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WOW, This will kill the Big 12
The Big 12 appears to be dead.
A source close to the Nebraska Board of Regents told Orangebloods.com the regents informally agreed Wednesday to move to the Big Ten and that a formal announcement Nebraska is leaving will come Friday.
Sources close to Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech have suggested to Orangebloods.com over the last week that if Nebraska leaves, the Big 12 can't be saved.
Texas athletic director DeLoss Dodds and president Williams Powers gathered UT coaches today at 2 p.m. CT to tell them they did everything they could to save the Big 12 but that they were unsuccessful.
Just as Orangebloods.com was first to report last Thursday, the Pac-10 will invite Texas, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech and Colorado.
And it appears those invitations will be accepted.
According to sources, Colorado will also opt out of the Big 12 and accept an invitation to the Pac-10.
A legislative source with knowledge of Texas A&M said officials from A&M and Texas will meet on Thursday to discuss all the goings on and to make sure they are on the same page if the Big 12 falls apart.
According to sources, A&M and Oklahoma both have had conversations with the SEC. A&M's conversations with the SEC may have been to appease A&M regent Gene Stallings, who won a national title as coach at Alabama and would love to see the Aggies in the SEC.
But Orangebloods.com has learned Gov. Rick Perry, a diehard Aggie, will work to make sure Texas and Texas A&M stay together.
Other sources have said that Texas Tech, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State will do whatever Texas and A&M are doing.
A source said Texas and Texas A&M remained steadfast in lobbying for the Big 12 to stay together until Nebraska's decision to leave became evident.
Sources said the six Big 12 schools would begin participating in the expanded Pac-10 beginning in 2012. That should make for an incredibly uncomfortable next two football and basketball seasons with the schools who could be left behind.
What remains to be seen is if there will be any schools left to collect the buyout penalties of $10 million for bolting the conference. You need a super majority of nine votes to dissolve the Big 12.
But with the Mountain West putting off its vote on Boise State on Monday, it's obvious there will be bidders for what's left of the Big 12.
Missouri, which sent its Big 12 brethren scrambling a year ago when its governor said he thought the Big Ten would be a good fit for the Tigers, still appears to be waiting for an invitation from the Big Ten, according to multiple sources.
An athletic director with knowledge of the Big Ten said, "Missouri is getting cold shoulder from Big Ten."
Joe Schad of ESPN reported Wednesday that the Big Ten list of interest for expansion goes like this: 1) Notre Dame 2) Nebraska 3) Rutgers and/or Maryland.
The deadline for the Big 12 to pledge allegiance to each other is Monday. With the conference seemingly coming apart, the question is if there will be a super majority of nine votes needed to dissolve the conference.
Associated Press
Dan Beebe and the Big 12 appear to be at the mercy of Nebraska and other outside forces.
Nebraska's regents have a formal meeting in Lincoln on Friday. That's when it's expected an official announcement about Nebraska's departure will come. Although, news breaking could expedite that announcement.
BIG 12's FINAL SUPPER ON JUNE 14?
Two different executives in the Big 12 confirmed to Orangebloods.com Wednesday morning the hard deadline for Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado and the entire Big 12 to pledge their allegiance to each other is Monday, June 14.
A high-level executive at a Big 12 institution said there had been informal conversations about who to add to the Big 12 if schools start to leave. Those schools have included BYU and Air Force.
But that same executive as well as others in the Big 12 South have told Orangebloods.com the conference will not survive if Nebraska leaves - no matter who else stays or goes.
If Nebraska were to stay in the Big 12 and Missouri and Colorado were to leave, for example, the sense is the Big 12 could attempt to add schools like BYU and Air Force to the Big 12 North and move ahead.
BAYLOR'S FIGHT FACING RESISTANCE?
