Big Ten
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If that happened, I'd say give CPR another 10-year extension and actually be happy about it.
We can never, and will never, ever, e able to recruit against teams from the south and hotbed of football. Recruiting against teams from Random Midwestern states? We have a chance!
We barely were outplayed if at all by Iowa, and they're going to win their division almost certainly. Sure the big 12 may not have many go pro and missed the playoffs, but also almost sent 2 to the playoffs. The big 12 has 8 good teams of 10. I would say every big 12 team other than Isu and KU could beat everyone in the big ten except Ohio state Michigan Michigan state, perhaps close games wit Wisconsin and Nebraska. and our top few could rival and beat those teams too. Playing a big 12 schedule is far harder than playing a big 10 schedule. The big 10 has teams like Purdue Indiana Illinois Rutgers Maryland usually northwestern Minnesota, this year penn state isn't great either.... All of those games are not only easy wins for most team in the big 12 but many winnable for us, some Even certain wins for us.... Trust me I grew up mostly a Purdue fan(not anymore of course!) and we would hammer them, and even they often, even usually, make a bowl. In the big 12 there's 1 easy game, KU. That's the only game Isu can be confident in each year and we sometimes even lose that. Don't even tell me the big 12 is easier to succeed than the big 10
Right, Penn St. and Nebraska couldn't do it, but of course Iowa St. would come in and win at twice the clip. Whatever you need to tell yourself to sleep at night I guess.
Why do our conference teams continue to **** the bed in bowl games against other conferences? Don't tell me it doesn't matter.
Check the bowls from last year if you don't believe me. I can't post the link. Big ten did very well. Big twelve did very bad.
Nebraska went 9-3 their first season? We can easily easily easily easily be a Bowl team if we were big ten. We could schedule an easier non conference for one, and then you add some easy wins from the conference like the many teams I've mentioned many times in this thread you have at least 6 every year easy peasy. We could absolutely 100% do it.
Even if we couldn't do it which we could, it's still a better chance than just getting the crap beat out of us each and every week in the big 12. At least with the lower level big ten teams we can compete, we can only compete with KU as it is. Plus, joining the big ten would improve recruiting so we get better than we are currently anyways
These threads are embarrassing. No way in hell we'd ever get an invite to the Big 10. And what have you seen on the field that we'd be competitive in the MAC, let alone the Big 10?
Good coaching would produce wins in the Big12. This coaching would still be losing games to those lousy Big10 teams. Is Tech better than Indiana? Sure. Would you be any more confident in this staff to find ways to win games? I wouldn't.
The conference is not what needs changed.
The conference is not what needs changed.
I dont think we will join the Big 10. But I also dont think any of these conferences will exist in 10 years. I believe, and really hope, we will be playing with and against much more similar and closer schools in the coming decades.
Besides Ohio State the big ten wasn't THAT spectacular.... Baylor barely lost to MSU, Wisconsin needed magic to beat auburn in OT, Illinois got slapped by Louisiana tech, Iowa got hammered by Tennessee who wasn't that great last year, Penn state had to go to overtime with Boston college, Maryland got crushed by Stanford, Nebraska lost, Minnesota got pummeled by mizzou. Tcu beat #9 ole miss 42-3. WV gave A&M a ride. Okie state beat Washington. Sure we weren't great either no but the big ten wasn't good at all. Plus, there's what 4-5 big ten teams who didn't make bowls? And only 3 big 12 despite significantly less teams? We'd have far far far easier schedule playing 5 fellow non bowl teams rather than 2(excludes us)
I would love to be in the big ten. Why wouldn't you? Get over yourself. It's not about thinking we'd win eight games. I just think it'd bed more fun to play Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, and Nebraska. You know, our geographical neighbors.
