Nebraska's A.D. isn't pleased with their schedule

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"Moos said Saturday the Big Ten staff — and not the scheduling committee put together by the league — made the scheduling decisions, and used the original nine-game conference model created by the league for the first iteration of the 2020 league schedule. That schedule included road games at Ohio State and Rutgers, and a home game against Penn State.

The Rutgers game was dropped. Ohio State and Penn State, arguably the Big Ten’s best teams, remained..

“For obvious reasons, I was hoping we could dissemble the schedule because of unique circumstances and rebuild it to be fair for each school in the conference,” Moos said. “I was outspoken on that, to the point where they heard it from me every day. The rationale was there, I didn’t think we needed to follow it.."

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Bill Moos lost every argument on the Big Ten scheduling front. Nebraska's A.D. isn't pleased

Nebraska Athletic Director Bill Moos received the Huskers’ eight-game Big Ten schedule Friday night and saw that all things he’d fought to happen with the revised slate hadn’t come to
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Seems like Nebraska is always whining or complaining about something. Perhaps they just need to go to Division II and dominate there so that they would be happy if you can't compete at the Division I level.
 



Is Nebraska finally admitting they aren't good and need a weak schedule to have a winning season?

They were threatening to play outside of the Big Ten a month ago so maybe they can still do that and play a bunch of high school teams instead if they don't want to get embarrassed for the 4th year in a row.
 

To be fair (to be fair - for you Letterkenny fans) they do have a terrible draw for East teams. I wish wisconsin had it instead.
 

Its hilarious, they wanted to play so bad and they get their wish. They will be beaten to a pulp by the time we play them. :LOL:
 




The NE AD wanted not only to change the schedule but wanted the division championship be decided only by games played within the division.
The crossover games would not count.
There is an air of desperation surrounding NE.
 

Fck Nebraska! They think they are such a top flight program and now they are afraid to play conference games.
 

Plato said:
The NE AD wanted not only to change the schedule but wanted the division championship be decided only by games played within the division.
The crossover games would not count.
There is an air of desperation surrounding NE.
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I'm not opposed to this at all. Seems like the fairest way to determine it every year actually.
 

WilliamsArenaGuy said:
I'm not opposed to this at all. Seems like the fairest way to determine it every year actually.
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Actually -- this is correct. Then you never have to worry about getting the schedule shaft. Obviously if you pick up Maryland and Rutgers instead of Ohio St and Penn St that is a tremendous advantage.
 



Pat Forde at SI weighs in:

Forde-Yard Dash: Nebraska's Schedule Complaints Show How Far Huskers Have Fallen

Forty names, games, teams and minutiae making news in college football (folding chairs sold separately at Tulane):

FIRST QUARTER: NEBRASKA NEEDS A HUG

You’ve really got to hand it to Nebraska (1) for finally figuring out where it stands in the football hierarchy. The Cornhuskers are just a piece of background furniture, part of the scenery, another mediocre program out there trying to scrape its way to bowl eligibility for the first time in four years. They have been a subpar member of the Big Ten, and they’ve finally overcome their own institutional arrogance long enough to acknowledge it.

Athletic director Bill Moos (2) said this to local reporters Saturday, after the conference released its third (and please, Lord, final) 2020 football schedule: “I’ve got a good football team with a great football coach that deserves a break here or there to start getting back on track to being a contender in the Big Ten West.”

Nebraska coach Scott Frost (3) said in August, while passive-aggressively ruminating on secession from the league for the season: “We want to play a Big Ten schedule.” Now here is Moos in September, after a bloody but successful fight to have a fall season: Uh, not that Big Ten schedule.

Yep, Nebraska is looking for pity points. The lil’ Cornhuskers need a break. “Deserve” a break, even. They want an easier schedule than they got because they just haven’t been able to compete, and playing Ohio State (4) and Penn State (5) is just not fairrrrrrrr.

Never mind that Ohio State and Penn State were on Nebraska’s original schedule, and the conference simply took one opponent off of each team’s original nine-game league slate to come up with the current plan. The opponent the Huskers lost was Rutgers, which takes away a victory — but if Nebraska thought it was going to get that break it wants (deserves!) after five bellicose weeks that included eight players suing the league, they might be a wee bit delusional in Lincoln.

Commissioner Kevin Warren (6) has heard enough out of Nebraska for this lifetime.

You know who else plays both Ohio State and Penn State this season? And Michigan? And in fact does it every season? Michigan State does. And Indiana. And Maryland. And Rutgers. Nebraska has spent the previous six seasons playing in the easier of the Big Ten’s two divisions, the West, which has won a grand total of zero league championship games since the current alignment started in 2014.

Read More:
https://www.si.com/college/2020/09/21/nebraska-football-schedule-complaints-forde-yard-dash
 

Gold Rush said:
Actually -- this is correct. Then you never have to worry about getting the schedule shaft. Obviously if you pick up Maryland and Rutgers instead of Ohio St and Penn St that is a tremendous advantage.
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The downside to using only division games is that you devalue the crossover games and you also open up the possibility for a lot more weird tie breaker scenarios with only 6 games to decide things. I agree with the concept because it is the most fair way to figure out who the best team in the division is but I don't see it changing anytime soon.

And getting really tired of hearing about Nebraska's moaning and complaining this off season. Yeah, they have a rough draw schedule wise on paper but you can't just assume teams are going to be the same as they were the year before and it also goes in cycles. Right now they have a tough draw but it won't always be that way. They shouldn't get to hand pick their schedule and the fact that they are arrogant enough to act like they should have been able to says all you need to know about the way that place is wired.
 

I would’ve loved to see Ohio State AND Penn State on our Gophers’ schedule this year! NEB should see this as their opportunity to get to the top not as two auto losses!? Wtf?
 


This year is always going to have an asterisk next to it anyway.
There is always the risk of injuries to key players and few BIG teams except tOSU have te depth to overcome then but this year one positive test and then a few contact tests and three otherwise seemingly healthy players are out for three weeks.
This is a season not to be too emotionaly involved because it is a complete crap shoot.
NE is going to try to place the whole team in a bubble. The training table eg is close to anyone not a football player.
Their desperation is so obvious one wonders how honest they will be at reporting positive tests.
 

Nebraska has to start respecting the B1G conference or we can just toss them out and get another team. They are too big for their britches and need to start earning the respect they whine about deserving.

This is not the SEC where they soften the schedules of certain teams.
 

Early college football overreactions: Miami thriving, Big 12 struggling and Nebraska whining


"I came to Missouri to play against the best. You come to the SEC to go against the best." -- Missouri coach Eliah Drinkwitz to a St. Louis radio station in August after the Tigers were given Alabama and LSU for their two extra SEC games.

"We're excited to play this schedule. The SEC is the best, and that's where Arkansas belongs, with the best. We've got an incredible opportunity ahead of us as a program." -- Arkansas coach Sam Pittman after the Razorbacks were given Florida and Georgia.

"I wasn't toasting champagne. ... I think a little more thought could have been put into pieces of this, and it wasn't." -- Nebraska athletic director Bill Moos, quoted by the Omaha World-Herald, after Nebraska's abridged schedule didn't include Rutgers.

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Early college football overreactions: Miami thriving, Big 12 struggling and Nebraska whining

Has Miami finally figured out its offense? Just how bad is the Big 12? And is there a conspiracy against Nebraska? We react to knee-jerk questions early in this college football season.
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And how great would it have been if Fleck/Coyle had pubically come out and offered to trade scheduled games Maryland for Ohio State? Would have been the ultimate put down.
 

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