Cornhole

4 hours ago, seaofred92 said:

Just wanted to say: SMU's campus is gorgeous. Wish I would've given that more thought out of high school

It really is, in every way.  I went on a campus visit a few years ago, but in the end I couldn't justify a lifetime of student loan debt to study in sundress heaven.  

3 hours ago, VectorVictor said:

 

Wait, is the takeaway from this faux exchange that HuskerBoard knew POB was going to ask for a release 10 days ago, or that Scott Frost slums it on HuskerBoard?

Yes.

1 hour ago, Saunders said:

Because of what they said?

 

Tommy gave more for this program than they ever did, and now they're taking shots because they don't get their way.

 

That's not cool.

1) I think the word you're looking for is extortion, and Senior is not doing that either.  

2) Senior never cared about Nebraska as a program.  The only reason he brought those kids out here was because of Riley.  I don't know why you're surprised he's pissed.  

18 minutes ago, Kiz said:

Here's their board.  One of them at least.  They are discussing this, of course.  At least some of them don't seem to care for Nebraska, which is putting it mildly.  Instead of cornhuskers, they're calling us "cornholers."  

 

I'm telling.

 

https://ucf.forums.rivals.com/forums/ucf-fan-forum.8/

How dare they

Mike Riley trying to control this mess like

25 minutes ago, Sparker said:

 

MY EYES

42 minutes ago, brophog said:

I'm blind, can I get the font a little bigger. 

Nebraska drops its final game of the regular season, ending the Huskers’ 9-year bowl streak and closing the year with five home losses — an unthinkable fate at a school that once went 14 seasons dropping three home games. Bill Moos makes plans to visit Orlando after the AAC championship.

http://footballscoop.com/news/footballscoops-nuclear-winter-3-0/

Florida is mentioned with Mullen.

7 minutes ago, jessica0 said:

Nebraska drops its final game of the regular season, ending the Huskers’ 9-year bowl streak and closing the year with five home losses — an unthinkable fate at a school that once went 14 seasons dropping three home games. Bill Moos makes plans to visit Orlando after the AAC championship.

 

http://footballscoop.com/news/footballscoops-nuclear-winter-3-0/

 

Florida is mentioned with Mullen.

You missed this part:

*First disclaimer: This is for entertainment purposes only.

*Second disclaimer: This is for entertainment purposes only. 

*Third and final disclaimer: This is for entertainment purposes only.

4 minutes ago, Kiyoat Husker said:

 

Good article about Frost's offense.  I like the simplicity/complexity aspect.  Makes sense in the college game to teach just a few core concepts with small wrinkles that can be used to make adjustments throughout the game.  Similar to TO in that regard IMO.

 

Also, the article contends that the main "kryptonite" to this offense is teams with very elite talent units at DL and the secondary.  In other words, he might have great success in the B1G West, but struggle against the Ohio States and Alabamas of the world.  I think we could live with that.  It gets us to the big games, and anything can happen on a given Saturday.

To be fair, wouldn't that defense wreak havoc on nearly all offenses?  

18 minutes ago, Sparker said:

I haven't seen this posted:

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/columnist/dan-wolken/2017/10/05/barry-odom-missouri-needs-to-show-improvement/735883001/

But for him failing to do his job, he would be a slam dunk hire.  Lol. 

Edit: *allegedly* failing

4 hours ago, famoustitles said:

It won't bother me if Trev ends up being our AD.  I think there are better options out there though.  Looking around different message boards and twitter it's amazing to me how many people hate Trev for cutting wrestling at UNO.  You'd think the guy kicked their dog or something.

I've already ranted about this elsewhere, so I'll spare you.  This OTL report summarizes why the vitriol is being spewed at Alberts: 

https://www.facebook.com/ObsessedWrestler/videos/408303775958910/?hc_ref=ART6XxiOL8JwKbLPCX1aaOK9Mxzn0M2vpuTwTepNW16X3DX15q0ucV_xqNx0lBG3I-c&pnref=story

2 hours ago, grandpasknee said:

I know someone that used to work in the athletic department many years ago.  Still has some "contacts", for what that is worth.  He was told that SE knew his butt was hanging in the air after the black friday fiasco.  So, he was going to fire Riley and name Diaco as interim in an attempt to save his job.  Greene, et. al. found out about it and moved quickly and decisively to stop that from happening.  I"m the first to say this is, at best, third hand info, and very likely vapor, so take it at that.  If true, it really paints SE with a coat of weasel wax.

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Green would have been livid if SE did this without consulting him (assuming SE even had the authority).  There's no way he possibly could have thought this would have helped his situation. 

Any preference for an offensive-minded guy vs a defensive-minded guy?  Or is that irrelevant at this point?

8 hours ago, VectorVictor said:

 

I'd be interested to see other FBS schools and their football budgets to see how much they're paying per year (e.g. Appalachian State, that just went FBS). Looks like I'm a gonna go Google huntin'.

