Probably not, but it is in Texas.

It will have to be someone from a smaller conference. There's no way the Big 12 could convince a school in a bigger conference to come play with them.

Obama must have stepped in and put a kabash to dismantling of the current alignment, he was bound to find something he could do. :D

They are stayin in the Big12. Bitch.

Could we trade Iowa State for Northern Iowa?

Iowa State is going to win the north this year. You can bank on that.

Wrestling?

Utah is a more likely option.

FOX is already throwing money at BIGPAC11-11. Don't think that's an issue. I wonder if TCU joining would make one of the Oklahoma schools to move to the North.

And Football.

:eek:

Once you get to the university level, most Engineering professors do not have Education degrees. Most Medical Doctors (teaching or not) do not have Education degrees. Most Law professors do not have Education degrees.

Education is extremely important. However, graduate school for Education is not as important, IMO, as graduate school for Engineers, Doctors, etc. My dad has a graduate degree in Education. Many of my friends are working on theirs. However, most of my teachers growing up did not have graduate degrees in Education and I was still able to go obtain my graduate degree(s).

Is engineering considered a "professional" degree? If not, linking it with law and medicine is tenuous at best.

Perhaps it is. Don't know, really.

EDIT:

Was thinking of Architecture for some reason. Not sure about Engineering.

IMO, a professional degree is a college degree which allows you to work in a particular profession that is not open to others without this degree.

In this definition, yes, an Engineering degree is a professional degree. You can't go be an engineer without the required education, just like you can't be a lawyer or a doctor without the required education. While a graduate engineering degree may not be required, IMO, engineering is one of, if not the most, strenuous undergraduate degrees. Further, engineering graduates have the option (and for some fields it's a requirement) to post-graduation obtain a 'Professional Engineer' license.

Professional schools usually give you a license when you're done and you're pretty much guaranteed work immediately. I think that's what Deez was getting at.

Gets fuzzy with these types of definitions, though. For example, you're not getting a job as a professor at a research university without a Ph.D., yet this would never be considered a "professional degree."

I understand what you're saying above, however. Thanks.

NO

Regents meeting has begun in Lincoln, live streaming coverage at http://1620thezone.com/KOZN-Streaming-Player/5942098

lol wut.....

http://twitter.com/KESQ

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/06/11...e-big-ten.html
Posted on Fri, Jun. 11, 2010 12:56 PM

Nebraska bolts for the Big Ten

By BLAIR KERKHOFF

The Kansas City Star

LINCOLN, Neb. | The University of Nebraska has accepted an offer to join the Big Ten Conference, The Kansas City Star has learned.

Late Friday morning, Nebraska officials contacted the Big 12 office, informing the league of its decision. Nebraska will become the 12th member of the Big Ten.

And now the shit is really going to hit the fan.

omg fail

It's big but they are still replaceable.

OU and OSU move to the North.

2 other schools are grabbed up.

So the Huskers had a press conference to announce that nothing was happening yet?

Odd.

That wipes two states off the map of the Big 12.

My office is a block away from the campus, so people are going a bit crazy about this here. It was nothing but Huskers to the Big 10 talk over lunch, in the hallways, during meetings, etc.

That's after everyone else moves to the Big East, right?

I'm waiting 'til their done with the sheep before I click that link. I'm at work.

It can be argued both ways.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_professional_degree

So, the Big 12 is now the Big 10.

That typo is racist.

Freudian slip?

damn it. Luv changed it before i could comment too.

Oops. No, that would be my insufficient typing skills and lack of attention to detail. Two things I should probably work on. :)

I hate, I mean HATE, to do this.

But there is {sigh} a guy on Tigerboard that has been swearing for a couple of days now that this was exactly how it was going to go down, with NEB delaying an announcement until after MU's BOC had it's meeting and approved a move as well.

Please remember that I don't think anyone knows shit about shit, but it's been intriguing to watch him stick to this story that is so far developing as he's said it would.

Eh ****it, I'm still pleding allegience to my new insect overlords, Conference USA.

While that was(n't) racist, it's also inaccurate. The Big 12 is still the Big 12. In the same way the Big 10 is still the Big 10 (and has been for a few years now).

Nobody likes you.

Yes, I know.

ROFL The Big12 has ten teams and the Big10 has twelve teams :facepalm:

is it still chlawyermu?

What's their reasoning?

Okay. But if this keeps up the word "Big" will have to go.

I know exactly who you're talking about. I thought he was a ku troll just messing with TB at first. But now I don't know.

Nebraska hasn't announced shit yet. When they do I'll believe it.

Yes.

Same guy that nobody's heard of.

I'm pretty sure he's completely full of shit and has come up with a damn good set of background facts for th hoax (the Big10 lawyer is a good one), but we shall see.

Just ignore the fact that I mentioned it.

{neg reps self for rumor mongering}

The problem is his story holds about as much water as a fishing net. IF it was just Nebraska and MU going to the Big10 then yes it might make sense. But everyone knows that isn't going to happen. if MU is going to the big 10 then so are 3 other teams. They can't all be lagging on announcements......

and we wonder why kids these days can't do math.....

