Nebraska fully committed to Big Ten, president says. So no rogue football schedule
Nebraska is standing down when it comes to wandering eyes for a football season.
The Cornhuskers were peeved when the Big Ten decided against holding its regularly scheduled fall sports seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On Tuesday, football coach Scott Frost, university president Ted Carter and chancellor Ronnie Green issued a statement saying they hoped their football team could still play in the fall against non-Big Ten competition.
Some fans even held out hope for games against schools in the Big 12, Nebraska’s conference before moving to the Big Ten in 2011.
Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren’s response was a firm no. Nebraska couldn’t play outside the league “and be a member of the Big Ten Conference,” he told Yahoo Sports.
On Thursday, Carter and Green issued a statement supporting the conference:
“The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is a fully committed member of the Big Ten Conference. It is an unparalleled athletic and academic alliance.
We have the greatest fans in college athletics. This has been a difficult and disappointing week for the Husker family. We all look forward to the day when we can cheer on our student-athletes, on the field and in the arena.”
This story was originally published August 13, 2020 at 10:39 AM.