IF that were to happen…PSU has to stay out east. There is no balance pitting

PSU OSU
Nebby vs
Iowa Mich
Wisky

I know Jon you don’t believe the B10 will keep OSU, MICH, and PSU in the same division but in all honesty you can’t believe it would be so unbalanced to have them over there.

Lets just hope there is no expansion.

Nebby would be my second choice, behind Texas. Either of those two schools would make me happy. Mizzu/Rutgers/Pitt just doesn’t get me excited.

I still say Notre Dame or bust. I might listen to Texas. But I won’t be sad if they ‘study’ expansion and decide to do nothing. The league makes boatloads of money now. The only reason they should allow another school to get a piece of the pie is if that school can increase the size of the entire pie. I think only Notre Dame and Texas would do that – not including a conference championship.

Screw Notre Dame. They have been leeches sucking on the Big 10 teams revenue for years. And worst, our conference & teams have let them! We should have cut the cord with them yrs ago & watch them implode on NBC. I would care less if they joined, although, they do make sense academically which is important to the Big 10.

What if the Big 10 kind of pushed the pace with Texas (the golden choice) & kind of gave them an alta matum (sp), like, “Will give you until …… to decide to be a part of the Big 10″. If no answer by …… unfortunately we will have to move on with other plans” And if they don’t accept, offer Nebraska & Missouri from the Big 12. Texas would realize the Big 12 might be imploding & bite on the offer if given a reasonable deadline. They may panic a bit & take it not to lose out on the Big10 $$. The Big 10 could really push their decision if they were to offer OK as the 3rd Big 12 team to join. It’s going to get interesting the next 12-18 months. I agree the Big 10 is not going to sit back & this is one time they are going to be proactive.

As a football and wrestling fan, its best to have Nebraska join the big ten. They are very competitive in both sports.

First of all, Nebraska’s glory days did not end in 1991. The Huskers won 3 national championships in the mid ’90′s. Something Iowa has NEVER even played for! Nebraska’s 1995 National Championship team has been repeatedly voted the single greatest college football team of all time!!! Secondly, Nebraska played Miami for the national championship as recently as 2001. So get your facts straight, MelroseHawkins!! If the Big 10 were to add Nebraska it would be adding more than just a football sleeping giant that has recently awoken. Nebraska currently has an undefeated women’s basketball team ranked in the top 5. They have an outstanding wrestling program. They also have one of the best volleyball programs in the country. Then there’s the baseball and softball teams that year in and year out go deep into the playoffs. Nebraska’s gymnastics teams are always outstanding as well. Lastly, a Nebraska-Iowa football game would be great to watch every year because Iowa would have to play a football program that kicked their ass the last two times they played Nebraska and the Huskers would annually continue to kick Iowa’s overrated asses!! But I honestly don’t think the Big 10 will add Nebraska because Kirk Ferentz is afraid to play Nebraska and he’ll put pressure on the Big 10 to invite some wimpy school like Rutgers or Cincinnati.

Texas will not be joining the Big 10. Delaney has said that they are looking to retain some semblance of geographic logic & proximity. Iowa is the closest to Austin, and that’s still over 1000 miles away. Happy Valley to Austin is 1700 miles. Not gonna happen. Texas to the Big 10 is crazy talk and makes no sense. Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, Missouri, Nebraska. I think it’s likely to be one of those.