Since Orangebloods.com reported last Thursday that the Pac-10 was looking to add the Big 12 South (minus Baylor) and Colorado, legislators and lobbyists loyal to Baylor have launched an all-out effort in the Texas Legislature to ensure that Baylor remains with the rest of the Big 12 South if it were to move to the Pac-10.
That effort appears to have fallen short, because Colorado officials, who met Tuesday night, have agreed to accept a big to the Pac-10, according to multiple sources.
One top source close to the possible merger between the Pac-10 and six Big 12 schools said some schools in the Pac-10, including California-Berkeley, have a real issue with adding an institution with religious ties like Baylor to the conference.
GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION?
It has been expressed to Orangebloods.com by a top collegiate executive that any movement toward four, 16-team super conferences will be met with resistance by Congress.
The executive said that could be bad news for college athletics because Congress has already taken some cursory looks at the fact athletic departments enjoy a tax-exempt status as part of their universities.
The executive said if it appears the rich are getting richer in college athletics, there will be a hard look at whether to take away the tax exempt status of athletic departments.
"And it won't just be Orin Hatch (a member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee from Utah and longtime BCS critic) looking into this," the source said.
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The Big-12 has only been around since 1996, so it's not like they truly are an "established" Conference.
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Heard the pac10 might be the pac16 now, with teams from texas and colorado joining, seems to me that 16 teams would be to many in one division, should be interesting
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pac 16 East would by the 6 teams from the B12 and arizona and arizona state.
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There was talks that Boise State wanted to join the PAC 10 or Big 12.
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I read that boise would join the MWC which would make since. Joining the Pac would be stupid for them.
I figure big ten will pick up rutgers and syracuse. The big east will also become a defunct football conference but not in basketball imo.
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This just sucks :furious As a young man living in Columbia Mo., we always looked forward to Tom Osborne and his gang coming to town to play the Tigers. I swear there was more orange in the stands the black and gold. Those were some fun times.
The Big-12 has only been around since 1996, so it's not like they truly are an "established" Conference.
Yeah. I don't understand why they don't take 2 of the 4 they added to the big 8, and send them packing. It just makes no sense to me.
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This should be an interesting year then.
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Uptown, i believe missouri is going to the big 10 too. And i dont see this going into effect until next season...
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Uptown, i believe missouri is going to the big 10 too. And i dont see this going into effect until next season...
WHAT! :furious This is not a change I can believe in!!!!!! :furious :furious :furious
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Lame.
Oh, and uptown, you are now my mortal enemy.
jk :cheers:
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I read that boise would join the MWC which would make since. Joining the Pac would be stupid for them.
I figure big ten will pick up rutgers and syracuse. The big east will also become a defunct football conference but not in basketball imo.
It would be funny as hell to see Texas move to the SEC
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I must have been hiding under a rock.. or was it a rock lobster?
First I heard of this was Monday..
A conference with a Nebraska and no Oklahoma? :confused:
THAT's what caused the end of the the Inca ( or Mayan? ) calendar to be in 2012.
Just ain't natural!
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I think this is fraking retarded if it really happens. No need whatsoever for conferences that big. It just fraks the regular season and ensures that teams in the same conference will regularly not play each other, destroy non-protected rivalries, trash non-conference schedules. And that's just football. In basketball you'll never see another home and home series again.
I hope the Big Ten adds just one team to make it a conference of 12, no more than that. I was hoping for Notre Dame, if its not Notre Dame, I'd rather see an east coast school (like Rutgers) than Nebraska. I'd also rather see the Big East die a painful death (like they deserve) than a decent conference like the Big 12.
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Lame.
