Can we talk about Nebraska?...

[Al_4_State]

Have to laugh at all the Husker hating.
News flash: Iowa State, if invited to join the Big Ten, would have left the Big 12 too. In a second.

The difference of course is that Nebraska had the power and cache at the time to improve the Big 12, but they took their ball and went home. Mostly because Osborne had too big of an ego to work with Dodds.

ISU has never had that kind of clout, and pretty much the whole site save for you knows it. If Nebraska turns down the Big 10 back then, we'd likely still have the Big 12 as it was, and the idea that it was a step down from the Big 10 would be laughable.

 

[mj4cy]

Have to laugh at all the Husker hating.
News flash: Iowa State, if invited to join the Big Ten, would have left the Big 12 too. In a second.

What's your point? ISU fans also don't pretend they're national title contenders every year...

 

[mj4cy]

Oh please. You just stated your own opinions. Fine. You haven't provided a shred of factual evidence that "OSU runs the B1G."

You really think Big 10 regards Rutgers the same way they regard Ohio State?

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Funny comment earlier about not being able to get tickets to N volleyball games. Nice touch.

I too believe that ISU will be big winner in appointment/pay television viewing that is on the way. In my opinion, the Big 12 is in front of this thing regarding tv rights and knows something.

I spent a career in television and saw a dramatically changing model for delivering tv services. ISU and other schools with faithful fans will be leaders in showing the way in the new television world. A school like N will sign up people initially, but those subscriptions will drop off if N doesn't deliver a championship program.

This is the exact reason why the B1G wishes they never added Rutgers or Maryland. Cable subscriptions are dropping like a rock so the next round of realignment will be about eye balls and individual subscriptions, not price gouging a media market for the rights to air your ****** product. Anyone who thinks Iowa State is destined for the Mac or Mountain West is really underestimating the loyalty of our rapidly growing fan base. Iowa State will be just fine folks.

 

[Al_4_State]

Call me crazy, but as long as the Big 12 remains financially viable I want no part in the Big 10. The old Big 8 was our best cultural fit, and the Big 12 still houses the majority of the Big 8. We have history with 2 teams in the Big 10. The eastern half of the conference is farther away than Texas, and we have nothing in common with Penn State, Rutgers, Maryland, etc.

My semi-realistic pipe dream is that eventually all of the P5 + top G5 will break away and realign in NFL style divisions. Get 72 teams in 8, 9 team divisions. All divisions have an 8 game round robin schedule with 4 non-division games. Division champs go to 8 team playoffs, everyone else has bowls if they want it. This would allow for the Big 8 + Colorado State to be a thing.

That's what I want more than anything.

 

[Al_4_State]

You really think Big 10 regards Rutgers the same way they regard Ohio State?

Yes, he does.

 

[mj4cy]

Yes, he does.

SMH...it takes 5 minutes of research to see what schools get the primetime games and dates.

It's no different than the Big 12 never sending Texas north in cold weather.

 

[mj4cy]

This is the exact reason why the B1G wishes they never added Rutgers or Maryland. Cable subscriptions are dropping like a rock so the next round of realignment will be about eye balls and individual subscriptions, not price gouging a media market for the rights to air your ****** product. Anyone who thinks Iowa State is destined for the Mac or Mountain West is really underestimating the loyalty of our rapidly growing fan base. Iowa State will be just fine folks.

Yep, I've been saying this ever since the madness began. The whole "eyeball" argument will be short sighted. It was a great argument from 2000-2015, but who cares anymore if you can have access to any game from anywhere.

The only thing Rutgers has to offer is easy accesss for Michigan and Ohio State to recruit New Jersey talent.

 

[Tedcyclone]

Being from western iowa, and Growing up a mild Husker fan, what has happened to them is gross. Unreal that the Blackshirts have been reduced to what ever it is they are now.

 

[Cyclones_R_GR8]

Being from western iowa, and Growing up a mild Husker fan, what has happened to them is gross. Unreal that the Blackshirts have been reduced to what ever it is they are now.

When Pelini stopped giving Blackshirts out during summer camp and waited until several games in all Huskers fans did was whine "what about the blackshirts?"
Monday on the Big 10 radio show someone called in and asked why they even bother anymore. Every once in a while when the defense is giving up lots of yardage I will still tweet this out to #blackshirts #GBR and #Huskers just for fun

 

[ElephantPie]

Will be fun to play them (and beat them) in a bowl game some day.
FIFY

Could happen this year, depending on how things shuffle out for both teams
http://landgrantgauntlet.com/2017/09/13/a-bowl-appearance-swap-gives-us-a-big-12-vs-big-ten-matchup/

 

[Tedcyclone]

thats funny

 

[Gorm]

Oh man, if we met them in a bowl at both 6-6 and really smacked them that coach would be gone.

 

[NickTheGreat]

Being from western iowa, and Growing up a mild Husker fan, what has happened to them is gross. Unreal that the Blackshirts have been reduced to what ever it is they are now.

Some of us grew up in Western Iowa with Omaha media and grew to despise the Huskers. You, my friend, are describing Stockholm Syndrome.

 

[BillBrasky4Cy]

Some of us grew up in Western Iowa with Omaha media and grew to despise the Huskers. You, my friend, are describing Stockholm Syndrome.

Oh man, I always felt sorry for western Iowa folks who fell just outside of the Sioux City market. Back in the day Sioux City covered Nebraska football pretty heavily but having to live in Iowa and fall into an Omaha market would have been brutal!

 

[Tornado man]

The difference of course is that Nebraska had the power and cache at the time to improve the Big 12, but they took their ball and went home. Mostly because Osborne had too big of an ego to work with Dodds.

ISU has never had that kind of clout, and pretty much the whole site save for you knows it. If Nebraska turns down the Big 10 back then, we'd likely still have the Big 12 as it was, and the idea that it was a step down from the Big 10 would be laughable.

What BS. Yeah, Nebraska had so "power and cache" in the conference that the Big 12 (read Texas) took the Huskers' biggest annual game, and also the conference's - NU vs OU - and relegated it to every other year.
Who's ego again?

 

[Al_4_State]

What BS. Yeah, Nebraska had so "power and cache" in the conference that the Big 12 (read Texas) took the Huskers' biggest annual game, and also the conference's - NU vs OU - and relegated it to every other year.
Who's ego again?

What a classic example that illustrates my point.

Maybe if Nebraska had suggested the wild idea of permanent cross division rivals, and actually tried to work that out, change would have occurred.

 

[Tedcyclone]

Some of us grew up in Western Iowa with Omaha media and grew to despise the Huskers. You, my friend, are describing Stockholm Syndrome.

Ha... From Harlan, we got the Omaha World Herald. I didnt even know what ISU was until I went to school there. Nothing was on TV.

 

[Macloney]

Since they left the Big 12, they have been fading from existence in the KC/Lawrence area like a picture of the McFly kids.

It's like they are being erased from history and that isn't a bad thing. Every once in while I will see somebody with husker gear on and I kind of wonder what they are doing in Big 12 country. Hopefully someday, every once in a while sightings will cease all together.

 

[laminak]

What BS. Yeah, Nebraska had so "power and cache" in the conference that the Big 12 (read Texas) took the Huskers' biggest annual game, and also the conference's - NU vs OU - and relegated it to every other year.
Who's ego again?

Do you have a link that proves Texas came in and took away that game? I find it odd that you challenged another about OSU running the Big 10 and asked for links, yet you're doing it here.