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Missouri Loves Company: Why the Big 12's Tigers Will Not be Asked to Join the SEC
Yesterday, when I saw that fans of the Texas A&M Aggies were pushing the Missouri Tigers as possible partners to join them in the 14-member SEC, I posted a fanshot whose purpose was to mock the Kentucky Wildcats, who also are pigskin underachievers from a border state that sent soldiers to both...
Time Warner Moves BTN to Basic Cable in Nebraska
In a joint press release, Time Warner and the Big Ten Network announced that Time Warner will be adding the Big Ten Network to basic cable lineups in Nebraska. That means that cable subscribers in Lincoln, Columbus, Fremont, Falls City, Seward, and York will now not have to subscribe to digital...
Big Ten Network 2011 Primetime Schedule Set to Change College Football Forever
You can't make this stuff up. Here's what BTN President Mark Silverman said of these games from the press release last Thursday: "We’re very excited about our primetime schedule and think it’s the strongest we’ve ever had. There’s always extra electricity in the air for Big Ten night games, and...
Revisiting the Big Ten’s Magnificent Week Four
Remember how only four or five months ago it seemed certain that Notre Dame would be joining the Big Ten? Well week four of the 2010 college football season provides one reason why the Fighting Irish should never take that step. I first noticed it when I was making my weekly picks on Friday...
Football Is Back! Thoughts on Thursday’s Football Action
It sure was nice to watch a handful of games last night in what turned out to be a nice little Thursday primer for the rest of the action to follow on Saturday and into Monday’s match up between Boise State and Virginia Tech. Let’s take a look back at the action from last night. In Columbia, the...
Notre Dame and Conference Expansion: The Secret Sauce of Success
This summer's winds and waves of conference expansion seemed to build to hurricane force, buffeting the island of the Irish as well as the Big East and Big 12 conferences. The squall is now a memory amidst the blue skies and sea breezes of an impending football season. The gales of Internet...
Did Texas Kill Mega Expansion & Save Notre Dame’s Independence?
It wasn’t supposed to end this way, or at least no one thought it would. Conference expansion and realignment picked up a strong and robust head of steam over the past month and it looked as if collegiate athletics and football would be drastically changed sometime in the near future. Now it...
The Journey Recap: Ohio State Seniors
The Big Ten Network is rolling out a few new episodes of The Journey this week. Since it is Ohio State week, it seemed like a good idea to watch and recap Tuesday night's episode concentrating on David Lighty, Jon Diebler and Dallas Lauderdale. If you want to watch the episode before you read...
BTN Welcomes Nebraska - Three Days Of A Winning TV Schedule
Nebraska officially joins the Big Ten this FRIDAY (echo FRIDay, FRIday, friday...), and with that welcome the BTN (the artist formerly known as Big Ten Network) will welcome Nebraska with a whole gob of winning, something different than we'd usually get from networks like ESPN Classic, where they...
Nebraska Picked to Win "Our" Division, Ohio State or Wisconsin That "Other" Division
Sorry, I still can't bring myself to type the ultra-crappy names of the Big Ten divisions. I have to do that when I'm writing a formal publication, as I'm currrently spending a lot of time working on "Cornhusker Kickoff 2011" for Maple Street Press. The analysts at Big Ten Network did a short...
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