To kuhntz-all of college football knows that Iowa State’s upset of Nebraska was a total fluke made possible by eight turnovers. Iowa State didn’t beat Nebraska. Nebraska beat themselves. Even coach Rhodes admitted that after the game. The two ass kickings Iowa took by Nebraska may have been in Ferentz’s first two years but it was also early in Solich’s coaching stint. Nebraska was also in transition. So your transition argument makes no sense. Stop making excuses. If Solich could win big with the previous coach’s players then Ferentz should have been able to as well. And for your information, one of the first things Pelini did as head coach was to call Iowa’s athletic director to set up a home and home. Iowa turned him down. I guess Iowa would rather play 1AA Northern Iowa, a team that should have beaten them last year if not for the “lucky” two blocked field goals. And since we’re talking about common opponents from last season, there’s Arizona. I remember watching Iowa struggle against Arizona last year only to see Iowa pull out the win. When Nebraska played Arizona, the Wildcats were at full strength after having had the entire season to jell as a team. Nebraska totally destroyed Arizona!! Come on Iowa, man up and schedule Nebraska. But you won’t, because Nebraska is a sleeping giant that has just woken up and nobody wants to play them now. CHICKENS!!!

As much as I want to play Nebraska and shut those tards up, would it really be worth to then have to put up wtih them ALL the time. They are seriously the WORST college football fans to be around.

Mr. Huskerfan….you remember Iowa struggling with Arizona? That same game where Iowa lead 27-10 with under 2 minutes to go? Where their only TD came off a Stanzi ball? I was impressed with the way Nebby handled AZ in the bowl…but to consider Iowa’s game against them lucky to pull out, just show’s how ignorant you are.

to kuhntz-I also remember Iowa struggling with 1AA Northern Iowa, Michigan State, Indiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Penn State and Ohio State. Iowa only dominated one team all year but because they survived and moved on and found themselves at 9-0 heading into the Northwestern game, the BCS felt obligated to rank them in their top ten. It’s called winning with smoke and mirrors. Just because Iowa was 9-0 didn’t mean they were a good team. They survived, that’s all. They didn’t dominate. Now they go out and recruit 2A football players from farm towns in Iowa rather than blue chip athletes from the south. James Morris? Tanner Miller? A’J Derby? Come on. Did anybody else in America recruit those guys? Probably not! Enjoy this next season Hawkeye fans. You have every difficult team on your schedule coming to Iowa City. You are set up perfectly for a run at a national championship. But if you don’t get it done this year, it won’t get done. Stanzi leaves, your schedule the following year actually has some tough road games and guys like Morris and Miller will be your starters. How long has Ferentz been at Iowa? Eleven years? And not a national championship? Not even played for the title! How long are you loud mouth Iowa fans gonna’ wait on Ferentz to deliver? And with slow, Iowa plowboys getting scholarships rather than quick, blue chip athletes from the big cities, Iowa won’t ever play for a title with Ferentz at the helm. So enjoy your run next year because your glory days are numbered. And don’t be surprised if you find yourself in the title game with Nebraska. The Huskers have virtually their entire offense, defense and special teams back. They get most of their tough games in Lincoln and Pelini’s 4A and 5A recruits that he’s redshirted will be starters this coming season. I can only hope and pray that Nebraska gets the chance to kick Iowa’s ass AGAIN!!

BTW huskermale(are we sure?)that crusty ‘ol cheat,sometimes known as tom osborne,KNOWS very well that huskerville can’t bring anything,nothing,zero to the table,in order to be added to the BIG10.He is very afraid of being left out.
BTN(the BIG TEN Network)is in 73,000,000 home today transman.Thats 24/7,365 days a year of THE BIG10 brand & no one can find anything on the big12.Your tired old goofy conference still has games on pay-per-view…what a laffer.The big12 has 1 school,texas & that school is overrated.
Any chance huskerguy you can live in the present?
didn’t think so.
Kirk Ferentz would beat little-bo-peep,eight days a week.Out coach him,out class him,get back on the bus huskerdude,you can’t measure up(in ALL ways)to the University of Iowa & the BIG10.
Deal w/ it.

Huskerman, to put things in perspective Iowa decisively beat three teams who finished in the top 15 (Penn State, Wisconsin and Georgia Tech) and lost to Ohio State at Columbus in overtime; a team that beat Oregon and finished in the top 5.

