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There was a kid in Beatrice, Dageford? maybe, that went to play ball in Louisianna at one of the schools that wasn't LSU. I believe he was top 10 in the nation a couple years ago in homeruns and was a preseason all-american. He has tons of family/friends in Nebraska but apparently Anderson didn't want him. This is a grapevine deal, and I'm usually critical of others when they use this source of information, but I have more than one friend with connections to players on the baseball team and the two I have talked to about it both say the players don't much care for Anderson and that he's not a guy they care to associate with off the field. For whatever it's worth. Wow, that's weird, you just described every college coach in america Every college coach in America is an @$$hole that people don't want to be associated with? Could have fooled me. Huh. I get a completely different vibe about Bo and Co. when players, old and current, discuss the staff. IIRC, there's even a big party at the end of the Red/White game, where the winners get steak and the losers hot dogs, and the coaches and players all get along. But, I may be reading stuff wrong. Huh, I don't recall saying just Nebraska coaches. Huh, I recall Nebraska is a member of the United States of America. Seriously, though--coaching relationships aren't black and white, just like everything else in life. Blanket statements about all college coaches in America do little to help the MA discussion, IMO. Last time I checked, Nebraska fans like to pride themselves on having athletic programs that strive to excel and not be satisfied with mediocrity. The overarching problem with MA, regardless of personality, is that there's no drive exhibited in his kids to excel from what we've seen. I think many of us feel the talent is there--there's just no one to shape it into a force to be reckoned with, and MA's results the past few seasons illustrate this. I can forgive an occasional losing or .500 season--happens to just about all coaches at some point. But to be constantly stuck in sub-mediocrity, despite an embarrassment of program riches (especially compared to other Big XII programs) that the coach inherited? There's no excuse--there wasn't one for Bill Callahan after a few seasons of his antics, there wasn't with Collier (as he took what little he inherited and managed to squander it), and there shouldn't be any excuse for MA. Plus, again, I have to bring up financials--Nebraska baseball was on the cusp of being a revenue neutral/revenue producing sport. That's huge, especially for a spring sport, and a spring sport at Nebraska. That proves if the right leadership is there to make the program successful, that the sport can pay for itself, and that's one less burden on the football program (read: one less hand taking revenue out of its pocket). That means more expenditures to improve football, and it makes it easier to ask for money to improve baseball facilities even further. And while the B1G isn't big on baseball (thanks to their own screwy rules), it will be once the B1G realizes it needs to improve it's on-the-diamond product during spring to generate revenue on its network. That means no more screwy rules, and programs that have a solid foundation (like DoNU) would have a leg up on the competition when (and not if) the B1G fixes their baseball recruiting rules. I know I'm looking five years down the road instead of being content with just right now...but in order to have future success, we need to lay a successful foundation. MA isn't the man for the job, and he's proven it over the past few years.

Agreed. Now, if Bo does get an offer from tOSU and leaves, am I the only one that thinks Carl will be asked to take over (provided Carl hasn't moved on himself by then)?

That is correct. UI-Chicago is academically part of the Big 10 Educational Consortium. Wrong. You're thinking of the University of Chicago. UI-Chicago is a school that stupid kids or kids who can't afford to go to Urbana or just about any other school in Illinois go to. Big difference. Oops. My bad. You knew what I meant, not what I wrote, at any rate.

There was a kid in Beatrice, Dageford? maybe, that went to play ball in Louisianna at one of the schools that wasn't LSU. I believe he was top 10 in the nation a couple years ago in homeruns and was a preseason all-american. He has tons of family/friends in Nebraska but apparently Anderson didn't want him. This is a grapevine deal, and I'm usually critical of others when they use this source of information, but I have more than one friend with connections to players on the baseball team and the two I have talked to about it both say the players don't much care for Anderson and that he's not a guy they care to associate with off the field. For whatever it's worth. Wow, that's weird, you just described every college coach in america Every college coach in America is an @$$hole that people don't want to be associated with? Could have fooled me. Huh. I get a completely different vibe about Bo and Co. when players, old and current, discuss the staff. IIRC, there's even a big party at the end of the Red/White game, where the winners get steak and the losers hot dogs, and the coaches and players all get along. But, I may be reading stuff wrong.

Considering Nebraska is bringing up the rear currently at #47, that puts the entirety of the B1G (including DoNU), at or above five of the SEC schools. I would think Delaney has a valid point then, yes?

That is correct. UI-Chicago is academically part of the Big 10 Educational Consortium.

