UPDATED: Beebe not in Lincoln... Will hand over death threat e-mails to authorities

[kansas husker]

some of the National Media is actually taking the huskers side

 

Big 12 shows its class in ‘Huskers trophy snub

Posted by John Taylor on November 26, 2010, 10:00 PM EST

An offseason of acrimony caused by Nebraska’s imminent departure for the Big Ten has apparently bled over to the end of the regular season.

 

In most years, a Cornhuskers’ win like today’s that secured a Big 12 North title would have been followed by the school being presented a trophy by someone from the conference, most likely commissioner Dan Beebe. This isn’t most years, of course, and the regular season has ended with the conference allowing its pettiness to show, cloaking their indignation over the future move in a sea of alleged threats and safety issues.

 

According to the Lincoln Journal Star, there were no representatives from the Big 12 in attendance at Memorial Stadium to make a postgame trophy presentation. The reasoning behind the snub? The “hooligans” in Lincoln had been peppering the conference with threatening emails in the week leading up to what turned out to be a division-clinching win over Colorado.

 

“They didn’t think it would be safe to send somebody up,” Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne said. “That’s the word I got. … You can call Beebe and ask him [why].”

 

Given this diss of Nebraska by their soon-to-be former conference, it would make the trophy presentation following the Big 12 title game a helluva lot more interesting and intriguing if the Cornhuskers were to win it.

 

Provided the conference doesn’t just ship the hardware FedEx. Or simply drop it from a crop duster somewhere in the air space above Lincoln.

 

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[dergibog]

"If there were a conspiracy, and if officials were involved, it would be easy to have a team lose just about every game possible," Beebe said. "That's a silly notion. Fans don't always think through things clearly. They have emotions on their sleeve."

 

Did he really say this? REALLY? Did he say it would be easy to have a team lose? It makes the conspiracy guys look more sane, that quote right there. Why admit it would be easy to do???? What a tool!

[BIGREDFAN_in_OMAHA]

Beebe claimed he had an NFL official look at it. Translation: my nephew who plays at the expert level on Madden watched the game with me and I told him nothing was wrong.

[kansas husker]

Beebe claimed he had an NFL official look at it. Translation: my nephew who plays at the expert level on Madden watched the game with me and I told him nothing was wrong.

 

I asumed he was talking about Walt Harris, since walt does officate NFL games.

[BigWillie]

I guess Beebe was scared that one of our coaches or staff managers were going to get them, since the B12 North trophy could be presented in the locker room, just like it was last year.

 

Outside of the d-bag Beebe, does anyone even know or care who another B12 official is?

 

Further, how is it even possible to send a group of B12 employees (the refs) when there are 'safety concerns', but you cannot come yourself? Hmmm.

[Army Husker]

Rule number 1 in politics (yes, Beebe is all about it) : when your back is against the wall with accusations against you, assemble a PR team to make you look like the "I'm the victim here" innocent one. This whole reason to not do your job, because you feel threatened by some loser drunk fan, is pathetic. Go work at a Care Bear stuffing factory if you are truly that worried about your current job. Loser.

[Hercules]

Saying that game was officiated fairly without even acknowledging that Nebraska had some awful calls go against it is pretty sketchy.

[Hercules]

Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne said he wished not to respond to Beebe's comments.

 

"They got whatever they got, and they decided not to come," Osborne said. "That's OK. I don't have anything to say about that."

 

Is Osborne bothered by Nebraska fans sending the messages that Beebe described?

 

"I've said all I'm going to say. I've had all kinds of e-mails over the years. It's not a problem."

 

Does Osborne seem a little curt with his comments here to anybody else? Almost sounds like Pelini...

[huskernumerouno]

Anyone that sent threats should be ashamed of themselves but using thatexcuse is pathetic. He just fed the fire anmd that is what his plan was from the start. His little B.S. statement about the university was for his own benifit. SCREW HIM AND THE CONFERENCE.

 

Way to go Huskers now make that CCG game ours as well.

 

GBR GBR GBR

[Malth]

Translation: Everyone in a position like that gets nasty emails/letters/etc. Man up and do your job anyway, you giant pu&&y.

