Nebraska To Be Booted From B1G?

[hskr4life]

This Auburn writer thinks so.  Or maybe even hopes so? Lol!

 

https://flywareagle.com/posts/rumor-nebraska-booted-big-ten-aau-accreditation

Edited April 18 by hskr4life

[hhcmatt]

25 minutes ago, hskr4life said:

This Auburn writer thinks so.  Or maybe even hopes so? Lol!

 

https://flywareagle.com/posts/rumor-nebraska-booted-big-ten-aau-accreditation

 

With all due respect to Fansided and this author, they will let any moron print anything on that site.

[Silverbacked1]

Huh?  They have know we lost our AAU since we joined. Why would it be a big deal now?

with our new leadership they are thinking about rearranging the colleges to that we would/could receive our AAU back.  At least that is what I read somewhere earlier. 

[49r]

24 minutes ago, hhcmatt said:

 

With all due respect to Fansided and this author, they will let any moron print anything on that site.

 

conference realignment geeks are the absolute worst

[Minnesota_Husker]

This is based off reports the B1G won’t let FSU or Clemson in because they don’t have AAU. But they aren’t going to kick us out because we lost it.

This is a nothing burger.


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[tcp]

well, lovely headline to wake up to

[hskr4life]

11 minutes ago, tcp said:

well, lovely headline to wake up to

It’s been too long since we’ve had a “real” rock bottom thread.  
 

LOL

[Dean Smith]

They are discussing reorganizing to deal with this problem. It has been floated that UNO and UNK be brought into the UNL umbrella (don't know how that would affect their athletic programs) but from what I've heard just co-opting the UN Medical Center will get the accreditation back.

[49r]

2 hours ago, Dean Smith said:

 

It has been floated that UNO and UNK be brought into the UNL umbrella

 

 

No serious person would think this could be even a remote possibility, plus it wouldn't move the AAU needle in even the slightest for U of N.

 

2 hours ago, Dean Smith said:

 

just co-opting the UN Medical Center will get the accreditation back.

 

 

This is the path, and it should have been done before we lost AAU membership.  We had at least a decade to get this done and failed to do so.  This move would also put us in line with our peers like Kansas, Mizzou, Iowa and others.

[Dean Smith]

1 minute ago, 49r said:

 

No serious person would think this could be even a remote possibility, plus it wouldn't move the AAU needle in even the slightest for U of N.

 

 

This is the path, and it should have been done before we lost AAU membership.  We had at least a decade to get this done and failed to do so.  This move would also put us in line with our peers like Kansas, Mizzou, Iowa and others.

I didn't think co-opting  UNK and UNO was part of a serious discuss. It would be hilarious if we could swallow that blue team up north of UNL but I don't imagine we could talk the private school into that.  I don't know any details so I'm probably showing my ignorance but I wouldn't think it would be too complicated to swallow the med center.  

[Cornhoopers]

9 minutes ago, 49r said:

No serious person would think this could be even a remote possibility, plus it wouldn't move the AAU needle in even the slightest for U of N.

https://journalstar.com/cutting-programs-merging-campuses-nebraska-university-leaders-ponder-bold-changes-to-compete/article_4aaa4013-bd96-5524-bd83-05a8a5b8e251.html

Well perhaps but it is being discussed 

[49r]

2 hours ago, Cornhoopers said:

https://journalstar.com/cutting-programs-merging-campuses-nebraska-university-leaders-ponder-bold-changes-to-compete/article_4aaa4013-bd96-5524-bd83-05a8a5b8e251.html

Well perhaps but it is being discussed 

 

Thanks for that link.  Interesting, I hadn't been aware that there was any talk of any kind of consolidation like this.

[49r]

but, AAU accreditation or not, NU is a top ten revenue generating college athletic department, and top 5 in the upcoming Big Ten.  Our place seems fairly secure IMO.

 

 

[49r]

...and that's with a football program that is stuck in the dumper.

[Cazzie22]

I wouldn’t totally dismiss this idea.  We need to get AAU Certification and we need to start winning in Football. In this day and age of realignment one cannot be certain of security.

[HuskerFever]

1 hour ago, 49r said:

...and that's with a football program that is stuck in the dumper.

 

Imagine spending as much money as we do AND winning games... just a thought.

[hhcmatt]

56 minutes ago, Cazzie22 said:

I wouldn’t totally dismiss this idea.  We need to get AAU Certification and we need to start winning in Football. In this day and age of realignment one cannot be certain of security.

 

Conferences are desperate to grow revenue. I can't dismiss this enough.

[Raidsker]

3 hours ago, 49r said:

but, AAU accreditation or not, NU is a top ten revenue generating college athletic department, and top 5 in the upcoming Big Ten.  Our place seems fairly secure IMO.

 

 

This is a dumb topic but Neb definitely needs to add UNMC to UNL. It would just be an administrative change. 

 

Sports bring in a lot of money but research is where the real money for universities.

 

When you hear sports talk idoits say things like "no one pays to watch people play with beakers and bunson burners." That may be true but people pay billions to figure stuff out.

 

Adding UNMC would probably add about $200M to UNL total. Still last but much closer to next one. I don't believe any other B1G school does not have a medical school which isbthe big driver here.

 

 

[basketballjones]

In the next 5-10 years it won’t even matter. This all is clearly moving to a new conglomerate of power 5+ schools eliminating the ncaa and conferences as we know it. 

[cipsucks]

4 hours ago, basketballjones said:

In the next 5-10 years it won’t even matter. This all is clearly moving to a new conglomerate of power 5+ schools eliminating the ncaa and conferences as we know it. 

 

Thank you.  It's amazing how clickbait articles get traction.  I'm not sure it takes 5-10 years...

[LincecumFan]

https://sports.yahoo.com/meet-the-man-responsible-for-bringing-disorder-to-college-athletics--and-who-could-shape-its-future-140412574.html

 

For your reading pleasure.

[Dead Dog Alley]

29 minutes ago, LincecumFan said:

https://sports.yahoo.com/meet-the-man-responsible-for-bringing-disorder-to-college-athletics--and-who-could-shape-its-future-140412574.html

 

For your reading pleasure.

 

And I thought the guy would be a greedy scheister.

 

Will there come a point where even the most passionate boosters, who are not financially constrained and are free to act irrationally, will say "Screw this, I'm out"?  Most likely.  50 years from now college athletics may be a distant memory, and people might drive by the stadium wondering what the hell that thing was for.

[HuskerFever]

Well.... NIL now involves the highest corporate bidder:

 

 

[Huskerpapa]

2 hours ago, HuskerFever said:

Well.... NIL now involves the highest corporate bidder:

 

 

Perhaps FedEx should lower their shipping rates and pass those savings back to their numerous customers who, quite frankly, gives a crap about Memphis.  Just saying.

[Fullbacksympathy]

14 hours ago, Dead Dog Alley said:

 

And I thought the guy would be a greedy scheister.

 

Will there come a point where even the most passionate boosters, who are not financially constrained and are free to act irrationally, will say "Screw this, I'm out"?  Most likely.  50 years from now college athletics may be a distant memory, and people might drive by the stadium wondering what the hell that thing was for.

There’s gotta be some truth to this speculation.  The thing is, if it’s a race to the bottom, Nebraska would be my pick of last ones to lose their support.  No one is obsessed more than our fans.  We’ll probably start winning chips in multiple sports because other programs can’t keep up with our insatiable fandom/NIL.  We don’t have the #1 NIL, but compared to our reach and performance of late, it’s wildly disproportionate in our favor.  I don’t think college athletics will go away, but it will likely die down a little compared to now.