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Originally Posted by Mosbonian
I'm old enough to have seen the Big 8 and I can tell you there was more camaraderie in the conference than what was in the Big 12....it was much more in Basketball than football because it was pretty much OU and Nebraska every year for the football title.
The Coaches were closer....I think that other than on the Basketball court Johnny Orr and Norm Stewart were the best of friends.
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Im old enough to remember those days also and I'm going to disagree. There was never any camaraderie towards KSU from the Big 8 schools. All this waxing rhapsodic about how it was so much better before the Texas schools arrived is unmitigated horseshit. You (and your parents obviously) have forgotten that the Big8 was going to be picked apart unless they merged. And it was a merger the Big8 sought out. Not the other way around.
And in the Big 8, once Snydz arrived and started winning football games, I clearly don't remember Nubs, MUtts, Sooners or Buffs being all "conference pridey" about it.
Matter of fact, I recall a whole lot of fans hating that they couldnt get their guarranteed win in football. Forgive me for raining on this little fictional tale of Big8 conference pride.