Nebraska Makes It Official, Will Join Big Ten In 2011
by Adam Jacobi on Jun 11, 2010 3:01 PM CDT
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All right. After being put on hold for two days by Regents Chairman Bob Phares over purely trivial distinctions, we can now say, officially, that Nebraska will apply to join the Big Ten. And I, for one, totally appreciate Phares' efforts to make sure we all respect and appreciate official procedure. Thanks, Bob.
The Regents' meeting itself wasn't much of a surprise; Nebraska Chancellor Harvey Perlman and athletic director Tom Osborne spent plenty of time talking up the Big Ten (which, coming from a Husker's mouth, is downright surreal) and excoriating the Big XII South for the "Nebraska is killing the Big XII" rhetoric. This Tom Osborne quote was especially choice:
"One school leaving a conference doesn't break up a conference. Two schools leaving a conference doesn't break up a conference. Six schools leaving breaks up a conference.:"
But for as forceful of rhetoric as that was, it was to be expected, given the public hammering Nebraska's been under from the Big XII. The real surprise is that Nebraska is targeting 2011 for Big Ten admission. Colorado joined the Pac-10 for the 2012 season, and the rest of the South were expected to do the same. Either the Pac-10 bumps the effective date up a year, or 2011 is going to be a very awkward year in the Big XII North.
And Nebraska? We're holding a trident, we've been lifting weights and doing cocaine all day, and we want a big piece of your time.
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I want that blazer.
It took a move to LA to figure out how big of a dick I really am.
by With Ferentz Like These... on Jun 11, 2010 3:04 PM CDT reply actions
Just get a job parking cars at a posh restaurant.
Free red blazer.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Jun 11, 2010 3:11 PM CDT up reply actions
You get it for winning the Masters
of the “Bass” variety.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jun 11, 2010 3:26 PM CDT up reply actions
I've always looked at those enviously when looking at the "Redcoaters" at Chiefs games.
The era of the loud blazer is dead, but need to be reborn.
Says you
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jun 11, 2010 4:52 PM CDT up reply actions
Gary Michaels Clothing in Lincoln
… they’ve got blazers in colors they don’t have names for.
by Albino Tornado on Jun 11, 2010 4:56 PM CDT up reply actions
Gary Michaels
blazer colors make don cherry cringe…..
by alex henery's foot on Jun 11, 2010 7:09 PM CDT up reply actions
WOO DON CHERRY WOOOOOO THE RUSSIANS ARE NOTHING! CANADA!
"Now we can no longer hold back. It will be a terrible war." - Emperor Jim Delany I
by ReadingRambler on Jun 11, 2010 7:24 PM CDT up reply actions
Craig Sager would like to know why he was left out of this conversation.
I've sentenced boys younger than you to the gas chamber. Didn't want to do it. I felt I owed it to them.
-- Judge Smails
by WaterlooChazz on Jun 11, 2010 9:38 PM CDT up reply actions
it was a toss up
between cherry and sager, but I figured putting them both on my computer screen would make my head explode after seeing that clown-shart of color on my screen
by alex henery's foot on Jun 11, 2010 10:17 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Don't forget that women have no business at hockey games...
running their mouths and getting hit with pucks.
"Hush now, let it go now. I know it's time to go. Time to let this fall from my hands" VNV Nation, "From My Hands"
by Stuck in the Plains on Jun 13, 2010 11:57 AM CDT up reply actions
It does look like there is a little animosity there doesn't it?
Who's leg do I have to hump to get a drink around here?-Brian
they must have hooked up back in the 70s
red blazer can’t even look him in the eye… the shame, the shame…
Keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either, Dude.
by AcrimoniousAngerererer on Jun 11, 2010 3:20 PM CDT up reply actions
actually someone dropped a ham biscuit on the floor in front of him
Too high? What do you mean too high?
by The Bacon Explosion on Jun 11, 2010 3:13 PM CDT up reply actions
That Osbourne
always the joker, just got him with the classic hand-buzzer
by HeroPatriotStanzi on Jun 11, 2010 3:16 PM CDT up reply actions
Looks More Like.....
Somebody Farted!!
