Mike Harvat

Yessssss now I can go shopping in the morning!

(Just kidding I'm sleeping in)

Does it actually work? My hands get pretty cracked by the end of winter and it would be nice to find something that actually works.

My mom gave me a bottle of the stuff a few years ago...I wasn't a fan.

Come to find out, Huskers.com already did all my work for me. Whoever is in charge of their social media crew this year is doing an awesome job, especially on Twitter.

http://www.huskers.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=100&ATCLID=210480891

Ah, great! Thanks much

While I'm at it, here's another video:

Hey folks! Let's compile a list of the best fan footage from last night's game. There's a lot of good stuff out there, but I feel like it's in a million different places.

I'll start. Here's a great sideline video of the last 5 minutes of the game, with an additional 5 minutes of celebration:

Here's a unique one of the marching band (with timestamps for specific plays):

Alright, now it's your turn...whatcha got?

PS - Can anyone help me out with embedding videos? I'm not familiar enough with this bulletin board system, apparently.

If you've got a DVR, you could keep hitting pause and play to try to get it to sync up??? Or if you need it to go the other way, buy a 500 foot speaker cable for your stereo to increase the lag.

I'm not being helpful am I.

Twitter is a blessing and a curse. 10 years ago I'm not sure any of us would be talking about this...

Welcome to the board, hucksker! I'm with you. This team needs our support, win or lose, and especially this season.

I'm cautiously optimistic about the game; I think it helps that the Huskers are playing at home with a little bit of momentum. In a lot of ways, I think the team is ready to put the first half of the season behind them.

Personally, the 11am kick is an annoyance for me. I'm at work until 11, so I'm going to have to DVR the first part of the game and fast forward through commercials to catch up with everyone.

This is a weird week. I think the initial OMG IT'S FOOTBALL SEASON excitement has worn off for a lot of people...we're about as far as you can get from it before the playoff / bowl season anticipation really starts to ramp up.

i think we need to bench "bombs away" tommy and start "running" tommy instead.

Best comment in this thread. I keep hearing people say that they're happy to have Tommy running the ball less this year, but some of his best plays have been accomplished with his feet!

Great post. At this point we know very little of whether RIley is going to work at Nebraska, yet a lot of "experts" apparently have seen all they need to see after only six games.

I ran sound for a wedding last week...didn't stop me from monitoring the game on the soundbooth PC right up 'til the thing started

Do you think they'd ever do what Illinois is doing for this weekend? Because heck yeah I'd buy a random ticket to the Northwestern game for 15 bucks

If we don't have 20k+ I will blame Mike Riley.

This is the only logical explanation, and in recent weeks the only acceptable response

I was actually encouraged by Riley's press conference yesterday. He's acknowledging that there's a tendency for mental meltdowns...I'd love to see those eliminated.

In situations like this my knee-jerk reaction is to say that the player should take more time to heal. Hopefully if Nebraska's medical staff is giving someone the green light, it means they're actually healthy...not always the case in college football.

I guess we'll find out on Saturday!

So far the best I've been able to come up with is this one...

http://mikeharvat.com/huskers/Head%20Buttin%20Mother%20Fathers.mp3

Have there been any other good quotable lines from players or coaches this season?

(Full disclosure, I'm looking to build a library for my podcast, ha)

Addressing the initial question: this season will be played in the shadow of Pelini, there's no getting away from that. If we were 3-0 right now, people would be talking about how Riley is a superior coach in every way because "even with Pelini's recruits he can get the job done." Unfortunately at 1-2 we're on the less fun side of that discussion...

I do think, though, that four years is far too long to give Riley. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask for significant improvement in year two.

A Rick Harvat? Nope. I do have an uncle named Rick, though...

Hey folks! I promise not to constantly push my podcast here (I didn't post anything about the new episode last week), but for those of you who have the time to listen, I'd love some feedback on our latest episode. I feel like we've yet to "hit our stride," but we're beginning to feel out what that might look like.

So far, each regular season episode has used the same general format:
Recap last week's game > Preview next week's game > Get to know a new Husker coach > Huskers in the NFL

The type of feedback I'm specifically looking for is:

- Are there any lulls in the conversation for you? We're trying to shoot for a half hour or less to keep things moving pretty swiftly, but I feel like maybe some segments still begin to drag on. Is there a moment where you "check out" in the podcast?

- Are we achieving a good balance between being entertaining and being informative?

- Is there anything you'd like to hear a podcast like ours address? (For instance, we recorded a segment about Lewis' Twitter outburst for this episode, but we scrapped it and kept only our discussion about the penalty. Would you have liked to hear more?)

Anyway, thanks to anyone who's already checked us out. It's a labor of love - we have no sponsors and no intent to make a profit (in fact, I'm about $50 in the hole already). We're fans just like you!

Here's a link to the podcast on iTunes:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/husker-football-fancast/id1037575833?mt=2

And here's the episode on libsyn in case you want to listen from your browser / non-apple device:

http://huskerfancast.libsyn.com/s01e04-golden-toasted

Thanks again

I can't believe that this is even being brought up. People were talking like this after 3.5 years of Callahan...are we really only going to give Riley 3 games?

Tommy Armstrong seems to make great things happen everytime he has the ball, we just don't always know which team those great things are happening for.

Ouch.

Dude, how long did you play for Pillar? I saw them at Lifelight Festival like 11 years ago, and now I'm in a band that plays there!

Anyway, nicely done on the song. I like that it sounds like it could stand on its own...sometimes fan songs come off as way too gimmicky, and yours is an exception

My problem with the all-whites is that they resemble Wisconsin's traditional road uniforms. I'm sorry, but if I'm cheering "GO BIG RED!" it just makes sense to have that teams main color scheme be prodominately displayed no matter if it is the home or away uniform.

 

 

If you want more information on the history of Nebraska's uniforms you can find it here ---> https://sites.google.com/site/nebraskafootballhistory/uniforms

 

 

 

NEBRASKA'S UNIFORM HISTORY THROUGH THE YEARS:

 

1970's:

 

 

 

 

 

1980's:

 

 

 

 

 

 

1990's (with stripes):

 

 

 

 

1995 (without stripes):

 

 

 

2001:

 

 

2002 (with gusset stripe) YIKES!

 

 

 

 

Callahan / Pelini Era:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just for comparison here is Nebraska's & Wisconsin' all-white looks side-by-side:

 

You just confirmed for me that when I think of the Huskers, my brain is stuck in 2001.

What a great first post! Even though we lost the game, I'm glad we won you over