Posted on 06/11/2010 11:39:27 AM PDT by C19fan
1:20 p.m. LINCOLN _ Nebraska has officially accepted an invitation to join the Big Ten Conference, The World-Herald learned early Friday afternoon.
Two sources from conference offices said that Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany contacted BIg 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe on Friday morning to inform Beebe that Delany had officially invited Nebraska to join.
A source with direct knowledge of the situation said Nebraska accepted.
(Excerpt) Read more at omaha.com ...
If a little confusing. UT v's UT. Everyone dressed in orange !
Yeah. Every so often I’ll see Tennessee on television and think “Dang! Did the Horns put too much bleach in the washer?” That’s one of the reasons Texas-Tennessee seems like a natural. A ton of Texans have their roots in Tennessee.
LOL! The Confederate Conference!
Source: OU headed to Pac-10
University of Oklahoma sources confirmed Friday that the school is headed to the Pac-10 but will wait for Texas to make its intentions known. Oklahoma State sources also have also indicated they’ll follow Texas.
BY BERRY TRAMEL, Staff Writer, btramel@opubco.com
The University of Oklahoma is headed for the Pacific-10 Conference but will wait until Texas declares its intentions, an OU source told The Oklahoman Friday after Nebraska announced it will leave the Big 12 for the Big Ten.
The University of Texas board of regents have scheduled a Tuesday meeting for “discussion and appropriate action regarding athletic conference membership.”
Late Thursday night, OU athletic director Joe Castiglione said he was working to keep the Big 12 (now down to 10 schools) together.
But another Big 12 athletic director told The Oklahoman such a mission “seems like a longshot.”
The conference remains viable for the schools with the Pac-10 option — Oklahoma State, Oklahoma, Texas, Texas Tech and Texas A&M — only if Texas decides to stay. Castiglione’s mission to keep the conference together hinges on convincing Dodds to stay.
Good luck with that. A variety of reports have said Dodds told the other Big 12 athletic directors during conference meetings last week that without Nebraska, Texas would leave the conference, and a Big 12 AD said Friday that Dodds told him, “We don’t think the Big 12 without Nebraska is real viable.”
An OSU source said his school would wait and watch what Texas does, that OSU is linked to both OU and Texas. “Wherever they go, that’s where we have to go,” the source said. “Texas has the most cards in this, if not all of them.”
A variety of OSU sources, as well as Castiglione, continue to say they’ve had no talks with Pac-10 officials.
That has a nice ring to it.
Well rats. I was hoping for the SEC option. Course, this is still an unnamed source.
The Big Ten alumni base, which is very sizable in NYC, is not sizable on its own to drive the Big Ten network, but they add a nice bit of gravy on top of the local interest Rutgers brings.
I'm counting on a continued rise in the Rutgers football program. Recruiting has been going well (even very well, some years) but it needs to step up a number of notches. A couple top twenty rankings will start moving things to the next level. I'm an optimist on the program and if it turns out that way, the Big Ten and their network will be very happy to be here.
If you're right, they'll be stuck here. Tough luck!
I think George Strait discussed this very thing back in the 80s. ;)
Except for a deep and abiding love of money.
Minnesota vs. Wisconsin
A Short Play
By NE Voter
[Texas sits at its desk in shock after the announcement that Nebraska has annihilated the Big XII by joining the Big X. Hands trembling, Texas picks up the telephone and dials Nebraska.]
[Nebraska’s telephone rings.]
Nebraska: Hello?
Texas: Hey there, ol’ buddy, Texas heah. Now ah unnerstan the financial and ackdemick reasons fo ya’lls move, but ah jus’ have one question for ya’ll.
Nebraska: Shoot.
Texas: Ah jus’ wanna know how long it took ya’ll to make the decision.
Nebraska: One second. Check the replay.
The End
You could easily argue that Texas wanted to keep the status quo just for the money. They keep more, Neb less. It's all a matter of perspective, eh?
No.
Minnesota vs. Wisconsin 119
Kansas vs. Missouri 117
Kansas vs. Nebraska 116
Texas vs. Texas A&M 115
Cincy vs. Miami (OH) 114
UVA vs. UNC 114
Auburn vs. Georgia 113
Oregon vs. Oregon St 112
Indiana vs. Purdue 111
Cal vs. Stanford 111
http://www.realclearsports.com/charts/longest_running_college_football_rivalries-185.html
“This is absolutely stupid. Nebraska has nothing in common with any of the Big 10 members. And the Texas schools have even less in common with the PAC 10 members.”
“Except for a deep and abiding love of money.”
I have to admit that is sad but true. As if Texas is desparate for money. Their athletic department makes more money than any school in the country. They sell out their huge stadium every game and have a lucrative TV deal. This whole thing is ridiculous and an outrage.
But the TV deal they'll get with the Pac Ten is better than the Big 12. I saw the Nebraska Chancellor on the TV earlier. They and the Texas people are blaming everything on Missouri. Oh if only Missouri hadn't seemed to have been flirting with the Big 10, they say, then none of this would have happened. It's all their fault.
Hypocritical, lying sacks of sh*t, the lot of them.
And being an alumni of two Big Ten schools I see no benefits to the conference, either in athletics or academics.
Are those consecutive games played? The Nebraska-KU teams have played each year for the last 104.
The days when OU-Nebraska was one of the biggest rivalries in college football are long gone.
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