I promised to post some thoughts about Nebraska coming into the Big Ten. Bottom line, I think it is great.

You won't believe this, but a couple of weeks before the feeding frenzy broke, I was doing a phone interview with Tom Osborne for one of my projects. When we finished, I complimented Dr. Osborne for an experience I had had several years ago with the Nebraska fans at the College World Series in Omaha. I related to Tom that I had gone to the Series the year Nebraska was playing in it, and I had never been treated any nicer, or been any more impressed, with the people of Omaha and the Nebraska baseball fans. They truly were a welcoming and classy group and I told him that, and then I added, "Unlike some of my experiences with SEC fans."

He thanked me and said something to the effect that "We're a lot alike, Nebraska and Ohio State." Little did I know then how much we would soon be really alike. As we finished up, we had a nice discussion about the role the sale of alcohol has in some of the unpleasantries I experienced at the two National Championships I have been to.

It was no surprise at all to me, no surprise that Nebraska came and no surprise that they were welcomed into the Big Ten. When you look at their football tradition, their all-time winning percentage, their National Championships won, they have great football tradition and a rabid following that maybe approaches the level of Ohio State more than three-fourths of the other Big Ten Schools. You may not be, but I am old enough to remember the days of Johnny Rodgers and Rich Glover and Willie Harper, the days of Bob Devanay and Tom Osborne.

They bring a great baseball program. They're a land grant school. They're Midwestern values.

I know flash and dash crowd wanted that school with a Golden Dome, wanted a Big Eastern Program, wanted a Big Market TV high dollar type school. So what. The Big Ten is blue collar salt of the earth smash mouth grind it out football type people and there is nothing wrong with that. Nebraska will do us just fine. Welcome Huskers.