GBRFAN

David Alston OLB 

AJ Forbes OG

Mav thanks for making this happen - it was fun!!!

Nino Cooper OLB

Ronald Tompkins WR

Niko 

Mav that is 3 rounds In a row where you grabbed my number one on the board...

Noah Vedral QB

Josh Weather C

Weagner 

Luke Reimer ILB 

Tamon Lynum CB

5 hours ago, seaofred92 said:

 

Thinking this will be the first season where TE recruits get to see that position have a impact on our O

On 4/18/2020 at 2:11 PM, seaofred92 said:

 

Not a knock on you seaofred92 

This is an informational tweet with some silly logic on the back end.  Almost Every div1 kid has Clemson on Their radar so they convened to offer to see if their is interest

23 hours ago, HuskermanMike said:

Darn, really feel down the line or toward his jr/sr. year he could have contributed. He showed passion and character for the team despite Nebraska not having a stellar year.

 

Wishing him nothing but the best down the road! 

This is not a knock on Easley - because outside of Thor he was the biggest surprise of the season (player wise)

But he has been recruited over and would see zero playing time going forward - minus garbage minutes late when NU starts to win big...

Again not a knock on the kid cause he out did expectations by 10x

MAV that was a dirty pick

casey Rogers DE

Mosai Newsome DE

Jimmy fritzsche OT

Turner corcoran OT

Man you guys are making this tough 

Trent Hixson OG

Henry Gray S

5 hours ago, NUance said:

 

 

This snippet hits the nail on the head.  The 2020 season (if it happens!) is going to depend on whether we can field a D-line worthy of Big 10 play.  Will we have the D-line we need?  I am skeptical.  

I actually think our d line this year will be better then last year in the since that we will be 6-9 deep couple that with our o line being 8 deep on the exterior - feel cam will be in shape to handle full duty.

With this we will finally see an offense that plays FAST - the length and speed of our d line will t.ump last year

1 hour ago, knapplc said:

Voting on that one is over. This is probably the most lopsided I've ever seen this.  Usually Michigan has a fair amount of support in this question, but maybe as time goes by and the hype fades, we have more people seeing these teams more clearly.

 

Final votes:

 

NU:  7,095

MU: 534

 

Pretty incredible.

 

 

or maybe it is true that people get wiser as they get older.  NU fans were wise enough and now MU fans are catching on.

Jordan Riley NT 

Marquez dismuke S

Zavier Betts WR

Travis Vokolek TE

Will Honas ilb 

Braxton Clark cb

All is good

Alante brown WR

Derrick mills RB

K

Are we going to setup a block of time and knock it out or just reply when it is our turn

We could lump  WR RB together and CB S together to help 

K

However it will be possible due to lack of depth at some positions that all 4 of us will not fill certain positions

Do players need to be selected  at only their roster position and capped after you draft that spot for instance if Chris Hickman is listed at WR can he be taken at TE

I'm in - always good to give others a reason to laugh at my decisions....

2 hours ago, gossamorharpy said:

I don't know if we can automatically assume conferences and schools are still going to get pay outs or close to full pay outs as expected.  NBA and MLB commissioners and Players Association leaders have all commented on the direct cut they are all going to have to take due to significantly less revenue from media due to no games and a change in the process.  Before coronavirus, there was already a pretty large disparity between the 20 or so college programs that turn a profit and those that are losing money.  

 

You take away guaranteed money P5 conf teams get on top of that?  Not so sure ADs will automatically be able to act business as usual if the funds arent there in the same capacity.

 

While it might be easy to just assume TV revenue can make up for it, I don't necessarily know thats the case.  Nebraska is one of the few programs to turn a profit and is in an even smaller group that can fund the AD department without state/university funds.

 

When you consider the fact that the AD department had an 8 mil surplus under normal conditions and only 3 sports actually turned a profit (football, m bball and volleyball); I don't know how you can assume there isn't a monetary factor in play here when you're removing 90k fans paying good money 8 saturdays a year and the sponsorship money that also comes in from companies that want to place their logo and company name on various marketing avenues on gameday.  When you remove football which is, by far, the largest revenue driver, you find yourself which much harder business centric questions in a world where not everyone can get a free lunch.

 

https://www.omaha.com/sports/college/huskers/blogs/nebraska-top-25-nationally-but-middle-of-big-ten-in-athletic-department-revenues/article_a99caf1a-211c-57f9-9759-32c82dcbd328.html

 

NU’s revenues of $120,205,090 ranked seventh in the Big Ten. Its expenses — $112,571,632 — ranked 24th nationally and eighth in the league. Iowa’s revenues ($130,681,467) and expenses ($128,869,211) ranked 18th and 15th nationally, respectively.

 

https://nebraska.rivals.com/news/big-red-business-nebraska-s-financial-performance-paint-it-black

Shutting down the season doesn't just make the expenses go away like the revenue will.  Just as with a business - even when the doors are closed there are still expenses.  Some salaries get paid no matter what and there is this thing called "land (and building)" it's not free and you have to make payments whether its being used or not...

3 hours ago, gossamorharpy said:

I voted no season, unless we somehow find a vaccine in the next few months which experts seem to indicate is very unlikely.

 

I don't think the no fans and games still played is a realistic scenario for a few reasons:

• Fan/Player Wise:  The vast majority would rather delay to return to normalcy instead of playing games in an empty stadium simply for the atmosphere affect.  Will I still tune in to watch husker football in a quiet empty stadium?  Sure, but I don't really know if I would really be as interested without the fan element and impact that has for big games, road games, etc.  So much of what makes college football great is the off the field aspects that are so unique to just college football.  It seems like coaches and players would rather push the season back to hopefully maintain this as opposed to sticking to the current schedule and playing in an empty stadium.
• How to handle player health:  All it takes is 1 confirmed case and that shuts down a team.  You shut down a team, that throws a wrench in the process for every single team on the schedule and within that conference.  You talk about hot spots around the country: how do we handle a scenario where half the country can't do anything while the other half could be in the clear?  You cant.  
• Recruiting Impact:  Similar to above- How do they handle recruiting?  You either have to shut it down for all or keep it open for all.  If states are under lockdown and prevents coaches from leaving or high schoolers from being recruited, that will create an inherently unfair advantage for schools who may be able to update a little more normal than others. 
• $$$ Talks- No fans in games=no game day revenue.  No game day revenue= major impact on local economy.  Downturn in live events=loss in merchandise revenue.  A degraded product= lost revenue for media platforms who fund a very large part of revenue for P5 conferences.  Perhaps media outlets such as ESPN stand to increase revenue on the premise that more people are at home and will be watching these no fan games, more ad revenue, viewers etc.... But what happens to that ad revenue if they have to shut the season down half way through and the largest $$$ producing evetns (playoffs, conf title games, champ game) arent played?  All of a sudden that is a hugeeeee chunk of revenue that is gone- revenue that ADs leverage when factoring in costs and expenses for the football program and great athletic department/university as a whole.

 

I want football back more than anything else.  But not at the expense of the greater public health.  If its looking like no fans are allowed due to health reasons, I'm not sure how you can then say its ok to have 160 football players on a field together in close contact with one another.

You do know that the players wear facemask- don't you?