It's just now time to start questioning?? No, sadly the time for questioning it was when Delaney was salivating over the idea of Nebraska getting the Big Ten's auto bid to the play off 3-4 times every decade, and boosting Big Ten football national TV ratings up higher.
Damn everything else that is important to the Big Ten, like being a major research school -- which Nebraska never was, and then was promptly kicked out of the AAU.
Football team hasn't lived up to jack squat, and was never going to bring many new cable subscribers to BTN, due to the small population of their state. National college football fans don't give a rip about Nebraska, any more than they do Iowa.
That's what Nebraska is ..... a red Iowa. Which is fine, it is what it is ... but it's not an Alabama or a Clemson. Never was going to be.
I will contend that Nebraska should've stayed in the Big XII, or if they were that desperate to get away from Texas, then follow Colorado into the PAC. Thing is, they've always wanted to be in the Big Ten. They applied a long time ago and were denied. But their admin have always dreamed about Lincoln being a Big Ten campus and town.
Wish the PAC could've added Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and K-State, to go along with Colorado and Utah. That would've given them a central timezone footprint that they do need.
Then Big Ten could've added Iowa St, which is a much better fit with Iowa and MN being natural rivals, and a much better research school. And their football and basketball teams aren't too bad these days!