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There's a good reason he was under the radar last year even in California. He came into his first year of highschool as a 6'0 170 lb. linebacker who also played baseball at a school that went 0-10 the year before he arrived. He then grew 3 inches, put on 50 lbs. quit baseball and moved to QB. The kid can make all the throws, he can run well enough to be dangerous and he is highly coachable. He needs to work on his arm strength a bit but otherwise the one weakness he seems to have is that he sometimes loses his feet when throwing on the move outside the pocket.. and even then he's already comparable if not slightly more accurate than our last 4-5 starters have been in that area.

"Impressed" isn't the word I would use. They only had 61,000 last year. Maybe, "predictable." Yes, only 61,000. This is my friend, QMany. He's not easy impressed.It's not impressive at all. Based soley on local population: 1 out of every 1,166 Ohioans attended the OSU spring game. 1 out of every 24 Nebraskans attended the Husker spring game. That doesn't even include traveling attendees. Programs in situations like OSU not selling out every year, let alone coming off a national title with a huge qb battle going on is frankly pathetic. Largest crowd to ever watch a football practice isn't impressive, but you would go so far to call it a pathetic turnout? I mean, you're saying words, but I don't think you know what they mean. Also, nobody is saying Nebraska's turnout wasn't impressive. Of course it was. It always is. OSU's was just more so. More than one thing can be impressive. I know exactly what the words mean. It's an opinion. If you don't like it that is your perogative but doesn't give you the license to insinuate I'm an idiot. Besides I didn't say their crowd this year was pathetic. I said it wasn't that impressive. Which again in my opinion with all the factors involved - it is not. What I called pathetic is the fact that OSU and other 'big name' population advantaged programs like them should do those type of numbers almost every year but do not.

"Impressed" isn't the word I would use. They only had 61,000 last year. Maybe, "predictable." Yes, only 61,000. This is my friend, QMany. He's not easy impressed. It's not impressive at all. Based soley on local population: 1 out of every 1,166 Ohioans attended the OSU spring game. 1 out of every 24 Nebraskans attended the Husker spring game. That doesn't even include traveling attendees. Programs in situations like OSU not selling out every year, let alone coming off a national title with a huge qb battle going on is frankly pathetic.

Florida with a new coach being so low is suprising. FSU replacing Winston being so low is suprising. Notre Dame numbers being pathetic is suprising. ISU with 7500 and Io_a not cracking top 50 is suprising.

Got nothing to do with OSU, We are finally back on the Boyd Epply training program where we belong.

Warren was also a DC, so not much change. One was DC at Air Force. The other was DC for Houston, Maryland and the Dallas Cowboys. Yep those are totally the same.

Lets just steal Harlan Bennett.

Jimmy Williams would be a great choice if going for an established hire from the college ranks. Matt Turman would be an interesting if not inspired option imo. He's done a pretty good job at Skutt.

Ew that looks like a typical Iowa class.

The age thing is overblown. Can't remember who said this but I read it again somewhere yesterday, Riley is 2 years younger than Pete Carrol. Is anyone fixated on Pete's age?

2 questions I don't get. Why is tennis so expensive? Why does softball cost nearly double baseball?

The apparent ineptitude that continues to be revealed about our former staff floors me to no end. To have at your fingertips resources like these, resources that every other program would kill for and just not use it is unexcusable.

We would be losing $1 - $2 million on the deal. NU makes $2 - $3 million per game in Lincoln, if I remember right. 85,000 tickets times $56 per ticket = approx. $4.76M just on ticket sales I used 85,000 as an approximation as students are less, players get free tickets, etc. Not sure exactly how many tickets are actually sold. Those are good points, but if NU nets 2 mill then pays out to byu 1 you are down to one mill and a possible loss. Otoh go to bama earn a mill and win, that would be epic. Except you are only talking gate revenue. You forget revenue from concessions/merchandise/advertising/parking etc etc. Estimates the university has done state that each fan spends an average of $63 on gameday.. That along with all the other corporate/peripheral revenue means Nebraska brings in about $6.5M per home game... and even that may be slightly underestimated. Furthermore, that is just the university revenue. It doesn't factor in the money those games feed into the Lincoln ecconomy. (Something I would probably guess without looking at data to be around $12M or so per home game on average.) Nebraska ever agreeing to a road one and done against anyone would be laughably idiotic from a financial standpoint. Heck under the current revenue model at NU, I wouldn't even do a neutral site game without a 50/50 gate and concessions split and a minimum $4M payout from broadcast/sponsorship rights.

