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I kind of hope we play Gregory at MLB and Newby at RE on the first defensive play just to see if MSU calls timeout. .

I get it..BUT.. At this point we've done more than any team on our schedule. Heck ofthe four rankd B10 teams ( OSU, UW, MSU & NU) we are the ONLY one with a win over a P5 program. Heck MSU is getting tons of love and we've beaten 2 teams (or 3 depending on your view of McNeese) that would have the same record against MSU's schedule as Sparty does. Let's not go crazy overboard with thinking we're amazing... butwe certainly have done more than nothing.

Lincoln is the 3rd most populated college city in the Big Ten. Only Columbus and Minneapolis are larger.

According to Kenny's statements on the radio the other day, he doesn't think student/athletes should receive a salary or get paid for things like jersey sales and the like. He said that talks regarding a Union aren't financially based, they are about having a voice at the university... IF this is the case, I don't know if Kenny is misinformed or uninformed or what but the simple fact of the matter is, they ALREADY have a voice at Nebraska with the SAAC. Nebraska's Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) was implemented in 1987 to ensure that student-athletes have a voice regarding their total student-athlete experience. SAAC is a recognized student organization at the University of Nebraska and consists of at least one team appointed representative from each of Nebraska's 24 intercollegiate teams. SAAC meets bi-weekly throughout the academic year, communicating directly with Director of Athletics, Shawn Eichorst on various student-athlete welfare issues as well as Life Skills Coordinator, Jessie Gardner whom serves as the SAAC's faculty advisor.. SAAC also coordinates a number of events within the athletic department and in the community of Lincoln to promote the importance of education, service and responsible decision making. Nebraska's SAAC has been recognized across the country as one of the most comprehensive, consistent and productive in the country. The SAAC has a leadership board elected by the student-athletes - For the 2013-2014 academic year, SAAC will be led by President Sunny Russell (Rifle), with support from Ryan Grassel (Men's Golf) as the Vice President. Mattie Fowler (Softball) will function as the Big Ten Representative and Jake Griess (Track & Field) will serve as the Community Outreach officer. And each individual Sport elects it's own representatives to the committee. Currently the representatives for the football team are Sam Burch, Trey Foster, Graham Nabity and Johnny Stanton. Maybe Northwestern doesn't have anything that gives their student-athletes a voice and a union was a way to get one.. but at Nebraska the student-athletes already have that voice, and have had one for nearly half a century. As far as at the school level a Union isn't going to give you anything that the SAAC doesn't already provide... the national level may be a different story if unionization becomes widespread and IF that becomes the case then it may make sense at that juncture to look at folding the SAAC into a Union structure, but right now it's at an individual school level only and Nebraska makes absolutely ZERO sense as a testing ground for unionization at the individual school level, if anything a union forming this early in the process may actually be a step backwards in terms of student-athlete rights here.

Before 1975 only one team per conference made the tournament. NU had som really good teams but KU or MU were just generally a bit better any given year. Nebraska once beat a KU team led by Wilt Chamberlain and still missed the tournament under the old rules.

Considering the AFCA coaches convention is currently going on in Indy, good luck guessing who Bo met with.

I have not played RoV, but I have a ton of hours on EU4. If you have never played a game made by those devs before, you might want to go into the guides section on Steam and watch a vid or two. Such a deep game. I'm a big fan. A side note to that is Crusader Kings 2 can export the save file to EU4, so with DLC you could guide a county from about 850 to the 1800s. Paradox games are awesome. Highly recomended for any civ/strayegy gamer. Expecially CK3 and EU4. CK2 is over 2 years old and gets better all the time. I really want them to announce a Victoria III soon.

Tim McDonald please.

They didn't get called for the challenge. The booth buzzed for a review.

I can't see any chance he goes pro this year based on draft projections I've seen. No HB's are projected to be first round worthy. No HB's under 200lbs are projected to go in the first 5 rounds. 2 RB's he's comparable to - James White from Wisky and D'Anthony Thomas from Oregon (bot also in the 5'9 190 range) were projected 6th round picks at best. Ameer at best right now is in the mid-low 20's for the HB position in this class.. 6th/7th round area and likely is ranked in the low 30's and is a projected UFA. If he stays one more year, comes in with a playing weight in the 205 range and has a comparable or better season than the one he just had he can climb into the top 5 at HB in that class and be a late 2nd early 3rd round guy... with an outside shot he could get someone to bite even earlier if he excels beyond what some of the other guys at the top of the class do as 2015 doesn't appear to be big back heavy (2014 is very big back heavy).. which of course pushes the guys Ameer's size up the board a bit. Just staying the one more year and keeping up his work in the weightroom SHOULD raise him from late pick/UFA to 4th round lock with potential to rise.

I actually liked that the 3rd string came in and blew the shutout. It pissed off the starters cause they really wanted it. A pissed off and hungry defense is very good thing. I'll trade a doughnut against what was in effect a glorified highschool squad for alittle extra hunger every day of the week.