Oh, and uptown, you are now my mortal enemy.
jk :cheers:
:lol Rgr that! But now if they take Missouri out of the conference too, that kills a rivalry going back over 100 years. I just don't know what the NCAA is thinking on this whole mess. I never miss a Missouri/Kansas hoops game. Is that now over too? :cry
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Its all about the money, the Big Ten Network(B10 TV) is trying to get to 70 million TVs, right now their at 35. Texas and Notre Dame did hold all the chips but now its more of Texas holding all the chips. Texas can make its own conference and television network(Like BYU), but once you get Texas, you get its "little brothers" A&M and Tech. Not on the same scale but once you get Oklahoma you get Oklahoma State. I don't know why the Pac 10 wants Colorado. I don't see Texas moving into the SEC, more of a choice that I see is Florida State, Miami and Georgia Tech, but I do not see that happening.
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It would be funny as hell to see Texas move to the SEC
Never happen...in the early '90s they snubbed the SEC along with FSU for whatever reason and the SEC went with South Carolina and Arkansas.
I don't believe that the SEC will expand into Texas at all. Current thought process is that IF the SEC expands you will see them going after the ACC schools to solidify the southeastern states almost 100%. IF that happens then look for these 4 schools to get invites first with the rest of these being backups. 1)FSU, 2)GT, 3)Clemson, 4)Miami; North Carolina, NC State, Duke and Virginia to get invites in case one of these others backs out of the initial ones. GT was a charter member of the SEC way back in the beginning and they bailed out when Tulane did years ago. It would screw up the East and West divisions of the SEC but that is just something they can fix easily.
Texas....never coming to the SEC because they don't want to get paid the same amount as everyone else in the conference and they don't want to be hammered week in/week out.
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Im interested where Kansas and Kansas St. Basketball will go to, they will probably end up in the Mountain West but I don't see why the NCAA gives the Big East a automatic bid but not the MWC. Especially if Boise St. comes to the MWC, they could defiantly be a conference to look for.
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Being from and currently living in Nebraska I'm a little torn with this. On one hand it's sad to know that KU, KSU, Mizzu and yes even ISU won't always be on the schedule.(i didn't leave colorado out by mistake either) I hope that these schools definitely find a good home. Oh well, at least since I'm most probably a bigger Pittsburgh Penguin hockey fan then I am a Husker fan then at least I can now have TWO reason's to go to Penn! Also, maybe with the Big 12 being gone...we can FINALLY get the NU-OU game back EVERY YEAR!
Beating up on Iowa every year is gonna be sooooo fun to watch :aok
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Never happen...in the early '90s they snubbed the SEC along with FSU for whatever reason and the SEC went with South Carolina and Arkansas.
I don't believe that the SEC will expand into Texas at all. Current thought process is that IF the SEC expands you will see them going after the ACC schools to solidify the southeastern states almost 100%. IF that happens then look for these 4 schools to get invites first with the rest of these being backups. 1)FSU, 2)GT, 3)Clemson, 4)Miami; North Carolina, NC State, Duke and Virginia to get invites in case one of these others backs out of the initial ones. GT was a charter member of the SEC way back in the beginning and they bailed out when Tulane did years ago. It would screw up the East and West divisions of the SEC but that is just something they can fix easily.
Texas....never coming to the SEC because they don't want to get paid the same amount as everyone else in the conference and they don't want to be hammered week in/week out.
i know that Texas would never go to the SEC. Mack would stop it from happening. Just have to wait and see what happens to the rest of the remaining Big 12 teams.
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i know that Texas would never go to the SEC. Mack would stop it from happening. Just have to wait and see what happens to the rest of the remaining Big 12 teams.
pac 10 is reported to give invitations to the six b12 teams.
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pac 10 is reported to give invitations to the six b12 teams.
Yea, how many are willing to go.
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Yea, how many are willing to go.
Id put down all, especially because the big fish in the pond got hit with 20 scholarships lost and no bowls for 2 seasons.
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ESPN reporting that colorado is heading to the Pac 10.
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:lol Rgr that! But now if they take Missouri out of the conference too, that kills a rivalry going back over 100 years. I just don't know what the NCAA is thinking on this whole mess. I never miss a Missouri/Kansas hoops game. Is that now over too? :cry
I'd say the rivalry goes back even further than 100 years, it was born out of conflict and bloodshed.