I wonder if NU gets any compensation from the B1G for the BTN's right to broadcast the game? It would be worthwhile, from a publicity standpoint, if NU just signed over the rights to BTN for free. But I'm still curious as to whether any money changes hands. Hard to say what it's worth. I'd guess somewhere in the neighborhood of $100k or so (WAG on my part). The conference collects the broadcast revenue from all the teams and then devides it equally among the schools. (less the buyin for NU, RU and MD.) Last year NU got just over $14.3M in broadcast revenue. I wonder why our cost to include the TV rights in our BYU contract isn't defrayed as well. For example, I'll bet we could've gotten a better deal with BYU if we gave them the TV rights. Let's say we could've gotten the BYU home game for $900k, sans TV rights--that is, giving BYU the TV rights. (So for this hypothetical the TV rights are cost us $100k to obtain. $1million with TV vs $900k without TV.) Then why isn't the $100k contractual value of our TV rights added back to our B1G broadcast revenue as a cost of doing business? Including the TV rights in the contract is a cost to us just the same as travel expenses for a bowl game. (I believe our bowl game travel expenses are paid out of the broadcast revenue for that bowl before the revenue is divided among B1G members). Just sayin.. That's not how this works. There's no negotiation or dollar value on rights in individual game contracts between the two teams. The hosting team always gets broadcast rights. That is the whole reason conerences like the Big Ten get so much revenue from the television network contracts. They are included in the contracts only as a legal formality. Which is why our game at wyoming a few years ago was on versus and the Fresno game last year was on cbssports.

I wonder if NU gets any compensation from the B1G for the BTN's right to broadcast the game? It would be worthwhile, from a publicity standpoint, if NU just signed over the rights to BTN for free. But I'm still curious as to whether any money changes hands. Hard to say what it's worth. I'd guess somewhere in the neighborhood of $100k or so (WAG on my part). The conference collects the broadcast revenue from all the teams and then devides it equally among the schools. (less the buyin for NU, RU and MD.) Last year NU got just over $14.3M in broadcast revenue.

I love the Huskers and loved watching RG4 play in Lincoln... That said I'm also a Cowboys fan and I've been saying since he declared that I'd be estatic if he gets taken by Washington.

When Nebraska tried to schedule Boise Nebraska tried offering a home/home a 2 for 1 and a one and done option .. Boise wanted a MINIMUM of $1M to play. Meaning they wanted at least $1M to play a home/home or 2 for 1.. they wanted more than $1M for a one and done. IIRC they wanted part of the gate revenue bu I can't confirm.

Don't need 8. Just 6. Each P5 conference champ and one wildcard chosen by the comittee. Comittee has two jobs - choose the wildcard team (preference given to highest ranked non P5 coference champ if one is undefeated and played at least one P5 team ooc - seed the 6 teams. Top 2 seeds get a bye.

Wasn't aware of that. Makes a bit more sense then.

I get why Narduzzi and Riley are on this, but what exactly does Mullen bring to the table here? Off the top of my head I can think of at least 10 people that bring far more insight on this game than Mullen.

A coach that yells and loses is a hothead. A coach that yells and wins is passionate. A coach that doesn't yell and loses is weak under pressure. A coach that doesn't yell and wins is calm under pressure. It doesn't matter which style you use - your record drives the narrative.

Why does Wisconsin want a trophy with the United Nations?

Not even close to being the same as PI. I'm not sure what the penalty is in college for it now but in the NFL if you are caught mimicking the cadence, the player, assistant coach and head coach are fined and/or suspended. Noone gets diciplined if you get away with PI.

No different than a defender calling out hike against a team using verbal cadence. Highly illegal.

If I'm on the playoff comittee I'm checking prices on fallout shelters right about now. Goodluck sorting this mess out.