Pelini's Anger Surfaces in Postgame Presser

Nebraska's Bo Pelini had a few minutes to cool off when he appeared at the news conference after Saturday night's loss to Texas in the Big 12 championship game, but it was obvious that he was still steamed about the officials' decision to put one second back on the clock, which allowed the Longhorns to kick the winning field goal.

Moments earlier, Pelini and his brother, defensive coordinator Carl Pelini, each had an outburst in the tunnel leading to the Cornhusker locker room. According to Dirk Chatelain of the Omaha World-Herald, Carl twice turned and screamed back toward the field, "You should be ashamed to accept that trophy!"

Bo was looking for Nebraska assistant athletic director Marc Boehm as he neared the locker room door.

"Marc, I want to see [Big 12 head of officiating] Walt Anderson in there right [expletive] now!" Pelini shouted.

"BCS!" Pelini said as he entered the locker room. "That's why they make that call!"

Chatelain wrote that from outside the locker room doors, one word could be heard loudest: "Cheaters!"

While this was going on, athletic director Tom Osborne was back at midfield, looking for Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe.

Osborne, according to another World-Herald reporter, eventually found Beebe talking with assistant commissioner Ed Stewart around the 40-yard line.

Chatelain writes: "As Osborne reached Beebe, the commissioner extended his hand. But Osborne didn't shake it. Osborne pointed at Beebe and said, 'Would you go see Bo? Right now?'

"By then, Nebraska chancellor Harvey Perlman had come on to the field. Perlman and Osborne walked with Beebe off the field and down a stadium tunnel.

"The three exchanged no words on the walk. Down the tunnel, Osborne walked three steps in front of Beebe and Perlman walked to Beebe's right.

"As Osborne walked, the World-Herald asked if Nebraska would appeal any part of the game. His answer: 'I don't know.' "

Beebe and Pelini eventually met after the presser, and Beebe said the conversation was private.

Thanks to the Midwest Correspondent.

Comments

[T-Bone]

The one second back on the clock was obvious. If only Pelini had put that much effort into developing an offense.

[Matt]

Tell your kicker to keep the ball in bounds, Bo.

[bevo]

Read the comments from the linked Omaha World-Herald. Nebraska fans are a class act.

The refs made plenty of bad calls on both sides of the ball. See the missed holds and clips on Nebraska's last kickoff returns and the bunk PI calls on Nebraska's defense.

Both offensive coordinators called terrible games.

And Suh should win the Heisman Trophy. He is one of the best players I have ever seen.

[Matt]

Sorry, but Nebraska's ire is justified. The game was over at that point, and the refs decided the game instead of letting the on-field action dictate it.

The clock ABC had aired wasn't the game clock, and since the refs weren't keeping time on the field, they were beholden to what the clock showed, as it wasn't an egregious amount of time which expired.

Texas honestly comes out of this whole debacle looking like crap--worse than when OU backed into the NC game after its loss.

And considering Alabama has a better defense than Nebraska (not to mention a better SoS), there's going to be so much bevo served up that everyone in the stands will have a complimentary beef brisket to take home with them.

Texas picked the wrong time to be blatant about it's cheating ways.