I signed off on the cover sheet of "Defining and Measuring Opioid Failure in Chronic Non-Cancer Pain" yesterday at the VA research office. Now I just sit, wait and blog for another few months. I may also start putting my dishes directly in the dishwasher after rinsing them but not because I'm being forced to or trying to ingratiate myself with anyone but because I independently decided that makes the most sense.
Confirmatory reports have come out that the Huskers are joining the Big Ten. Many unanswered questions remain:
1) what do those of us who have spent the last couple decades bashing Big Ten football do now? Well...it's looking ?likely that UT, Texas A&M and Oklahoma will join the Pac-10 meaning the former Big 12 will no longer exist. The new Big Ten (which will, incidentally, be composed of 12 teams) fans will now bash the Pac-16. This prospect was made a little easier by USC's recent troubles.
2) if the Big 12 dissolves and the Big 10 has 12 teams, will the Big 10 be renamed the Big 12? Sources close to the story are not talking.
3) did Julie really find a scrawled out list of Big 10 and Big 12 towns and their distances from Lincoln, NE? Yes... I was trying to figure out how much this conference shift would really affect Big Red booster travel. While distance still favors the (former) Big 12 locales, how about the tourism factor? Austin and Boulder are/were the gems of the Husker travel schedule but it might be worth the trade to get Madison, (sorta near) Chicago, Minneapolis, Columbus, Ann Arbor and, because Julie might still be reading this, State College out of the deal.
4 comments:
I think the Big 10 will be the new Big 12 for about five minutes and will then become the Big 16. The most interesting thing for me is what will happen to Kansas? One of the proudest basketball programs in the country going to ..... The Mountain West????
Good question, Don. The Husker faithful are kinda used to pretending basketball doesn't exist but then taking KU in the office pool. I ve heard Missouri will likely go Big Ten but who are the other three
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My prediction is that they will add Mizzou and Notre Dame, and then maybe Syracuse and Rutgers. 16 is the magic number these days. Then SEC will raid ACC, and ACC will raid the rest of the Big East.
State College is most definitely a place worth visiting in one's lifetime, particularly for Huskers who might not ever have seen such a lovely college town.
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