B1G bias

[hugh42 123]

I generally haven't bought into the B1G having a bias towards Nebraska, but now I'm starting to wonder. During halftime of the MSU-EMU game they showed highlights of all of the completed games in league, except us. Not even a mention. Since the game was carried on BTN, I would assume that you would show results from all games that were televised. Coincidence?

[HuskerFever 6,615]

Let's start winning first and then we'll have something to complain about.

[Nighthawk 448]

1 hour ago, HuskerFever said:

Let's start winning first and then we'll have something to complain about.

I've said that soooo many times this football season.  Like the old saying goes "Put up or Shut up". 

[Bill Self's Toupee 174]

I have a co-worker that is from Pennsylvania and is a Penn State fan.  Says Penn State is still treated as an outsider, probably always will be.  Get used to it, he says.  Also notes that the conference keeps its name not only for brand recognition but also to make it clear that 4 schools are not an accepted part of the whole.

 

Sounds a bit tin-foily to me....  but there are times that certainly make you wonder.

[Nighthawk 448]

12 minutes ago, Bill Self's Toupee said:

I have a co-worker that is from Pennsylvania and is a Penn State fan.  Says Penn State is still treated as an outsider, probably always will be.  Get used to it, he says.  Also notes that the conference keeps its name not only for brand recognition but also to make it clear that 4 schools are not an accepted part of the whole.

 

Sounds a bit tin-foily to me....  but there are times that certainly make you wonder.

Lol I wonder what that means for the 10 teams of the big 12. 

[Milk 11]

We have never been relevant in the national realm and playing McNeese St.  People in IL, IN, OH etc could care less.  And Husker hoops isn’t relevant like Michigan St, Indiana, Michigan, etc.  I mean let’s be honest.  Just because we beat McNeese we shouldn’t act like we are a sweet 16 team all a sudden 

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[Nebrasketball1979 1,069]

22 minutes ago, Milk said:

We have never been relevant in the national realm and playing McNeese St.  People in IL, IN, OH etc could care less.  And Husker hoops isn’t relevant like Michigan St, Indiana, Michigan, etc.  I mean let’s be honest.  Just because we beat McNeese we shouldn’t act like we are a sweet 16 team all a sudden 

 

I agree, we should skip the sweet 16 nonsense and act like a final four team. 

[hugh42 123]

You guys are missing the point. We are a member of the Big 10. The game was on BTN. We are relevant because we are a member of this conference. No one on this board is acting like we have done something great. It just seemed odd to me is all.

[Milk 11]

Not at all.  Look at it from a national perspective, it’s McNeese St as the opponent.  Nebraska historically the doormat of the conference playing McNeese St.  It’s irrelevant from conference perspective 

[Harrison1455 2]

I happened to see the clip and thought it was odd as well.  I took a picture when it happened to share with a friend.

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[Dean Smith 1,340]

1 hour ago, Nighthawk said:

Lol I wonder what that means for the 10 teams of the big 12. 

They're overcompensating for something.

[hskr4life 6,269]

32 minutes ago, Harrison1455 said:

I happened to see the clip and thought it was odd as well.  I took a picture when it happened to share with a friend.

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Interesting.  Did they pop up the other game after that?

[Harrison1455 2]

I misread the original post.  This happened during the Indiana game.  They started to discuss scores around the conference not long after I turned on the TV.  All of the other schools were listed except Nebraska.  They even went on and on about all the teams putting up big numbers and no mention of our game.

[HuskerFever 6,615]

2 hours ago, Nighthawk said:

Lol I wonder what that means for the 10 teams of the big 12. 

 

Texas accounts for 3x anyone else in the conference? At least that's what the commissioners, lawyers, and burnt orange thinks.

[Red Don 2,382]

I'll begin to worry when the checks stop.  Meanwhile, water will continue to seek it's own level.

[hugh42 123]

9 hours ago, Milk said:

Not at all.  Look at it from a national perspective, it’s McNeese St as the opponent.  Nebraska historically the doormat of the conference playing McNeese St.  It’s irrelevant from conference perspective 

 

I'm not talking about the national perspective, just the Big 10. BTN covers everything Big 10 and the game was carried by BTN. They show highlights of every Big 10 game if they can and if not they at least post the scores from other games. Again, this just seemed odd that they didn't acknowledge that we even played yesterday. I would be making the same point if another Big 10 school would have been left out as well. After all, this was the opening day for basketball and we were a part of BTN's 12 hours of basketball promo.