FWIW since joining the Big Ten, Nebraska's record in home conference games: 10-1.

We have the most advantageous path and it's not close. As long as we don't somehow lose to Minnesota in 2 weeks... If we win all our conference home games we win the division. No other team can say that. Every contender in the division now has to beat at least one and in some cases two other contenders on the roadin order to get to Indy except us.

Fwiw he's nowhere near 330 lbs. Maybe closer to 290 or 295.

The legacy statue needs to be put back where it was - where they put devaney's. The Devaney statue should be in front of south stadium - opposite Osborne's. Eventually a fourth statue in the same vein as the legacy statue should go in front of west stadium.

Seriously? Sorry but that statue looks awful.

So I guess the big question is, jacket and husker cap or suit and fedora? Not sure which direction I'm hoping for there to be honest.

Kids with far worse academics that couldn't qualify elsewhere have managed to qualify at Auburn. The one that raised my eyebrow a bit is UCLA.

Bout damn time

Oh please let them use this gameplan. The game would be over at halftime and we could get a lot of reps for a lot of the deep depth guys that will help later in the year.

...Mountain West team faces less competition than Big Ten team. Shocking, I know... What I posted had nothing to do with comparing the Mountain West to the Big Ten. What I posted shows that all the talk that Wyoming is a great offense and Brett Smith is a great QB isn't backed up by the production and that in reality Wyoming has a below average offense and that Brett Smith is at best an above average QB compared to other QB's nationally. What I posted above shows the AVERAGE Points Per game given up by each opposing defense Brett Smith faced last season and how the Wyoming offense fared against those defenses. It doesn't matter what conference a team is in, any really good offense should consistently score more points than an average team would score on a given defense on their schedule, (doing something better than the average is the definition of being good after all) a Great offense should do it consistently and often by a large margin. What the stats show is that Wyoming very rarely even achieved to match their opponents defensive average points against, let alone exceed that number -regardless of the quality of the defense they were facing. That's what below average offenses do. Now if you do want to do a comparison to say Nebraska's offense, here's a partial breakdown, I'll just do the top 30 defenses not the entire schedule. Nebraska faced six top 30 defenses last year. Michigan State gave up an average of 16.3ppg - 9th in the nation (Nebraska scored 28 points on this defense) Wisconsin gave up an average of 19.1ppg - 17th in the nation (Nebraska scored 30 points on this defense - twice) Penn State gave up an average of 19.2ppg - 18th in the nation (Nebraska scored 32 points on this defense) Georgia gave up an average of 19.6ppg - 19th in the nation (Nebraska scored 31 points on this defense) Michigan gave up an average of 19.8ppg - 20th in the nation (Nebraska scored 23 points on this defense) Northwestern gave up an average of 22.5ppg - 29th in the nation (Nebraska scored 29 points on this defense) Nebraska exceeded the average points per game allowed by those defenses in every single one of those six games, some by a significant amount. So unlike Wyoming, Nebraska indeed has a great offense last year, and going deeper into the stats you'd find that if Nebraska turns the ball over less this season they could very easily move into an elite category. But that has nothing to do with what conference either Nebraska or Wyoming play in or even much about the overall strength of the schedule each team faced. It's simply about how each offense performed as opposed to every other offense the teams they played also played against.

They should throw a coat of stain on those lockers and swap the old rotary locks for digital ones. They look kind of cheap.

Brett Smith threw 5 TD's against Idaho who gave up an average of 42.4ppg - 122nd in the nation 3 TD's against Nevada who gave up an average of 33.8ppg - 102nd in the nation 3 TD's against UNLV who gave up an average of 32.6ppg - 97th in the nation 4 TD's against Colorado State who gave up an average of 30.3ppg - 81st in the nation * 4 TD's against New Mexico who gave up an average of 30.2ppg - 80th in the nation 2 TD's against Texas who gave up an average of 29.2ppg - 74th in the nation 2 TD's against Toledo who gave up an average of 28.4ppg - 67th in the nation * 2 TD's against San Diego State who gave up an average of 24.4ppg - 42nd in the nation * The * are games in which Wyoming as a team outscored the opponent's average ppg total. Outside of Boise (against whom he threw zero TD's) the BEST scoring Defense Brett Smith faced all of last season was Fresno State who gave up an average of 23.8ppg and ranked 37th in the nation... Smith threw 2 TD's in a Pick and had a 47.7 completion percentage against that Fresno State Defense. Wyoming only played ONE game the entire season against a team that finished with a top 30 scoring Defense.. Boise. They scored 14 points in that game, half of which were scored in the 4th quarter when the score was 38-7. Brett Smith threw Zero TD's in that game. Brett Smith is NOT a great QB. He's barely even a very good QB and the Wyoming offense is above average at best.

It's called good

Yeah he looks like he will fit what we do nicely.