Most teams who finish in the top 10 find ways to win a close game or two during the regular season and that is what makes a team a top ten team, they find ways to win close games and at times against a team that is a heavy underdog. Check it out. Every year a a few top ten team struggles against a lesser team or two but finds a way to win the game. Case in point, back in the 1990′s Nebraska beat Missouri (a heavy under dog) on a 4th down pass play that was deflected by a Missouri defender but a Nebraska player managed to catch the deflected ball before the ball hit the ground for the go ahead TD on the last play of the game. Had he not caught the ball Nebraska would not have won the NC.

to riverhawk62-I wasn’t comparing any “girly” sports to Iowa. I was simply explaining that Nebraska was more than a football school. Other than their men’s basketball program, they are quite successful at all of their other sports. If Nebraska and Iowa were to play each other in every sport, Iowa would beat Nebraska in wrestling and in football the home team would win. But Nebraska would beat Iowa in all other sports. Baseball, softball, women’s basketball, gymnastics, volleyball, etc. The Big Ten will choose a school who brings more than just football. That’s why Nebraska is a perfect fit for the conference. But your limited Iowa school logic failed to understand my simple point. Why am I not surprised? And by the way, The Big 12 has more than just Texas. I don’t see Iowa playing Oklahoma or Oklahoma State. If Iowa were to play either of those teams as well as Texas in football, the Hawkeyes MIGHT come away with one win in three tries. That win would be against Oky State. And it was Oky State who helped Iowa get that BCS at large bid. If Oky State had not gotten beat by Oklahoma, Iowa doesn’t go to the Orange Bowl. Iowa can also thank Pitt and Nebraska for losing at the end of the year. If either one of those teams wins, Iowa doesn’t go to the Orange Bowl. Just shows you how LUCKY Iowa is to be in a conference that doesn’t have a conference championship game. Most of the BCS conferences play their way into a BCS bowl game. Iowa sits at home and watches very good teams lose in that extra game, then watches a BCS at large bid fall into their laps. What a joke!! To address your assumtion that the Big 12 North is weak. Well look at the coaching turnover in the North. All but Missouri has gotten a new head coach in the last 3 years. Any time you have 5 out 6 teams with a new coach you’re going to have a drop in recruiting as well as wins. But the Big 12 is not just the North You failed to mention the dominance of the South. I don’t see Iowa scheduling any Big 12 South schools. Why is that?

As always huskerdude,you fail to deal in current facts.No answer for the BTN? didn’t think so.A conf. that still shows games on pay-per view,wildly stupid management.That’s what your pointed-head-logic doesn’t understand.That ‘ol,over-rated coach t.o.,can’t deliver the tv viewers that the BIG10 demands.You don’t have the following for what it takes to step up & be a part of a “brand” that huskerville is “dying & longing” for.The big12 has limited,strange,wierd,inconsisitant marketing.Again,today,the BTN is in 73,000,000 homes!!,24/7,365 days a year.& there is NO-WAY,the big12 can start a network now,not w/ these economic time,plus,they donts have the poulation to justify it.The BTN is in Des Moines,Minneapolis,Chicago,Indianapolis,Cleveland,Cincinati,Philadelphia,Pittsburg,etc.Major metro areas that deliver the tv sets that the’old chaet Tom Osborne can’t.Oh yeah,conf. championships are really good for your po-dunk conf.,…………..up untill this year,the combined score for the last 5 was 755-55,south over north.That says a-lot about how gr8t your championship games look to the rest of the world.The bottom line huskercaveman,is you can’t live in the present.&,as always,your “win” record is tied to a weak schedule & pure luk.Please,don’t look @ strength of schedule:n-boys,#58.Iowa,#28th.Bottom line:why do you “ALWAYS” deal in “IF’s” & not logical facts??Can’t handle it?,can’t read?,you were abused as a child?,which is it,…..please explain.

