http://sports.omaha.com/2013/10/18/mad-chatter-snubbing-urban-underrated-creighton-more-big-12big-ten-feedback/#.UmHSYPmsiSqRichard says: I’m 50 years old and strictly from a fans point of view if I had a wish, I would put us back in the Big 12 in a second.
Trading road trips to Purdue and Illinois for all the days trips I made to Kansas and KState, no thank you. I won’t drive 10 hrs for a road trip. Michigan and Ohio State do not have the same feelings that I had playing Oklahoma and even Texas. Adding Maryland and Rutgers, I doubt any Husker fan cares about that.
I find myself watching other Big 12 games on TV and I could care less about other Big 10 games. I have more apathy for Husker fb than I have ever had in my lifetime, and joining the Big 10 is the major reason for it.
For now it’s the dumbing down of “N” FB. The BIG is a good place for this program to retrograde while it continues to idle in neutral.
I feel like the Big 10 is a novelty that is wearing off. It sounded good in the beginning to make road trips to Michigan and Ohio State and now that the new factor has worn off its time to go back to the Big 12.
Bottom line is I think those that want to go back to the Big 12 are feeling a sense of apathy setting in for the Nebraska fan base. They may cite 11 am games, lack of rivalries, travel distances, recruiting, etc. I wrap all those reasons for anti-Big 10 and lump it all into one issue and its the apathy I feel setting in for Nebraska fans (or at least me).
Do I wish we were still in the Big 12? Well, let me put it this way… I wish the conference was stable enough and unified enough not to be forced to make such a move. Right now we are just another team in the Big 10. OSU, Michigan, Wisconsin are the darlings right now, and certainly that has something to do with our performance on the field. But, would we have been the 11am game or 11:30 four times by now? I don’t think so.
To me that’s a sign of where we rank right now with the Big 10 powers that be. We were a leader in carrying the Big 12 brand… even in losing. It’s not the case in the Big 10, but winning will help that.
I do miss the old friends in the Big 12. I think our fans do as well. There was no real excitement for the Illinois game, unlike if Iowa State rolled into town with similar circumstances. I was at Purdue, and I’ll compare it to KU. However, KU was always a bit of a party. KU was excited to see us, we were excited to be there. Purdue was a bore.
Bob says: Guess I was in the minority wondering what all the high fivin’ was about when NU left the Big 12 for the Big 10. I guess the desire to get away from Texas was so great that everyone forgot that we made fun of Big 10 football back then.
I had Big 10 fatigue last year when our ABC regional coverage gave us some Michigan St-Indiana match up rather than Kansas St-Texas. Most of Big 10 football makes my eyes bleed.How long before it gets old to drive to some crappy Big 10 game that is 12 hours away rather than the old familiar crappy games in the Big 12 that were only 4 hours away.
Gotta hand to Osborne though, trading in membership from the worst division in a BCS conference to the NEW worst division in a BCS conference. Always nice to be able to brag about how many “championship” games you played in. All the while knowing full well that fans will pay to watch it no matter what.
