{"id":6230,"date":"2015-06-12T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=6230"},"modified":"2015-06-12T01:12:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T06:12:06","slug":"world-herald-looks-back-at-conferencepocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/06\/world-herald-looks-back-at-conferencepocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"World-Herald looks back at Conferencepocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five years ago this week, Benedict Herbie backstabbed a century of tradition in a fit of pique<\/del> the University of Nebraska announced its intention to join the Big Ten Conference, setting into motion an existential crisis that reverberates throughout college athletics.<\/p>\n

The Omaha World-Herald<\/em> now looks back at the longest days in Big 12 history<\/a> \u2014 at least, until it happened all over again<\/em> a year later \u2014 mostly through its articles and columns written at the time.<\/p>\n

There’s at least one “30 for 30” in all of this. If I could make one, I’d frame it much like “June 17, 1994” using news footage, interspersed with newspaper and website highlights.* (I might also have some narration from the observation point of Iowa State, bracketed with the 2009 eight-turnover special and the 2010 last-game-ever loss in overtime.)<\/p>\n

Because some Web content management systems eliminate numbers and cut off the number of words in a title, the hyperlink for the OWH story reads: A look back at how Nebraska bucked the Big Texas. <\/em><\/strong>That, really, is the most honest description there is.<\/p>\n

*A question: If you want to show a historical newspaper article, you go to the paper itself, or the microfilm, and see exactly how it was presented at the time. If you need to show something from a website, and its host has since undergone a massive redesign that either removes the piece entirely or presents it in a way that looks substantially different from the day it happened, how do you go about doing that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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