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I'd say for most teams (Iowa, MSU, NW, Purdue, Minn, Ill, IU), OSU fans like to see the big ten do well.

For "sort of rivals" like Penn State or Wisconsin, I think many like to see the conference do well, but still take pleasure in watching their pain.

With UM, the hatred is so extreme that it is bittersweet at best to see them represent the conference well.

In basketball, there is a fierce camaraderie, though some make an exception for Indiana.

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I would assume Nebraska would fall into the first category until you start adding some painful moments to our matchup history. It will be interesting to see the reception of your school, especially if there's an added complexity like postseason bans.
 
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knapplc;1942997; said:
Here's another thing I would like to know more about. This "basketball" that you speak of - what is this? We have no such thing at Nebraska.
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Having remembered your early season success this winter, I went to find your final record, only to learn that you went 7-9 in the Big Ten last season according to multiple major media outlets.

Basketball is enormous in big ten country and the best feature of the BTN (so many national broadcasts of games that would never have aired before without $200 subscriptions to Gameplan).
 
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Sadly, we will not be a competitor in basketball for a few years. We're embarrassingly far behind in facilities. Our practice facility - which will be top-of-the-line - won't be open for business until 2012. Our new arena won't be open until 2013. Until then we're playing in a dumpy old 70s-era auditorium that trails pretty much everyone is style and class.

Doc is good coach, I guess, but he has nothing to work with. We lose recruiting battles to schools 1/5th our size, mostly because of our crap facilities.

Our women's team is decent, but young. They had a big run two years ago, but they graduated five seniors and last year they were about a .500 team. We have a great coach in Yori, but again, the facilities suck and it's tough to recruit.

We're going to be an embarrassment to the conference in basketball for a while. We'll try to make up for it in Football, Women's Volleyball, Baseball and Wrestling. Those are our major sports.
 
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Sadly, we will not be a competitor in basketball for a few years. We're embarrassingly far behind in facilities. Our practice facility - which will be top-of-the-line - won't be open for business until 2012.
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Penn St just made the dance (and almost did last year) with facilities that kicked them out when the volleyball team needed to practice :lol: Michigan's facilities have been horrendous for awhile (they finally started upgrades last spring).
Our new arena won't be open until 2013. Until then we're playing in a dumpy old 70s-era auditorium that trails pretty much everyone is style and class.
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OSU's facilities were a big factor in their tremendous recruiting success (boys & girls), but many bball fans miss the old arena (St John Arena, where the pre-game pep rally is held), which is much louder and just oozes basketball atmosphere. The Schottenstein Center is magnificent but also a tomb for the majority of bball games, both because of the size, seating (they did finally move the students along the sideline) & location.
We're going to be an embarrassment to the conference in basketball for a while.
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Carry the banner in the others and we'll let it slide, as long as OSU can still reach it in a few years.
 
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jwinslow;1942993; said:
I'd say for most teams (Iowa, MSU, NW, Purdue, Minn, Ill, IU), OSU fans like to see the big ten do well.

For "sort of rivals" like Penn State or Wisconsin, I think many like to see the conference do well, but still take pleasure in watching their pain.

With UM, the hatred is so extreme that it is bittersweet at best to see them represent the conference well.
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^-- this --^
 
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I can say from a Clemson perspective

most of us cannot stand being in the ACC. The commish is former UNC football player and AD and the bias shows in the officiating and planning of major games. John Swofford actually petitioned for the NCAA to add to Clemson's probation as AD of UNC back in the 80's. Claimed that integrity and morality should be held to a higher standard. I am interested in seeing how he acts after the NCAA hands down the punishment for them. See if he is still sitting on the same high horse he was sitting on back then.

I guess if the commish of the Big 10 was a UM grad and former AD you would understand the outrage most of us have.

I say the heck with your conference. The Big 10 has been down, but you guys have been in the hunt for the NC every year. It did not hurt ya there.
 
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My first reaction is to say I would root for 22 child molesting jihadists to beat scUM's ass in football but to be honest, that's just another way of saying Notre Dame and I'd rather stab myself in the nuts with crochet needles than root for those bastards. Go meteor.

One step up from that is Wisconsin and Penn State but they can both fuck off and die for the way their fans act about their quadrennial good teams. I couldn't care less if they get ass raped by an OOC team.

Everyone else in the B10, including Nebraska for now, I'd put in that first tier of B10 teams I do not hate and will root for OOC.
 
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knapplc;1943037; said:
I'm certain we'll have a long and friendly honeymoon period. Nebraska fans never bitch about anything, after all. I just can't see any way that our warm welcome ever ends.


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As long as you never beat us we will always be friends. :wink2:
 
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Yeah, fuck M*ch*g*n with a hot poker. The fuckers couldn't field a team if not for the state of Ohio and when I hear someone like Dan Dickdorf (from Canton, Ohio) talk about being a "M*ch*g*n Man", I want to punch him in the throat. We should have never let the cocksuckers up north become a state, but Canada wouldn't want them either...
 
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