Steven M. Sipple: Chinander turns conversation about his performance in pleasant direction

Nebraska defensive coordinator Erik Chinander works with the team during pregame drills before taking on South Alabama last August at Memorial Stadium.Plenty of mature Nebraska football fans surely appreciated the low-key manner in which Erik Chinander "announced" earlier this week that he had awarded Blackshirts to defenders.

By the way, he was asked about it; he didn't volunteer the information.

It was low key in the sense that he didn't even identify the players who received the coveted black practice jerseys.

Get this: There wasn't a slick and overwrought Twitter video with overly dramatic music in the background. Does everything in this world need to be displayed on social media? Do you…