He’s a Duck bobo, he is desperate for a solution. Though ESPN could be pushing for this too.
Realignment Megathread (All The Moves)
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They all have proven, long-term ability to compete at that level. Why would they do it? What would they get - 200 million per year?
And they can put Leftover League games on their other networks, regional networks, streaming services, and Wednesday, Thursday, Friday night games. If they would go to a Super League, there would be a lot of Leftover League teams with strong fan support, good facilities, etc. The Super League teams would get most of the 4- and 5-star athletes, but they do now.
They so badly wanted to bring them to heel in the mighty BIG, they they devalued their own property. It’s unbelievable.
Cool so put them in the east where they lose even more games? A schools independent performance is not the responsibility of the conference or is it the big 12’s fault that texas has been irrelevant for a decade?
People correlating Nebraska's fall to conference affiliation due to competition or loss of traditional recruiting grounds aren't paying attention. Their SoS going from the Big 12 to the Big 10 west is consistently lower. Their recruiting rankings haven't dropped off from their late days in the Big 12. Pelini won just as well in the Big 10 as he did the Big 12.
It's simple. Calahan was a below average coach, so they lost in the Big 12 under him. Pelini was a pretty good coach, so they won in both the Big 12 and Big 10 while he was there. Riley was a mediocre coach, so they were mediocre. Frost seems to be a bad coach, so they are bad under Frost.
Nebraska was no longer a national power when the Big 12 wouldn't allow them to take partial qualifiers, everybody else started getting on TV, and with scholarship reductions. That knocked them down from national power to good program. After that it's simply been a function of coaching.
The big 10 would make a ton more money in an Ohio State vs. nebby rivalry than playing Purdue or MSU. That would help nubby recruiting. The Big 12 taking away the NU and OU rivalry hurt both schools in recruiting and the Big 10 made things even worse for Nebby.
Nebraska's drop is directly related to their on field performance. If they were still winning 10 games a year and making themselves a fixture in the top 25 they would be getting plenty of exposure in the B1G. And that shouldn't have been a tough ask with the Charmin soft schedule they get in the B1G west. Nebraska has nobody to blame for where they are at but themselves.
If nebby stays, we have no conference realignment and their brand doesn't suffer.
I don’t think there is much air for anyone besides tOSU and Michigan at their current levels. Big West is a major major afterthought.
So Nebraska staying in the Big 12 means no one else would have left? I find that hard to believe that Nebraska could hold that much power.
Yes, they were always going to be second fiddle to those two, but if they were winning they could have been at that second tier with Penn State and Wisconsin. The media is always going to take time to blow a big winner from the chosen conference.
This is really where Nebby was at in the B12 before they left. OU and Texas carried the banner, but Nebby got plenty of attention as long as they were winning.
Boilerplate statement. What's he gonna say?
What would be great is for an AD to come out and say:
"OMFG we are so screwed and have no idea what to do! I only got hired to puff donations out of alumni, I have no idea how to negotiate a contract or have a strategic vision about things and stuff! Plus I just bought a new Porsche SUV for my mistress and have no idea how to make the payments if we have to play in the Mountain West!"