‘fess up huskerdude,you sit on the couch,Capn’Crunch spilling onto your shirt,watching the BTN,& saying,”gosh,i wish we had a channel that shows my cornholers doin’ what they do(insert laff sound here)so i could do headstands while wearing my warm,fuzzy go-big-red pajammas,in the comfort of my nice mobile-home,…LOL!!

riverhawk62-you seem to be carrying on an argument with yourself. I never questioned Iowa’s dominance in wrestling. I never questioned the Big Ten Networks far reaching signal. Why are you harping on topics I happen to agree with you on? The Big Ten Network is quite an awesome network. I admit that. That’s the reason I never argued with you about it. We agree on the BTN. I live within 30 miles of Iowa City. I root for Iowa wrestling! I’ve been to Carver-Hawkeye Arena several times to see Iowa wrestlers kick the shit out of their opponents. When it comes to Iowa wrestling you are preaching to the choir. I AM A FAN!! Stop arguing with me on topics we agree on. But the Iowa wrestling program is the only Iowa sport I cheer for. I’ve also been to Kinnick Stadium to see Iowa football games. I am a Husker fan all the way!!! But I do respect Iowa’s kick ass dominance in wrestling. You keep calling Tom Osborne a cheater yet you give no proof. You do realize he had 255 wins and only 47 losses, right? That’s not a cheater. That’s one hell of a football coach! He could have had another national championship in ’84 had he kicked the extra point and tied Miami but he went for 2 and lost. That was the classiest move most people have ever seen in college football! He was a true gentleman. He never cussed. His football program was never on any kind of probation. He tried to recruit fine, young gentlemen to play football for him even though he occasionally got a bad apple, like Lawrence Phillips. He had to put up with Barry Switzer and his arrogance every year. One year, 1978 I think, Nebraska finally beat Oklahoma and who did the Orange Bowl pick as an opponent for Nebraska? Oklahoma! And you know what? Osborne didn’t complain one bit. Most coaches would have cried foul and bitched to the media. It wasn’t a fair move on the Orange Bowl’s part but Osborne, the gentleman that he was, took on the challenge of playing the Sooners twice in the same year and he rose above the name calling and complaining. And as an Athletic Director, Nebraska sports in general have been quite successful. He’s a winner at everything he does!! So where is your proof that he’s a cheater? By the way, the reason the Big 12 South has dominated the North is because the South has tenured head football coaches who have established programs. The North has 5 teams with new coaches with less than 3 years experience. I pointed that out to you earlier today but I guess your Hawkeye limited brain capacity was unable to understand my point. But I noticed you failed to answer my question when I asked you why the all mighty Iowa football program won’t schedule any Big 12 South teams. Afraid? If Iowa is gonna’ be an elite team they’re going to have to eventually drop 1AA Northern Iowa and play a tough team. Nebraska has played Big Ten teams in the past. Check their past schedules. They blew out Michigan State twice. Kicked the shit out of Iowa twice. Beat up on Minnesota twice. Shall I go on? They beat Michigan in the Alamo Bowl. They beat Michigan State in the Alamo Bowl when Pelini was the interim coach. I think that makes the score Nebraska 8 Big Ten 0 !!! And that’s in just the last 15 years. Because God knows if I bring up any Nebraska football wins that go back farther than 15 years I’ll get branded as some Husker fan who’s still living in the past. You also failed to answer my question when I asked you how much longer Iowa fans will be patient with Ferentz not even getting near a national championship game. How many millions does he make and he’s been at Iowa 11 years with no title to show for it!! Oh, I noticed an Iowa running back defected today. Bet he sits out a year and goes to a school where he thinks he’ll play for a title. Not at Iowa. He knows Iowa will lose, AGAIN, to Ohio State!! Ha Ha!!

Jon,

Here’s a question I haven’t heard answered yet. Are contracts concerning non-conference games being considered? If Nebraska joins the Big Ten, (or anybody else) many Big Ten teams may have to adjust non-conference schedules and possibly renig on a few deals, but Nebraska has not only a non-conference schedule, but a Big 12 schedule that it would renig on.