[colhusker 3,353]

4 hours ago, hugh42 said:

 

I'm not talking about the national perspective, just the Big 10. BTN covers everything Big 10 and the game was carried by BTN. They show highlights of every Big 10 game if they can and if not they at least post the scores from other games. Again, this just seemed odd that they didn't acknowledge that we even played yesterday. I would be making the same point if another Big 10 school would have been left out as well. After all, this was the opening day for basketball and we were a part of BTN's 12 hours of basketball promo.

Same network a couple years back that instead of promoting one of it's teams for the big dance, like the $EC network was doing, they decided to spew their beliefs why we should not be in.  Let's face it, BTN is a crappy network that few watch IF Nebraska is not playing volleyball, basketball or football on it.

[Nebrasketballer 409]

17 hours ago, hugh42 said:

I generally haven't bought into the B1G having a bias towards Nebraska, but now I'm starting to wonder. During halftime of the MSU-EMU game they showed highlights of all of the completed games in league, except us. Not even a mention. Since the game was carried on BTN, I would assume that you would show results from all games that were televised. Coincidence?

I didn’t watch, so I’m just guessing on this, because it seems a little ridiculous to me that there would be some conspiracy to suppress Nebraska basketball... Are you sure they weren’t just reviewing games of Top-25 Big Ten teams? It’s not uncommon for BTN or ESPN to sometimes focus highlights on teams that are ranked. So, since Nebraska isn’t currently ranked in the Top-25, is it possible thats why they didn’t spend time specifically highlighting Nebraska basketball yesterday? Again, I didn’t see the segments you were talking about, so I’m just guessing, but do you know if they showed highlights of any Big Ten teams that weren’t ranked?

[HuskerFever 6,615]

26 minutes ago, colhusker said:

Same network a couple years back that instead of promoting one of it's teams for the big dance, like the $EC network was doing, they decided to spew their beliefs why we should not be in.  Let's face it, BTN is a crappy network that few watch IF Nebraska is not playing volleyball, basketball or football on it.

 

Good point... I forgot about this. From the outside, you would have thought a bottom tier SEC team was stronger than Nebraska was that season.

[hugh42 123]

1 hour ago, Nebrasketballer said:

I didn’t watch, so I’m just guessing on this, because it seems a little ridiculous to me that there would be some conspiracy to suppress Nebraska basketball... Are you sure they weren’t just reviewing games of Top-25 Big Ten teams? It’s not uncommon for BTN or ESPN to sometimes focus highlights on teams that are ranked. So, since Nebraska isn’t currently ranked in the Top-25, is it possible thats why they didn’t spend time specifically highlighting Nebraska basketball yesterday? Again, I didn’t see the segments you were talking about, so I’m just guessing, but do you know if they showed highlights of any Big Ten teams that weren’t ranked?

 

They showed highlights of Maryland's game with Old Dominion and Maryland is not ranked.

[Nebrasketballer 409]

2 minutes ago, hugh42 said:

 

They showed highlights of Maryland's game with Old Dominion and Maryland is not ranked.

Ok. Clearly must be a conspiracy against Nebraska basketball then. 

[HuskerFever 6,615]

1 hour ago, Nebrasketballer said:

Ok. Clearly must be a conspiracy against Nebraska basketball then. 

 

Before you know it, Nebraska's halftime reports are going to be about Michigan State's game highlights from the prior week.

[hskr4life 6,269]

Lat afraid to shoot.

[Handy Johnson 1,949]

Ohio St-Michigan run the B1G get use to it. We’re over at the kiddie table with Rutgers...

[Norm Peterson 9,678]

Speaking of, here's the video of the highlights of our game against Nevada that our conference's network chose to publish in it's highlight video. You'd have thought it was the Nevada Sports Network. But I guess until we make the Sweet 16, we should expect to get dissed by our own conference's sports network.