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Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne is excited about the school's move to the Big Ten this fall.CAPTIONBy Nati Harnik, APNebraska was part of the formation of Big Six in 1928 before the league expanded to the Big Eight and then morphed into the Big 12 in 1996.
After 83 years of relative stability, the Cornhuskers will enter a new conference this summer when they move to the Big Ten.
A sampling of the questions:
What has stood out to you about the transition to the Big Ten?
Tom Osborne: The Big Ten has done an excellent job of reaching out and recognizing that culture does matter and no matter how similar you think a school like Nebraska might be to other institutions in the league, there still might be some differences. There will be some things that are done differently in the Big Ten than were done in the Big 12. Those are unavoidable, and to make sure everyone has an adequate understanding of new parameters and how people communicate is important. So for the last six, eight months, we've had a fairly steady flow of people from the Big Ten who have come out here: compliance, business office practices, academic consulting, Big Ten Network and on and on. So we feel very good about the outreach and the effort that the Big Ten has put in to assimilating us into the conference.
