Old Nebraska Guy

Humm….how long has this ad been  posted

I wonder if it is one of those things where they have their guy but be because it's a state job it has to be listed for X number of days.

Like, You Know...they only interview one guy and that interview has already happened.

Time to burn a couch

Mea Culpa  Mea Culpa

Rats, one of the forty bowls that I was so sure about is for FCS teams.  So 78 teams, 75 bowl eligible teams, with Boston College (win or lose) ahead of us leaves only two slots.  I would require a major miracle for DONU to qualify.

Well, technically  Nebraska is still alive for the APR bowl. NOT REALLY...SEE YOU NEXT YEAR.

There are 40 bowls (even though some talking heads are saying 39...one was added this year.)

Currently, as of Friday night there are 75 teams with six or more wins.  Liberty's six wins do not currently count as two were against FCS teams. 

Boston College is ahead of UNL on the APR list, we are second after Ohio and Kent St. won this week.

We can hope that the teams with four wins and that are ahead of us on the APR list don't pick up their 5th win and/or only a few teams with five wins pick up their sixth win.  Chances are slim for us but as they say there is a chance.   Here the teams with six or more wins.  Teams in the first column have finished their season.

This may be a waste of time, but what the heck I'm retired.

By my count there are eight bowl slots left as of Tuesday morning.

Here are the contenders.  You do the math

Nebraska is tied for 41st in APR.

After a quick check, errors possible, 37 of the 41 are either bowl eligible or currently have four or fewer wins.  

Of the remaining four Nebraska is tied for third.  Ohio and Boston College have five wins are ahead of us.

With a game to go, positions could change radically.

It would be better to just win (baby)

Something else to consider, especially for freshman kickers, is that the width of the college goalposts is nearly five feet narrower than the high school goalpost.  All of McCallum's kicks so far would have been good with a high school goal.

Not so fast my friends,

There may be a problem lurking in the future.

A news report of a July 2 fire destroyed a JIM BEAM warehouse.  The loss from fire included 45000 barrels (approximately 53 gallons each) of bourbon.

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Then again, a Jim Beam rep states that 45000 barrels is less than 1% of their inventory.

https://news.yahoo.com/fire-destroys-jim-beam-warehouse-153419015.html

IIRC the team has to be down to 85 by August 1 or maybe by their first fall practice

1 hour ago, SouthLincoln Husker said:

 

51 minutes ago, JoeSakic2019 said:

I wonder how walk on scholarships are used against total # of 85 scholarships. Ive heard if a freshman or sophmore gets put on scholy it counts against the 85. But if they wait til Jr.year it counts differently.

Another factor on scholarships to walkons is the rule about only 25 new "counters" per year and that if a walkon has been here for two years they do not count as a new "counter", however, all scholarships count toward the 85 max.

8 hours ago, Landlord said:

...Minnesota's stadium is great but small but downtown.

 

 

Actually the Gopher's stadium is on campus, the newest in the conference but only seats 50,800ish.

A minor technicality.

Tressel  is the President of YSU

The same position he occupied when Bo was hired.

Are the $'s before or after the lawyers get their cut?

Calvin Jones played in one super bowl with Green Bay but I think all he did was special teams.

If this works...here are all the latitudes for all the schools that played in bowl games. If you really want to argue North/South.  All are degrees North

Lincoln is included for reference.

On ‎12‎/‎23‎/‎2018 at 7:37 PM, huskerinacaveman said:

 Do we need to have a top 5 class, or classes to achieve success. 

 

It would certainly make it easier, but if we wait around until we get a top five class or two we could be waiting a long long time.

Play with what you got and try to get better every day and with every class and let the chips(wins) fall where they may.

I'm of the opinion that the bowl results are not that great of indicator of conference strength because most of the time conference records hover around 0.500.  Last year with the B1G winning all but one game and P-12 losing them all were excepts that let a lot of fans stick their chest out.  This year with a few games to go

at 4:30 1/1/2019 

ACC...4-4, one game to play

B-12...3-3, one game to play

B1G....4-4, one game to play

P-12....3-3, one game to play

SEC.....6-4, two games to play

I think this is more the normal than last year.

2 hours ago, lo country said:

….There were also different rules ie scholarship limits, partial qualifiers and parity much greater these days..... 

I've said it before and I'll keep reminding people.

1.  The 85 scholarship limit went into effect in the early '90's, without looking it up, I think 1991.  And some degree of scholarship limit was in effect from the middle 70's.

2.  Yes, Nebraska used partial qualifiers as allowed by the NCAA until the Big 12 was formed and finally the NCAA banned all partials in the late 90's. 

However, nowhere is it written that low level learners or those who blew off their high school studies where automatically better football players. 

3.  Parity did increase but the "good" schools still won more games.

And furthermore, Nebraska was not the only school that had to play by these rules.  Texas, Florida, Miami, all the rest had to only give 85, had to  pass on partials, (if they used them), and parity affected everybody.

10 hours ago, knapplc said:

 

And the Capri Sun connection.

 

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I sense a sponsorship opportunity.

As in  "The post match handshake is sponsored by..."

(then hand out little foil pouches as the players get to the end of the line and leave the court)

By John Madden, doing color for a Saints game.

Just after Derek Brown just "destroyed" a blitzing linebacker during pass pro'

you can expect Nebraska players to do that

(something like that...can't exactly remember)

The COW (see above) has spoken (twice)

As of 7:30 p.m. Saturday there were 80 teams with six or more wins and we are 4-8.  

it's all moo!

Well, it really is over now.  One of those 18 teams that Nebraska needed to lose won last night.  There are now 72 bowl eligible teams.

Thanks to Moiraine I enjoyed all the work that she put in and it was fun (while it lasted) and the discussion that followed.  Amazing, five pages.....

That crazy scenario is technically correct.  If Vandy wins the head to head they become a regular qualifier and are removed from the APR list leaving only three teams ahead of NU.

71 now + 3 head to head winners + now only 3 APR qualifiers = 77 bowl teams.   All that other stuff has to happen too...piece of cake, get you ticket orders in...smirk

One more time,

Here are the cold hard numbers.....

39 bowls....78 teams need six wins to be bowl eligible

After last weekend...

71 teams have at least six wins....7 spots left.

22 teams have five wins.  Six of them have head to head games this week guaranteeing three more six win teams...4 spots left.

Of the 16 remaining, in my opinion, six are overwhelming favorites.  If, we are in the what if stage, If all six win there will be 80 six win teams.  This is not counting a couple of four win teams that just scheduled a "ho hummer" to get to six.  cough cough...V Tech

What if the 16 remaining teams all lose.  Talk to your local bookie, ask what are the odds of hitting a 16 team parlay.  Then the  RULE established after the 2015 comes into play.  Which is the APR ranking is the selection order for five win teams.  And after last weekend, four teams are ahead of Nebraska in APR,  and voila 78 bowl spots are filled and Nebraska coached get to go recruiting.

3 hours ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

Maryland and Minnesota are ahead of us in APR so it doesn't matter if they win or lose.

Oops, meant to remove them from the list.

Trying again

update

many to still kick off