Wow!! you really dont know football do ya....this is the craziest thing Ive ever heard!!!
Missouri Better then Nebraska? OMG Nebraska has a national Following...were ranked in the Top Five most winning programs in History...Our Team was voted the greatest college football team in history not only once...but twice,,,in the top five greatest teams in history...Nebraska was voted Number #1 and number three....you are absolutley insane....Missou doesnt have have half the following as Nebraska, because in our state...Its Law around here...missou doesnt care about college ball and its painfully obvious thats why the big ten turned them down....we are voted the most influential college teams in History also ranking number #4 and that has to do with Tradition as well as Money$$ and Prestige....you are clueless bro....better for you to be quiet now....
I'm not saying Missouri has a bigger national following. I think Nebraska is a more known commodity around the nation. I'm not saying Missouri has a better history, clearly Nebraska football has had much more success that Mizzou prior to the last seven years.
The reason I said that Missouri would have been better for the Big 10 is money. The Big 10 Network is a cable network. They get about 10 cents per subscriber in areas that carry the network but don't have Big 10 teams. In areas where there are Big 10 teams, they charge a premium subscription which is around 60 cents.
Nebraska has 600,000 households. Missouri has 2.5 million. So, in one year, Missouri as a member of the Big 10 could have generated close to twenty million for the Big 10 Network, in other words, Missouri could pay for it's share of the Big 10 revenue which is about 20 million per school right now.
On the other hand, Nebraska will generate about 1/4 of that. The Big 10 schools took a pay cut to add Nebraska because the dollars generated by cable subscribers in that state won't come close to offsetting the cost of giving Nebraska an equal share in revenues.
Nebraska made more money for the Big 12 than Missouri because the Big 12 sold their games over the air and only showed three per week. In the cable model the Big 10 uses, Missouri would generate much more revenue for the conference.
Neither Nebraska nor Missouri was the target in all this. The Big 10 and Pac 10 hoped to break up the Big 12. That would have allowed each conference to snag one of the two programs that they really wanted, Texas and Notre Dame.