Cornhuskers: Thar She Blows

23 thoughts on “Cornhuskers: Thar She Blows”

1. I think it would be more accurate if Bill Hancock, head of the BCS was doing the honors on the plunger because the BCS is what’s driving the conference realignment. But regardless of the cause, CU in the Pac-10 won’t be harmful to anything except perhaps fans’ sense of nostalgia. They play Pac-10 teams all the time, and this will give them a lot more exposure than hanging around Lawrence.

2. GMFO,

   whoa! hold on there pardner. who was the first rat off a sinking big 12 ship?COLORADO! When it came time to make group decisions in the big 12 the votes were always 11-1, with most of the north voting with the old southwest conference. Uneven sharing of revenue favoring bevo, the championship games in Arlington at the jerry dome…. the sad part is, this didn’t have to happen. but the money with the other conferences is almost double what you get from the big 12.

   Yes CU should have gone to the mountain west, where they would seemingly be more competitive. They are on the way back but playing some of those teams in the PAC 10 is going to be really rough.

   The other sad part is that KU basketball is going to be left high and dry, they are the bball flagship of the big 12 and they could end up with no were to go.

   It is all about greed and money and like I say ‘PIGS GET FED, HOGS GET SLAUGHTERED!

   Its not going to be pretty for the next 3-5 years in college sports!

   Hopefully history will record that COLORADO jumped first and that the Huskers were seemingly looking for a better deal for all when fate stepped in and blew the big 12 all to pieces.

   Strive for excellence, nothing but your best.

   Gene

3. I had to take the time to stop in just to read Gene’s comment (We all know that there would be one 😉

   I am sorry to see Colorado in the pac-10 where there will not be any rivalries for the buffs, I mean who would want to admit to being a rival with the water-boy? Well, except for Gene that is 😀

   Sorry Gene, but the devil made me do it 🙂

4. Oh Drew, you always know exactly what’s in our hearts and how to say it in your wonderful drawings!

5. I don’t necessarily think of it as desertion but a positive step for Nebraska. Before I go any further you have to understand I have faith in Dr. Tom and believe he will have the best interest of Nebraska in mind. Let’s face it; the Big 12 that has pushed Nebraska out throughout the years. The latest example in the “keep Texas happy conference” is the Big 12 championship game. I have never been fond of the big 12 compared to the big 8. Maybe you can answer a question for me. Who was it that stopped the Oklahoma Nebraska game; I had always heard it was from the new structure of the big 12 that alone made me less likely to go along with the new conference. But then again I don’t like little red or the new Herbie either; bring back old Herbie coveralls and all. I miss being called a Cornhuskers, I am from Nebraska and I am a Cornhusker, enough said. “Huskers” fits fine on the logo but that’s where it should end. All my news about this move is from articles on the internet so if half of it is accurate then we will be a strong match for the big 10. Once again I have faith in Dr. Tom his first priority will be Nebraska.

6. Gene is right, even if he is in Nebraska. 😉 But, he left out one thing. The President of the USA wants college football play-offs and this is how it’s going to get done. It’s at the expensive of all involved in college sports. I hope college football people & the college administrations are happy because I seriously doubt that any other sports & organizations in the college are happy. This affects way more than just football. Oh well. It’s only a game. hah!

7. GMFO-

   Its not like the big 10 or 11(schools of higher learning should know how to count) is going to be a cakewalk for Nebraska, Missouri or anybody else. Just like in the old big 8 the differences will show at bowl time when the teams from the Big Gulp (10-11-12) play against teams with real speed, and just like in the past they won’t matchup very well.

   The big gulp (10-11-12) and the pack of 10-11-12 will eventually kill the goose that has laid a golden egg for college sports. Maybe not in my lifetime but in my sons, things will have to change. This sprial can’t go on forever. every bubble has to burst, eventually.

   No problem Jac, its just sports, not life. Some of the best water in the world comes down the mountains in CO.

   STrive for excellence, nothing but your best.

   Gene

8. At least it could mean at CU/NU Rose Bowl someday if CU ever improves it football program again.

9. Blame the Big Ten for starting all this!!!! If they dont say we want to expand, none of this happens!!! I hate no more CU/Nebraska!!! Got to find a new team to tell all the good Nebraska jokes!! Well got another two years at least!

10. I’ve almost completely given up on “professional” sports (exceptions: World Cup and European soccer) and now all this switching conferences crap due to wanting to make tons of dollars is making me consider giving up on college football.

    I’m starting to think that Division II sports, Division III sports, and high-school sports are what I should really care about.

11. I’d have to agree here with the comments. Most of the news around Denver is erronously reporting that Nebraska jumped ship first. Only KOA is reporting CU has left first, and there’s even an interview with Dave Logan, Lois Melkonian and Bruce Benson (CU’s president) on the website http://www.koaradio.com/pages/ride.html

    To me, it doesn’t matter since I’ve not cared about CU, I’m more of a CSU fan if you want to call it that.

12. None of this would have happened had Nebraska not committed to moving to the Big Ten. It was only then that everyone headed for the life boats. CU moved on the PAC-10 invite quickly to block any legislative effort in Texas to force the PAC-10 to take Baylor over CU.

    As far back as last fall, Nebraska has been open to moving to the the Big Ten and made their intentions very well known. The issue heated up during the spring and Nebraska solidified it’s commitment to the Big Ten earlier this week. The Big 12 had a deadline of June 11 for Nebraska to decide what it wanted to do. It was then that the other schools had to make other arrangements. The dominoes will continue to fall for some time.

