[NU Sports] Report: Missouri to Big Ten

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They would be if we adopted the sensible promotion/relegation system the
rest of the world uses for soccer and other sports.  It would certainly
spark interest in late September in any number of games that are now
attended by a handful of otherwise bored people with nothing better to do
and no place better to be.

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Roy S. Lamberton <rstetson at capps-assoc.com
> wrote:

> Are the Orioles still playing Major League Baseball?
>
> I thought they were down at AAA right now;.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
> Behalf Of Scott
> Zeller
> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2010 8:11 PM
> To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
> Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Report: Missouri to Big Ten
>
> Personally, I don't mind any of the suggestions and wonder why so
> many people want us to be in something like the equivalent of a five-team
> conference with USC, Texas, Florida, and Ohio State. Being in the same
> division with the Yankees and the Red Sox doesn't seem to do anything
> prestige-wise for the Baltimore Orioles unless you consider having a losing
> record and dwindling attendance prestigious.
>
> If the conference does expand, I'd rather have some new teams that are more
> similar in competitiveness to NU, instead of getting the crap beat out of
> us
> even more often than OSU always does.
>
> I don't see the logic that stacking the BT with a dozen New York Yankees
> will suddenly make NU the National Champion. More likely, it would make a
> return to losing seasons more of a possibility!
>
> I remember on the Rivals board in 2000 how a lot of people were hoping we
> could get pre-season #1 Nebraska in our bowl game. How did that turn out
> again?
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Mike Nolan <nolan at romaine.tssi.com>
> wrote:
>
> > At various places on ESPN's website, Maryland, Rutgers and Pitt are being
> > listed
> > as prospects.
> >
> > Ugh.
> > --
> > Mike Nolan
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