This is the second-biggest thing that bothers me about Nebraska Baseball right now. This isn't the first time we've heard about these happenings with MA. Granted, all reported recruiting incidents are more or less anecdotal evidence, but when you hear similar stories repeated time and again, enough to establish a pattern, some nugget of truth can be found in said evidence. The biggest thing that bothers me about all of this is that Nebraska was one of the few Div-IA programs poised to actually make money on collegiate baseball. IIRC, basketball hasn't broke even since the Danny Nee days, and even then that was a rare occurrence. Only football and (on occasion) women's volleyball have either been profitable or flirted with profitability. To me, the lack of action to rectify what was poised to be, at the least, a revenue-neutral program is more bothersome than MA's horrible Big XII record the past few seasons.

How about X, where X > 2011 'Whorns Spring Game Attendance

247Sports Link After the piss-poor showing against T. Boones Farms Pickens U, anyone who is still optimistic about Nebraska Baseball this season would even outshine Mr. Rogers in terms of having a cheerful outlook. But from the 247Sports Link boards: Long story short, there are posters that believe this litany of failure by MA may force Dr. Tom to fire him at an inopportune time. After seeing the stats laid out as above, I'm inclined to think MA's termination is something that should have happened already. Plus, the OWH covered the potentially negative impact the B1G will have to our baseball program (mainly due to the B1G's outdated scholarship rules re: College Baseball), and we can't afford to let a coach willing to run this program into the ground continue to do so in the B1G. Especially if we're sinking approx. $5 million into facilities for said sport. And especially for a sport that was a centimeter away from being profitable during a season when Nebraska collegiate sports seem to slip out of our minds...

Only caught box scores (life got in the way), but after reading reactions from multiple Husker sites, here are the summarized takeaways and most commented items from this weekend @ Tech: 1) Erstad is doing a good job with these kids. Better hitting than last year, though the bats are not as consistent as the coaches or fans would like. Considering this is his first year to work with them, Erstad is overall doing a good job so far. 2) As much as the bats have progressed, it appears that pitching may have regressed. Keller should have command of his pitches by now--as Turn2 pointed out, his slider got away from him, and folks elsewhere were not too keen on anything else Keller threw out there either. These are things that should have been hammered out by conference play--the fact that they aren't falls to Anderson. 3) All is not lost yet, but like Basketball, the tires on the bandwagon are threadbare and the axle is about shot. Nebraska baseball fans aren't too happy being 1-3 against what will be the middle children of the conference this season. And yes, I know the K-State game doesn't really count...but in many ways, it does. Honestly, if this team fails to make the tournament this year, Anderson should be gone. But, like our Basketball program, Dr. Tom will give Anderson more time than deserved to bring this program out of the ditch he drove it in to. Considering a few years ago Nebraska was revenue-neutral with baseball, was on the brink of making money with the baseball program (one of few Div-1 schools to do so), and our successful days were not too long ago, I would like to think Dr. Tom will pull the trigger quicker on upgrading the coaching for baseball than basketball. But, as Dr. Tom has shown, he is compassionate towards his coaches--perhaps to the detriment of a sport that has experienced success in Lincoln and has shown it can drive revenue during what are otherwise throwaway summer months.

this +1. never abandon texas or florida. they're just too rich in talent to ignore. Did you forget this? They are talking about recruiting student-students, not student-athletes. The school systems in TX and FL are whacked. Agreed. Texas is dead last in the nation in education when looking at a composite of dropout rate (33% IIRC), SAT, and ACT scores. But that doesn't mean Nebraska should stop marketing to Dallas. Lot of Nebraska alum down here, and it's easier to stoke the flames and send kids back to DONU when there's a presence for the University. Plus, the University can make money off of these kids who have to take sub-100 level courses to get up to par--something that happens with increased frequency as budgets get slashed to hell at the K-12 level. And yes, I RTFA, and I want DONU to keep plugging away down here, as I want to send my kids back home for their BA/BS, at a minimum. After that, they could go where they want for a Masters, Doctorate, or Juris Doctorate, including *ugh* UT-Austin. Of course, if my children are of Harvard/Yale caliber, then all bets are off.

1. Agree. EA hasn't been able to get recruiting right the whole time they've added it. Considering their track record, color me pessimistic that they'll fix this with '12. 2. Agree with sliders, and adjusting sliders shouldn't kill chances for achievements. If anything, give players X points of slider leeway per difficulty to use as they see fit. That, or fix your ******* game, EA. 3. It's a programming and expenditure issue. It wasn't until '09 that this gen had all of the FBS stadiums in the game. '07 and '08 had about 70 and 90, respectively, IIRC. EA is willing to let things slide as they have a monopoly on the market. 4. See #3. Plus, IIRC, it's a friggin' Whorn that's produced the last few of these--I'm sure they would care to not do any favors for DONU in this game. 5. See #3. --- Personally, they need to make '12 flexible to account for possible changes in conference alignment in the future. Allow conferences to expand up to 16 teams and the ability to add/remove divisions and title games. IIRC, you can move Nebraska to the Big 10 and Colorado to the Pac-10, but neither conference has a title game, and the Big XII still has one with ten members. That, and they need to do a better job modeling the stadium. I swear they're using the same stadium model from '07 in '11 from what I saw, and it looks like ****.