(http://www.cs.cornell.edu/nystrom/images/Antietam/mediafiles/l17.jpg)
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Sounds like USC may have their 2004 season stripped and handed over to Oklahoma.
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GOOOOO BIGGGGGGGG REDDDDDDDD! GO BIG RED!(to the pac 10)
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Actually, the latest has UT perhaps going to the SEC. Which would mean there would be TWO UTs, both in orange and white. Whom you gonna hate now Bama, whom?
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Actually, the latest has UT perhaps going to the SEC. Which would mean there would be TWO UTs, both in orange and white. Whom you gonna hate now Bama, whom?
I did not hear anything about UT going to SEC but A&M is looking. Baylor is trying to keep all Texas schools in the big 12 to stick together. Heck, they might as well create there own conference, including SFASU and Huston. They can call is "Big Texas Conference". Missouri is looking in joining the Big Ten but that is only rumors.
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I did not hear anything about UT going to SEC but A&M is looking. Baylor is trying to keep all Texas schools in the big 12 to stick together. Heck, they might as well create there own conference, including SFASU and Huston. They can call is "Big Texas Conference". Missouri is looking in joining the Big Ten but that is only rumors.
SFAS isn't FBS, why don't they just bring in TCU and Houston if they would do that, which they won't I don't believe.
Kansas and Kansas St. fans will be the ones left out of this.
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SFAS isn't FBS, why don't they just bring in TCU and Houston if they would do that, which they won't I don't believe.
Kansas and Kansas St. fans will be the ones left out of this.
Ah forgot about TCU. What do you mean by "FBS"?
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What they should do is take all the left behinds of the former SWC (Houston, Baylor, SMU, Rice) throw in UTEP, New Mexico, Tulane and UNT and call it the SUC 8.
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What they should do is take all the left behinds of the former SWC (Houston, Baylor, SMU, Rice) throw in UTEP, New Mexico, Tulane and UNT and call it the SUC 8.
:rofl
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FBS=division 1A
FCS=division 1AA
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Boise State just announce that they will join Mountain West in 2011.
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Boise State just announce that they will join Mountain West in 2011.
Mountain West should be a BCS conference. You have Utah, Boise,TCU, BYU and probably end up with Kansas and Kansas State.
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Mountain West should be a BCS conference. You have Utah, Boise,TCU, BYU and probably end up with Kansas and Kansas State.
yes, it would be perfect for KSU and KU.
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Sounds like USC may have their 2004 season stripped and handed over to Oklahoma.
The BCS will not have a champion for that season. The reason is you can't go back and replay between Auburn and Oklahoma. Auburn would have ripped OU apart about the same that USC did in that game. Only they would have done it WITHOUT paid players.
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I agree that the Big East should loose their BCS bid but to give it to the MWC would just be stupid. The only team in that league...not even a current one...that has been to a BCS game more than once is Boise State. Boise should have gone to the Pac10; apparently that was on the table at one point; but they drug their feet from what I have read and now they are going to end up in the dregs of the world conference which is almost as bad as CUSA as a football conference.
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There goes my delusional hope of Arizona ever playing in the Rose Bowl.
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I agree that the Big East should loose their BCS bid but to give it to the MWC would just be stupid. The only team in that league...not even a current one...that has been to a BCS game more than once is Boise State. Boise should have gone to the Pac10; apparently that was on the table at one point; but they drug their feet from what I have read and now they are going to end up in the dregs of the world conference which is almost as bad as CUSA as a football conference.
MWC might be getting a little more stronger now that Boise State join. TCU, Utah and BYU still are a tough opponent.