_ They took the bar! The whole fucking bar!-John Blutosky Animal House)
by John Hartlieb is stiil a stud! on Jun 11, 2010 3:23 PM CDT up reply actions
That wide-angle lens...
…makes Osborne’s arm look huge and his head look tiny.
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jun 11, 2010 3:25 PM CDT up reply actions
a must read....
http://www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com/2010/6/11/1513318/big-ten-expansion-well-why-dont-we
Keeping wildlife, an amphibious rodent, for uh, domestic, you know, within the city - that aint legal either, Dude.
by AcrimoniousAngerererer on Jun 11, 2010 3:19 PM CDT reply actions
Looks More Like...
Somebody Farted!
_ They took the bar! The whole fucking bar!-John Blutosky Animal House)
by John Hartlieb is stiil a stud! on Jun 11, 2010 3:24 PM CDT reply actions
Thanks for posting it twice.
It gave me two chances to not laugh.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jun 11, 2010 3:27 PM CDT up reply actions
Good one
I mean really, click the fuckin’ clicker on accident on purpose. Plus that bullshit shot at your Carlin-esque sense of humor? These guys. Jeez. Dude must not read the papers. Gotta make a good impression on these NU looky loos. Now make me laugh, clown.
by BnFnG on Jun 12, 2010 1:13 AM CDT via mobile up reply actions
2012
With no Nebraska, and Colorado having mentally checked out, that could be the year Iowa State takes the Big 12 North title!
Heh. I crack myself up.
It never gets to be easy
As it was pointed out at TRE
if Nebraska comes over in 2011, the Big 12 won’t be able to have a championship game.
And that’s just too bad.
It never gets to be easy
by chitownhawkeye on Jun 11, 2010 4:39 PM CDT up reply actions
They'll get closer to a round-robin
just so everyone can share the hate with each other. It’s going to be a brutal few years in that league.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jun 11, 2010 4:54 PM CDT up reply actions
When can we start the hate?!
Do we have to be nice to our new neighbors for a day or can be start right in?
Fuck tOSU
How have I never seen the Will Ferrell skit before?
I was actually in tears by the end. Good thing I have the office to myself today.
by Internet Legend on Jun 11, 2010 4:19 PM CDT reply actions
At what point do you give up
and finally let your hair take its natural color? Not a gray hair on the guy. Does he even color the hair coming out of his ears?
by KinnickNorthHawk on Jun 11, 2010 4:20 PM CDT reply actions
So, has anyone looked at the schedule?
Will our first Nebraska experience be there or here (Iowa City)? And where would they fit into the schedule?
Follow-up: Will we have a championship game that year?
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jun 11, 2010 4:31 PM CDT reply actions
I'm ready to rock (just ran through another wall after watching that hawkeye intro video again)...
…cause I’ve been hating Nebraska my entire life. I’m so happy the Big10+2 has finally caught up and are allowing my hate to be collegiately sanctioned (And encouraged?).
by Eyeheartfreedumb on Jun 11, 2010 4:34 PM CDT up reply actions
For now...
This is the 2011 schedule:
9/3 – Tennessee Tech
9/10 – at Iowa State
9/17 – Pittsburgh
9/24 – Louisiana-Monroe
10/1 – at Wisconsin
10/8 – Illinois (Homecoming)
10/15 – at Penn State
10/22 – at Purdue
10/29 – Michigan
11/5 – Indiana
11/12 – BYE WEEK
11/19 – at Ohio State
11/26 – Minnesota
And this is the 2012 schedule:
9/1 – Northern Illinois (at Chicago)
9/8 – Iowa State
9/15 – UNI
9/22 – Central Michigan
9/29 – Wisconsin
10/6 – at Illinois
10/13 – Penn State (Homecoming)
10/20 – Purdue
10/27 – at Michigan
11/3 – at Indiana
11/10 – BYE WEEK
11/17 – Ohio State
11/24 – at Minnesota
Obviously they’ll need to be reworked if Nebraska is joining up in 2011. 2011 is a good year to jump in, though, because the Big Ten was supposed to start a new rotation that year anyway (i.e., for Iowa jNW and MSU drop off and Illinois and Purdue come back on). So no idea where the game will be played; it’s hard to speculate about who we’ll be playing until they set up the divisions and the scheduling parmeters (i.e., whether or not we have a protected opponent from the other division or not).
