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Nebraska announces it is moving to Big Ten

And the dominoes have now started falling.

I hope Bradley has fun playing Canisius or Oakland of Michigan for the Division I-AA national championship in a few years!
 
Besides the $$$, or should I say $$$$$$$$$$$$, Nebraska is better suited to play football in the cold weather Big 10 vs trying to keep up with hot weather track meets vs Tex and Okla schools.

Would also guess NU sports programs are a lot cleaner than their Big 12 southern division rivals...

Too bad the Big 8 sold their soul years ago when they picked up the Texas schools chasing the $$$...It's come full circle now...
 
Announcement pending -
Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State all going to Pac-10

Texas A&M likely to SEC

Nebraska already to Big Ten & Colorado already to Pac-10, so that leaves...
Kansas, Kansas State, Mizzou, Baylor, Iowa State all still trying to decide...
Some talk of Kansas & K-State to Mountain West - maybe Baylor & ISU, too...but that's unlikely unless they also land a few others like Houston...

Baylor & Mizzou still hoping for a Big Ten invite...
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/061410dnspobayloradinterview.9ea00ace.html
http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/spo...cle_df3731e8-7686-11df-a045-001cc4c002e0.html
 
tornado said:
greed will ruin the sport I love the most, college basketball.......
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Future Walk-On said:
greed is the one and only sin that will ruin the world.....

I think about this often.
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SFP said:
Greed almost killed our economy!
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"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right, greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind." Michael Douglas-Wall Street

Who knows, it might be a bad movie, but it is fitting that the sequel to Wall Street is scheduled to open this year.

IMO these conference realignments will make the NCAA more powerless than it is now. We might as well be open about paying the players as the scholar-athlete is going to be a thing of the past.
 
This is absolutely amazing..... the speed with which this thing has unfolded...... the collapse of the Big 12. It is eerily reminiscent of what happened to our economy and companies like Lehman, WaMu, and AIG back in September of 2008.
 
Braves4Life said:
This is absolutely amazing..... the speed with which this thing has unfolded...... the collapse of the Big 12. It is eerily reminiscent of what happened to our economy and companies like Lehman, WaMu, and AIG back in September of 2008.
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Meanwhile, the NCAA does nothing......
 
Beninator said:
Meanwhile, the NCAA does nothing......
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What can the NCAA do? The NCAA has never in its history forced membership or interfered with institutions or conferences, nor should it.

However, it could be more proactive in establishing new membership guidelines.

The problem for the NCAA is twofold now: No full-time President. They only have interim leadership right now. And a moratorium on institutional reclassification until 2011 is in place while a subcommittee considers whether new membership requirements/guidelines are in order.

So what that means is that the NCAA is in a holding pattern right now and schools' hands are tied in terms of being able to pursue the opportunity to move to FBS football if they want.

In the meantime, the BCS conferences are consolidating their power and resources so that the NCAA will have no other option than to be a puppet state or be left behind by those schools.
 
squirrelgotdead said:
What can the NCAA do? The NCAA has never in its history forced membership or interfered with institutions or conferences, nor should it.

However, it could be more proactive in establishing new membership guidelines.

The problem for the NCAA is twofold now: No full-time President. They only have interim leadership right now. And a moratorium on institutional reclassification until 2011 is in place while a subcommittee considers whether new membership requirements/guidelines are in order.

So what that means is that the NCAA is in a holding pattern right now and schools' hands are tied in terms of being able to pursue the opportunity to move to FBS football if they want.

In the meantime, the BCS conferences are consolidating their power and resources so that the NCAA will have no other option than to be a puppet state or be left behind by those schools.
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Inactivity or proactivity... Interesting debate....

If inactivity equals puppet state which I agree with the assertion, then it seems obvious that the NCAA should not worry about precedents and establish control while it still is able to do so.
 
Just for reference even though nobody asked...
not only is Bradley 2-0 all time vs. Kansas, we are also 5-2 all time vs. Nebraska..
that means Bradley has a .500 record or better against half the members of the Big Ten, and even more than half the remaining Big 12 members!
 
So with Nebraska joining the Big 10 which has 11 and Colorado and Nebraska leaving the Big 12 which now has 10 it seems like the Big 10 is now the Big 12 and the Big 12 is now the Big 10.
 
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