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20 hours ago, SouthLincoln Husker said:

We are double digits over the limit right now!!!

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

4 minutes ago, Vince R. said:

 

If you have an Iphone, search "hurrdat sports" in the podcasts app and you will find his show with Ravi lulla. 

Great, thanks!

4 hours ago, Vince R. said:

I had this conversation with DB last night and it spearheaded much of the radio talk today. I don't think fans or local recruiting guys understand how good Jackson is. Jackson has elite level speed, acceleration, suddenness and an NBA level vertical to add while being 6ft 2in. If he were at North or Millard South, he would be a 4 star recruit and possibly the top in the state. 

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

7 hours ago, Dogs In A Pile said:

 

Watch the PC's with the coaches and players or read the PC coverage articles for a more serious take on spring practice.

 

These "Hilites" are seem to be a tongue-in-cheek, almost satirical production of the athletic dept more for entertainment value that providing any insights.

17 hours ago, Mavric said:

 

I haven't been able to watch enough to really know.

 

But he began the year as the Friday starter.  Didn't pitch well enough to hold that spot.

Moved down to the Saturday starter.  Didn't pitch well enough to hold that spot.

 

Now, it's entirely possibly that he is still fine and it's just the other guys pitching really well.  But it seems like a bad trend.

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.

20 minutes ago, Loebarth said:

That is a well thought out and even better articulated response. Thank you!! 

Personally, I felt like the game plan going in was to swing with power to get the ball in the air and let the wind carry it out. (Hence swing twice at balls in the dirt early and struggling the entire game with the slider.) I do think Husker fans tend to not give Creighton credit. Creighton this year is a very solid ballclub that just might stand in the way of us hosting. We have 2 more midweek games to get the head to head. I'm sooo hoping we are successful.

 

As for the predicted.. As hopeful as I am that we can win the final 2 against the bluebabies it's double for eating crow on my predictions. I desperately want Nebraska to host. So I obviously prefer having to eat crow. I've said I expect us to drop at least 1 game this weekend. I still feel that way but if we just win each and every series that should get the conference regular season title but Illinois is going to be a contender.. They have by far the easiest remaining schedule and to host we have to be a conference regular season champion. Sadly, we don't play Illinois this year.

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!

On 4/3/2024 at 12:42 AM, Loebarth said:

I'm curious, hindsight being 20/20.. Do you still favor Nebraska knowing how unpredictable Christo has been and the wild swings our hitters do? Nebraska has talent but that talent isn't showing up consistently. Truth is, they could easily only have 2 losses but they could just as easily have 4 or more losses and they get 2 more chances against the bluebabies.  Hopefully they can win the next two. Sadly, I expect a weekend loss for this exact reason. No scary bats, to many wild swings and a loose defense (2 more errors tonight). 

 

I believe we are a post season team but we are not currently playing like a regional host team. To host we need to win the conference and have 40 plus wins. We will also have to win the Creighton series because both Nebraska & Creighton won't host and Creighton could easily run away with the Big East. Nebraska needs to figure out their sticks or they won't finish in the top 3 of the B1G. (Illinois, Iowa and M State will challenge for that honor.)

 

I sat in the stands and puked inwardly at cheers with every wild swings. So no, right now I'm finding it hard to be positive!!

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.

16 hours ago, Loebarth said:

@FrankWheeler We'll know how wrong I am come 7 days from now. I hope I'm wrong. 

 

My prediction:

D1BASEBALL Poll ranked 23 but won't be following the weeks games.

Creighton will be a loss by 3 or more runs.

Nebraska won't get through this weekend unscathed.

 

Anyone want to join me in this week's predictions?

 

To many walks. To many errors. To many missed scoring opportunities. It's early, hopefully they make me eat crow. Especially this week as living in Omaha I've grown very disgusted with the snobs that wear the blue. So much that my second favorite team in any sport is whomever is playing the bluebabys. So, please PLEASE make me EAT crow. It will make my week!!!

 

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. 

15 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

See first bullet point. 
 

 

Rhule actually wants Nash at 310lbs, NOT 330lbs

2 hours ago, SouthLincoln Husker said:

Competition is not as good as past years, but not the worse.

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

18 hours ago, Gage County said:

I gotta think it would have been cheaper to use something other than giant Legos.

 

2 hours ago, Madcows said:

 

