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    Obligatory "Is Iowa a Rival" Thread

    in Husker Football

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    Huskers true place in the sport is pre-62 and post-2001.

     

    Huskers pre-1962 is .570. Yep, still better than Iowa.

     

    Iowa also has 13 conference championships, all-time. Nebraska, on the other hand, won its 13th conference championship all the way back in 1921.

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    QB Dylan Raiola to Sign with Nebraska!

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    Raiola named QB on 247's All Impact Team:

     

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    Dylan Raiola, QB, Nebraska

     

    247Sports rank: No. 7 overall, No. 2 QB

     

    Nebraska made clear this offseason that it needed to upgrade its QB room. Out went Jeff Sims and Chubba Purdy. In came Raiola, a five-star true freshman, along with the state's No. 2 prospect, Daniel Kaelin. The Huskers also made a run at Ohio State transfer QB Kyle McCord, who ended up with Syracuse.

    All are obvious signs that change is coming.

     

    Heinrich Haarberg will have a chance to earn the starting job entering 2024, but Nebraska didn't sign Raiola to sit. He'll be given every chance in the spring and into the fall to emerge as QB1.

     

    Raiola is the future in Lincoln. Expect the Huskers to begin that era of the program sooner rather than later.

     

    https://247sports.com/longformarticle/the-all-impact-team-college-footballs-2024-recruits-who-could-play-right-away-227443040/#2369330

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    Your 2024 Nebraska Cornhuskers

    in Husker Football

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    7 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    We're #3 in the country in "returning production", only behind Va Tech and Iowa St.  (Regarding transfers, their old team counts in the calculation.  So Mazzccua would count as starting 12 games).

     

     

     

    We're probably not gonna be #3 after we get our roster numbers down after spring...

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    Potential Assistant coach change(s)

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    57 minutes ago, Head Coach Scott Frost said:

    I don't know why he wouldn't take it.

     

    I mean the fact that a sitting head coach wanted to be out of there so badly that he just up and quit to take a lesser job at another school should probably give any potential candidate pause, you know?

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    Potential Assistant coach change(s)

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    247 has Tony White on their hot board for the UCLA head coaching job, noting that he played for the Bruins.

     

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    TONY WHITE
    (44), Defensive Coordinator, Nebraska
    Salary: $1.6 million
    PROS: What UCLA has been missing for a while, which we’ve now come to view as a key element to being the coach at UCLA, is someone who wants to be in Westwood. Chip Kelly had no affinity for UCLA, and Jim Mora always kind of resented the place. Being an alum shouldn’t be the only reason you hire someone, but it sure would feel good to have a head coach who valued being at UCLA and had some pride in the four letters. White is a tireless worker, and he’d embody the young, up-and-comer who would work his a$$ off to win at UCLA. He’s a fantastic recruiter. He’s built a formidable defense wherever he's been – San Diego State, ASU, Syracuse and now Nebraska. He has deep ties to UCLA, is still loved around the program, and would hit the ground running with donors and raising NIL. UCLA could save some money on his salary and could spend it on an expensive offensive coordinator and coaching staff, and White wouldn’t have too big of an ego to do it. We’ve been talking about a key factor for a coach at UCLA is having the hunger and motivation to win in Westwood, and White would have it in bunches.
    CONS: Obviously, White has no head coaching experience.
    LIKELIHOOD: White would absolutely take the job if offered. It’s a question of whether UCLA, with its inflated self-image, thinks it's better than hiring a mere coordinator, and isn’t at least a coordinator at Alabama, Ohio State or Michigan.
    WHY ON THIS LIST: It makes sense UCLA would consider him.

     

    https://247sports.com/college/ucla/longformarticle/ucla-football-chip-kelly-david-shaw-tony-white-tom-herman-226911235/

     

    PJ Fleck is also getting some mentions as a candidate. IDK if UCLA is even an upgrade over Minnesota these days.

    Potential Assistant coach change(s)

    in Husker Football

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    The university posted a listing for a football analyst yesterday. In all likelihood the choice has already been made, but they have to do this stuff as a formality. Good chance this is for Holgorsen. If so, we probably won't hear anything until after the 15th.

     

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    Your 2024 Nebraska Cornhuskers

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    5 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

     

     

    Farther down in the article:

     

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    3. Which player from this class are you most excited to see perform on Saturdays?

    Adam Gorney: Easy, Dylan Raiola. For selfish purposes, I hope he does well at Nebraska to back up his No. 2 overall ranking and as the top-rated quarterback in the 2024 class. But for the larger picture, I'm so intrigued to see if Raiola can finally be that spark that the Huskers' offense has desperately needed for a long time to get that program going again. One person cannot fix all the issues in Lincoln but Raiola immediately becomes one of the better quarterbacks there in a long time because he has such incredible physical tools. Backing off a pledge to Georgia is risky business because the Bulldogs know how to mint NFL players. It was a courageous move by Raiola to flip to the Huskers. Now let's see if it was the smart one.

     

    Greg Smith: Dylan Raiola has the weight of the world on his shoulders right now. He’s the highest-rated quarterback Nebraska has signed in the Rivals Era. His dad’s name is in the stadium at Nebraska. His uncle is the offensive line coach. Raiola may have put coach Matt Rhule’s rebuild on a rocket ship when he decided to sign with Nebraska.

    Raiola has all the physical tools you look for in a quarterback. He was the best quarterback prospect this cycle but how will that translate to Saturdays? He doesn’t have to be more than a game manager in year one but it's hard not to be excited about what he can become. Watching it all unfold will be compelling.

     

    https://n.rivals.com/news/late-signing-period-roundtable-putting-a-wrap-on-2024-class?guccounter=1

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    Most miles you ever put on a car?

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    I think my first two cars both met their ends at like 120 or 130k. IIRC the first one was kinda high mileage when I bought it, lasted four or five years and then blew a head gasket. Second car was a 1998 Mazda Protege, I wanna say it had just under 50k when I bought it. Great car for what it was, had it twelve years and never had to do anything to it that cost over $100. Paid $3850 for it, and when it was wrecked (see above) the insurance company cut me a check for $2500. So that might have been about the best $1350 I've ever spent. Current car is a 2011 Audi A4, got it like nine years ago with 40k miles, and it's about to hit 100k. It has high oil consumption (which I knew was a common problem when I bought it), but otherwise it's been solid.

     

    Thinking back, it's kinda funny: there's been times in my life when I did a typical amount of driving, and others when I've hardly done any driving. So my overall average miles per year has ended up fairly low.

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