13. Let me get this straight. CU gets more $$$ and better recruiting exposure with the PAC 10 versus far less $$$ and zero recruiting exposure with the MWC and they made a mistake how?

    CU’s issues are 1) not enough $$$ to update facilities and 2) poor recruiting. A trip to the MWC would have been a death sentence for CU football. At least now we have a chance to improve facilities and recruiting and potentiall rebuild the program.

    I believe that this is the best possible scenario for CU. GO BUFFS!!!

    PS – Drew are you going to post the Blackhawks cartoon that you created for ESPN Chicago.com?

14. Corey,

    Great comments. I am going to put the Blackhawks cartoons on line for Saturday. I have two which I’ll explain in the post.

    Your take on the PAC-10 move is very valid. Where I’m coming from is this: Boulder haws long been a schizoid place about its football program. It has some alumini who are rabid about it (really where I’m coming from myself, my wife is an alum. Go Buffs) and the other half who wants to get rid of it. If CU wants to really make a commitment to being excellent in football, I’m all for it. Big time actually.

    But if they want to be mediocre, which they have been for well over a decade, then the Mountain West is the place to be. I’m not too sure about the commitment of a school that couldn’t convince the powers that be that keeping Dan Hawkins was a gigantic mistake. It was and is. A strong football school committed to the program would have bought him out and moved on.

15. gmfo-

    correction big guy. missou started this mess back last summer with the complaints about how they were passed over for a bowl and wanting a better deal.

    we could sit and pick all day, but it is what it is. and it is not over, strap in its going to be a bumpy 3-5 years.

    how about boise state to the MWC. They give tcu and Utah a run.

    are you up for some college baseball in a couple of weeks.

    Gene

16. One thing I don’t understand: What was going on in the Big 12 to start all this? I was under the impression that everything was fine in the Big 12. What happened to change all that?

17. George. Here’s a link that might help…

    http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/2010-06-10-conference-realignment-cover_N.htm

18. Well we are now the Big Ten. I was wondering, it seems everyone is upset with my Cornhuskers but didn’t it upset the Buff fans that Texas was the poster boy for the big 12 and that the Buffs were getting a smaller piece of the pie. If Nebraska didn’t go would Colorado have stayed? It has not sounded like the conference was very healthy and was worried about schools leaving for sometime not just Nebraska. If the Buffs are haveing problems upgrading how would the Texas Network deal have impacted your school. I had heard rumors that this was a major concern for the Big 12 if Texas would have really completed the whole Texas network deal and that revenues for the conference would have been drastically impacted, does anyone know how true this was? it just seems that everyone is pointing to Nebraska but there are more players in this distruction senario than just my team. Best of luck to the Buffs in your new conference.

19. GMFO-

    according to Lee Barfknect in the OWH this am, Neb asked the six schools if they would stay in the big 12 if either MU or CU left and all six said they would stay.

    When the six were asked if both MU and CU left there was no answer to commitment to the big 12.

    Neb and TX also if they would share ALL of the television revenues from the TX network with the big 12 and TX refused to share the revenues equally among all members.

    HMMM, where is the problem? is it Neb or the six schools in the south and their commitment to themselves and not the Big 12.

    Neb was asked to commit to the big 12 through 2016- and to the AD and the Pres. that didn’t seem like a long enough commitment to a league that can trace its roots back over 100 years.

    It all comes down to money, Nebraska isn’t a virgin in this mess but then neither is anyone else, they are all money whores, and in the end there will NEVER be enough to go around.

    It is what it is. and Colorado is as guilty of being a money whore as anyone else in the big 12.

    the buffs looked out for themselves and yes, drew, blocked the addition of Baylor to the Pac of wolves out west. The motives of all concerned are now crystal clear.$$$$$$$.

    The golden rule that we learned in sunday school , the do unto others as you would have done unto you has become- he with the gold rules- we laugh, but everyone has their hands out in this situation and are grabbing as much as they can. so much for the “purity” of big time college sports.

    The only way to stop this spiral is to quit watching the major college sports- football and basketball. when the networks stop paying the conferences the big rights fees because they can’t sell it to the advertisers then and only then will we see this stop.

    Its totally crazy. And just like my comments, out of control.

    strive for excellence, nothing butyour best.

    Gene

20. well like drew said it was never a rivalry between the huskers and buffalos because you have to actually be able to beat a team 1st. the only rivalry was in colorado’s head, maybe if they hadnt of had everything texas related in the big 12 it would of been different..like having the next 3 big 12 championship games at cowboy stadium. Nebraska will be able to hold its own it the big 10 but as far as colorado..welcome to last place..

21. The Big 12 was doomed as soon as the Big 8 admitted the Texas schools.

22. As we see our CU Buffs go to the PAC-10 I am going to miss some of the rivals we have had in the Big 8 go away. I never liked the Big 12 to begin with. Just had too many texas schools in it. Never less the fun of watching Nebraska and CU is gone. Good Luck to CU and bring some wins back from California Washington and Arizona. Not to mean to Gene in Nebraska but I hope they get there husker kicked by Ohio State and Penn State and maybe even Iowa. As Always GO BRONCOS!!!!

23. Broncomaniac,

    Don’t be mean to Gene.

    His team is bigger than yours.