What I find interesting in the case of the Big 12 — well, two things. First, the former Big 12...

What I find interesting in the case of the Big 12 — well, two things. First, the former Big 12 South possesses more good teams than the entire Pac-12 that a bunch of them seem to want to jump to. Second, the underlying factor of Longhorn Hatred. I'm sure at the very bottom you'll find, as always, accounting spreadsheets, but you also get the sense that Nebraska didn't like Texas. Not in the way of rival fans, but in a rare way. Like the smart, powerful, level-headed people who run Nebraska held genuine ill will toward the people who run Texas.

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I dunno about the second part

I remember a tweet from Brown about this in beginning part of june 2010. He had a tweet that was in response to his interview with 103.3 ESPN in Dallas saying that higher ups at Texas wanted it to be known that the relationship with Nebraska’s higher ups was “good at the top”. (I would search for it but I am struggling with finding a good twitter archive) I think that Perlman even mentioned meeting with Powers often about various issues outside of the formal Big XII meetings.

Now regarding Osborne, I dunno, but in general, I don’t think there was disdain. The Big Ten offer was something that Perlman just couldn’t pass up, even without a LHN, or with equal revenue sharing, or a much better TV contract, or whatever issue was previously mentioned.

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by meatybob on Sep 22, 2011 1:52 PM CDT reply actions

I posted this because I thought the same

It’s always weird when ESPN interests talk about Nebraska. John Brandon @ Grantland is actually pretty positive about Nebraska interests in general, but this seemed like an interesting perspective from somebody distant from the goings on at the time (as in no B1G or Big XII rooting interest). I know that everyone up top only says good things about Texas, but the more I think about it, shouldn’t that be a given instead of reiterated at every chance. Kind of like when a star QB and RB don’t get along, but every time they get a chance to talk it out in public, they say they have each other’s back. I don’t know. It’s just food for thought.

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by KennardHusker on Sep 22, 2011 3:44 PM CDT up reply actions

The problems did not take root last year or the year before.

NU higher ups were courteous out of being respectful, but I believe there is deep seeded resent in the powers that be at Nebraska. That special way you are referring to goes all the way back to the formation of the Big 12.
Nebraska’s problems with Texas did not take root a year or two ago. NU stood alone against the unequal revenue sharing that is at the core of Big 12 problems, and will eventually destroy the conference. OU’s recent attempt to leave the conference are rooted in the same problem, It is obvious The Longhorn Network and all the money it will generated puts Texas at further advantage than they managed to create for themselves at the creation of the conference. Money was not the only issue though. Texas again with the votes of the 7 other Big 8 teams, did away with enrolling non qualifiers. Texas knew this would hurt NU and the northern school’s recruiting, and they have no problem with recruiting with their school in the heart of the best football recruiting in the country. This may seem minor, but NU had many many stars who were non qualifiers, and worked their way to academic qualification with the great Husker academic support staff. This hurt the Huskers and all the old big 8 schools, except OU who is close enough to Texas to recruit well there all the time. .
So yes there is a dislike for Texas that is deeper than normal fan dislike. Those in the know, understand it started at the formation of the Big 12. Nebraska had no support in forming the Big 12. Even though the Big 8 was the existing conference, and the schools from the vaporized Southwest Conference were but 4; Texas essentially ran the show of forming the conference,setting the rules, and got support from a bunch of schools in the former Big 8 who disliked NU and their superior facilities. At the time I’m sure they felt it was a good idea to hobble NU, and let Texas have it’s way. Look what you have now, Texas is the 800 pound gorilla that no one can deal with. The Big 12 is doomed and I don’t feel sorry for KU, KSU, ISU, and the rest. They voted themselves into the boat they are in and now they will go down with it. NU tried to get equal revenue sharing, preserve non qualifiers; and many other smaller rules. But instead of looking out for themselves, the other schools of the Big 8 were more interested in hurting the Huskers.
They will never say it, but I’m sure Nebraska admin and regents hated it that Texas had so much power forming the Big 12 and resented Texas up to the day they left the Big 12. I am hopeful the Big 10 will be a great experience for Nebraska, and the Big 12 will soon be forgotten.

by Sandlizard on Sep 25, 2011 12:19 AM CDT reply actions

Um...dude...

NU stood alone against the unequal revenue sharing that is at the core of Big 12 problems, and will eventually destroy the conference.

NU tried to get equal revenue sharing, …

No we didn’t. That was one of the few things Texas and Nebraska agreed upon. For the most part, we benefited from the unequal distribution. Nebraska was on TV more than Iowa State or Kansas.

I’m sure there were other things, particularly the partial qualifiers, that the other teams had no problem agreeing with Texas about. While part of it may have been “let’s screw with Nebraska a bit”, there was also this “appease Texas or else they’ll bail, and we need their TV markets”. Both served to give Austin pretty much whatever they wanted.

by Wolvie on Sep 25, 2011 6:39 PM CDT up reply actions