Nebraska (wants) to play Tenn-Chattanooga this weekend; (B1G says no)
October 29th, 2020 at 12:12 PM ^
I say make them stay because they’re an automatic win for us.
October 29th, 2020 at 12:46 PM ^
No need to insult Texas. They are a poor man's Iowa State.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:26 AM ^
Which would be incredibly dumb for Nebraska because they won't get the near amount of money they'll get from B1G than if they're in a different conference.
October 29th, 2020 at 4:03 PM ^
It does kinda feel like they are looking for reasons to leave, and the B10 is basically saying "there's the door.' Out of all the recent additions, Nebraska has been by far the least impactful. Say what you want about PSU, but it is a decent school with a good football program in a recruiting hotbed. Maryland is also a decent school, has a good basketball program and is in a recruiting hotbed. Rutgers is a good school, is in New Jersey and knows it's place in the conference, so there is that.
Nebraska sucks at football and basketball, is a terrible school (comparatively), brings nothing as far as recruiting territory and is whiny as sh*t. Go away!
October 29th, 2020 at 11:07 AM ^
If Nebraska handles the testing for UTC and they get tested in the same trailer module in a parking lot that big ten teams use, what difference does it make?
Stop being petty, Kevin Warren. Players deserve to play.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:41 AM ^
Kevin Warren didn’t make the decision....
October 29th, 2020 at 1:33 PM ^
"Deserves got nothin' to do with it." -Clint Eastwood
October 29th, 2020 at 2:18 PM ^
Love me some unforgiven.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:08 AM ^
They are making a case to exit the BIG.
October 29th, 2020 at 12:47 PM ^
Serious question, where would they go? I don't think the SEC or PAC make sense. I guess they could go back to the Big-12 or maybe ACC although that's a stretch. I doubt they would give up Big 10 money to go independent but I guess you never know.
October 29th, 2020 at 10:30 PM ^
Form a conference of misfits. Nebraska, Notre Dame, Maryland, Rutgers, West Virginia, Louisville, Cincinnati, Memphis, Houston. Programs that don't really belong in their conference and put together would actually be a solid football and basketball conference.
Of course this will never happen. But I can be creative.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:11 AM ^
A little advice to the OP, "looking to play" is not the same as "to play." Your title is bad.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:18 AM ^
I do feel for both Nebraska and Wisconsin in this situation. (Unless Wisconsin was just being completely careless and that is what led to the positive test). The B1G did themselves no favors not putting any bye weeks into the schedule.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:29 AM ^
I really don't get why they waited until the 24th to start, instead of the 17th. All the teams have been holding practices off and on for a couple of months, that one week wasn't going to change a thing!
October 29th, 2020 at 11:43 AM ^
I think it was an extra week to see if the SEC/ACC had any major issues, giving B10 wiggle room to still cancel the season if that were the case.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:45 AM ^
It was actually. Wisconsin was shut down for 2 weeks (the 17th was the final week of that shutdown) and MSU hadn't been practicing at all. Several other teams were in the same situation.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:20 AM ^
Honestly, if the B1G doesn't trust teams from the South, I totally get it.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:20 AM ^
Dear Scott,
Chill the fuck out.
Sincerely,
Your mom.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:34 AM ^
Can we just kick Nebraska out of the conference already?
October 29th, 2020 at 11:35 AM ^
Wisconsin just got ravaged by Covid and their season is in shambles. Here is an idea! Let's invite a team outside of the conference that probably has entirely different covid protocols (or lack there of) and put more BIG10 teams at risk because Nebraska can't accept that Covid-19 is a real thing. Scott Frost and Nebraska are quickly developing into my least favorite team in the BIG 10 and that's saying something...
October 29th, 2020 at 11:36 AM ^
DENIED. Eat shit, Nebraska. Eat my shit.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:50 AM ^
As I understand it, the reason the B1G canceled non-conference games was to minimize team exposure outside the footprint of the B1G. I wonder if another team within the conference's footprint were available if the B1G would change their mind. I strongly suspect no because most likely the opponent isn't meeting the B1G's COVID-19 standards and protocols, but a curious thought nonetheless.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:52 AM ^
Nebraska didn't lose a game from their schedule, they lost a beating from their schedule. Wisconsin did them a huge favor.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:53 AM ^
Does having Scott Frost back immediately turn you into a POS?
Your shtick is getting old, Nebraska.
October 29th, 2020 at 11:54 AM ^
SMH Scott Frost
October 29th, 2020 at 11:56 AM ^
Nebraska is the anti-masker of this conference
October 29th, 2020 at 12:08 PM ^
Can Nebraska say to the B1G; Screw you!, we're playing anyway? I supposed they could be heavily fined if they do.
October 29th, 2020 at 12:30 PM ^
Fined? I would say throw them out of the league if they violate the agreed way the league decided to handle the season.
October 29th, 2020 at 2:00 PM ^
Yes, they should absolutely do so, just call it a "protest" not a game. Should be fine that way as we've seen the precedent set.