As for when… there was a lot of speculation on the twitters and elsewhere about the game becoming the new end-of-the-year game for both teams. It would certainly be a natural fit, although personally I’d miss seeing the Gophers in that final spot a little bit.
No idea about the championship game, but it seems like a strong possibility there would be one in December 2011.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I'd miss the Gophers too
but the chance to play the Cornhuskers on the last day of the year is just too good. Play it as a double-header with OSU-Michigan. In most seasons, the winners of the games would go on to face each other in the CCG. It could be a major event. (Yeah, I know. Wisconsin and Penn State would have something to say about that.)
Besides, it’s not like the Gophers don’t have other options. Wisconsin has never found a good end-of-the-season opponent since Goldy dumped them for us in the 80’s. We’d still play for Floyd earlier in the season and the Gophers could just play for Paul Bunyan’s Axe for the final game.
by Josh Timmers on Jun 11, 2010 8:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Oh, certainly.
Iowa-Nebraska and Minnesota-Wisco would make the most sense for all involved, I think.
But pounding the Gophers has just become such an enjoyable annual tradition that I hate to see it go away.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
I'm hoping for it to be...
100-0 over the last 3 years after November.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Jun 11, 2010 8:45 PM CDT up reply actions
33-0 this year?
Sure, why not.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
If Goldy scores this year is it considered a "moral victory?"
Too high? What do you mean too high?
by The Bacon Explosion on Jun 12, 2010 12:33 PM CDT up reply actions
2011 Nebraska non-conf schedule
Sep 10
Fresno State
Sep 17
Washington
Sep 24
@ Wyoming
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2012 Husker non-conf scheudle
Sep 1
Southern Mississippi
Sep 8
@ UCLA
~
2013 Nebraska non-conf schedule
Aug 31
Wyoming
Sep 7
@ Sourthern Mississippi
Sep 14
UCLA
<a href=“http:// ”http://www.huskers.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPSID=3&SPID=22&DB_OEM_ID=100&Q_SEASON=2012" target="_blank">http://www.huskers.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPSID=3&SPID=22&DB_OEM_ID=100&Q_SEASON=2012" >
http://www.huskers.com/SportSelect.dbml?SPSID=3&SPID=22&DB_OEM_ID=100&Q_SEASON=2012
this place smells like feet. i’ll bring a can of lysol next week.
Wyoming got a home date? Seriously? How the hell did they do that?
by HawkeyedFrog on Jun 12, 2010 9:27 AM CDT up reply actions
Texas went to Wyoming this year or last year, too.
They have weird mind powers over there.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
Osborne was throwing a bone to Elmer and Lurlene out in Lodgepole
Giving them a short road trip to Laramie.
by Albino Tornado on Jun 12, 2010 1:23 PM CDT up reply actions
610 AM sports (kansas city) is streaming the Don Bebee FAIL
this place smells like feet. i’ll bring a can of lysol next week.
Can we start a drinking game for this presser?
Obviously open to suggestions, but first thought is drink every time:
-“stability” is mentioned
-“fit” is mentioned
-some type of dig at the Big 12 is mentioned
-others?
Even if no one wants to, I sure as hell will be drinking heavily throughout as we officially welcome Nebraska to the Big Ten
Watching BTN now
and drinking heavily is certainly a must while we watch 1/2 naked old Indiana men work out and swim in some outfit Michael Jackson in Bahrain would recommend
Man I hope you didn’t drink every time he said fit. Blood alcohol poisoning here we come.
by HawkeyeInExile on Jun 11, 2010 6:18 PM CDT up reply actions
Cant Wait
as much as i hate to see the big xii go, i am excited to start this rivalry off as soon as possible! Ill bring first bottle of whiskey and well get this thing going on the right foot!
by alex henery's foot on Jun 11, 2010 6:43 PM CDT reply actions
If things hold to form...
