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The madness continues. The players are FAR more safer surrounded by doctors and medical staff with state of the art medical machinery/facilities just feet away from them and being quarantined from society and tested twice a week if they were to remain with the team and play a season....rather than go home and not have access to any of this AND expose themselves to society, friends, family of which many are at risk. Athletic departments around the country are about to lose 80%+ (85% for Nebraska) of their yearly budget for all of their sports. If football goes...so does most every other college sport until football returns to pay the bills. COVID-19 WILL NOT BE GOING AWAY EVER. This includes next spring where most ADs (somehow) think the coast will be clear to play football again. The sooner everyone understands that you will contract the virus if you plan on living the next 10 years, the sooner we will reach heard immunity and can all get back to living our normal lives. Those who are at risk and wish to live in a bubble will of course have the freedom to do so for the rest of their life. The athletic departments are not the only ones who will be taking a financial hit if there is no football this fall. Local economies in cities all across the nation bring in billions of dollars when there are games being played. Hotels, restaurants, bars, transportation, and entertainment industries will all be losing a massive amount of their business this fall and therefore will have to layoff staff, further contributing to the economic destruction. Many businesses are on the verge of going under right now, and they will not survive to the end of the year if there is no college sports. The moral of the country is at a all-time low. We are in desperate need of something to bring us together. Something we can cheer for and enjoy together. The Churches need to be the first thing to open to accomplish this goal. Resuming college sports should be the second priority to accomplish this goal. Pro sports have abandoned this country and its ideals and can take a long walk off a short pier. The only good that can come from this clusterF-kick-the-can-down-the-road-cancel-madness, is that the players may finally unite and form a union. This will give them immense power and a spot at the decision table for the first time. I welcome this change for the players have not been represented at all when it comes to the decisions that have been made that greatly affect their lives. Players have bills to pay too as well as career, and a future all related to whether or not the season is a go and should have a say. Players also being compensated for someone else profiting off their image and likeness is also a step in the right direction. Having said all of that...the season should go on. The economy should go on. The country should go on. At the current rate, when will it be OK for everything to return? Who will be making that decision? The virus is not going away.....ever.

"In the next 72 hours college football is going to come to a complete stop,” one industry source said. Goodbye sports! Time to work on many other projects.

Offensive improvement..yes. Defensive improvement....NO. Not after losing so many seniors on defense.

Rutgers now have 28 positive tests from their players and plus several staff. NYC has been a hotbed for COVID for months now, and one of the worst cities for the pandemic in the US. So where will Nebraska be playing their first game of the season? ..... AT Rutgers. Can't make this stuff up.

Indiana, Illinois, Rutgers, Maryland. Guess which teams have these four scheduled? If you guessed Wisconsin, Ohio State, and Penn State you are correct! B1G making it real clear who they are giving the easy path to. What a joke. The game between us and Wisconsin in week 3 will determine the West champion this year. I see us going 6-3 with losses to OSU, PSU, and Purdue. The Wisconsin game is up in the air.

Mostly all propaganda these days I am afraid. What I just said is going to be the news.

The NFL is too busy drilling holes in their own boat right now to be bothered with figuring out how to play a season with C19 around.

Same goes for Texas who is spending 80 million more than we are each year and not even winning the Big 12.

Understanding the situation that we are in a little better: We are dealing with a virus that spreads like the flu/cold and would seem to be far more contagious than the flu/cold. It has a history of affecting each person differently, regardless of age or vitality (ie: several 90 years olds have cruised through it while many in their 40s and 50s has died from it). Viruses do not go away...ever. Especially those that have spread all around the globe as this one has. So this means that A) This is not going away ever. And B) everyone will eventually get it. Several workers from the lab in Wuhan have defected and are currently being held/interviewed by MI5, MI6, and American Intelligence agencies. Inside sources are saying that they are claiming that the virus came from an accident within the Wuhan lab. IF this is true, then we are not dealing with a normal run of the muck virus. This thing is a bio-weapon and is designed to inflict mass casualties (as already seen) and is also designed to be very difficult to detect (as already observed with an unheard of 2 week+ dormant period) and is designed to have a large amount of symptoms which makes it harder to diagnose (already observed) and is designed to adapt and mutate very quickly (already observed with hundreds reporting getting sick from it multiple times). If this is reported by the US government that it came from a lab rather than a bat, then the situation is much more dire than previously thought. University Presidents will most likely cancel all fall sports very quickly. I hate to be the Debbie downer here but it is increasingly looking like this is what this is.

This will never happen, but here is my insane idea to 'fix it all': Make G5 schools have their own playoff and National Champion and only play each other for their seasons. Each P5 conference will have 14 teams (7 in East and West divisions) Each P5 team will play all 6 of their divisional rivals each season and 3 games from other power 5 teams that are randomly picked lotto-ball style two years in advance. Three of their games will be against the opposite divisional teams on a rotating basis for a total of 12 season games. Divisional Champions will be determined each season by best record, head-head tie-breaker rules enforced...no coin flips. Each conference will crown it's champion by a conference championship game between the divisional champion teams. The P5 schools will all play for a National Championship via a 6 game playoff (#1-2 ranked teams get a bye the first game). Five of the playoff teams will be the 5 conference champions and the 6th team will be the wild card team that is selected via committee (typically the best record outside the 5 conference champions, can be a conference championship runner-up). And there you have it. We can all sigh and relax in this beautiful flawless system of perfection. Anybody who wants an 8 team playoff can take a long walk off a short pier for each conference will always have a rep in the playoff and there will be room for a wildcard team, or a team that makes the most noise during the season but does not win their conference.