That NEB isn't going alone and wants to be sure MU's coming with (thus almost guaranteeing the death of the Big 12).

There has been no official word that any announcement is being delayed, nor was there ever any word that an announcement was going to be made. All that has been said is that the Regents are meeting today regarding this and there will be a press conference following it. I don't know where this "delay" nonsense is coming from.

KOMUnews twitter-

"As we walked into this room Nebraskas a member of big 12." Alden said. "I'm not going to speculate."
"there's a lot of strength in league(big 12), I'm confident" regardless of nebraska Alden says.
"when leagues gets to 8 teams that's very problematic," Alden says.

Dave_Matter-

Mizzou AD Mike Alden: No ultimatum, deadline was ever presented to MU.

I still think he's trolling.

With as many people as have thrown shit against the wall, sooner or later someone's going to be right.

But he's the first person to actually have a sequence of events match his. I'm sure it'll be wrong by 5 pm.

I don't know, I thought he was full of crap at first but now i'm not so sure. Guess we'll see.

Lincoln Journal Star is reporting that the press conference is scheduled for 4:45.

Common perception was that the 1p meeting would be to announce the move. He said it wouldn't and that nothing was going to happen until after the MU BOC meeting.

It was pretty starkly opposed to what everyone else was saying at the time but appears to be fairly accurate.

AGAIN: This guy is 90% likely to be as full of shit as the next guy. But he's the first to have had an actual sequence of events follow what he said.

Oh, and he's also saying what I want to hear, so that helps.

ROFL Yeah, no kidding...that makes it an easier pill to swallow.

Didn't he also say UT would go to the Big Ten first, and MU and NU would follow?

I thought he said NU first, and then MU would be contingent upon UT making the move. But I could be mixing several "sources" together by now, for all I know.

KOMUnews twitter-

# Report that Colorado in today's presser is referring to new conf. As Pac 12. They're the 11th team. #muconferencetalk /via @AlexRozier half a minute ago via CoTweet

# Alden: "The exit of both schools will have an impact on the conference..." /via @AustinKKim 2 minutes ago via CoTweet

# AD Mike Alden and Chanceller Deaton addressing media http://tweetphoto.com/26700368 /via @AustinKKim 3 minutes ago via CoTweet

# Alden to fans: "I know how tough it is to be patient. All the things we can control, we are working diligently as a team" /via @AustinKKim 4 minutes ago via CoTweet

# Alden on being open to other conferences: "Our focus is on the big 12 conference." /via @AustinKKim 4 minutes ago via CoTweet

# "we aren't looking at any other conference," Alden says. #muconferencetalk /via @AlexRozier 5 minutes ago via CoTweet

# Alden on the big 12: "we are only as strong as our weakest link"

suicide watch for Frazod.

Nebraska is not N yet? :[

That's my recollection as well.

And now for the biggest pile of steaming rumor yet.

A coworker that moved to Chicago a couple of weeks ago was wearing an MU sweater today while waiting for a taxi and evidently struck up a conversation with a guy who's nephew works for the B10 (Yes, BS flags should be going up right now).

This guy told him not to worry, that the B10 never issues invitations but rather invitations to apply and that those went to MU awhile ago. That MU applied and got the approval at the same time as NEB. At that time the B12 offices were advised per B10 protocal, which is what got the B12 all irritated and issuing 'ultimatums'.

Neb is going to announce today with MU to follow shortly thereafter so as not to steal NEBs thunder.

NOTE: This is probably the same asshole posting on tigerboard that thought it would be fun to **** with the guy in the Tiger sweatshirt, but I figured I would let you know. I have every reason to trust the guy that told me he had this conversation, but neither one of us know a damn thing about the guy that told him. So ultimately it's still more credible than whatever bullshit Chip Brown is parroting for Deloss Dodds, but it's still probably garbage.

I hate this so much.

Omaha's paper is beginning to report it now. I assumed the KC Star wouldn't stick their neck out if it wasn't for sure, but now we got two papers.

Meh. I'd be more likely to go on a homicidal rampage. :#

LMAO.

I know a guy who ****ed the friend of a taxi driver's niece who once walked into a law office, and she said not to worry.

I would totally believe this person.

:facepalm: And I told myself I wasn't going to get caught up in this today. Yeah, right.

Hugh Douglas bought a house in Olathe?

Glad to see Nebraska go. No more hoards of inbred fans invading our stadium every other year.

Was she from Texas?

Go Big inbRed

Enjoy the Mountain West. Now Snyder has an excuse not to play anyone.

Lenexa, dipshit.

Gone.

Come on, get with it. fyp

I just had a friend IM me and say they were according to CBS citing a source from Omaha.

Nebraska blames Mizzou and Missouri's governor. Wow. Wow.

Were you even bright enough to go to Nbred U

Jesus, you're K-State. The only Big XII school that people care less about during this realignment is Iowa State.

Nebraska just goes 6 downs on Mizzou.

Yea lets try and get personal now classy.