If Nebraska had never joined the Big Ten, would both sides be happier? Buckeyefly Effect

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Nebraska officially joined the Big Ten on July 1, 2011, so the Cornhuskers have been in the conference for a decade. Nobody much celebrated the official 10-year anniversary of the mark this week, but on this Buckeyefly Effect podcast, the question is what would have happened if Nebraska had never joined? Would both sides be happier? Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird drag former Nebraska sports writer Lee Barfknecht out of retirement to talk about this topic. Lee retired in 2018, but no one understands the inner workings of Nebraska athletics better and is more qualified to comment on whether Nebraska ever should have joined the league. It's a different kind of discussion, but an interesting one. So take an hour to think about how big of a deal it was when Nebraska joined the Big Ten, and what difference it has actually made over the last decade. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you been, but got talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:27.3	Welcome back to your Friday book. I talk Doug Lamarice and Nathan Bear, specialness coming along. It's
0:31.7	Lee Barfnecht, who is a retired sports writer who covered Nebraska for Nebraska football for four
0:38.6	decades. And is the best guy I could think of to talk about Nebraska joining the big 10. Now,
0:44.1	listen, July 1st on Thursday, everybody was very fired up about the launching of name,
0:49.8	image and likeness and Ohio State football players, Ohio State athletes, college athletes across
0:55.6	the country could start making money. We saw a lot of it, a lot of Ohio State football players on
1:01.0	social media tweeting out little things about go buy this and guys started to make money. Not a lot
1:07.9	of huge deals. Nicholas Petit-Fair had something with a company in Tampa where he's from,
1:12.9	you know, nobody is dropping Nike deals on Thursday on the first day. But that's what everybody
1:17.4	was talking about. But I think I like you just a little tired of name, image and likeness. So
1:21.6	we may get into next week some textures, perhaps suggested like, hey, what if, uh, you know,
1:27.2	who do you think would be the five Ohio State players over history who would have benefited the most
1:32.5	from name, image and likeness. So we can talk or who the current book guys you think will benefit
1:36.3	the most. We can talk a little bit about that. But I do kind of think this one's get less
1:40.4	interesting kind of quickly that we're not going to constantly monitor every single endorsement
1:46.2	that a Ohio State player comes across. Listen, they're going to sign autographs. Seven banks is on
1:50.6	cameo. Other book guys are going to go down cameo where you do you can do a video message that
1:55.0	people pay for you, you know, pay for that 30 bucks. I think is what seven banks was charging.
1:59.5	That's going to be very common. Just sort of the social media influencer stuff like, like young
2:04.3	people are already doing, um, just on your, your Instagram or on TikTok or on Twitter, you know,
2:10.8	you're just already you're just say, hey, I like this thing and you just influence people. It's not
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from cleveland.com, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of cleveland.com and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.