They wanted the NY and NJ Tv sets. Those people for the most part could care less about Rutgers football, but they are paying subscribers to cable tv and one of the channels they pay for (B1G) plays Rutger football every Saturday. Are they watching?...no. Are they paying?....yes. It is all about the money. The B1G could care less about who actually watches their network, they only care about who PAYS for their network. And one of the biggest paying markets is in NYC for obvious population reasons.

Mills will be the top RB in the West easy this season. If we have a season.

In regards to getting rid of one of the P5 conferences may I suggest the Big 12? lol Never liked the school attendance determining who is in the FBS. Stadium seating and sports offered would be a much better metric/benchmark for it would reflect school attendance AND local community financial support. Going through the BCS computer system and then the committee and then finally the playoff (albeit only 4 teams), one thing I have learned is that college football is slow to change and slower to consider change. I remember cringing when I heard one of the BCS regulators say "if it is not broken, don't fix it", and proclaiming everything is perfectly fine when nearly the entire college football fan landscape was calling for a playoff.

I fully agree. I have been for downsizing what used to be called Division I Football for many years. Why have teams in a 'division' if there is zero chance they will ever compete for a championship in that division? Cutting it in half and would be a good start. Crowning a P5 National Champion and a G5 National Champion would work just fine. the G5 teams would very much love to actually play for a National Championship rather than watch the P5 teams play for one every year. Get rid of the Independents and form 5 super conferences. Scheduling will be the key factor in getting the whole thing to break in half. If the P5 teams only schedule other P5 teams and do away with the non-conference pay-to-win scheduled teams, then the break will happen very easily. If you have the top half of the very best teams who never play the bottom half, then the bottom half will break away and form their own championship tourney..as well they should. In regards to the P5 super conferences, I think we are looking at that happening here very soon. If not starting this year and coming to a crescendo in a few years time when the contracts are up. Nobody is going to be switching boats this year or even next year, but the decisions behind closed doors will defiantly be in the works. We did not leave the Big 12 over night.

The talking heads have been eluding to this for years now. A massive college football conference realignment is not a question of if but when. They were mostly pointing to a few years from now when the television contracts for several conferences are due for renewal, but could COVID and the resulting financial hardship consequences start that process earlier? I believe it will. As many have pointed out already, we are looking at a very likely canceled football season. A very real likelihood: in the first game week, a few players (or fans) get COVID and boom, done. Schools race to announce canceling their season to 'protect their players and fans' left and right and the unstoppable dominoes begin to fall. Not a very hard scenario to imagine. Billions in revenue gone in a blink of an eye. Now what do they do with all of this down time? I firmly believe there will be teams moving to power 5 conferences as they each race to position themselves for the biggest payout when their contract is renewed, given the very real potential losses just over the horizon. Who do you think goes where? I hope ND joins the B1G, we already have them in hockey. I also would like to see Kansas and Kansas State join along with Iowa State.

I don't see us getting 5 wins with an all B1G schedule. We will be lucky to get 4.

This is all starting to look and feel like a gigantic hope crushing exercise.

My first thought.....there goes our chances at a bowl game. Unless they lower the 6 game win line for eligibility, which I am sure they won't for not all conferences are doing this. This easily takes two wins off our schedule and a potential third win (Cinn). A loss of 3 wins for a team who seriously lacks depth and is struggling to keep their heads above water as it is is devastating for our bowl chances. My second thought....The power 5 have been eyeballing this idea for some time now in getting rid of non-conference games. Power 5 schools are tired of getting humiliated on their home field while also forking over millions of dollars. This way the money generated by the teams all stays in-house within the conference. As a fan, I would like the non-conference games to stay for it gives each season it's own flavor and uniqueness. But I understand the financial side of it and how that will further the facility arms race in separating the power 5 from the rest. As it stands now, the power 5 have been personally financing the dark horse non-power 5 teams that come in yearly to sabotage their season with an upset loss. Maybe a middle ground would be to have ONLY 3 power five teams in your non-conference schedule each year?

Sorry did not notice that it was that old. Rather new here.

Yea...JD did not have what it took to compete at the B1G level lol. He would of only have accomplished what no other WR in Nebraska history has done. Roster rotation management thus far under Frost has been horrendous.

Some good news! "Division I rules limit student-athletes to four seasons of competition in a five-year period. The Council’s decision allows schools to self-apply waivers to restore one of those seasons of competition for student-athletes who had competed while eligible in the COVID-19-shortened 2020 spring season." Should this extend to fall sports (which it will if they are impacted), this will help greatly down the road. https://www.1011now.com/content/news/Division-I-Council-extends-eligibility-for-student-athletes-impacted-by-COVID-19-569233991.html

Instead of asking for more money, how about we the fans get something nice for once. Husker fans have not had a ton to cheer for outside of Volleyball this past decade. Why not give us actual stadium seating at Memorial (don't care if our capacity number drops a bit)?

Article recap: "The Huskers will most likely win 6 games because we won 5 last year and 6 is only one more win. Because 5 + 1 = 6. Going to be a tough schedule this year for the Huskers in the B1G. In order to get to 6 wins the majority of our wins have to be against the teams we are favored against. The sky is blue and water is wet. Also grass is green."

Just because a fanbase hates another team does not make them our rival. We hated Colorado and Missouri back in the BIG 8 & 12 days....did we ever consider them to be our rivals? We don't have a rival right now. Wisconsin might qualify if we could actually beat them.