[PaulCrewe]

I'm sorry it's over. No longer can I use the Mike Gundy " I'm a man I'm 40" tirade as a means to enlighten my day. This has been forever erased from my mind. From this point from here on out it will only be

 

I'M DAN BEEBE, AND I"M A BIG BOY!

 

I can't believe he called himself a "big boy". You have forever etched your fame in douchedom. Thank you for this you screwdriver.

[Sparker]

I guess Beebe was scared that one of our coaches or staff managers were going to get them, since the B12 North trophy could be presented in the locker room, just like it was last year.

 

Outside of the d-bag Beebe, does anyone even know or care who another B12 official is?

 

Further, how is it even possible to send a group of B12 employees (the refs) when there are 'safety concerns', but you cannot come yourself? Hmmm.

 

Very good point. There were threats against Big XII employees, yet they sent a whole crew up here and put their lives in danger. Extreme danger!! If I was one of those refs I would resign effective immediately!

[kansas husker]

another article that takes husker side over Bebes (but it is the nebraska state paper)

NEBRASKA FOOTBALL: Big 12 Blood Feud

Commentary: While the league wants to make it personal, head coach Bo Pelini has a tough decision to make at quarterback

By Samuel McKewon

 

November 26, 2010

 

 

 

Man, is it going to be Bo Pelini's kind of week.

 

The guy fuels his motor with animosity. If Husker fans supplied a healthy dose last week, they'll fall in line behind him this week, as the Big 12, in its infinite impotence, chose not to stage a North Division trophy presentation at Memorial Stadium – with its fans who applaud the opposing team – because league administrators didn't feel safe here.

 

Suitable family-friendly words don't truly exist for the foolishness of such a decision, but it plays squarely into Nebraska's hands. Bo excels at trying to create an outside enemy against which his team can wage war. This week, the Big 12 and its commish, Dan Beebe, sticks out its chin and says “well, all right, go ahead, hit me.”

 

The Big 12's had a pretty rotten fall, by all accounts. Big Bevo took a big 5-7 dump (though, yes, it did take a bite out of NU). Oklahoma failed to provide the league with its preferred national title contender. The three best league games of the year all involved the Huskers. The officiating crews still don't know their rumps from their elbows, and the startling penalty disparity in Nebraska's 9-6 loss to Texas A&M makes it seems as though Beebe is The Judge from “The Natural,” some till-keeping skinflint who hides from the sun behind dusty Venetian blinds.

 

The league couldn't let the Huskers go quietly, could they? You'd think – I mean, most sentient beings would – that presenting harmony at all costs is in the Big 12's best interests. Why not bilk the Big Red on its way out the door, smiling the entire time while you pat down the Bugeaters for loose change?

 

But the Big 12 apparently sees it differently. It would prefer, through Olympian efforts of passive aggression, to suggest NU is a villain to be blackballed and punished, indirectly, as if a scandalous character in a Edith Wharton novel. Chasten me for the bizarre analogy – although, hey, Wharton was there before “The Hills” ever was - but, let's face it: The Big 12 and Beebe have been trying to put a moralistic, “family values” spin on things every since the conference nearly blew up over the summer. Talk of “shared sacrifice” and a “stronger unity” - as if these schools were sovereign nations coming together over something more than a Texas power play. Are we negotiating a nuclear treaty here? Is Beebe suddenly the president? Does he need protection to cross Nebraska's state line?

 

Apparently. Beebe told the Lincoln Journal-Star Friday night that, because of vile messages received at his office, he was advised by security professionals not to go to Nebraska, until "we figure out what's going on." That is, potentially, hunting down and prosecuting Nebraska fans for making terroristic threats. Oh, well, there you go. That's a thumbs-up way of chiseling this program some more.

 

This is - what? - one day in the life of the SEC Commissioner? Maybe that's why they win national championships down there.

 

(By the way, can you imagine Bo, like a don, reluctantly raising two fingers to his face as if to say, well, you see, the ways of the world without my protection?)