Oh...OK, there it is, I found the disconnect. It's you.  While you're "pretty sure this isn't the case", I do the work, and know it's the case.  So Mav, can I call you Mav? Anyway, so Mav, I work in finance at a major university. I have friends who work in finance at major universities. Locally, I have friends who work at UNO, Creighton, UNL, Chadron and College of St Mary's, I correspond on a regular basis with finance people at other universities both in state and out of state. I have friends that work on the academic side, I have friends who work on the athletics side. I have worked on both sides. I have worked in audit at a major university, where part of my job was going to departments making sure the accounting practices they were doing in said department followed GAAP and university guidelines (you'd be shocked at some of the "creative accounting" athletics and development will do to provide tax benefits to major donors) so when all departments are rolled up to Treasury to finalize our reports, there are no accounting anomalies between departments that need to be corrected. Our annual NCAA audit is a stickler for accounting irregularities within the athletic department. The main commonality between all these different schools, whether the athletic department is in the black, the red, or relatively breaking, even was how capital projects were funded. While each university will have it's own naming formats, we all do it the same. There's this crazy account and budget for each school that is some derivative of "Capital Projects". Projects that are just too big for the department to handle, ie new dorms, new chem labs, upgrades to infrastructure (think repaving parking lots, upgrading HVACs, expanding buildings etc). The funds for this budget come from various sources, donations, state funds, fundraising events, and a portion of net profits from the university. Individual departments will submit proposals annually for capital projects, these are then reviewed by the board. Some are given a green light, some a yellow and others a red. Within green and yellow, they are then prioritized. With every proposal, each department will project how much they will fundraise to help mitigate the total estimate. Athletics will follow these same principals, even the ones who are in the black. That's because regardless of the net revenue/loss in athletics, they do not have capital projects in their annual budgets. This is because there's a whole different department that has that budget (that crazy Capital Projects department). So, when UNL announced major capital improvements to Memorial Stadium, it had already had a proposal done, with estimates of cost and fundraising goals, gone through the approval process, given a green light and allowed to proceed. Athletics will help fund the project, but they do not, and more importantly CANNOT, fund the project entirely. Now when funds to the university as a whole are reduced, one of the first areas that will be impacted will be the Capital Projects budget, as usually those are not priority needs for the university to run day-to-day operations. Hopefully, you can see where this is going...but I'll try to dumb it down for you and the board. Mav, when capital funding budget is decreased, I want you to take a wild guess on what that means for current capital projects? Yes, you are correct, those capital projects now have less funds available. Good work using your deductive skills. To counteract that, the project has to be modified to fit within the new budget, or the project department will have to make up the difference in fundraising. In some rare cases, the department will request a temporary allocation of their annual budget to the capital budget. Doing so usually means a reduction in overhead within said department. The biggest overhead that can be reduced is staff, hence why it doesn't happen often.  Now follow along with me Mav on a fun little ride, when the governor reduced funds to UNL (based on what we've learned above) what do you think happened to their stadium upgrade capital project? Correct!!  The project now has less funds available.  While it's nice that UNL Athletics operates in the black, it will give them a little bit of wiggle room for some shortfalls, that net revenue in no way covers the new variance within the project. This gives athletics a few options, either go back to the people that have committed above and beyond their normal donations to UNL, to help fund this capital project and ask for even more money or modify the current project to fit within the new budget. One thing I know (notice here how I didn't say pretty sure?) about UNL Athletics is they will not request a temporary allocation of their budget to the capital project. That's just not what they do.  

All of this is still a dumbed down version of what the finance team will do, and this team will be on both the academic side and the athletic side, all rolling up under Treasury.  The one take away I want you to understand Mav, athletics is not covering this project 100%, and (I can't emphasize this part enough) would never be able to do it on their own, the university handles this project. And while you're "pretty sure that's not how this works", I can emphatically tell you, you are wrong, and it is how this works.

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.

10 hours ago, HANC said:

I thought the imo tonight was squeezing both starters for most of the game. I missed the 7-8 innings 

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.

11 hours ago, SWIHusker said:

How pissed is my wife gonna be when she realizes I keep saying I can’t wait for July…..

 

she assumes I’m speaking of our new baby being born…..naaaahhhhhh. This game release! 

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.

10 hours ago, HuskersNC949597 said:

Little o' both?

 

Fun game. Always nice to drop a deuce like that on an opponent's head in their own house. Um, metaphorically speaking.

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.

On 2/15/2024 at 1:10 PM, Red Five said:

 

I can just see how a private equity firm would run a CFB program.  They'll be mandating they they only have 7 assistant coaches to save money.  "Why do you need an offensive and defensive coordinator?  That seems redundant.  Let’s just have one coordinator and he can call both the O and the D."

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.

15 hours ago, Big Red Viking said:

Yeah that's his agent talking trying to scam more money from the idiots in Minnesota...they're not hiring Fleck.

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

On 1/31/2024 at 4:01 PM, Hilltop said:

Bad injury in October- isn't sure if he wants to come back for final year.  Supposedly still undecided. 

I have never been a fan- he was lazy in high school for a good % of plays each game.  He just never seemed like he had the drive to me.    

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.

1 hour ago, Red Five said:

 

Dylan opens at 100-1 to win the Heisman

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.

48 minutes ago, BigRedBuster said:

I wonder what their explanation is as to why the transfer rules are bad and no problem with contracts in other pro sports that prohibit players from changing teams. 

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. 

21 hours ago, cheekygeek said:

Huskers signee Preston Taumua talks Poly Bowl, Nebraska and Dylan Raiola Preston Taumua honored to compete in Poly Bowl and to represent the Islands at Nebraska

 

 

I expected Rhule/Corey Campbell to be doing something like this, but I believe this is the first time that I have seen it in print.

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

4 hours ago, ZRod said:

3 weeks? What is he acclimating at Everest base camp? Who goes on a 3 week vacation?

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