Maybe the Big 12 can trade West Virginia to the Big 10 for Nebraska. Might have to throw in a couple draft picks or a washing machine to sweeten up the pot.Geography, except for west Virginia, and the big 10 seems to not care about baseball
Otherwise, the whining is because our football team sucks.
Maybe the Big 12 can trade West Virginia to the Big 10 for Nebraska. Might have to throw in a couple draft picks or a washing machine to sweeten up the pot.
The SCHOOLS in the B1G are heavily liberal-leaning elitist group of schools.The Big 10 is a heavily liberal-leaning, elitist group of schools. Pretty much the antithesis of blue collar Nebraska. Nebraska is seen as a bunch of country bumpkins to the rest of the conference. Heck we aren't even AUA.
Ain't a fit, nor will it ever be.
The money generated from volleyball is miniscule.Nebraska built the blueprint for how women's volleyball can be an important, revenue sport for cold weather schools. The X is now the premier volleyball conference in the land, and if you watch the sport you know it's the most entertaining colligate sport to watch (yes, football included). Glad to have it.
Nebraska @ Rutgers, Texas @ West Virginia. Neither are fits, for a conference member. 1500+ miles from one another. Geographically speaking, both are horrible fits. Geographically, West Virginia is a better fit for the BIG than is Nebraska. Just like Nebraska is a better fit the same way for the Big 12. Not to mention, 80+ year old rivalries gone, fans can’t even really drive to road games. But hey, they got more money, that’s all that’s important right? The hell with the fans and the history.
I’m sure the big is most anxious for us to teach them something.They, the Big, then can learn from us.
I know exactly what youre saying, as having lived in the south for a few years, and thankful for it.
Thinking back, it was as close to moving back to Nebraska as I'll likely get.
But again, the Big can learn from us
In the right way, they should get what they bargained for, plus maybe moreI’m sure the big is most anxious for us to teach them something.
Your second paragraph sums up my feelings. We had been AAU for several decades, soon after we joined the BIG there was a push to kick NU out of the organization. If a couple of our BIG brothers would not have have voted to throw us out we would still be a member.I've traveled throughout the U.S. over my career, and in my opinion, Nebraska is more of a southern-type culture than an upper midwest/mideast culture. That doesn't mean it's in the south, but folks in Nebraska are a hell-of-a-lot near to Texas panhandle folk than yankees, and I mean no disrespect to yankees - it's just the truth.
The Big 10 is a heavily liberal-leaning, elitist group of schools. Pretty much the antithesis of blue collar Nebraska. Nebraska is seen as a bunch of country bumpkins to the rest of the conference. Heck we aren't even AUA.
Ain't a fit, nor will it ever be.
Lol, true that. It was just a point of reference regarding the distance.I'm trying to imagine West Virginia representatives in that first meeting at Big Ten HQ in Chicago.
Kansas = Rutgers. Right now, Iowa state is as good as anyone in the BIG not named Ohio state. Kansas state, Oklahoma state, TCU, and West Virginia can play with anyone in the BIG outside the top 2-3 teams. You have a point about the climate, but I’d argue, how many really cold games did NU really play in per year? 2-3, if that. It gets cold in Kansas, Colorado and Oklahoma. Volleyball will never be a revenue generating sport, except for a handful of teams. Add in the further travel costs, and that neutralizes things. My biggest thing is I can’t go to the games anymore by hopping in my truck and just taking off. Travel is double, for the most part. Is what it is.I'll play the other side.... Nebraska fits the Big X (X for short) just as well if not better than the Big XII (XII for short) in several areas. For starters, from a climate standpoint we are much more on par with the upper Midwest teams than we were the OU and Texas' of the world. 2nd, Volleyball. Nebraska built the blueprint for how women's volleyball can be an important, revenue sport for cold weather schools. The X is now the premier volleyball conference in the land, and if you watch the sport you know it's the most entertaining colligate sport to watch (yes, football included). Glad to have it.
Most importantly, we match with the X because we care. Just looks at football stadium sizes... the average stadium in the X is 72,495. Only two stadiums in the XII top that average. Look at coaches salaries, the average XII head coach gets $3.4 mil vs $4.9 mil in the X. In fact, of the coaches that have public data available, only Mike Locksley of Maryland made less than the average XII coach.
I understand, people like the familiar. But stop and think, did you like playing KU and ISU because they are close and we have so much in common with them, or because we always beat them? When I hear we need to "return to the Big XII" I can't help but wonder if people don't really miss being a big fish in a little pond.
That's one of the reasons I like Donald Trump. Big Husker fan!