Jun 11, 2010

University of Nebraska to join Big Ten

Will the last university to leave the Big 12 Conference please turn off the lights.


From a report at the link below:

According to a number of reports coming out of Nebraska, one of the most storied football programs in all of college football will join the Big Ten.

The Pac-10 allegedly extended offers to roughly half of the Big 12 in the last couple weeks; the mega-conference on the West coast reportedly invited Texas, Texas A & M, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Colorado to jump ship.

Schools in the Big 12 North with questionable futures include Kansas, Kansas State and Iowa State.

College athletics has always been driven by football because that’s where the money is.

This puts the University of Kansas in an uncomfortable position. The dominant sport at KU is basketball and teams that change from one conference to another must transfer all of their sports - not just football.

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