I guess what I was thinking was that if Nebraska, or Texas, or whoever, joined the Big Ten, how far after the announcement do they actually join? If I remember correctly, with Penn State they waited one year, but they were an independent at the time with no previous conference memership backlash to consider.

to riverhawk62-Yes, Nebraska has a favorable schedule this upcoming year. But that doesn’t happen very often. Last year Nebraska had to travel to Mizzou, Kansas, Colorado and Virginia Tech. They hosted Oklahoma and Texas Tech. This coming year all of Nebraska’s tough games will be in Lincoln, except the game against Jake Locker and the Washington Huskies. The Big 12 North conference schedule flip flops every other year. So one year it could be full of tough road games and the next year those tough teams come to Lincoln. But just look at Iowa’s schedule. It’s even easier than Nebraska’s. Every tough team on on Iowa’s schedule comes to Iowa City! And you say Nebraska has the easiest schedule in the country? You need a reality check!! At least you don’t see Nebraska scheduling any 1AA schools. They may schedule some cup cakes, and who doesn’t do that, but they don’t schedule any 1AA schools. And if you look at Nebraska’s pre conference schedules going back several years, you’ll notice that they always schedule one team that is fairly good if not down right very good. They just finished a home and home with Virginia Tech. Before that they played a home and home with USC. They just signed a home and home contract with Miami of Florida. Like I said before. If you wanna’ be an elite football program you can’t shy away from the tough games. There may come a day when Iowa and another team are both ranked very high and the deciding factor on who gets to play for the national title may come down to strength of schedule. If I were Iowa I would drop 1AA Northern Iowa and I’d pick up a fairly competitive team that isn’t down right great like an Oky State or an Oregon or maybe a Tennessee or possibly a Notre Dame. That just might put Iowa over the top and be what they need to convince the pollsters that they are an elite program. So before you call Nebraska’s schedule the easiest in the country, look at your own team’s schedule first!

to riverhawk62-Nobody in their right mind would think that UNI could beat Nebraska. The game wouldn’t even be close. It would probably be like the Holiday Bowl where Arizona didn’t cross midfield until halfway through the fourth quarter when Nebraska started putting in their fourth and fifth string. UNI does not have the athletes to compete with a school that recruits and starts 4 and 5 star recruits. UNI nearly upset Iowa because Iowa rarely lands a 4 star recruit, let alone a 5 star recruit. The talent gap between Iowa and UNI is not that wide. However, if UNI were to go into Lincoln, Nebraska’s blue chip recruits would embarrass them and the game would be a blowout. I like coach Farley up at UNI. He gets the most out of other people’s leftovers. He takes kids that nobody else wants and wins with them. He really should be coaching at a D1 school. But for you to say that UNI would beat Nebraska just shows that you’re trying to get a reaction out of me and that won’t happen. I won’t stoop to your level.
Nebraska has great tradition. That’s what you’ll see at any Nebraska game. The sayings on the walls or the chants and the cheers or the way they conduct themselves all goes back to the early ’60′s when Bob Devaney took a rag tag bunch of losers and turned them into back to back NATIONAL CHAMPIONS! I could make fun of Iowa and how they hold hands and come out onto the field like a swarm of bees or how the band plays that goofy bar song IN HEAVEN THERE IS NO BEER or how Iowa plays Minnesota for a stupid looking trophy of a pig called Floyd Of Rosedale or how the visitors locker room is painted in pink but again, why would I stoop to your level? There’s a lot of weird and silly traditions in college football. It’s all part of the game.
Nebraska fans don’t feel they are entitled to anything. They are a very confident bunch. There’s a big difference between feeling entitled and being confident. That’s what happens when your team wins consistently. You become confident. We have learned the hard way that anything can happen on any given Saturday. Coming within 4 points of going 13-1 humbles you real fast. Losing to a lowly Cyclone team because of 8 stupid turnovers sends a message that winning requires hard work. Once Iowa gets to the point of actually winning national championships you will understand what I’m talking about. Until then, you simply won’t.
Nebraska’s 2010 schedule is 2/3rd’s set by the conference. Nebraska only has control over it’s first 4 games. The rest of the schedule the Big 12 determines for them. Nebraska has no control over how crappy Kansas State will be or how tough Texas could be. Just like Iowa has no control over how bad Minnesota could be or how good Ohio State might be. You play the teams you are forced to play and hope you win those games. But still, Nebraska does not schedule 1AA schools like Iowa. And if they were to, they wouldn’t need two lucky blocked field goals to win the game, AT HOME!
Somebody once pointed out that when two people debate a topic and one person resorts to bad language and name calling, that person has run out of intelligent ideas and has lost the argument. You have consistently called me and my team names and resorted to sophomoric and immature slander. Just scroll up to see some of the childish comments you have posted. Debating with someone who resorts to such things is pointless. So, I will say this. Good luck on your upcoming season. I think Iowa will be highly ranked all season long. I think that if Iowa stays healthy and they play good old fashioned Iowa football, they could find themselves undefeated and playing for a national championship. I believe my Huskers will also be highly ranked all season and they could also run the table and be playing for a national championship. Let’s hope both Iowa and Nebraska will play each other for the title. If that happens then maybe we can make a little wager and we will finally learn just which team is better.

