[Husker] Lucky 13?

[Rod Wellman]

I hate the addition of these two teams for one simple reason:

Both teams wear red.

:)

Rod W.
Sioux City, Ia.


On Nov 19, 2012, at 12:45 PM, David Elfering <aroundomaha at gmail.com> wrote:

> Given the alternatives:
> 1. Do nothing
> 2. Pick logical media/academic UMD & Rutgers
> 3. Keep waiting on Notre Dame
> 4. Pick ____________
> 
> To me this makes sense to me. This is however a move with more risks
> than adding Nebraska or Penn State.
> 
> I think there is more to this than just the obvious and Delaney is
> choosing to be on the offensive rather than defensive. If you want to
> know how that usually works out look up Ulysses S. Grant.
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
> On Nov 19, 2012, at 12:37 PM, Jon Johnston <jon.johnston at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> What benefit does Rutgers give the Big Ten? Don't say NYC market because no one anywhere gives a crap about Rutgers. Even Rutgers hates itself.
>> 
>> What "amazing set of markets" has he picked?
>> 
>> I don't get this view of Jim Delany as some super genius college conference wizard guy. He got BTN going. Good job, Jim.
>> 
>> Other than that, he traded away the chance to have home-field playoffs in favor of TRADITION AND  OMG THE ROSE BOWL. And with that went a playoff spot in a midwestern stadium.
>> 
>> So, wow, the B1G expands and there's no one for this change except Penn State.
>> 
>> Jon Johnston
>> Corn Nation
>> 
>> On Nov 19, 2012, at 12:28 PM, David Elfering <aroundomaha at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I think Delaney is playing conference alignment poker and doing rather
>>> well at it.
>>> 
>>> From a scholastic and market standpoint these two moves make sense.
>>> Are either of them stars on the grid iron? Nope but that can be
>>> changed. Empires rise and fall with regularity.
>>> 
>>> At this point Delaney has locked in the populace areas of the Midwest
>>> and now extended to the significant areas of the upper Atlantic. If
>>> you look at the potential business side of it, he has cherry picked an
>>> amazing set of markets. You could make an argument that Nebraska is
>>> the least logical of all these moves.
>>> 
>>> They should consider renaming from B1G to "Industrial" or "Abe Lincoln
>>> would approve" ;)
>>> 
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>> 
>>> On Nov 19, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Dick Karre <dkarre at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On 11/19/2012 11:07 AM, Dick Karre wrote:
>>>>> The Newark Star Ledger reports that Rutgers expects to accept an invitation to join the B1G today, with a formal announcement tomorrow.
>>>>> http://www.nj.com/rutgersfootball/index.ssf/2012/11/rutgers_to_join_big_ten_once_f.html
>>>> Make it lucky 14. Maryland is apparently in as well.
>>>> http://sports.omaha.com/2012/11/19/hello-maryland/
>>>> 
>>>> Delaney's wish to move to a nine-game conference schedule makes a little more sense now.
>>>> 
>>>> -- Dick Karre dkarre at comcast.net
>>>> 
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