[NU Sports] It's Official, from the Nebraska side

[Tom Maycock]

UNL Board of Regents voted to apply for membership in the Big 10, with competition to begin in 2011. Assumption is that approval of the request is a done deal. 

http://www.omaha.com/article/20100611/NEWS/306119977#it-is-done-nu-to-big-ten-in-2011

Interesting tidbit, explains much of what drove this:

Chancellor Harvey Perlman and Tom Osborne have just spoken before the NU Board of Regents. Among the highlights:
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.

Perlman: Nebraska plans to begin athletic competition in the Big Ten in 2011.

Osborne: This will not be a economic windfall for NU athletics.


Tom