Nebraska Cornhuskers fans have been rather angry over the newly released Big Ten schedule. Some traditional scheduling regulars, such as the team's Black Friday event that takes place after Thanksgiving, appears gone the way of the dinosaurs.
Not so fast my friend, but more on that in a second.
Fans have been so angry that Nebraska athletic director Shawn Eichorst was forced to release a statement on Thursday afternoon.
“I want to clarify Nebraska’s position regarding the dates of our season-ending football games in 2020 and 2021 as announced earlier this week by the Big Ten Conference. At this time no final decision has been made on what dates these two games will actually be played,” said Eichorst. “As in past years, the Big Ten releases opponent matchups and typically assigns these match-ups to Saturday. That has been the case in the past when we agreed to move our season ending games against Iowa from Saturday to Friday.
“Moving forward we will do everything possible to maintain our tradition of playing games on the Friday after Thanksgiving. We look forward to playing Iowa on the Friday after Thanksgiving through 2019.”
For what it is worth, he's not wrong. As we noted in our posting of the future Big Ten schedules, all games are assigned to Saturdays for the time being, but get moved around as those seasons approach.
Basically, the people going bonkers over the potential loss of Black Friday games were not paying too much attention to the devil in the details.
This is all, clearly, much to do about nothing — which sounds like our next romantic-comedy starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. I miss her.
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