Nebraska will do well initially (ala Penn State), then they will do poorly as they figure out who they are now. They are still Nebraska but recruting will have to change, and unfortunately they might lose that Texas recruiting inroad and have to build new ones. At first they will not feel it so much but over time they will have to find ways to recruit players and of course they have to learn the ways of the Big Ten.
So don’t be surprised if they compete for the Big Ten title in year one or two and then swan dive to lower (Michigan-like) depths for a few years or more. Penn State did not have to reinvent the recruting wheel like Nebraksa might have to…and they still struggled after entrance to the Massive 10.
"I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re going and hook up with them later." M.H.
With relationships already built
i dont think that the recruiting can be that far off, with the super pelini-o brothers being from the rust belt area and having ties there. Our running backs coach is from the dallas area with strong connections there as well. I realize I’m looking at things through husker red colored glasses but i can also see your point of view. After a couple years its going to be interesting! GBR!!
by alex henery's foot on Jun 11, 2010 7:01 PM CDT up reply actions
No
Dammit, we claim the rivalry with Nebraska! We’re sick of this Michigan State garbage and that big pile of plywood abortion that is the Land Grant Trophy. We deserve a real rival, one that owes us the ’94 Championship.
Luring recruits with my new "Posting HD" scheme since '08.
We bring '94, You bring '82
Winner takes both home till next year. Of course we will need to inspect your sidelines first.
So I tried the Barbasol and Rotel dip and I was very dissapointed!
by Amonra on Jun 11, 2010 7:58 PM CDT via mobile up reply actions
Then we (Iowa) play the winner for
our MNC, which we are winning this year.
"I’m sick of following my dreams. I’m just going to ask them where they’re going and hook up with them later." M.H.
Stock up on Ro-Tel and Barbasol, motherhuskers.
And can I propose something? The Big Ten puts Iowa, Nebraska and Penn State in the same division. Throw in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and jNW — the latter being fun road trips, the former being…Minnesota. Because you guys need a 55 point win every year, I guess.
Leave the Indiana / Purdue / Illinois triumverate to join the Michigan / MSU / OSU trio. Because fuck those guys, all of ’em.
Got more suits than Jacoby and Meyers.
by Run Up The Score on Jun 11, 2010 8:20 PM CDT reply actions 7 recs
I'm on board with this plan.
That’s as balanced as it is going to get, and if I had to rank Iowa rivals Nebraska, Penn State, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and NW would all be in the top 5.
I'm with ya!
I can’t believe that it would be a simple east/west split. The OSU and Michigan elitists who invented football and the internet, and sliced bread and water based deuches, etc…… have to want to avoid a Big 12 North, part deux.
Dennis: Hi. I'm a recovering crack head. This is my retarded sister that I take care of. I'd like some welfare, please.
by RonnieHarmonsBookie on Jun 11, 2010 8:38 PM CDT up reply actions
I have to caution on this point
Wanting to avoid a Big 12 North redeux, no one saw at the time, what the Big 12 North became.
Back in the mid ’90’s when the Big 12 was formed, Nebraska was kicking ass and collecting MNC’s, and Colorado and KState were damn good too. Oklahoma was still reeling from the problems Switzer left them, and Texas was an underachiever. The North was the power division. But it didn’t last.
So, I don’t think you can intentionally “balance” the divisions, because crap happens. You can try, and I understand the goal. Just don’t be surprised if it doesn’t work out the way you thought it would.
Agreed.
Assuming no one else joins, split the Big TwelvEN on the east-west axis. No need to get cute.
by Midnight Rambler on Jun 12, 2010 8:23 AM CDT up reply actions
Understand what you're saying
but if you look over the long term you mitigate this. Colorado was doing in recent history, but they were 1-10 as recently as 1984 and were only getting to nine wins maybe half the time in the 10 years before the big xii. And the kansas state thing is misleading: they had one good season, the year before the big xii formed, and totally sucked before that…and I mean really, seriously poor at football.
If you look long term is really doesn’t make much sense to put OSU, PSU and UM on one side.
I know about your diabolical plan.