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Figures Boise would pass on the pac10 well now its the Pac16
edit... after reading more looks like its going to be the Pac16 with the 8 original schools ( Wash, Wash st, Oregon, Oregon state, Ucla, Cal, Usc and Stanford will be in the Western division of the Pac16, Texas, Texas Tech, Texas A&M, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, and Colorado. They'd reportedly join Arizona and Arizona State in a PAC-16 East division
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Figures Boise would pass on the pac10 well now its the Pac16
I dont think they pass it. they been trying to get on in the pass but no luck.
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MWC might be getting a little more stronger now that Boise State join. TCU, Utah and BYU still are a tough opponent.
Please the only thing that TCU has going for it is where it is located and they can scoop some players that slip by the big boys in the state of Texas. Other than that they aren't a powerhouse...haven't been in decades...Utah and BYU are the same way. Once in a great while they get a few gems on the recruiting trail but add in a few decent 1AA type players to help prop them up. The only thing helping Boise is there location in that it isn't easy to get to from anywhere and their schtick with the blue turf and having beaten a couple of good teams with a month to prepare for them. Once they get in a conference where they actually have to prepare for teams each week then we will see how good their coaches and players are. Odds are they get beat down a few times and they along with the MWC returns to irrelevant conference status.
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Please the only thing that TCU has going for it is where it is located and they can scoop some players that slip by the big boys in the state of Texas. Other than that they aren't a powerhouse...haven't been in decades...Utah and BYU are the same way. Once in a great while they get a few gems on the recruiting trail but add in a few decent 1AA type players to help prop them up. The only thing helping Boise is there location in that it isn't easy to get to from anywhere and their schtick with the blue turf and having beaten a couple of good teams with a month to prepare for them. Once they get in a conference where they actually have to prepare for teams each week then we will see how good their coaches and players are. Odds are they get beat down a few times and they along with the MWC returns to irrelevant conference status.
Nebraska was a powerhouse now they are not. that goes for the same for Michigan, Miami, Florida to name a few. TCU along with BSU are gain ground to be recognized.
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I must have been hiding under a rock.. or was it a rock lobster?
First I heard of this was Monday..
A conference with a Nebraska and no Oklahoma? :confused:
THAT's what caused the end of the the Inca ( or Mayan? ) calendar to be in 2012.
Just ain't natural!
Oh great, another team to whip on IU's football team.
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Nebraska was a powerhouse now they are not. that goes for the same for Michigan, Miami, Florida to name a few. TCU along with BSU are gain ground to be recognized.
Don't be so sure. Nebraska has a very good chance to be in the national championship hunt this upcoming season.
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Don't be so sure. Nebraska has a very good chance to be in the national championship hunt this upcoming season.
It will be a long time now that they are in the BIG-10. There are four times that can beat them.
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It will be a long time now that they are in the BIG-10. There are four times that can beat them.
They are still in the big 12 this upcoming season, which is a better conference than the current Big 10 anyways. They have a very good team, and a manageable schedule. Their toughest challenges will be Washington on the road, and Texas at home, both games, very winnable.
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They are still in the big 12 this upcoming season, which is a better conference than the current Big 10 anyways. They have a very good team, and a manageable schedule. Their toughest challenges will be Washington on the road, and Texas at home, both games, very winnable.
They better beat Texas, if not i have douts there ability to compete in the Big Ten
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Nebraska was a powerhouse now they are not. that goes for the same for Michigan, Miami, Florida to name a few. TCU along with BSU are gain ground to be recognized.
Wrong on the Nebraska side there oakranger; Bo Pellini is doing things the right way and has a heck of an AD behind him, Miami is on the rise again, Florida is reloading after 2 National Championships in 3 years. Boise will coast through another WAC schedule with ease and get enough flattery with their odditys to make it to a big time bowl...probably not a BCS again though. While TCU probably does what they always do...good for one season maybe two and then phone it in for the next 4-6 seasons.
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Wrong on the Nebraska side there oakranger; Bo Pellini is doing things the right way and has a heck of an AD behind him, Miami is on the rise again, Florida is reloading after 2 National Championships in 3 years. Boise will coast through another WAC schedule with ease and get enough flattery with their odditys to make it to a big time bowl...probably not a BCS again though. While TCU probably does what they always do...good for one season maybe two and then phone it in for the next 4-6 seasons.
