Do Former Big12 Teams Wanna Return?

[Tollboothmgr]

seriously. i mean not one of the 4 has had any continued success since they packed bags for greener pastures. not sure we'd take em back but if they asked should we?? CU is a train wreck in the worst conference in the galaxy. Nebbie is irrelevant in a league without a passionate rivalry to get fired up about. Mizzy is an afterthot with a similar situation as Nebbie, and AMy cant hang with anybody in their own division despite spending a fortune on coaches and facilities, plus having excellent recruiting classes. I really wonder if any of the fan bases either wish they'd never left, or regret the change and want to come back to the B12.

 

[owenfieldreams]

I can say with absolute certainty that the Aggies are happier than a pig in slop in the SEC. They have totally embraced the entire SEC/SEC/SEC mantra. They refer to the Big 12 as the BDF...Big Dumpster Fire.

 

[OUSOONER67]

I think aggie and misery like being mediocre in the sec. In their minds its better than being mediocre in the Big 12.
Misery did win the sec east a couple of times before georgia and florida got back up to par.
I think its all about the money the sec gives out is why those 2 would stay regardless of what their fans would want but the fans of both crow about the sec so...
Been hearing for years now that aggie just needs a year or two before they can challenge in the west.
I say let them all stay where they are as its possible we may be joining some of them eventually.

 

[iasooner1]

I don't have any dog in this but only Debby & Amy have the facilities to compete in the XII, imo

 

[OUSOONER67]

A big if for tonight but if the Domers beat uga they will jump us in the polls, auburn might too, beating a ranked aggie.

 

[CTOkie]

ATM won’t return. Playing in the shadows of Texas and being so dominated all those years has left a scar the Ags don’t want to reopen.
Nebraska was once a great rival but migrating to the Big 10 was suicidal as far as being elite again.
Colorado and Missouri suffered the same fate.
The Big 12 has to get better and expansion is not likely because all the good teams are “spoken for” in other conferences. That improvement may be about to happen.

 

[JConXtsy]

They were all duds before they left the big 12. They didn't become duds because they left. They'd still be duds had they stayed.

 

[frou]

Nebraska is the one I can't figure out the most. They left and their entire identity just vanished. I look over and see Frost and they just all look lost. Like "all the things we used to do,,,now we can't,, and we don't know what to do." They beat a mediocre team and act like they might be back, then they lose to a nobody. Nebbish is a head scratcher for me.

 

[PryorFan]

They are all getting rich being mediocre so not a chance any will return. Never has been.

 

[Oklabama]

They were all duds before they left the big 12. They didn't become duds because they left. They'd still be duds had they stayed.

I wouldn’t classify Nebraska as a dud. They won or tied for the B12 North 9 out of 15 years including the last 3 years in the conference. If they were winning their B10 division at that rate nobody would be talking about their demise and Husker fans would be much happier. The program has just gone to pot since the move. Maybe today’s elite players just aren’t as willing to go Lincoln, Nebraska anymore. LOL. Really, it’s more about losing Tom Osborne as head coach than anything.

 

[Plainosooner]

Nebraska lost most of their recruiting ties to Texas when they left. However, they would rather live with that, than live with the Longhorns. The LHN did exactly what ESPN wanted to do. Ruining any chance for a Big XII Network helped assure their SEC Network would thrive. With a little help from their ongoing propaganda.

 

[CTOkie]

Nebraska lost most of their recruiting ties to Texas when they left. However, they would rather live with that, than live with the Longhorns. The LHN did exactly what ESPN wanted to do. Ruining any chance for a Big XII Network helped assure their SEC Network would thrive. With a little help from their ongoing propaganda.

Plaino, great post. One of your best. Really says it all.

 

[Schoonerman]

I'm sure that Aggie and Mizzou are thrilled to be in the $EC and would not ever dream of leaving, especially A&M. Colorado seems to be content being in the Pac12 as there doesn't appear to be as much pressure on them to produce as they did in the Big 8 or Big 12. I don't ever see the Buffs ever wanting to go back to the B12 as they would consider that a step down. Nebby, as others have pointed out, have become irrelevant after losing their recruiting stronghold in TX. I think their pride and the easy money they make from the B1G is enough to keep them happy playing in the Rust Belt.

