if it was just an Iowa decision, sure. It might happen. But Nebraska has nothing to bring to the Big Eleven. AAU is about it. Academic standards are shaky, football program is about as bad as their basketball program, low profile sports are just as shaky and not high revenue makers...I vote no.
Nebraska is a nationally recognized name in football and would bring in a national TV audience.
Their football program is far from bad. If Colt McCoy's pass in the B12 title game hangs in the air a second longer, they probably go to the BCS, and Iowa doesn't.
Nebraska wouldn't bring in near the TV audience as these other schools.
The state just isn't highly populated to compete with these other schools and Norte Dame's tradition.
Nebraska has now gone almost 2 decades outside of the NC talk.
Good point about the 2001 Rose Bowl, but high school seniors graduating this year would have been in 2nd grade or so? I don't remember who played for a NC when I was in 2nd grade. Maybe I'll be proven wrong, but Minny probably didn't think it would ever come to an end. I wasn't alive during Evy's tenure at Iowa, but fans back then probably thought we were a powerhouse and that it wouldn't ever end. If I was a big10 official, I would look at them now and look at history around the midwest and I wouldn't be in a big hurry to take a chance that Nebraska will buck the trend. In now way do I want Missouri in the Big10, but there's more to offer being stuck between KC and St. Louis than Nebraska.
Where did that Facebook question come from? Are there real rumblings about this?
High school seniors were in preschool then. An entire high school cycle has happened since then. In 1973, someone in Minnesota probably said they just got a share of the NC in 1960. What could go wrong? Looks at our 30 year history. We'll be back in no time.
if it was just an Iowa decision, sure. It might happen. But Nebraska has nothing to bring to the Big Eleven. AAU is about it. Academic standards are shaky, football program is about as bad as their basketball program, low profile sports are just as shaky and not high revenue makers...I vote no.
I know a number of people that couldn't get into univ of iowa that ended up going to nebraska. They were avg students at best in highschool here in iowa yet graduated from neb with close to a 4 point. Never did understand that.Nebraska doesn't qualify academically.