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    Remember that time shortly after moving into a new home you left work and … drove to the old residence before realizing you were at the wrong place?

    Very soon, Nebraska fans will have to make a similar adjustment — especially when it comes to traveling to see the Hawkeyes, Golden Gophers and other conference opponents.

    Welcome to the Big Ten Conference. Yes, the Huskers officially become members Friday, but the real changes for fans begin this fall — when a trip east on Interstate 80 to watch an opponent from Iowa now will mean going straight through Des Moines rather than turning left on I-35.

    Or where going to a campus near I-35 no longer means taking the Ames exit but continuing to cross the border into Minnesota.

    "I imagine there are some people thinking driving distance, (how) 'I'm going to miss driving to Lawrence or Manhattan or Ames,'" Nebraska executive associate athletic director Marc Boehm says. "But, overall, there's an excitement, because they've never been to that venue. The majority have never been to Madison (Wis.) to see a game, or to Ohio State."

    For the record, Boehm has attended football or basketball games in every Big Ten city but Champaign, Ill., and he highly recommends a trip to Madison, which just happens to be where Nebraska will play its first league football game on Oct. 1.

    A word of warning on that, and also if you're planning a trip to Minneapolis for the Oct. 22 game against Minnesota: You'll likely need a Plan B to get a ticket, since both schools are strict about the Big Ten's policy of allotting just 3,000 tickets to league opponents.

    That's 1,000 fewer than what Big 12 schools offer.

    "Demand is really high this year and cutting the allotment by 1,000 is huge," Nebraska athletic ticket manager Holly Adam notes. "We're encouraging people to be resourceful."

    The other Big Ten schools have an informal agreement to allot 4,000 tickets to league opponents.

    Adam said her office will be notifying fans soon whether they made the cut. Road-game tickets are assigned based on donor priority points and if you're not a heavy hitter, then you'd better know one. NU fans have made 21,000 requests for the Wisconsin game, more than 12,000 for Minnesota, more than 10,000 for Michigan and nearly 7,000 for Penn State.

    But Adam has a strong hunch the Huskers will have plenty of support in those stadiums.

    "Nebraska fans who live in Big Ten cities are telling people there how they have no idea what it's going to be like when Nebraska comes into town," she said. "It'll be fun."

    That was the Big Ten's thinking last June 11, when it announced Nebraska as its 12th and newest member. Before then, the last time the league had expanded was when it approved Penn State in 1990.

    Since then, NU athletic administrators and coaches have slowly had to acquaint themselves with some new sets of competition rules.

    But "to dwell on those changes is not a big deal," said Gary Bargen, NU's athletic director in charge of compliance. "It's been a great transition because they've worked with us the whole year and some of their rules have even changed to be the same as NCAA rules. Where they might've been above and beyond, now they're moving back close to the way they are in the NCAA."

    One of the most significant changes involves "oversigning" scholarships in baseball. While the Big 12 had no policy limiting the practice that teams utilize to protect themselves from losing underclassmen to the Major League Baseball Draft or other attrition, the Big Ten allows only one "oversign" scholarship to be used by no more than two players.

    The Big Ten does allow partial academic qualifiers to enroll at member schools while they attempt to gain NCAA eligibility — something the Big 12 turned its back on.

    But the totality of switching leagues is "not going to be the difference between North Pole and South Pole," Bargen said.

    Boehm did say that expenses to send teams on the road will rise, primarily because most trips now will require air travel. The next academic calendar budget projects the school will spend more than $1 million on such costs. Nebraska also will have to spend some money changing field and sport logos from the Big 12 to the Big Ten.

    The Huskers also are likely to have more 11 a.m. kickoffs.

    But they and their fans also figure to receive huge benefits from Big Ten Network coverage and being in a league with more top-notch programs.

    In basketball, for instance, they'll play an 18-game league schedule — two more than they did in the Big 12. And in the Big Ten, games are played on more days of the week.
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    • http://newsok.com/mickey-joseph-accepts-challenge-at-langston/article/3580849#ixzz1QXXJhDSh

      LANGSTON — Mickey Joseph is no stranger to challenges on the football field.

      He faced them as the starting quarterback at Nebraska in the early 1990s. He faced challenges as the head coach of a high school team devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

      The challenge facing Joseph now might be his biggest: Bringing the Nebraska Cornhuskers' football mentality to a much smaller program at Langston.

      Recently named interim head coach at Langston, Joseph is taking over a football team that has just three home games this season. That's quite a contrast to Nebraska, where he was part of an ongoing streak of 311 straight sellouts at Memorial Stadium.
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      • 3 more days..
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        • 3 more days..

          What are you counting down?

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          • UNL is in the big ten
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            • Going up on campus today, nebraska's new banners.
              Last edited by entropy; June 28, 2011, 07:03 PM.
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              • As dumb as the B1G Ten logo is, that's about the best use of it I've seen.

