Osborne?s Case for Nebraska in the Big Ten Hits Home with Jim Rome

There wasn't any Q&A after Tom Osborne's appearance on the Jim Rome Show that was syndicated across the country on Tuesday, but there was at least one person who bought the logic that Nebraska's athletic director laid out on the show ... Jim Rome himself.

Rome, the popular radio show host who broadcasts from a studio near Los Angeles, said he loves the connection between Nebraska and the Big Ten.

And now that he knows more precisely why Nebraska made the move from the Big 12 to the Big Ten, Rome said "the miracle is they (the Huskers) left and that conference didn't just fall apart."

Osborne told Rome that the Big 12 was a good league and remains a good league today. "We have no complaints about it, but we just felt that our culture, the way we do things and our outlook on things was probably a little bit more similar to the Big Ten, and the Big Ten was a better fit.

"Some people say we just did it for the money," Osborne added, "and actually we will be less well off financially for a few years at least."

Culture, geography and stability influenced Nebraska's decision to move to the Big Ten.

Osborne said Nebraska's decision-makers respect the Big Ten philosophy of "all for one and one for all" and had a "feeling that the Big Ten is stable and is going to be there for the next 50 or 100 years."

Rome asked Osborne questions about the differences in recruiting, exposure, the Oklahoma rivalry and the rapid development of Bo Pelini and his coaching staff. To hear the conversation between Rome and Osborne, hit the audio link at the top of this story.