I would love to see Aggie and Nebby return, but it's just not going to happen in our lifetime. What's done is done.

 

[Tollboothmgr]

I'm sure that Aggie and Mizzou are thrilled to be in the $EC and would not ever dream of leaving, especially A&M. Colorado seems to be content being in the Pac12 as there doesn't appear to be as much pressure on them to produce as they did in the Big 8 or Big 12. I don't ever see the Buffs ever wanting to go back to the B12 as they would consider that a step down. Nebby, as others have pointed out, have become irrelevant after losing their recruiting stronghold in TX. I think their pride and the easy money they make from the B1G is enough to keep them happy playing in the Rust Belt.

I would love to see Aggie and Nebby return, but it's just not going to happen in our lifetime. What's done is done.

thanks for the answers! gotta say they were all insightful, well-written and likely prophetic about no returning. but can i just say that i really miss far-out field, collie station, lincoln even boulder though? we go back a loooong time (except aggie) and to have those great old rivalries snatched away is a bummer. i mean no tex-AM, no kan-mizzoo, no nebbie-cu? and who didn't love going south and curb-stomping AMy and those goofballs in the corps? west virginia, tcu and baylor just don't do it for me. even when they're decent. sigh

 

[Soonerborn59]

If Mizzou opted out of the SEC they would likely only do so if the B10 offered them a place. That is where they wanted to go all along anyway before Nebraska slipped in under the rug over them. In fact those Mizzou folks thought they were a shoe in and when things didn't work out for them they became the biggest whore in the B12 looking for anyone to take them. If memory serves me right just after they agreed to stay in the B12 when things got reworked they were working on a deal under the table with the SEC to take them.

As for A&M they laid that bed and for the most part they are no more relevant in the SEC than they were while in the B12. Yet that fan base despite not winning crap over there has bought completely into the SEC SEC BS and believe they are some super team now.

I wish Colorado and Nebraska had never left but I really think Colorado always thought the B12 was beneath them and was looking to bolt west for many years. I think of all those teams that left the only team that would consider returning would be NU. However because of the revenue that the BIG makes compared to the B12 that is doubtful.

 

[Zgeo]

They gone

 

[kcstorm06]

Good riddance to all but Nebraska. Too much history between us and them...I would like to see them back. But they do seem nestled into a mediocre division of a mediocre conference.

 

[soonerinlOUisiana]

Seems like Nebraska feel into the perfect storm for a program's demise. In the early 90s, they were getting a lot of good players from Louisiana (and i presume elsewhere), having had perhaps the best facilities in the country. Not too long after that, everyone else caught up. Then they lost the OU rivalry, partially due to OU's 90s demise, perhaps more due to the Big XII scheduling (Big XII really should have had one permanent non-division opponent like the SEC, but knowing the Big XII, Texas probably would have had Kansas as its permanent game). Then they lost Osborne, then they had a coaching carousel, and it's just been downhill from there.

 

[Oklabama]

Seems like Nebraska feel into the perfect storm for a program's demise. In the early 90s, they were getting a lot of good players from Louisiana (and i presume elsewhere), having had perhaps the best facilities in the country. Not too long after that, everyone else caught up. Then they lost the OU rivalry, partially due to OU's 90s demise, perhaps more due to the Big XII scheduling (Big XII really should have had one permanent non-division opponent like the SEC, but knowing the Big XII, Texas probably would have had Kansas as its permanent game). Then they lost Osborne, then they had a coaching carousel, and it's just been downhill from there.

Bingo....Bingo....Bingo on every point.

 

[Scottsdale.Sooner]

Nebraska donor base will never admit it but Tom Osborne single handedly engineered the Husker demise with his petty bullshit battle with Texas. He thought Nebraska would move with the same balanced force to the Big Ten with the same recruiting success. It didn't happen and no one is laying the blame where it should be placed....on Osborne's legacy.

 

[runningback43]

Tom Osborne might have been a good football coach but he's not the Saint that Nebraska fans make him out to be. Osborne caused the demise of the Nebraska program with the move to the Big Ten. They had the easiest road to the conference championship game every year in the Big XII. That old North division was full of crappy teams. I don't think Nebraska will ever be a good fit for the Big Ten. Missouri in the SEC makes no since either.