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I really hope that OU and UT fans and administration read this, because this is what happens when you leave one conference for another. UN went from running the conference along with OU, and UT, to just another team in a conference.
Hope they enjoy the money, but the days of calling the conference office and getting your way have ended.
A great lesson for UT and OU, if it can happen to UN, it can happen to you.
 
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SEIOWA CLONE said:
I really hope that OU and UT fans and administration read this, because this is what happens when you leave one conference for another. UN went from running the conference along with OU, and UT, to just another team in another conference.
Hope they enjoy the money, but the days of calling the conference office and getting your way have ended.
A great lesson for UT and OU, if it can happen to UN, it can happen to you.
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This is not even close to the same thing.
 
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IASTATE07 said:
This is not even close to the same thing.
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******** if it is not, the moment that UN left the big 12, they were never going to be given an easy schedule in the Big 10. Look at their schedules the first 4 years, lots of OSU, Mich, Penn. St and MSU, and few games against the weaker teams in the conference.

The Big 10 would look weak if a new team came in and won the title, and they were going to make sure that it did not happen, and if it did, then UN would earn it.
 
IASTATE07 said:
This is not even close to the same thing.
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It is not an exact comparison but it works as a broad analogy.

Texas and Oklahoma are the big dogs in the Big 12. In the Big Ten or the SEC, they would have to compete with the vested interests of Ohio State, Michigan, Alabama, and the other good old boys who are used to having things done their certain kind of way.

Texas might not like that too much.
 
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SEIOWA CLONE said:
I really hope that OU and UT fans and administration read this, because this is what happens when you leave one conference for another. UN went from running the conference along with OU, and UT, to just another team in a conference.
Hope they enjoy the money, but the days of calling the conference office and getting your way have ended.
A great lesson for UT and OU, if it can happen to UN, it can happen to you.
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Probably more for OU than UT. UT will be fine no matter where it is.
 
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Probably more for OU than UT. UT will be fine no matter where it is.
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Do you really think that UT and their arrogance will ever join a conference that they cannot pick up the phone and get their way? If they leave the conference they are just another team, a very big, important team, but do you think that OSU and Mich, or Alabama and LSU is ever going to give an inch to them?
That along with the LHN is the reason they will never leave the Big 12.
 
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SEIOWA CLONE said:
******** if it is not, the moment that UN left the big 12, they were never going to be given an easy schedule in the Big 10. Look at their schedules the first 4 years, lots of OSU, Mich, Penn. St and MSU, and few games against the weaker teams in the conference.

The Big 10 would look weak if a new team came in and won the title, and they were going to make sure that it did not happen, and if it did, then UN would earn it.
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If a team like Texas or Oklahoma were to leave for the Big 10 they would throw their weight around prior to joining the conference. They don't need to leave to make a killing or to compete for the playoffs. Nebraska doesn't offer anything close to what those two programs offer and they needed the Big 10 more than the Big 10 needed them.

What would an Oklahoma vs Ohio St Big 10 Title do for the conference? They wouldn't put Oklahoma through the gauntlet if that were a potential match up.
 
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IASTATE07 said:
If a team like Texas or Oklahoma were to leave for the Big 10 they would throw their weight around prior to joining the conference. They don't need to leave to make a killing or to compete for the playoffs. Nebraska doesn't offer anything close to what those two programs offer and they needed the Big 10 more than the Big 10 needed them.

What would an Oklahoma vs Ohio St Big 10 Title do for the conference? They wouldn't put Oklahoma through the gauntlet if that were a potential match up.
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You are fooling yourself if you think any conference is going to allow a new member to come into it and win the conference right away. It makes them look weak, if they allow it.
Why would OSU, Michigan or Penn. State allow UT or OU to throw their weight around? Once there are they going to leave again for another conference?
UN left because they saw that their influence in the conference was shifting to UT, so they took the easy way out and the money and joined the Big 10.
Screw UN, I just hope that UT and OU see what is happening to them and realize they can make as much money in the Big 12, and have a clear path to the 4 team playoff by staying. UT is number one in athletic spending and OU was 9th. They are running the Big 12, why leave?
 
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You are fooling yourself if you think any conference is going to allow a new member to come into it and win the conference right away. It makes them look weak, if they allow it.
Why would OSU, Michigan or Penn. State allow UT or OU to throw their weight around? Once there are they going to leave again for another conference?
UN left because they saw that their influence in the conference was shifting to UT, so they took the easy way out and the money and joined the Big 10.
Screw UN, I just hope that UT and OU see what is happening to them and realize they can make as much money in the Big 12, and have a clear path to the 4 team playoff by staying. UT is number one in athletic spending and OU was 9th. They are running the Big 12, why leave?
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You're kind of arguing all over the place and making some of my arguments.
 
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Before we get too carried away with what UNL was hoping for when they went B1G, let's remind ourselves of the real reason they left the BigXII.


2000 - Oklahoma
2001 - Colorado
2002 - Oklahoma
2003 - KState
2004 - Oklahoma
2005 - Texas
2006 - Oklahoma
2007 - Oklahoma
2008 - Oklahoma
2009 - Texas
2010 - Oklahoma
 
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SEIOWA CLONE said:
******** if it is not, the moment that UN left the big 12, they were never going to be given an easy schedule in the Big 10. Look at their schedules the first 4 years, lots of OSU, Mich, Penn. St and MSU, and few games against the weaker teams in the conference.

The Big 10 would look weak if a new team came in and won the title, and they were going to make sure that it did not.
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They play in the Big 10 West, they HAVE an easy schedule.

NU was most successful right after the move, reaching the title game in Year 2. It’s been nearly nearly a decade since they left, this has nothing to do with being the new team. Wisconsin plays Michigan, and next OSU, as cross-division rivals. Is the conference trying to keep them from the title game?

If NU was as well positioned in the Big 12 as you say, they would not have left. They left because they needed to. They aren’t a OU, UT, OSU, Michigan, so a conference affiliation that better subsidizes their decaying brand was important. You don’t see true big dogs moving, you see programs that aren’t content with their place moving. Hoping a bigger payday will change things, while leeching off others in the conference.

Further, one reason the Big 10 was generally more stable, and able to create wealth from a conference network, was because the caste system is much less in that conference.
 
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becrisgreg said:
Before we get too carried away with what UNL was hoping for when they went B1G, let's remind ourselves of the real reason they left the BigXII.


2000 - Oklahoma
2001 - Colorado
2002 - Oklahoma
2003 - KState
2004 - Oklahoma
2005 - Texas
2006 - Oklahoma
2007 - Oklahoma
2008 - Oklahoma
2009 - Texas
2010 - Oklahoma
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Also a reminder to not get carried away with worrying about Oklahoma
 
I’m not defending Frost, but he does point out a problem the mega conferences have with the scheduling inequities that come into play.
 
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