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Just saw that UGA took a commitment from another TE today, Colton Heinrich. Could be good? Could be bad? Who knows haha.

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7-3 Purdue final.

Midweek games are always a bit of a crapshoot since it's pretty rare that you're going to have good #4 starter on a college team. From a quick look at the game logs from those midweek games. It seems like Nebraska just tried to 'bullpen' the games and have all their guys throw a couple innings at a time. I think they were hoping that Garza would take ownership of one of their rotation slots but he was a disaster and Walsh...who was the midweek guy got bumped to the 3 spot. It also hasn't helped that Bunz took a huge step back, Cristo hasn't really developed and they lost Bragg. I would've liked to see them try and stretch a couple guys out but it seemed like nobody really grabbed the brass ring. I can't speak to what Nebraska's development part is like and if that was the goal this year with having lots of guys get innings. I get that baseball is a weird sport and flukey stuff happens all the time but consistently dropping games to Omaha and the Dakota schools is really bad. Those teams are flat out not good. @Loebarthhas mentioned the teams lack of focus quite a bit and I certainly agree with him that during the midweek games against 'lesser' opponents, this team seems to think they can just roll the gloves out if you will and win games. This team is just not talented enough to do that as presently constructed. I don't know what next year holds for Bolt but they are going to lose 3 big pieces in Brice, Max and Shay and I don't know how they are going to fill those spots.

I think we're all on the same page here in that the only way Nebraska gets in to regionals is if they win the conference tournament. I don't think I'm going out on a limb here when I say that they have zero shot of regional play otherwise. IIRC, I think the Big Ten moved to the CWS style 2 bracket system. So you'd have the 1/8/4/5 seeds in one bracket and 2/7/3/6 in the other.

The lack of midweek success this year against those teams you mentioned has really stood out to me. The team generally plays well in conference and competes against P5 schools. I really appreciate that Nebraska plays Omaha and Creighton a couple times a year and I hope that trend continues because it's great from a local standpoint. That being said, you have to wonder if it makes sense to play both teams 2x/year versus swapping in a home and away against a team like Mizzou, KU or some other geographically close-ish P5 school that can help boost up the RPI a bit. It certainly doesn't help that San Diego and South Alabama aren't very good this year.

Hey @Loebarth(or anyone else) do you happen to remember why Braxton Bragg ended up transferring? It seems a tad odd that he couldn't find a spot in the starting rotation at Nebraska yet he's the Saturday guy at Dallas Baptist..a perennial baseball powerhouse.

Nice job by the boys to get the sweep and lock up a Big Ten tourney berth. Would be great if Nebraska kept Purdue out of postseason play as a nice turnabout from last years shenanigans.

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If the game gets rained out why would that affect the pitching rotation? Nebraska was planning on throwing Olson in game 1 and Kaminska in game 2. Olson will start game 1 whether that happens today or tomorrow. Now, it would definitely be not ideal if they play say, 3 innings tonight and get rained out until tomorrow thus knocking out Olson. https://huskers.com/news/2023/5/11/baseball-huskers-welcome-penn-state-in-final-home-series.aspx

So you think they are going to get swept at home by Penn State? If so, let me know if you would be interested in a friendly side wager!

Buddy, if you don't think Nebraska will draw 8k+ for a conference baseball tourney game in Omaha after missing the tourney last year, I don't know what to tell you. The Creighton/Nebraska game on Tuesday drew 5k just as a reference point.

Despite the team sputtering, I think they only need to win 3 of their last 6 games to lock up a top 8 finish and guarantee a spot in the conference tourney. If they can make it to Omaha, all best are off as the fans will come out in droves to support the team. If they can't get 3 wins from a putrid Penn State team and Purdue, they don't deserve to make it to Omaha. Penn State is legitimately awful on the road...2-12 and one of those was the first game of the year at Miami FL.

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I can't remember where I read this (and honestly you might have been the person who mentioned it) but Condimetti apparently has had a nasty run of concussions which has affected his availability.

I can think of worse ways to spend my last year of college than hanging out in Boca Raton, Florida....

Woof, not great Bob. Not great at all.

Even if you don't make the 53 man roster, you can still make $11k/week as a NFL practice squad player. If Nelson can make a practice squad (which I think is very reasonable) and stick for the season, he'll make a shade above $200k. Now, I have zero idea what Nebraska's NIL situation looks like but I'm guessing (and probably wrong) that while he's leaving some financial security on the table at Nebraska, I doubt he was walking away from a $500k bag or anything like that. If I had to speculate, his NIL package was probably close to what he could make on a practice squad and Nelson elected to bet on himself versus coming back for another year. As others have mentioned, Nelson went out on a high note and even though we think he would've been a contributor there is no guarantee he would thrive in this new system.

I hope they can make it to the CWS this year too and while short series baseball is always unpredictable, I'd be pretty surprised if they didn't make it. Unless something unforeseen happens, they are a lock for a top 4 national seed.

Nice job getting 2/3. Big week for Nebraska. NDSU will be a tricky midweek test and their record is a bit deceiving as they had a dreadful start to the year losing 16/17 and getting bonked by some pretty good teams. Then they've got a big, big road series at Maryland who is hotter than a jalapeno right now who has won 9/10 and just battered a pretty good Indiana team in Bloomington. The boys better eat their Wheaties.

Pitiful.

If you get the chance @admo, watch Wake Forest. They are an absolute wagon. 3 great pitchers, a really solid bullpen and their lineup can mash. Really fun club to watch.

No two ways about it, minimum 2 outta 3 this weekend if not a sweep. Minnesota is freaking putrid.