(09-24-2015 07:08 AM)chess Wrote:  Nebraska and the Big Ten are very happy. Northwestern insisted on being on the side of the conference with the Cornhuskers.

What is missing is the Oklahoma game to end the season. Instead, NU ends with Iowa.

To be fair, they hadn't ended the season with Oklahoma since the Big 8 days. I know the B1G is happy with Nebraska.

They are happy with Maryland as well. Lots of B1G alumni in the DC area are happy to be able to see their schools in person now.

Rutgers on the other hand is a dumpster fire, they need to clean house in the whole athletic department. Long term it is still a good add IMO, right now it is a disaster.

(09-24-2015 07:25 AM)PGEMF Wrote:  

(09-24-2015 07:08 AM)chess Wrote:  Nebraska and the Big Ten are very happy. Northwestern insisted on being on the side of the conference with the Cornhuskers.

What is missing is the Oklahoma game to end the season. Instead, NU ends with Iowa.

To be fair, they hadn't ended the season with Oklahoma since the Big 8 days. I know the B1G is happy with Nebraska.

They are happy with Maryland as well. Lots of B1G alumni in the DC area are happy to be able to see their schools in person now.

Rutgers on the other hand is a dumpster fire, they need to clean house in the whole athletic department. Long term it is still a good add IMO, right now it is a disaster.

Nebraska also a farming university as well. They do have a lot of alum from the farming and ranching communities. Some of them are around Fargo, and they would not be happy if Nebraska can't go to Fargo anymore. There are some alum of Nebraska in Wyoming as well. Nebraska is trapped between alums in the east and on the west. I do believe that there are Nebraska alums in the Denver area as well. Minnesota also have the same problem as Nebraska with fans and alum in the neighboring states on the west.

There are a ton of Nebraska natives in the Denver area and also Kansas City. They move there for work.

Anyways.....weeknight college football games are dumb. They are scheduled to fill open time slots on ESPN. You don't see weeknight games on ABC, NBC and CBS for a reason. lol. Think about it.

The schools do have the power to tell ESPN to frick off when they ask your school if you can play a weeknight game. I know Big Ten schools have told them to frick off when some of the schools were asked to play Thursday night games.

(09-23-2015 08:22 AM)CliftonAve Wrote:  The article does not really delve into the issue of playing geographical/historical opponents. The article is about playing games at 11am or at night for the purpose of TV.

At first I thought this was an Oklahoma beat writer. Everybody down there is up in arms that the Sooners have to get up early for an 11am kickoff against WVU in Norman October 3rd. That's about all they've been talking about since the game time was announced.

Frankly, I like it. In that timeslot, WVU-Oklahoma will be THE marquee matchup. Not so much in any other time slot.

The fact that some don't like this aspect of realignment is of no concern to me. WVU has had to deal with far more. So I have absolutely no sympathy for their complaints.

(09-24-2015 07:47 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(09-24-2015 07:25 AM)PGEMF Wrote:  

(09-24-2015 07:08 AM)chess Wrote:  Nebraska and the Big Ten are very happy. Northwestern insisted on being on the side of the conference with the Cornhuskers.

What is missing is the Oklahoma game to end the season. Instead, NU ends with Iowa.

To be fair, they hadn't ended the season with Oklahoma since the Big 8 days. I know the B1G is happy with Nebraska.

They are happy with Maryland as well. Lots of B1G alumni in the DC area are happy to be able to see their schools in person now.

Rutgers on the other hand is a dumpster fire, they need to clean house in the whole athletic department. Long term it is still a good add IMO, right now it is a disaster.

Nebraska also a farming university as well. They do have a lot of alum from the farming and ranching communities. Some of them are around Fargo, and they would not be happy if Nebraska can't go to Fargo anymore. There are some alum of Nebraska in Wyoming as well. Nebraska is trapped between alums in the east and on the west. I do believe that there are Nebraska alums in the Denver area as well. Minnesota also have the same problem as Nebraska with fans and alum in the neighboring states on the west.

Because Nebraska plays games in Fargo?

(09-24-2015 07:05 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(09-24-2015 05:32 AM)PGEMF Wrote:  

(09-23-2015 02:46 PM)DavidSt Wrote:  

(09-23-2015 07:25 AM)goofus Wrote:  The idea that the Pac-10 was a drivable league is laughable. its 1500 miles from Arizona to Washington. the idea that you need fans from opposing teams to help fill your stadium is not a good strategy for filling your stadium.

with that said, there is still a lot of truth to the idea that tv is ruining the game day experience.

Me and my dad had to go from Parker, Arizona to Tacoma, Washington in less than 2 days drive when my grandmother died. My mother was already up there. It is more realistic back in the 1980s when I was a kid. But the problem is the driving distance from Boulder to Seattle. That is not realistic drive. Arizona fans do drive to Seattle for games when they take a day off from work and so forth.

It is not a realistic drive from Lincoln, Nebraska to Maryland for a game.

Lincoln to College Park is not a realistic drive, but the drive from Tucson to Seattle which is four hours longer is?

Got it.

I am talking about the drive from Lincoln to New Jersey and Maryland which is farther than Penn State. They do need to make some exceptions like if North Dakota State and South Dakota State are declared P5 type school from Big 10 to play? I could see the MWC adds them and then add Eastern Washington and Sacramento State to get to 16. I would say BYU, but they will decline. If all the P5 conferences decides the whole MWC as a P5 type conference? Then I could see BYU might rejoin.

It's just two additional hours. Once you have spent 16 hours on the road two additional hours isn't that big of a deal.

It's also less of a drive than SDSU to EWU, yet you want them to share a conference.

(09-23-2015 12:41 AM)DavidSt Wrote:  Some of the big games are on 6 days notice which does not give fans enough time to get to the site of the game on a short notice.

Exactly which games are scheduled on 6 days notice? Sometimes the game time is not known until a week out, but the game dates are scheduled months, sometimes years, in advance.