Big Ten changing the landscape

Crusader Husker said:
Good article, although I haven't read all of it yet.  It's interesting how the SEC fell behind when the playing field became even.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/the-big-tens-weaponization-of-clean-cash-and-lots-of-it-is-shifting-power-dynamics-from-south-to-north/
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The SEC will get out spent. Imagine some of these past Big Ten teams that have done well with less talent, and they now get 2010s Bama level talent. 

I think the talent will spread out too. Why ride the pine behind a 5 star when you can get paid to play at another school.

 
Crusader Husker said:
Good article, although I haven't read all of it yet.  It's interesting how the SEC fell behind when the playing field became even.

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/the-big-tens-weaponization-of-clean-cash-and-lots-of-it-is-shifting-power-dynamics-from-south-to-north/
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Good article with a brief mention of Nebraska in it - the Nebraska of the past:

The population boom gave southern schools a recruiting advantage as Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and Texas annually produced a considerable amount of high-level talent. Prestige and tradition has always had a place in college football but it became easier to win at a place like LSU, once Nick Saban got everyone pulling in the right direction, than Nebraska, which dominated the sport under Tom Osborne in the 1990s but had a limited natural recruiting base. 

Those recruiting advantages haven't gone away but this era has offered the cold-state schools up north an opportunity to minimize them with cold, hard cash. 

 
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