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re: Aggies, are you guys concerned at all about Strong at UT?
Posted on 1/14/14 at 1:15 pm to EKG
Posted on 1/14/14 at 1:15 pm to EKG
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Few kids would rather play against Iowa State, Kansas
Makes you wonder just how in the world Oklahoma and Nebraska used to win all those Orange Bowls back in the heyday of the Big 8.
How did they ever sell kids on traveling to places like Ames, Manhattan or Stillwater?
Was it just the money?
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Posted on 1/14/14 at 1:16 pm to BrerTiger
That and Osbourne would take players that no one wanted to touch because of grades and shite like that
Posted on 1/14/14 at 1:32 pm to BrerTiger
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Makes you wonder just how in the world Oklahoma and Nebraska used to win all those Orange Bowls back in the heyday of the Big 8
2 things.
1 - IIRC, there was either very lax limits or no limits at all on partial qualifiers. The Big 12 reduced that to 1 per season.
2 - Nebraska had something called a "preferred walk-on" program. IIRC, athletes that would normally be on scholarship but would cause Nebraska to bust the 25/85 cap would be able to enroll as preferred walk-ons and the bills were funnelled to donors. Since those donors only covered the tuition, room and board, etc. it stayed under the radar of the NCAA. Once the NCAA and Big 12 closed that loop as well, Osborne retired.
This post was edited on 1/14/14 at 1:33 pm
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