                The N on the left looks good to, like they upgraded the typewriter or something.

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                • UNL is in the big ten

                  And here I thought you were counting down to Canada Day. ;)

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                  • Originally posted by geo weidl View Post
                    UNL is in the big ten

                    And here I thought you were counting down to Canada Day. ;)

                    LOL.. no, but I will have a some canadian beer that day. Much tougher to find Labatts in KC than it was Detroit.
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                    • some interesting comments by the fans.. I'll try to answer my thoughts later today. Here is the question list:

                      To you, what defines Nebraska football? Who defines it?
                      2. If there is a heartbreaking loss in Nebraska football’s history, what is it?
                      3. What’s the No. 2 sport at Nebraska?
                      4. What’s one food an opposing Big Ten fan must try in Nebraska?
                      5. What’s the one thing a Big Ten fan could say to tick you off?
                      6. What’s the one thing a Big Ten fan could say to make fast friends?
                      7. If there’s a “biggest myth” about the football program or the state as a whole, what is it?
                      8. What’s one small Nebraska town that a Big Ten fan absolutely must visit once in their travels?
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                      • 1. To you, what defines Nebraska football? Who defines it?

                        A dynamic and sophisticated running game, including the use of the FB, the blackshirt tradition, physical football, passion for the school, passion for teammates, passion for the coaches, and the Nebraska fans, doing things the right way (yes, that is vague, but it’s an ideal). To me the players define it, but if you had to put a face on it, you’d have to pick Tom Osborne followed by Bob Devaney

                        2. If there is a heartbreaking loss in Nebraska football’s history, what is it?

                        CU 2001 was the toughest loss for me. It was the game that I realized the future was not going to be anywhere near the past. For heartbreak, that was Texas at Neb in 2006 (had it won except for a fumble with time running out). One game that stands out from my childhood was the bowl loss to Clemson. My dad was PO’d about biased calls in that game

                        3. What’s the No. 2 sport at Nebraska?

                        Volleyball, no question in my mind. #3 used to be baseball

                        4. What’s one food an opposing Big Ten fan must try in Nebraska?

                        Runza

                        5. What’s the one thing a Big Ten fan could say to tick you off?

                        You don’t deserve to be in this conference

                        6. What’s the one thing a Big Ten fan could say to make fast friends?

                        Hello, welcome to the club

                        7. If there’s a “biggest myth” about the football program or the state as a whole, what is it?

                        Country scholarships or Nebraskan’s don’t care about education

                        8. What’s one small Nebraska town that a Big Ten fan absolutely must visit once in their travels?

                        Chadron. Beautiful country in that part of the state
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                        • Countdown to the Big Ten: Q&A with Nebraska Chancellor Harvey Perlman

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                          • You guys maybe fringe academically but athletically (the purpose of conferences), you guys will do very well in the B10. As I've said before, PSU levels of success in football if you make the right hires. Iowa type at minimum...

                            The middle of the conference is likely tougher than the Big XII; Iowa, MSU, Wisconsin usually are 'tough' games even for good opponents; they play B10 'style' football that force you to execute. Northwestern has had good coaches lately and surprisingly have been a better than average B10 team, Illini are generally overrated, always take the under on their win total, Minnesota needs a special coach if they want to be competitive in the B10, Indiana rarely gets out of the B10 basement being the #3 BCS quality program in its own state, Purdue probably won't be as successful over the next decade as they have in the past decade.

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                            • 12 hours left.. and time for a song as Nebraska says goodbye to the Big12.

                              [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNK5KzI48mM"]YouTube - ‪Mickey Mouse Club: "Alma Mater"‬‏[/ame]


                              And as we say good bye, I still am waiting for someone to wake me up from this dream. 4 yrs ago, Hoss and I were talking about conferences and I mentioned how I wanted UNL to join the Big Ten. We never thought it would happen. I'm excited about joining a conference deep in tradition, who are fellow northerners and who take pride in phrase 'student athlete'. I am happy for my friends who graduated UNL to finally become BigTen graduates. I am excited for the current students who will share in the benefits of the CIC and understand what it means to have access to the University of Chicago's library system. I am happy and proud of our little state that has come so far and has so much potential... and that the BigTen/CIC understood this enough to give Nebraska a chance. I am excited about seeing the team I love compete in the BigTen (in all sports) and I'm excited about returning to places I used to live, like Chicago and Plymouth MI. Nothing will be easy.. Nothing will be handed to Nebraska... and that isn't expected. Nothing great is easy. I do know, UNL will hold up its end of the deal. UNL will continue to make academic strides. UNL will continue to compete the right way athletically. UNL will represent the BigTen they way the BigTen wants to be represented. I know that is true. And in 12 hours, it shall all begin.
                              Last edited by entropy; June 30, 2011, 11:23 AM.
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                              • Countdown to the Big Ten: Q&A with Nebraska Athletic Director Tom Osborne


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