Two thing; 1) i ment Florida state. 2) non of the teams are a power house like Texas, USC, Ohio State, Penn State, Florida, Alabama. when was the last time Michigan, Miami, Florida state start or finish in the top 10. Bosie state has a lot to be a power house but a lot of power house teams are afraid to play them with exception of Oregon.
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Two thing; 1) i ment Florida state. 2) non of the teams are a power house like Texas, USC, Ohio State, Penn State, Florida, Alabama. when was the last time Michigan, Miami, Florida state start or finish in the top 10. Bosie state has a lot to be a power house but a lot of power house teams are afraid to play them with exception of Oregon.
Miami could win the ACC this year, Boise State plays Virginia Tech at Virginia Tech this year(it might be in Landover Maryland) which will tell us if Boise is ready to face the big boys.
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Miami could win the ACC this year, Boise State plays Virginia Tech at Virginia Tech this year(it might be in Landover Maryland) which will tell us if Boise is ready to face the big boys.
Miami could finish in the top 5 if they step it up. They have a good coach that been building a team up so yea, Fudgums, they are favors for the ACC.
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Nebraska to the big ten.
ONE MORE TEAM FOR STATE TO BEAT!!! GO GREEN!!!
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Oregon a powerhouse....HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
That is one of the funniest things I have ever seen you write you Pac10 whiner!
BTW FSU is 6-5 in bowl games since 2000 with a National Championship in 2000. Much better than the Big Red.
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Nebraska has the greatest overall record in Division 1 history.
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I LOVE IT! another team for my BUCKEYES to beat
O-H-I-O :aok
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Nebraska has the greatest overall record in Division 1 history.
I believe you are incorrect kind sir...as much as it galls me to say this I believe Notre Dame has the Big Red by about 10 games with an all time record of 837–290–42 (.734)...I must go and bathe in epsom salt and dog poo with cat pee to cleanse myself from talking and giving ND any kind of credit for anything sports wise...From what I can gather from my College Football Encyclopedia Nebraska's all time record is 827–341–40 (.701). Granted
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I believe you are incorrect kind sir...as much as it galls me to say this I believe Notre Dame has the Big Red by about 10 games with an all time record of 837–290–42 (.734)...I must go and bathe in epsom salt and dog poo with cat pee to cleanse myself from talking and giving ND any kind of credit for anything sports wise...From what I can gather from my College Football Encyclopedia Nebraska's all time record is 827–341–40 (.701). Granted
I had a bad source then. :aok
Nonetheless, they are up there. :)
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Nebraska has the greatest overall record in Division 1 history.
They may have the best but really strugle in the last six/seven years. They will never gain that national powerhouse like they had when Osborne was coaching.
Oregon a powerhouse....HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
That is one of the funniest things I have ever seen you write you Pac10 whiner!
BTW FSU is 6-5 in bowl games since 2000 with a National Championship in 2000. Much better than the Big Red.
I never said i was a Pac 10 fan, where in the world did you come up with the ideal that i am a Pac 10 fan?
FSU 6-5 in bowl, that good. BSU is 6-4 in bowl games. So i do believe that BSU is a growing powerhouse team considering they join the A-1 in 1996.
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They may have the best but really strugle in the last six/seven years. They will never gain that national powerhouse like they had when Osborne was coaching.
I was mistaken, but they are in the Top Ten. Tom Osborne is the Athletic Director now and I'm telling you, next year's team will be damn good, it could be a special year for the Huskers.
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I was mistaken, but they are in the Top Ten. Tom Osborne is the Athletic Director now and I'm telling you, next year's team will be damn good, it could be a special year for the Huskers.
Just because he is the athletic director doesn't mean they will be good. Since we are talking about Nebraska, who is the coach?