You have just gone out of your way to prove my point. What an immature and childish post!!

Wowowo,…YOU prove my point huskerrodent,an ‘old man that crys’ over a football game & you defend it,& you wonder why your “klan” gives such comedy relief to the world.Lastly,if this was on a husker “board”,a Hawkeye fans debate like this would not be tolerated…….shows the class of the Hawkeye nation.Again.Thanks for not letting us down man.

Husker, from what I see you came on our board talking trash about how Ne has kicked Iowas ass the last two times played, GO HOME!!!
You started this trash talk typical of a errogant cornholer fan.
Never ends with the cornholers..”the best of all time, the best fans ever” bla bla bla. A grown man crying over a loss to ISU is funny no matter how you look at it. My God where do some of you people come from. Give Iowa some respect would you. Ne has had a great FB program over the years, you have enjoyed some great games and have some great memories I’m sure..good for you, now let Iowa do the same instead of making sure we know just how great the mighty cornholers have been. I’m sure in your world the Huskers come first then God and wives and kids and everything else.

to riverhawk62-Again, all accusations but no facts to back it up. Where’s the proof that Osborne ever cheated? Still waiting for that! You resort to sarcasm and bitterness instead of rebutting my questions. WHERE IS THE PROOF? 255 wins and only 47 losses in 25 years! That’s one hell of a coach. Ferentz will NEVER achieve those kinds of numbers!! WHERE IS THE PROOF THAT OSBORNE EVER CHEATED? Well, all of Hawkeye Nation is waiting!!!

to riverhawk62-now you’re just avoiding the question you refuse to answer because you have no proof to back up your claim that Osborne ever cheated. Tom Osborne got out of coaching to pursue a career in politics. He ran for congress and won. After serving his country he returned to Nebraska and became the Athletic Director. He didn’t quit coaching because of limited scholarships. Scholarships being limited had happened years before he left coaching. And he certainly didn’t leave because of stronger competition. His last recruiting class went on to play for the national championship against Miami of Florida in the 2001 Rose Bowl. Had he stayed at Nebraska, his teams would have continued to be highly ranked, go to major bowl games and play for championships. By the way, his recruits went on to kick your Iowa Hawkeyes’ asses in 1999 and 2000! So, step up and provide the proof that Osborne was a cheater. Hawkeye Nation is STILL waiting. Your Iowa BOYS are watching to see if you’re gonna’ defend your claim or if you’re gonna’ crumble just like your Iowa teams did to the Huskers the last two times they played!!! Once again, Iowa LOSES!!! Give it up man, you FAIL!!!