 

It's the sheer cheese that the Big 12 slathers on the meat of its existence that offends my sensibilities. Safe? Safe? What is this – Hillsborough Stadium? It's just a sports league. We live harsh times, folks. Angry times. But what use is it indulging such garbage as nasty e-mails, in creating fractious, knee-nibbling nonsense out of the equivalent of a drunk dial? I'd like to work myself up into a equal, disproportionate-to-reality lather over this latest snub, but there's North and South Korea, the economy, unemployment benefits about to tank, immigration, health care and Bristol Palin to worry about. Nebraska and its fan base, certain to walk around in a kind of trance this week, gobbling up every morsel of Big 12 hate it can find, will, I'm sure, more than compensate for my relative demurral.

 

In the midst of this sure-to-burn-your-ears-and-salt-your-tears soap opera is a football decision for Nebraska to make in the wake of its 45-17 win over Colorado. There is a week to make it.

 

Does head coach Bo Pelini – and it's undoubtedly his call – give the starting nod to a healthy Cody Green at quarterback or a semi-healthy Taylor Martinez? Which offense does he pick? Pure power or zone read? Spread pass or playaction?

 

Maybe Martinez won't recover quickly enough for it to be a choice. If he looks anything like he did in the second half at Texas A&M, he doesn't belong on the football field. He's too good to play so mediocre. He needs his right foot to push off when he runs and to anchor his base when he throws.

 

But if he can do both of those things reasonably well – does Pelini go back to his well one more time? Does the opponent – whether it's Oklahoma, Oklahoma State or Texas A&M – make a difference?

 

Should the Aggies slide into the game – only possible if OU beats OSU, and ends only one spot above A&M in the BCS standings – then, yes, Green gets the nod for certain. NU can slow down Mike Sherman's bunch.

 

But the Cowboys? The Sooners? The two best offenses in the Big 12? Can the Blackshirts realistically keep either of those teams down for four quarters?

 

Green played his best game Friday. He wasn't explosive or dynamic. Those two adjectives belong to Rex Burkhead. But Green was steady. And he's been surprisingly good – in three games – on third down. Green took a bad sack once against a CU rush, but he otherwise made smart reads, delivered the ball on time, and looked better, frankly, than Martinez did vs. Kansas or A&M.

 

Based on the formations used today, Green clearly has more access to the playbook. What he lacks, of course, is playmaking ability with his feet. He's not a great runner because he can't change direction quickly. But he's every bit Martinez's equal as a passer. Can he keep his cool? In a pressure situation Friday – a win vs. the surging Buffs was no cinch – Green managed the offense without much trouble. Cowboys Stadium is a cavernous place, a neutral site. Noise won't be much of an issue. Green can operate in there without getting too rattled.

 

And Burkhead is finally getting hot. He's not a breakaway runner like Roy Helu, but he churns those legs and burns up first-down markers. Remember, folks – Texas didn't want him. Rex got caught in the “numbers crunch” for the Longhorn elites. I'm sure Mack Brown, from that double-wide burnt-orange leather chair I imagine he reclines in, enjoyed watching Burkhead, then Oregon's Lamichael James – also a Texas native – deliver their own “number crunches” in Lincoln and Eugene.

 

Martinez, as always, remains a wild card. Nobody doubts his physical toughness around here. He's playing through pain. On the field, in the moment, he seems mentally tough enough. The question becomes: Is he healthy enough to win a Big 12 title? Can NU afford to waste a whole half figuring that out?

 

It's one hot week coming up in the Big 12 fighting pit. We hacks and scribes will sharpen our pencils and fling rhetorical barbs at one another. But Nebraska's hopes – and ultimate redemption for a mucked-up final year in this mouse-trap league – rests on which Husker quarterback can throw the best darts.

 

 

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[VA Husker Fan]

Beebe claimed he had an NFL official look at it. Translation: my nephew who plays at the expert level on Madden watched the game with me and I told him nothing was wrong.

 

I asumed he was talking about Walt Harris, since walt does officate NFL games.

who probably told him, yeah, it's possible that the game was called that way out of incompetence rather than bias.

[Fuzzy]

I didn't realize there was a Big 12 North trophy, I thought it was just a title that we earned.

 

If they didn't feel safe coming up to present the trophy maybe they should just mail it to us.