We do have women's gymnastics, and they actually won the Big XII Championship and are in the NCAA Regionals. Think they compete this weekend. But if women's gymnastics doesn't draw the crowds, I don't think women's pole dancing would do it, either. Just sayin'.

Actually, there's been discussion of women's collegiate football as a way to work around Title IX. It was a while back, but Nebraska was one of the names mentioned in the article I read as exploring that option. The thought behind this is that women's football helps nullify the large glut of men's football scholarships. And since we Americans love football, the hope is that women's collegiate football may eventually break even. Not saying it will happen any time soon at any school, let alone DONU, but it has been discussed within the past year or so as a way to work around Title IX.

For the scratch Nebraska stands to make in a few years, they could have named them Bevo and Whorn for all I care.

And MU they think there a elite program in some sport. No, but they have the potential to be. One main state school, population of MO--even Dr. Tom realized that Missouri couldn't get a foothold, or they could, over time, wear Nebraska down and eventually overtake the success of our program. I don't honestly remember which one of his books it was in, but Dr. Tom said as much. That's why getting into the Big 10 at the expense of Missouri was significant--if anything, it reset much of the fiscal and athletic progress Missouri made while Nebraska waded around in the Pedersen/Callahan Kiddie Pool.

But, by that logic, it pays significant dividends to be both a basketball and football school (a la Texas).

Good find. Something that concerns me, though: I have a problem with this, and not just because I live in the state that intelligence forgot. Population models show a shift towards the southern states in population--but these models cannot be sustained because of the scarcity of basic resources in some of these states (in Texas, it's water--no natural lakes, save for Caddo Lake in East Texas--the rest are holes scraped out and filled with rainwater). That will eventually prompt a reversal, as everything in human nature is cyclical, back to the north. If anything, it's very short-sighted for Nebraska to give up marketing to the South, particularly Texas. If anything, they should be hammering the state, as Nebraska is now in rarefied academic air which will only improve DONU. Considering the options in the state, Nebraska would be a good outlet for kids that don't get into UT or A&M and don't have the scratch for the private schools. Otherwise, yay 'Huskers.

Vote, all you wonderful m************, vote!!!!

Daughter and I watched this live on one of the ESPNs the other day--couldn't believe that the match was that close. IIRC, Burroughs had a 20-pt win in the Wisconsin dual a few weeks back as well (on the B1G Network, no less). No one really has come close to touching this kid. They said good things about our program and how we'll improve competition on July 1.

Good find. Thanks for the link, Sir.

My understanding was that the Big# got to the 20 million number by double counting the bowl revenue. That I wasn't aware of. Did anyone in the media call them on that? --- And Fro--I'm not trying to **** on you, man. I do hope that Mizzou ends up in the B1G, and I honestly think an expansion to 14 teams will include Missouri and/or Kansas, as I don't think the base subscriber rate increase by adding a NY/NJ footprint would counter the hit to brand quality by bringing on a Rutgers or Syracuse instead.

awe, that's kinda harsh. There have to be at least a couple of dozen people who are dying to watch ISU vs KU... I'm sure there's all of 20 people interested. Though the article is misleading...this isn't a new network, but rather the renegotiated Fox Sports (cable) deal that went from $20m/year to $60-70m/yr. There's no Big XII cable channel coming out of this--just a lot of Fox Sports PPV and a lot of Saturday games on FX and Fox Sports Directional with poor production value. If there was a channel to be had (like the Pac-12), Media Corp. would already be all over it like flies on ****. But instead of creating a dedicated channel (a la B1G Network) or paying for Fox OtA broadcasts (a la Pac-12 and B1G title games), the Big XII will be sharing airtime with Conference USA (recently won rights against ESPN) and the remainder of the Pac-10 deal on the Fox cable channels. This is nowhere near moving on up to the east side.

Wholesome link goodness, ribbed for your pleasure. Article goes into the details, including images of the bait emails to the players and the original Craigslist ad (now down).

Fixed for accuracy. Because when you can get a democrat AND a republican behind the same issue, something will happen on it. The question, of course, is if it will be beneficial for anyone... As for wild cards watering down the playoffs, I don't see how letting four one-loss teams (IIRC from the Dec 13th, 2010 poll) into the tourney diminishes the season. Last time I checked, we've had one-loss and two-loss teams play for titles in recent history, as well as teams that backed into their respective title games after losing their last regular season game by 24 points, and another that was throttled by 30+ in their conference title game. Seems to me we've already devalued our regular season.