(by Henry J. Cordes) Harvey Perlman was driving north on Interstate 29 out of Kansas City, somewhere around Mound City, Mo., when he got on the phone with Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln chancellor had just endured two days of grilling from his Big 12 peers and now faced an ultimatum: You have a week to let us know whether Nebraska is committed to the Big 12.

So Perlman essentially told Delany it was late in the fourth quarter. Regardless of the Big Ten's time frame for expansion, if it wanted Nebraska, it needed to act now....read more from the Omaha World-Herald......H/T @davidubben