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Just because he is the athletic director doesn't mean they will be good. Since we are talking about Nebraska, who is the coach?
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Just because he is the athletic director doesn't mean they will be good. Since we are talking about Nebraska, who is the coach?
Well I know that, you mentioned his name, I said he is the A.D. The head coach is Bo Pelini. Last year's team was a second away from winning the Big 12 championship against Texas, who, as result of a 13-12 win (and some luck), got to go to the NC game. Nebraska then went to the Holiday bowl against Arizona and crushed them 33-0. This year's team, has lost Suh on defense, which will be a huge blow, but the defense is so deep it hopefully won't be down too much from it's top three in the country status last season. The offense, which was downright pathetic last year, in part due to the starting QBs arm injury, will be much improved, with a chance to actually average 20+ points a game. Couple these two likelihoods together, with the mentality Bo Pelini has in place, it could be a BCS bowl or bust type of year.
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Pelini is a kick butt kind of coach. I got to listen to him at a coaches conference a few years ago talk about his philosophy for defense and its amazing what you can take away from just a few minutes talking football 1 on 1 with him. If my son was being recruited to go there I would have no problem sending him out to Lincoln except that is a long way from Alabama and boys get homesick.
Oh and this may all be a moot point if what is being reported this morning happens. There is a big deal that Texas has committed to staying in a 10 team Big 12. One of the sports talk shows here said why don't the current Big 10 and Big 12 just switch names and licensing agreements to keep things good. Texas A&M appears to be the key piece of this puzzle because apparently the Board of Regents voted that if the conference imploded they would like to see A&M join the SEC and somehow Virginia Tech has come into the SEC picture as well in the last 48 hours.
Very interesting time.
As for the Pac10 fan comment I am going off of what you were saying or rather what I remember you writing last year during football season about the Pac10 being a better/stronger conference than the SEC. If that wasn't you then I apologize for that I didn't have time to look it up and when I did I couldn't find the thread.
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Bo Pelini is Neb. Coach. Coached under Jim Tressel at Ohio State.
Also...for those of you who say the Big 12 is better....check out the records
of the major conferences in the last bowl games played earlier this year.
And that included the Auburn Northwestern game...NW not considered a power house by a longshot...Auburn dodged a bullit to win.
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Well I know that, you mentioned his name, I said he is the A.D. The head coach is Bo Pelini. Last year's team was a second away from winning the Big 12 championship against Texas, who, as result of a 13-12 win (and some luck), got to go to the NC game.
I was hoping that Nebraska would beat texas. They should do it this year and maybe win the Big 12 championship. a good way to end your last year in the conference.
Pelini is a kick butt kind of coach. I got to listen to him at a coaches conference a few years ago talk about his philosophy for defense and its amazing what you can take away from just a few minutes talking football 1 on 1 with him. If my son was being recruited to go there I would have no problem sending him out to Lincoln except that is a long way from Alabama and boys get homesick.
Oh and this may all be a moot point if what is being reported this morning happens. There is a big deal that Texas has committed to staying in a 10 team Big 12. One of the sports talk shows here said why don't the current Big 10 and Big 12 just switch names and licensing agreements to keep things good. Texas A&M appears to be the key piece of this puzzle because apparently the Board of Regents voted that if the conference imploded they would like to see A&M join the SEC and somehow Virginia Tech has come into the SEC picture as well in the last 48 hours.
Very interesting time.
As for the Pac10 fan comment I am going off of what you were saying or rather what I remember you writing last year during football season about the Pac10 being a better/stronger conference than the SEC. If that wasn't you then I apologize for that I didn't have time to look it up and when I did I couldn't find the thread.
Has he revived any offers yet? A&M in the SEC, i can see them doing that, but i think what is left of the Big 12 teams might want to stay. Seeing Nebraska going to BigTen was not expected. Why the Big Ten?