What’s going on with Nebraska. Wandale Robinson transferring too!!!

Submitted by stino97 on January 27th, 2021 at 11:15 AM

scfanblue

January 27th, 2021 at 11:18 AM ^

Frost is in alarm mode because the environment at Nebraska is way beyond what he knew as a player there. Kids are transferring out left and right 

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MGlobules

January 27th, 2021 at 2:00 PM ^

Actually, they told them the napalm was bringing freedom, too. Ho Chi Minh, who was a fan of Lincoln and who--like Castro--first sought our HELP in fighting the French, begged to differ. 

True story: The best Vietnamese food I've ever eaten was in the Latin Quarter of Paris, a place with lime-green walls and a photo of Minh on the wall, the only decor. 

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Don

January 27th, 2021 at 11:37 AM ^

Don't be surprised if there's a movement among Nebraska boosters and bigwigs to leave the BIG, with the excuse that it's impossible for them to recruit the way they used to when they're in a conference where they're so distant from most of the other programs.

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jethro34

January 27th, 2021 at 11:47 AM ^

Honestly they are a terrible fit for the conference. The closest school is Iowa and that's clear on the opposite side of Iowa. Give them back to the Big XII and give Rutgers and Maryland to the ACC. Give us ND if they realize they need a conference now - if not screw em. Grab Louisville, Cinci and W Virginia.

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The Victors

January 27th, 2021 at 11:54 AM ^

Uhh, yikes. Don't take any of those 3 schools you mentioned. If Nebraska is not a "good fit" as you say, those other schools are worse fits. The B1G does still have certain academic standards, and while I'm not totally in-the-know on those schools' academics, I'm pretty sure they are nowhere near even the lowest-quality academic schools in the conference.

I'd be fine dropping Nebraska, Maryland, and Rutgers; then adding Pitt (because F*** ND).

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Don

January 27th, 2021 at 2:59 PM ^

It's extremely unlikely that the Big Ten would add any school that isn't a member of the Association of American Universities, an organization of research institutions; every BIG school is a member of the AAU with the exception of Nebraska*.

Louisville, CInci, and WVU are not members. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_American_Universities

If Nebraska were to leave the conference, the most logical replacement IMO would be the University of Pittsburgh. It's a well-regarded research institution and AAU member that would be a natural rival for PSU and OSU. I don't give a shit about "expanding the footprint"—that thinking led to adding Rutgers and Maryland, and probably Nebraska.

*At the time Nebraska was invited to join the Big Ten, it was an AAU member, but by the time its membership became effective, it had been booted from the AAU over a dispute involving how to calculate its research expenditures. The chancellor at the time acknowledged that if Nebraska had not been a member, the BIG would not have extended an invitation.

 

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FrankMurphy

January 28th, 2021 at 10:50 AM ^

Nebraska's removal from the AAU was unfair, IMHO. Nebraska's strength is in agricultural research, which is undervalued by the AAU's criteria. Also, their medical school is in Omaha and is organized under a separate administrative structure, so Nebraska couldn't count any of its medical school's research stats in its favor. That strikes me as a technicality.

The process by which they were removed was flawed. The AAU hadn't received enough votes on the motion to expel Nebraska by the original deadline. 42 schools had to affirmatively vote yes on the motion in order for the organization to proceed with removing Nebraska and they didn't get that number by the deadline, so they extended the deadline. That strikes me as disingenuous.

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FrankMurphy

January 28th, 2021 at 11:45 AM ^

Nobody is leaving the B1G, especially not Nebraska. They have nowhere else to go. The Big XII that they left is now a shell of its former self, except for the 800-pound gorilla whose crapulence they were trying to escape (i.e., Texas). The B1G is the richest and most financially sound league in the Power 5. There might be some romanticization and sabre-rattling every now and then, but at the end of the day, no one is walking away from a huge pile of guaranteed money towards an uncertain future.

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SecretAgentMayne

January 27th, 2021 at 11:46 AM ^

I currently live in Nebraska and am friends with and naturally associate with a lot of Husker fans by proxy. I knew their fan base was very likely being overly-optimistic as far as expectations for a modern-day Nebraska playing in the Big Ten goes, but shit, even I am stunned by what a shit-show Nebraska has been under Scott Frost. For as much as this blog (often deservedly so) gives him shit, I thought he had at least SOME solid coaching chops after seeing his offenses at Oregon and his success he had in turning around an awful UCF team. I figured he could at least get them back to winning 8-9 games a year.

Maybe he's actually just a mediocre head coach, and/or he drastically underestimated what an enormous task he had in front of him in trying to turn around a Big ten conference Nebraska team now two decades removed from its former glory.

Harbaugh has definitely has been underwhelming overall compared to initial expectations, but he at least pulled some 10 win seasons and was one or two plays shy from beating OSU and going to the Big Ten championship at one point.

 

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