Some professors on the UW-Madison campus questioned whether the sports side of the equation — Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany and league athletic directors — wielded too much power in making the University of Nebraska the 12th member of the conference last summer.
Nonetheless, when the Big Ten Council of Presidents/Chancellors voted unanimously to approve Nebraska?s entry to the league effective July 1, 2011 — with competition to begin in all sports for the 2011-12 academic year — most agreed that Nebraska was a good fit academically with the other Big Ten institutions.