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We actually don’t know that, with NIL it is a futile exercise to try and count scholly players.

Great, thanks!

What show/station is DB on currently? Miss him on 1620.

It is a bit of both IMO. Christo has been decent, but he isn’t going deep into games currently and hasn’t yet taken that next step to build on what he has already done in the offseason. Both Sears and McConnaughey have made jumps since the start and have had really good starts to the season and since Christo has stalled in his performance a bit, they have both passed him up. Christo has more upside still, it would be great for him to keep working and make another jump, which IMO would make this team REALLY dangerous come postseason. Childress has seemingly pushed a lot of the right buttons so far with Christo as he is clearly better than last year, so I am cautiously optimistic he will get another level out of Christo yet this season.

Creighton is a very solid team this year, they are off to their best start in a long, long while. That being said, it will be VERY difficult for Creighton to earn a Regional host, their SoS is just not going to be very good. Currently their SoS is 164th and it won’t get better as the Big East is very poor this year; UConn is WAY down and it looks like it could be just a 1 bid league this season. I forget which 1620 show it was, but an early projection has NU hosting with Creighton in the same regional as a 3 seed and St. John’s as the first team out. I am not fully sold on ILL yet, they still have to play Maryloand and I think Iowa will start to look more like the tough team everyone thought they were at the beginning of the season; they just have too good of a staff not to win some games. There are a few teams that will challenge NU IMO, definitely Rutgers and Maryland with ILL and Iowa right behind that top group. It will be a wild ride!

Yes I still feel the same. First baseball is a funny game, and nothing is guaranteed and on Tuesday it felt like the Huskers were pressing at the plate against Creighton and they failed to do what they have done all season long so far in generating runs. Mid-week college baseball games are often crap shoots to begin with as the caliber of arms is much lower than in the weekends, look at how bad Creighton looked last night against North Dakota State, hanging on to win 8-7. On Tuesday Central Arkansas beat a ranked Miss St. team and Tarleton State almost beat perennial power Dallas Baptist losing 7-8. Yesterday Maryland almost lost to UMBC winning 13-12. I would love to see NU and Creighton match up in a weekend series, it would be a fun one. The Huskers are halfway through the season with 27 left to play and they are already at 20 wins against a pretty decent schedule, 33rd overall SoS per Warren Nolan, and have a predicted final record of 43-13. This guaranteed nothing, but the Huskers have done enough over the first half of a good schedule to earn my confidence in them being a pretty good team. Just how good is still TBD, but a single mid-week game doesn’t change that.

Wow, that is much more involved than what I thought originally when Rhule mentioned it in his presser the other day. This is pretty cool.

Creighton hasn’t played anyone yet, their SOS is 156. Baseball is funny so perhaps Creighton beats the Sker’s tomorrow, but I don’t get the anxiety about playing them. The Huskers have played a decent schedule so far and racked up a 20-5 record in doing so, they have shown they are a pretty good team. Whether they are a really good team or not is TBD, but a single mid-week game against Creighton, win or lose, won’t give us that answer either. If we were playing Creighton in a 3 game weekend set, I would favor the Huskers right now.

Rhule actually wants Nash at 310lbs, NOT 330lbs

Well they have played the 21st toughest schedule year to day so far according to the RPI so I would say this team is pretty darn good over being a product of a soft schedule. Warren Nolan RPI

Great overview and it is pretty sound. A lot of similarities to how big companies treat CapEx so it made sense to me.

Pretty good overall. If they can get Clark and Timmerman going, that is a REALLY deep staff. Something they didn’t have last year and should lead to a much better mid-week record as a result.

The only negative tonight was the 2nd straight poor outing by Timmerman. The young man has electric stuff, but he is struggling to miss bats right now. The coaches may have to reshuffle who they want in late game bullpen roles until Timmerman figures it out.

The zone was pretty tight yesterday, both teams had several instances where they wanted to throw it around the horn or walk to the dugout only have the home plate ump call a ball. I do think the ump was consistent and equally tough to both teams however. I am wondering if there is an emphasis being made to remove the 2-4” off the plate strike that has been pretty common in the college game until recently. Used to bother me that so many pitches hitters are taught to lay off were called strikes in the past, but the trade off for tighter zones is higher pitch counts and more arm injuries, which is worse than more batters getting punched out at bad strike calls.

As an experienced Dad, I suggest you figure out how to hold the PS5 controller with a baby in your arms for those late night feedings/sleep duty sessions.

Huskers are definitely better than many thought. The arms are better and deeper, which the coaches and some media were saying, but I have been pleasantly surprised by the depth and balance in the bats. Should be a fun year.

If FSU is smart, I know that is a big if, it would be limited in scope, the PE group might have ownership of the licensing operations for instance. As the article points out, this has been done successfully with minor league baseball teams in recent past.

It would be a good hire for them IMO. DB or not, Fleck can coach.

Apparently the team disagrees with you since he was voted as a single digit number guy. Rhule also has always spoken very highly of Piper, you don’t invite a players Mom to Jin a pre-game speech if you don’t think a lot about the player himself.

Jeebus, I am super excited to see Dylan this Fall, but this is a bit much. No matter how talented he is, he will have several bumps in the road this coming season as a true freshman.

The 2nd tweet explains why, in pro sports the rules are collectively bargained between the players and owners and thus not covered by anti-trust laws.

Man, he is already 329lbs? I hope most of it is good weight.

If you were set to get paid $3M, I bet you would take your time before getting back to work as well.