October 29th, 2020 at 12:09 PM ^
Realistically, when does Nebraska try to leave the B1G? They've been such a middling contributor to the league across the major sports and now they're openly defiant? They should really just attempt to buy their way out of the conference. If they leave and we lose one of the weaker teams in the east (Rutgers/Maryland) the rest of the league gets a bigger revenue share. The conference prestige goes up, and hey maybe we could end up with a better program, that itself is trying to find a better conference fit (looking at you Pitt).
October 29th, 2020 at 1:18 PM ^
I’ve always said Nebraska and Rutgers dont belong in the B1G, and they fucked up by bringing in Maryland/Rutgers and not Pitt. PSU rivalry, great academics, decent sports.
But after last weekend, Rutgers gets a pass for now. Still want to kick Nebraska, Maryland and Rutgers out, and add Pitt.
October 29th, 2020 at 4:06 PM ^
I would reset the B1G conference by geography and not market size. For me, Missouri does not belong in the SEC and the same with WVA in the Big 12. I'd add Missouri to the B1G as they border IA, IL and WVA borders PA and OH. I'd keep Nebraska, drop MD & Rutgers. I'd also add KY, another border state, technically in the Midwest. Another great border state with OH, IN & WVA. KY would add a lot to B1G basketball. It would be the toughest BB conference by far.
The SEC can replace Missouri and KY by annexing FL State and GA Tech or some other southern college.
So much for my dream but reality says no.
October 29th, 2020 at 2:33 PM ^
When it was discussed (here) before the last conference expansion, the prevailing opinion was Pitt doesn't meet the academic standards of the B1G. However, looking into it at a neophyte level, I'm not sure that's true. They seem to rank way higher than UNL.
October 29th, 2020 at 5:55 PM ^
No, that's not true. It was never Pitts academics, they are good. It was not increasing recruiting or marketing in PA.... PSU ALREADY had that (and they didn't want the competition). Look at the 4 and 5 star recruits that come out of NJ and the DMV, plus the amount the B1G network brings in (in good measure to adding the NJ, NY and Maryland markets). If the B1G is going to compete with the SEC it needed new fertile recruiting grounds since many great lake state were declining in that regard. Plus Pitt is a middling team now with nothing really to ADD to the B1G.
October 29th, 2020 at 12:09 PM ^
The Huskers really have become the assholes of the league.
October 29th, 2020 at 12:12 PM ^
Even some of the Nebraska fans are getting tired of the behavior of their overall fanbase.
https://www.cornnation.com/2020/10/29/21539561/nebraska-am-i-the-a-hole
2020 really sucks. We’ve got a nasty virus and nasty politics infecting our nation. We don’t need any more nastiness, and the first step is for Nebraska to stop being nasty, whiny and unlikable to the rest of college football.
October 29th, 2020 at 12:12 PM ^
Goodness they love to whine.
October 29th, 2020 at 12:25 PM ^
I can foresee Nebraska filing suit against the Big 10 for lost revenue and then seeking to leave the league. You do not say no to Children of the Corn.
They just haven’t seemed to fit in and maybe Bo Pellini had something to do with that.
October 29th, 2020 at 12:28 PM ^
These guys are the worst “team players” in the Big Ten. They should move on to be an independent or rejoin the Big 12.
October 29th, 2020 at 12:29 PM ^
Yesterday I posted a joke about Nebraska filing a protest that they couldn't play.
My joke turns out to be a simple variation on Nebraska fact, that they're the sulky teen of the Big Ten, yelling that his parents are ruining his life.
October 29th, 2020 at 2:37 PM ^
Curious. This relatively innocuous comment got a down vote. It's got me wondering if it's from a Nebraskan or a sulky teen.
October 29th, 2020 at 12:44 PM ^
I wonder if they would let two B1G teams swap if their opponents were shut down. Like if MSU had an outbreak earlier in the week, would they let us play Nebraska this weekend (with reasonable notice).
October 29th, 2020 at 1:55 PM ^
Shhhh.. you're making too much sense!!!,...
October 29th, 2020 at 2:10 PM ^
What do you mean, "Shhhh?" Are you equating his good idea with the lousy ones (like trusting a hillbilly school to meet Big Ten standards) offered elsewhere in this thread?
October 29th, 2020 at 4:58 PM ^
I said something similar further up the thread, but I think the better solution would have been to swap games so that Nebraska kept the game this weekend against someone (Purdue/Illinois play each other this weekend, maybe do one of them since they both have to play Nebraska eventually anyway), and make Wisconsin make up the game at Nebraska later this year.
Maybe they considered it and determined it's too hard to move schools around and change who is traveling where this weekend, but if UT-Chatt could come up to Nebraska on a less than week's notice, I am sure a Big Ten football program could.
October 29th, 2020 at 12:51 PM ^
This is a dumb idea which shows Nebraska is dumb.
Dummies.
October 29th, 2020 at 1:57 PM ^
Great, you have a future in the B1G front office
October 29th, 2020 at 12:54 PM ^
Screw Nebraska - just in general.
October 29th, 2020 at 1:17 PM ^
What does Nebraska get out of playing this game? Stupid on there part. Scott frost has been a tire fire so far and just want to get to a bowl game this year. Pathetic
October 29th, 2020 at 1:18 PM ^
Should be pretty manageable for us to play and win a double header with msu first and Nebraska after this weekend.