SI: Realignment Report Card: Grading moves 3 yrs after chaos began (Neb gets B+)

[BleedGopher]

per SI:

Nebraska

Old league: Big 12
New league: Big Ten
Grade: B+

Just as TCU fits comfortably into the Big 12, Nebraska feels as if it has always been part of the Big Ten. (Except when people make TV segments about Big Ten legend Tommie Frazier; that just feels weird.) Culturally, the Cornhuskers always looked and acted like a Big Ten program. Still, it took until 2010 for the school and league to finally make it official.

Nebraska's football program has won one division title (2012) and competed for another (2011), and the Cornhuskers look poised to compete for the Legends Division title again in 2013. When the league goes to an East-West divisional alignment in football, Nebraska should always be competitive in a division that includes Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Northwestern, Purdue and Wisconsin.

If Nebraska and Oklahoma could somehow find a way to play an annual out-of-conference game, I'd bump this move to an A-plus. That was the best game in the Big 8 and pretty much the only thing anyone misses about Nebraska being in the Big 12. With the playoff coming, it might be worth it to both schools. Oklahoma has never been scared to play anyone. Neither has Nebraska. So let's make it happen every year.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/co...ference-realignment-report-card/?sct=uk_wr_a1

Go Gophers!!

 

[SelectionSunday]

Agree with the writer. Nebraska fits well in the Big Ten, seems like they're glad to be here (fans and administrators alike), and it feels like a Big Ten school. Have never had that same feeling with Penn State.

Missouri a fit in the SEC? Not so much. Seems like a fish out of water.

Mizzou and Kansas (location & athletics-wise) seem like they'd be perfect fits for the Big Ten, but we certainly don't need any more expansion.

 

[Schnauzer]

I liked the Nebraska move from day one and I had a near opposite reaction to Maryland/Rutgers. I am still luke warm to cool on those moves.

 

[station19]

Should have taken Mizzo instead of Nebraska.

PSU and Rutgers seem to be embarrassing the conference.

We'll have to see how Maryland does.