Sipple: Big Ten chief Delany makes a power play

[Nexus]

Things I know and think I know:
Jim Delany played hardball Tuesday in Lincoln.

The Big Ten commissioner came to town with Big Ten Network president Mark Silverman. They summoned two reporters, one apiece from the Lincoln Journal Star and Omaha World-Herald, to Tom Osborne's office at North Stadium. Delany and Silverman had a sheet of talking points.

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[knapplc]

Loved this part of that article:

*Nebraska fans might want to check out BTN on July 1, a Friday, when the Huskers officially join the Big Ten. BTN is in the midst of putting together a "welcome Nebraska weekend," according to Silverman.
"We're still pulling together some of the relevant information," he said. "But we're going to have a 60-minute special. We're going to talk with Tom, John Cook, Doc Sadler. And we're going to show some of the national championship games -- the Orange Bowl versus Tennessee (following the 1997 season), the Orange Bowl versus Miami (following the 1994 season), the volleyball championship versus Stanford from 2006. We'll show the Nebraska-Missouri football game from last year. We also have some original programming planned."

I've only watched both Orange Bowls all the way through once, when they were played live. I've seen bits and pieces of them on YouTube, but never the whole game. And I had recorded the Missouri game but I lost it off my DVR before I could watch it. I was there, live, when Roy torched the Tiggers, but you see such a different perspective on TV. Should be fun.

 

[Coqui]

Loved this part of that article:

*Nebraska fans might want to check out BTN on July 1, a Friday, when the Huskers officially join the Big Ten. BTN is in the midst of putting together a "welcome Nebraska weekend," according to Silverman.
"We're still pulling together some of the relevant information," he said. "But we're going to have a 60-minute special. We're going to talk with Tom, John Cook, Doc Sadler. And we're going to show some of the national championship games -- the Orange Bowl versus Tennessee (following the 1997 season), the Orange Bowl versus Miami (following the 1994 season), the volleyball championship versus Stanford from 2006. We'll show the Nebraska-Missouri football game from last year. We also have some original programming planned."

I've only watched both Orange Bowls all the way through once, when they were played live. I've seen bits and pieces of them on YouTube, but never the whole game. And I had recorded the Missouri game but I lost it off my DVR before I could watch it. I was there, live, when Roy torched the Tiggers, but you see such a different perspective on TV. Should be fun.

Nostalgia, is definitely a huge perk of the BTN. That and giving other sports air time that normally wouldn't happen.

 

[VectorVictor]

Any reason they can't air the 1995 NC game against Florida too? Or is it still considered such a horrendous bloodbath that even the Big 10 is too squeamish to air it?

But this is excellent news, and I expect that we'll see a boatload of Nebraska content on the network after July 1 hits--every single game of Nebraska vs. Big 10 opponents will be on there, win or lose.

Now, if they could find footage of the Bobfather's win at Michigan from oh so long ago...I couldn't be the only one that would kill to watch even portions of it with former players and coaches that are still with us?

 

[zonaSker]

Quite a little underhanded shot at Green

""I'm open for now -- just looking," he said.

Is he in search of a program that runs a certain style of offense?

"I guess one that can get me to the next level," he said.

I stopped there, for now. Let the kid fish."

 

[knapplc]

How is that an underhanded shot at Cody Green?

 

[GSG]

Loved this part of that article:

*Nebraska fans might want to check out BTN on July 1, a Friday, when the Huskers officially join the Big Ten. BTN is in the midst of putting together a "welcome Nebraska weekend," according to Silverman.
"We're still pulling together some of the relevant information," he said. "But we're going to have a 60-minute special. We're going to talk with Tom, John Cook, Doc Sadler. And we're going to show some of the national championship games -- the Orange Bowl versus Tennessee (following the 1997 season), the Orange Bowl versus Miami (following the 1994 season), the volleyball championship versus Stanford from 2006. We'll show the Nebraska-Missouri football game from last year. We also have some original programming planned."

I've only watched both Orange Bowls all the way through once, when they were played live. I've seen bits and pieces of them on YouTube, but never the whole game. And I had recorded the Missouri game but I lost it off my DVR before I could watch it. I was there, live, when Roy torched the Tiggers, but you see such a different perspective on TV. Should be fun.

I usually watch all three title games from the 90's at least once before the season starts. Then I follow that up by watching "The Program." Gets me pretty jacked for the first game.

 

[GSG]

How is that an underhanded shot at Cody Green?

:yeah

Sounds like he just wanted to let the guy enjoy his free time for now. I'm sure he has plenty of stuff going on in his life that he doesn't need a reporter hounding him the entire time he's fishing.

 

[zonaSker]

I read it as being that Sipple dropped it as soon as Green mentioned getting to the NFL. Kind of an implied sarcastic "Okay then"

 

[knapplc]

If anything it was a shot by Green at the program, if you want to interpret his comment about whatever's going to get him to the next level that way. That's a pretty pessimistic way of viewing that comment, though, and I don't buy that interpretation for a second, but that's the only "shot" you could see there.

 

[knapplc]

I read it as being that Sipple dropped it as soon as Green mentioned getting to the NFL. Kind of an implied sarcastic "Okay then"

Eh. I suppose I can see that interpretation, now that you mention it. I think Cody and Sipple have a pretty good relationship, though. I really doubt he's saying that about Cody.

 

[Nebula]

I read it as being that Sipple dropped it as soon as Green mentioned getting to the NFL. Kind of an implied sarcastic "Okay then"

Eh. I suppose I can see that interpretation, now that you mention it. I think Cody and Sipple have a pretty good relationship, though. I really doubt he's saying that about Cody.

Yeah, if he hadn't added the "let the kid fish" comment, which to me implies simply respecting Green's search without prying too much, than I could see how it could come across as sarcastic. But his final sentence negates that impression, for me anyhow.

I just don't see Sipple taking a shot at a kid like that. That doesn't really seem like his style.

 

[NUance]

I read it as being that Sipple dropped it as soon as Green mentioned getting to the NFL. Kind of an implied sarcastic "Okay then"

Eh. I suppose I can see that interpretation, now that you mention it. I think Cody and Sipple have a pretty good relationship, though. I really doubt he's saying that about Cody.

Yeah, if he hadn't added the "let the kid fish" comment, which to me implies simply respecting Green's search without prying too much, than I could see how it could come across as sarcastic. But his final sentence negates that impression, for me anyhow.

I just don't see Sipple taking a shot at a kid like that. That doesn't really seem like his style.

It was a little bit of a shot. Kind of a friendly slap at a kid who left the program. But what is Sip supposed to do at this point? Blow smoke up his, er, sleeve?

 

[husker B-rent]

i still dont see how that would even make sense as a "shot at green".

i would definitely say that this is a case of fans reading too much into what they read on a screen! also, this falls in line with how do you convey emotion in text?

 

[druski_2k5]

It's not a shot at Green. The tone in Cody's voice may have given Sipple a reason to stop asking questions and let him just have his peace and quiet for now.

Come to think of it, maybe he thought Cody wasn't serious about the "Whatever offense gets him to the next level" as Sipple may think that Cody is not suited at quarterback for the next level.

Now next level could mean a lot of things: NFL, CFL, UFL, XFL, is there still an Arena Football League?

Point being: Maybe he thought Cody was being arrogant at stating whatever can get him to the next level, and Sipple thought there would be no way he could be quarterback at a higher level, so he may have thought Cody was shrugging him off or giving a stupid answer to what he felt may have been a stupid question at the time and then decided to let him have his time alone.