{"id":27,"date":"2010-06-09T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=27"},"modified":"2010-06-09T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T01:23:00","slug":"nebraska-move-will-change-college-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=27","title":{"rendered":"Nebraska move will change college landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The college landscape could change quickly, and soon. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omaha.com\/article\/20100608\/SPORTS\/306089785#nu-to-big-ten-as-early-as-friday\">The Omaha, Neb., paper<\/a> is reporting Nebraska is moving to the Big Ten, which delivers a huge blow to the already wobbly Big 12. You have to believe that means much-desired Texas will be evaluating its options.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to imagine Texas playing in a conference with a school as far north as Minnesota, or Michigan playing in Austin in a conference game, but in this world, anything is possible. All this makes the ACC&#8217;s decision to act early and decisively look prescient, since part of John Swofford&#8217;s thinking at the time was the league wanted to be proactive on expansion, rather that reacting.<\/p>\n<p>Still, any conference move has to have some sort of geographic tie. The ACC wasn&#8217;t looking to add Virginia Tech, but the Hokies have been a superb addition. Meanwhile, Boston College and Miami are in big markets but lack big fan bases. Ultimately, the ACC needs the Hurricanes to return to power in football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The college landscape could change quickly, and soon. The Omaha, Neb., paper is reporting Nebraska is moving to the Big Ten, which delivers a huge&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}