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One could say that college sports fandom is better when you don’t take it totally seriously. Which i’d imagine is the reason for this pretty-accurate statement out of Jay Nixon:
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon says the Big 12 will be a stronger basketball conference without Colorado and Nebraska.
Nixon on Tuesday called the departing universities “the two weakest basketball programs” in the Big 12.
To which the good humor man Peter Kinder replied: “Truly unbelievable” / “Real classy! Makes u proud!” (this coming from a guy who uses a hash tag with his initials on Twitter, but anyways)
Sure, college sports is more about diving for dollars than whatever altruistic purpose that they were founded for back in the 19th century. But there’s better things to do on a hot summer day than express disbelief at someone bashing Nebraska & Colorado’s basketball teams.
And, besides, it’s college sports smack. Not a serious policy statement. Lighten up, PDK. We know you’re running in 2012.
… of a “despicable, hate-filled outburst illustrating an important point: great prevalence of virulent anti-Cornhusker basketball sentiments from the Left”
Can’t really argue with him.
From a football perspective, the Big 12 is now back to what the Big 8 used to be: the Big 2.5.
Back in the day, the football powerhouses were NU and OU plus whatever 3rd team happened to be in acendance for a while, usually MU, CU and OSU. One of those three would eventually dip back down into football mediocrity but the reign of NU and OU was never seriously threatened.
So it remains only now TU replaces NU.
As for basketball, the good governor was only telling it like it is. CU and NU never had even marginally decent b-ball programs and quite frankly, no desire to generate em. At CU, it was all about building a football team to beat NU.