The ACC's attempt at balancing
has been an unmitigated disaster. Prior to Big Televen expansion, the ACC’s Coastal Division is probably the toughest in college football right now. Georgia Tech, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Miami, and North Carolina are all expected to be solid this year. (Poor Dook and Virginia. Wait, no sympathy for either of them.) The Atlantic Division and the Big 12 North have been in competition for worst divisions. Having Clempsen and F$U in the Atlantic was supposed to make it strong, but boy did that ever fail. It also broke up the GT/F$U series with a natural border rivalry.
Go with geography. It will be there forever, while strong programs come and go.
by NoDak_jacket on Jun 13, 2010 8:14 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Couldn't have said it any better.
Less memorable than Sam Okey's Hawkeye career.
by Kyle McCann't on Jun 14, 2010 2:48 PM CDT up reply actions
Yeah, that works.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
So it's agreed
I’ll call Delany and get the paperwork moving on Monday.
by Internet Legend on Jun 11, 2010 10:03 PM CDT up reply actions
But
I still want to play Ohio State every year.
"Now we can no longer hold back. It will be a terrible war." - Emperor Jim Delany I
by ReadingRambler on Jun 11, 2010 10:35 PM CDT up reply actions
Easy...
Just have to make the CG.
by Norm Parker's Amputated Toes on Jun 11, 2010 10:40 PM CDT up reply actions
Not good enough.
"Now we can no longer hold back. It will be a terrible war." - Emperor Jim Delany I
by ReadingRambler on Jun 11, 2010 10:45 PM CDT up reply actions
Protected Rivalry?
If you guys end up in the other half, I’d be disappointed not seeing PSU every year as well…
Fuck tOSU
But that would mean they couldn't play for the Land Grant Trophy every year
And I know that would break Rambler’s heart.
I actually love that split if the Big10 stops at 12 teams
I just get the feeling they aren’t done…
Fuck tOSU
Not done until we add Party Town Number One.
That’s right, AMES.
I got more rhymes than Wade Lookingbill's got dunks
by Adam Jacobi on Jun 11, 2010 10:46 PM CDT up reply actions
They don't need the Big10 anymore...
They’ll be part of the mighty Big East soon.
(now where did I put that sarcasm font?!)
Fuck tOSU
I thought it was LAMES
no really I hope they end up somewhere in a BCS conference. but that town sucks with a capital SUCKS
Notre Dame
The talk about how to split the Big TwelvEn probably won’t be relevant for too long, since sooner or later Notre Dame will get their head out of their ass and realize it’s not 1988 anymore.
A Big East school or three, maybe even Missouri, will probably be coming on board at some time.
by Midnight Rambler on Jun 12, 2010 9:27 AM CDT up reply actions
Check this out Hawks!
http://www.cornnation.com/2010/6/12/1512987/so-long-folks-a-historical-look-at
Long lost brothers!
"Not the victory but the action; Not the goal but the game;
In the deed the glory"
GO BIG RED!
OK, we're new here...
So forgive us while we ask the stupid newbie questions (i.e where’s the bathroom).
Here’s the first one.
What does the “j” in jNW stand for?
Just.
They’re just Northwestern.
"Nothing turns me on like doe estrus." - ReadingRambler
by leeharvey418 on Jun 12, 2010 9:08 AM CDT up reply actions
we'll forgive the "j" question. Once.
But if you have to ask about the “f” in front of OSU you’re just not going to be able to keep up.
(and welcome aboard, guys. Let the rivalry begin).
Friendly tip:
If the Metrodome bathroom’s a-rockin’, don’t come a-knockin’.
"I want to be a cowboy. I don't want to be a panda. Pandas are boring, stupid and boring. Bad panda!"
by RossWB on Jun 12, 2010 10:30 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
If you're at the Metrodome, you're in the wrong place
It’s like sending the freshman to the second floor of a one story high school. Don’t fall for it.
I fear for the Rose Bowl
It used to piss me off watching U of M and OSU go and lose inembarrassing fashion to USC in the Rose Bowl. Just think, within a couple of seasons, that might become a desireable outcome. I awoke in a cold sweat this morning picturing the headlines of the January 2, 2013 newspapers reading “Texas def. Nebraska 57-13 for Rose Bowl Title.”
by kingsbury_from_deep on Jun 13, 2010 3:17 PM CDT reply actions
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