 

I'm curious if the $7.9m (then) or $8.5m (now) is realistic for housing a FBS program that would likely be relegated to an also-ran conference (e.g. MAC, AAC, Sun Belt, Mountain West) and have to travel more than they had in the past. 

 

BTW, I completely understand where you're coming from--I guess the question folks should ask is if Trev is the guy (and when they do their search, they may find he really isn't), has Trev learned from the mistakes and missteps with the UNO sports program debacles?  

 

Well, they would have been FCS like South Dakota or South Dakota State.  I don't see how they could have made the jump from DII to FBS.  

I agree with your second point, and really that's what it comes down to. IMO, even if everything went smoothly at UNO, I just don't see how he can be the best guy Nebraska can get for the position.  If he is, I think that speaks volumes about where the athletic department is currently sitting.  I mean, he's only been an athletic director since 2009, and has he ever made a major football-related decision other than ending the program?  Besides being a former Husker, what makes him better than someone with more experience and success at a bigger school that actually has a football program?  We're talking about an athletic department that will be approaching $130M/year in revenue with full B1G rights - almost top ten in the country.  This is the big leagues, and we should treat it as such.  

3 hours ago, 4skers89 said:

From the article it said that the football program was getting $1.2 M from student fees and university funds from an athletic dept. total of $5.9 M or 20%.  To keep wrestling and football they would need to increase that to $7.9M.  Seems expensive to me.  The wrestling program was successful in D2 but I don't know how that would translate to D1 and if it would have been a money maker.  Some things are suspicious like the consulting and the decision might have been rushed.  Execution and timing of the decision was cold.  Overall sounds like a tough choice had to be made and people came up with reasons to quibble.  Am I missing something?

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A couple things: Given the way everyone reacted, they could have raised millions of dollars to save the programs and easily made up the $2M per year gap but Trev wouldn't even give them a shot.  The only reason wrestling was a money maker was because it was funded almost exclusively from outside sources.  Denney must have been a fundraising machine.  I remember hearing that the wrestling program received the same amount of funding from UNO per year the day Coach Denney started as the day Trev axed it; something like $25,000 a year.  Peanuts!    There were also discussions about how wrestling could have possibly stayed DII, but I don't know the details about that.  Trev basically didn't give anyone a chance to work anything out.    

He claims UNO couldn't afford $7.9M but UNO now pays $8.5M and just raised student fees.  (see: http://www.omaha.com/news/education/uno-looks-at-cuts-fee-increases-wage-freezes-to-balance/article_13e7f7a4-196c-5d28-abd3-9e958b2b7d02.html).  Granted, part of that is for Baxter, but it still is a bad look.  Either the finances at the UNO athletic department aren't great (which makes the decision to go DI in the first place questionable, at least right now) or the finances are fine and the school could have afforded the $7.9M.  

F&*K Trev. 

Unrelated, but nice article after Denney won coach of the year for all divisions over Cael Sanderson.  Probably a sympathy vote but still.  http://intermatwrestle.com/articles/8337

18 minutes ago, gobiggergoredder said:

This is all a waste of time.  It's Alberts.  

 

Cant say I'm his biggest fan, but that's the way it's going to be.

Ugh, this would be woefully myopic.  

2 hours ago, Sparker said:

 

Anybody care to share the background of this? I don't follow the UNO athletic department happenings.

Everyone should read the article below before becoming excited about the prospect of Trev as AD (there was also an excellent ESPN Outside the Lines report that I can't find anymore).  It wasn't just the athletic department that was disrespected.  I was attending UNO at the time and the student body, along with big-time boosters like Deeb, never received any answers to our questions.  He could not have handled the situation with more callousness or indifference.    

http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/news/story?id=6488960

Beyond that major screwup, I don't see how he can be the most qualified person for this job, and I would be extremely disappointed if he's hired.  

8 minutes ago, GSG5545 said:

 

1908?

Close.

21 hours ago, broganreynik said:

Sheesh. Let's hope Anna Gleason doesn't know what she's talking about.

The fact that she thinks they'll score 15 points tells me she doesn't.  

Can anyone guess the last time a team scored 15 points against Nebraska?  

- "a little late to the party"

 

- "must have missed on pledger"

 

- "Reggie Davis can't recruit"

/thread

 

 

Pinstripe (New York City) Notre Dame Nebraska ACC 3-6 vs. Big Ten 5-7

 

ND is only going to play 9 games next year?

Not sure if that's sarcasm, but if not aren't they talking about their finish in the conference not record

 

We are playing 12 conference games?

 

 

EDIT.....oh...you're saying they will finish 3rd in the conference and us 5th??? Then what is the 6 and 7 respectively?

 

I'm clearly confused.

 

It means the bowl will pick one ACC team that finished between third and sixth in the conference and one B1G team that finished between fifth and seventh in the conference.