Official - B10 offers, Nebraska Accepts
From an Omaha World-Herald LiveBlog of their Regents Meeting:
"It's official, from Lee Barfknecht [one of their beat reporters]:
Nebraska has officially accepted an invitation to join the Big Ten Conference, The World-Herald learned early Friday afternoon.
Two sources from conference offices said that Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany contacted BIg 12 Commissioner Dan Beebe on Friday morning to inform Beebe that Delany had officially invited Nebraska to join.
A source with direct knowledge of the situation said Nebraska accepted."
EDIT: Link: http://www.omaha.com/article/20100611/NEWS/306119977#it-is-done-nu-to-the-big-ten
Technically, Nebraska is invited to apply. Then the B10 presidents vote on acceptance.
Correct, although it's a formality.
... has been awfully quiet. Are they really this much of a lap dog to TX? Or are they possibly working their own deal to go SEC? Oklahoma does not have the travel budget TX has and they fit culturally and academically far better with SEC than with Stanford and Berkely. I'm wondering if those Sooners might have a surprise up their sleeve.
They'll come out of this looking rosey.
They aren't stirring the pot but they know that hey are a whoe in to get scooped up by one of the super conferences.
They can sit back and pick between P10 and SEC at the last possible moment. Both will want them.
I butchered that. "they" and "shoe."
It's not official until we hear it first hand from the school, not "A source".
Come on, man.
"Official" reports have been coming out since this morning saying that Nebraska has told the Big12 they are leaving.
It's not official until it's official. Official means firsthand information in this case.
How can you possibly not trust "Anonymous High Ranking Source" - that guy has been talking all week!
(ps... I'm sick of BS Journalism. Twitter is not a news source.)
Good, now I'm assuming the threads will stop and we will never speak of this again.
You know what they say about assuming.
Yeah - one minute you're living the life of retirement. The next thing you know - George Lucas and Steven Spielberg come knocking, asking you to come back for one more ride.
You assume everything's going to be great, and you accept. Ten days later you're getting raped by Lucas and Spielberg and it just doesn't stop.
Signed,
Indiana Jones
BTW, the actual official announcement is supposed to come at 4:45.
this confused the crap out of me until i looked a few posts up. then that confused the crap out of me for a few seconds.
but still hilarious.
Just the sort of path that you would expect the "Nebraska Accepts and Joins the Big Ten" thread on MGoBlog, right?
Just the sort of path that you would expect for any thread on MGoBlog, right?
FIFY.
Ok, I try not to make fun of people. Lord knows, there's plenty about me you could make fun of. But that reporter's last name....Barfknecht.... made me chuckle. There must be a joke in there. "Knecht" is German for farm hand. Run with it.
or scary quotes "officially official"?
Confirmation from both parties. I would say this is officially official.
Look at this gem from the article:
Perlman: The Big 12 asked for a commitment from NU through at least 2016. Nebraska, in turn, asked for a commitment from the University of Texas that it would assign all athletic broadcast rights to the conference and thus not begin its own network. Texas declined, he said.
Could this be Texas's reservations about joining the Big 10? Maybe they want their own network.
I find it hard to believe that the Pac-10 would be okay with this. I thought they had plans for their own conference network. Maybe this is the real motivation for Texas to try to keep the Big XII-II together - none of the other schools will be in any position to say no to Texas.
I agree, the major impetus for the move is to set up a PAC 1X Network, and Texas having its own network would lower the price the Conference could get from cable companies. Texas is easily the most marketable brand and would probably want 2-3 of the team's games on its network to help its viablility.
Texas has been wanting "The Longhorn Network" for quite a while. Down here in Austin, the general chatter is that the PAC-10 is cool with that, but the B10 and SEC are not.
Who knows.
I just noticed Nebraska intends to begin play in 2011. Do they even bother trying to draw up a schedule yet or will the conference wait for a while to see the end result?
I think they'll get it out ASAP because other games need to be moved to work around it.