[NU Sports] Divisions

[Beamsley, Jeff]

I agree.  I think this our football program an opportunity to take the
next step in national visibility.

First, we get to play UoM every year.  I think that this is huge for our
program as UoM reclaims relevance in the BT.  

I think that we will develop a good rivalry with UoN too.  We owe them
for the Alamo Bowl drubbing.  But when you look over the last decade,
UoN has a 4-1 record with the BT, losing only to PSU in 2002.  So UoM
and MSU also have scores to settle.

Bottom line is that Pelini appears to be running a clean program.  Their
red hordes were passionate when we last met them in San Antonio, but
they were also polite and courteous is ways that stand in stark contrast
to OSU or Wisky.  UoN clearly has aspirations to return to their glory
days, so what better opportunity to springboard the real NU into the
national spotlight than beating UoN?

As others have already said, I would much rather play OSU in a
championship game at a neutral location than travel to Columbus.

Jeff

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Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Divisions

I'm not all that crazy about the line-up as I would rather have some
combination of Illinois, Indiana and Purdue in our division instead but
it
does do two things that are important: no tOSU and Iowa in our division.
Sure, east/west might be nice, but at the end of the day, you still have
to
go through tOSU to get to Pasadena only this way you don't have to do it
in
Columbus.

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On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 11:25 PM, SjT (Stephen J. Truog)
<sjtruog at yahoo.com>wrote:

> > I may be in the minority on this, but all that I care about is how
this
> impacts us, and as best I can see, this plan keeps us as far away from
Ohio
> State as we could hope.
> :) - fair point (and don't worry about being in the minority ... after
> watching the Big Ten Network's rosier than rosy assessment, in which
they
> used "fair and balanced" more times than their Fox parent company's
other
> network, I think everyone loves it but me :) ... oh well).
> And when you see Nebraska's schedule (OUCH! Wisky, OSU, PSU, Michigan,
> Iowa) compared to ours (no Bucks or Badgers), I like our chances even
more.
> And consecutive weeks with the Huskers and Hawkeyes visiting Evanston
in
> 2012 should certainly be fun ... better get a second verse of the
Battle
> Hymn Hawkeye ready, Jim - extra corn for that week!:)
> So yeah, from a purple perspective, this is good news. I'll agree to
that.
> GO CATS!!!-SjT
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