MplsHusker

Yep, this is what excites me the most about the new staff. Coming from the backwater that is Ore. St., they absolutely HAD to rely on player development.

Shifty is a good start. Just catch.the.d@mn.ball.

The crazy intense competition in practice that led to this injury(and all the others), has made the replacements that much more ready to step in. Just sayin........

Can you or Bshirt elaborate? As far as what he's missing to be able to pitch at the next level? All I read was "96 mph fastball", which isn't everything(though it's a lot!). Thanks,

Does anyone know where that is? Assuming it's not a Photoshop, of course.

An Iowa news crew that's never seen Iowa. Interesting.

Which pretty much brings us full-circle to my original myopia comment. I guess it's a half-full, half-empty thing. One person's brotherly solidarity is another's acceptance of mediocrity. TomAto tomAHto, potAto potAHto. Such is life.......

Yeah, I guess I am. As a whole? Maybe I could be talked into dialing that down a bit. But only a bit(again, from what I've seen in two decades). What regional games are on TV due to contractual agreements is beside the point. The local/regional doormats always get their share of TV exposure. My issue is that people actually WANT to watch that drivel, when there's a higher quality option. I didn't say it initially, but I'm not talking about one's alma mater, or team they've grown up with. If the 3 die-hard Gopher fans out there(I'm being generous) want to watch Minnesota play, good for them. I'm talking about WANTING to watch two crappy teams, teams who's only link to the viewer is that they happen to be in the same conference, when there are better quality match-ups going on. Not to talk for my fellow Huskers, but if Iowa St/Kansas St are playing on channel 113 and Florida/Alabama are playing on channel 115, I'm going to guess that, in Nebr. and the Big12 region overall, 115 wins overwhelmingly. My argument/opinion/repeated observation/whatever is, that's not the case in Big10 country.

Just my 2 decades living up here.......popping into a sports bar and seeing what all the eyes are glued to.....missing a top 5 match-up at the health club because everyone is watching an utterly meaningless game....the Monday morning chatter at work..... Same 'hard facts' as every other poster on these here internets. Opinion. That was the word I was looking for.

LOL! As though a #1 v #2 happens on a weekly basis in CFB. FWIW, the success of the BTN is evident, and it's not really something that can be argued. Furthermore, the Big Ten is also played on ABC, ESPN, and other ESPN satellites. I've caught more Big Ten games living in Oregon than I ever did in NC. You're arguing a red herring. No, it doesn't happen on a weekly basis. Or top 5 match-ups in general. It's pretty rare. And that gets to my point: Big10 fans by and large(I'll put away my widest paintbrush) put regional mediocrity ahead of excellence.

At the risk of pooping on the so-far-friendly banter, I do have to bring up one thing: Big10 fans just might be the more myopic fans on the planet. The sun rises in Happy Valley, PA, and sets in Minneapolis(soon to be Lincoln). If the Big10 network is showing Indiana/Purdue, while ESPN is showing a #1 vs #2 match-up, all eyes are on Indiana/Purdue. In my 22 years up here, I've never understood how mediocrity takes precedence over excellence. And the 'hate' isn't all that hateful. Half of western Wisconsin heads to the Twin Cities when they move out of the house, so there's a lot of neighborhood/office intermingling. Same, to perhaps a lesser extent, with Iowa.

The D's stats will be almost, or as good, if only because they will be on the field less. The offense will be much better.

Frost is waiting for the Shotput Coach position to open up

If Weekday-Practice Zach and the Gameday Zach are not one and the same, then he needs to become Benchtime Zach.