the rivers will move.

[MadBadger]

37. Is this just a reaction to Nebraska?

If so, I dont understand it at all. If its to the prospect of a 16 team conference, then I understand.

[Condem]

38. Absolutely on the mark, Mad.

Man. We got Nebraska. Think about that for a minute. One of the most storied programs in history. Again. I can't say it enough. I'm thankful it wasn't Notre Dame and their whiny, greedy asses. This was the school to add.

[Condem]

35. In all seriousness. THE most fascinating interview of the whole deal.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=5272309&sportCat=ncf