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  1. Wingback

    Nebraska vs. ISU

    Good catch, Frak...and my sincere apologies. I failed to notice Osemele as a 3rd team All Big 12 selection. With that, Steele appears to disagree with me and would assess Iowa State as having a slight edge on the offensive line. I can live with that! With regards to Niles Paul, there is no...
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    Phil Steele's pre-season All Big 12 teams

    Of course you fail to mention SC Cy, that those two players, Crick and Amukamara, are also on Steele's first team All America team. You also fail to mention that five of Nebraska's 11 starters on defense make Steele's All Big 12 team. Nice try, though!
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    Nebraska vs. ISU

    Just out of curiosty, Melvin, if ARob is such a "stud," why does Steele rate him as the third best running back in the NORTH? Your anaylsis...FAIL!
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    Nebraska vs. ISU

    For those of you who charactarized me as some type of a no-minded idiot, based on my evaluation of this fall's Iowa State versus Nebraska game, Phil Steele (who's publication "Phil Steele's College Football Review" is widely regarded as the most authoritative and accurate of any of the college...
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    Revenue Sharing

    Interesting similarity, Wesley. I never thought of it that way. The imploding SWC "bought" the successful Big 8, then ran them into the ground! I honestly never thought of it that way. The Big 8 became a part of another Enron. Your post just might be the "post of the week."
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    Revenue Sharing

    Frank Broyles and Arkansas saw the hand-writing on the wall well before the actual SWC implosion (although the implosion was already coming down the hill like a runaway snowball). As a matter of fact, their departure actually hastened the impending implosion. Arkansas left the Southwest...
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    Revenue Sharing

    Frame it anyway you want to, cykadelic. The bottom line is that the Southwest Conference needed the Big 8 a whole lot more than the Big 8 needed the SWC. The Southwest Conference had absoutely the worst reputation in college athletics. It's main player, Texas, had become a non-factor and the...
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    Revenue Sharing

    Surely you jest, Rogue. Any conference that has two teams that have been as successfull over such a long period of time as Nebraska and Oklahoma would have been a shu-in to be a BCS Conference. The Big 8 could have brought in Wyoming, Colorado State, Air Force and Southwestern College of...
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    Misc: Will you be interested in the World Cup?

    NO! If I truly wanted to waste an afternoon, I'd sit out on my back deck and watch paint peel.
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    Revenue Sharing

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    Revenue Sharing

    If you track collegiate apparel sales over the past 25 years or so, Nebraska consistently has ranked within the top 10-15 in sales. That is very, very significant, especially when you consider the lack of population within the state. In a separate thread, I posted the top-50 in apparel sales...
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    Miller-Deace

    As long as it can arm-twist and control every decision that is made in it's current conference, my question is why would Texas go anywhere? They might, but they've got a pretty darned sweet deal with the Big 12. If they go anywhere, I don't think it's the Big 11 because I think some schools in...
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    Revenue Sharing

    Mark my words, Nebraska won't have to hitch it's wagon to Texas or Oklahoma or anybody else. History and tradition will be enough! Nebraska, over the years has developed a huge nationwide following. The state by itself, certainly doesn't have the television sets to make Nebraska relevant...
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    Revenue Sharing

    Now there's a startling revelation! Everything is about money when it comes to college sports (and a lot of other things, for that matter) so why would we assume the location of the Big 12 championship game would be otherwise. My question is why didn't the athletic directors, even for a...
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    Revenue Sharing

    The former members of the Big 8 Conference dropped their drawers for Texas and Texas A&M from day one! That is a known fact. There was only one conference school that had the courage to vote against the Texas schools on anything, and that was Nebraska. The remaining seven schools simply said...
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    Revenue Sharing

    Not arrogance at all. Maybe it was a lack of confidence on the part of the remainder of the North ADs, who must have thought they won't be playing in the game anyway, so why not let it stay in Texas.
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    Revenue Sharing

    And you're saying it was brilliant strategy for Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State and Colorado to vote to keep the Big 12 title game in Texas for the next number of years? Playing the game alternately in Kansas Ciy and in Texas certainly made more sense to anyone who had their brain engaged...
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    A&W Restaurants (root beer taste)

    There is no question that A & W fountain root beer has a much better taste than A & W in a can. Does anybody remember the old Dog 'n Suds chain. They never were anywhere as large as the A & W chain, but their root beer was unbelievable. The last one I saw was about eight or ten years ago in...
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    what CFB do you think is "America's Team"

    You asked for it...here it is! According to the Collegiate Licensing Company, here are the Top-50 Universities in licensed merchandise sales for the period January 1-March 31, 2010 (which is the latest reporting period). Bear in mind that this includes all sales, which would include football...
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    Revenue Sharing

    You're dead on,garn. If the remainder of the old Big 8 schools would have stuck together and not allowed themselves collectively to get railroaded by Texas and Texas A & M (my how we forget that it was the old Southwest Conference that was in trouble, not the Big 8), the landscape in the Big 12...
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