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The page where this list is located has now been updated with each player's name linked to his alleged misdeeds:

Argh! Got distracted an nearly forgot myself. Damn you, Miami! You are to blame for this, too! Glad I saw this thread.

What's angering about this is the fact that it was all going on for more than two decades. This Shapiro guy even admitted that he just took over for Luther Campbell when he was chased away from the program in the 90s. It was obvious to everyone Miami was a cesspool - you don't even need to see the 30 For 30 documentary to know that - yet they were given relatively minor punishments for all their past deeds. Nuke it, bury the remains, salt the earth, then nuke it again. Wipe Miami's existence from the record books. Let Tom Osborne have one free kick to Schnellenberger's nuts.

I believe this is the "Level 10" story Yahoo Sports has been teasing us with in the off-season. It appears there was a MASSIVE level of corruption at Tha U. Not shocking or surprising given their history, but this is ugly enough that it might just kill their program for a long, long time. http://sports.yahoo.com/investigations/news?slug=cr-renegade_miami_booster_details_illicit_benefits_081611 Bo Pelini, consider yourself a lucky man for not accepting Miami's efforts to court you last year.

I agree, especially since some of it has already been leaking out regarding that Ponzi-scheme booster. The difference is these are supposedly program-crippling allegations - although Miami's past transgressions should have had more severe penalties. We'll see if the NCAA finally stomps on them like they should have years ago. Edit: HA! just as I was posting my message, Yahoo put their story up. Money, hookers, jewelry, and...abortions?: http://sports.yahoo.com/investigations/news?slug=cr-renegade_miami_booster_details_illicit_benefits_081611 This might need its own thread.

I would love for this to be true. I gotta believe this is also the rumored Yahoo! Sports "10" story. I think the Yahoo story is going to be Miami. It's supposed to drop this evening or tomorrow morning, and it's going to be "big" according to other reporters who have gotten a whiff of it. Players getting tens-of-thousands in cash, etc. Bo should consider himself lucky he didn't take the offer to coach the 'Canes last year. This could potentially affect us as well since we have a series scheduled with them. If the scandal is as huge as advertised, Miami might be looking at a TV ban.

USC indicated just now it was "family stuff." So, false alarm, apparently?

Oh lord, the fear and butthurt coming from Texas, their fans, and media mouthpieces is DELICIOUS.

Bubba's dad has already said it's a "rumor" and "not true" according to Sam McKewon. I'm not one to defend some of Bo's past behavior, but people are just plain making stuff up about him now. Gammons needs to be called-out for this in a big way. National reporters are just loving the "Crazy Bo" angle and are exaggerating every little comment or facial expression he makes. The Husker haters in their audience eat it up.

NTV is the local ABC affiliate out of Kearney. You're thinking of patdbten or whatever his name is.

You folks in Lincoln can breathe easier now. The Big Ten and Time Warner have finally struck a deal to put the BTN on TW's basic tier. The two additional feeds for other (non-Nebraska) games will still be on the digital tier. We're still waiting to hear from Charter (which serves my area), DirecTV, Dish etc., but we should expect them to fall in line pretty quickly since Time Warner was the main sticking point. I expect The Big Ten to release broadcast rights for Nebraska games to the BTN and we will hear announcements from the remaining service providers soon. I was honestly starting to worry the standoff would continue through the first game of the year and we would miss the opener against UT-Chattanooga. I'm glad I was wrong.

You are very wrong, BTN has the rights to broadcast Husker games and will probably have 2 or 3 this year. Any provider that has the BTN will show any Husker games that air on the BTN, that would be like saying when CBS adds a new show to an existing channel that the providers have to pay for that show, when the contract is up the BTN can ask for more money, but if they're under contract, the games will be shown. No, the Big Ten has not released the broadcast rights for Nebraska football games yet to the Big Ten Network due to the dispute over cable and satellite tiers in Nebraska. The Big Ten and BTN are separate entities and the conference has to release the rights before the scheduled games can go ahead. This was also confirmed earlier in the thread by a poster who contacted Dish Network and was told they are awaiting the release of broadcast rights before going ahead with any change in their BTN channel arrangement. What you stated was the plan before the dispute with cable companies - primarily Time Warner - arose. If that dispute is not resolved before the start of the scheduled Nebraska home games on the BTN, then those games will not be shown and will probably get relegated to pay-per-view. It is my understanding the University has made tentative arrangements for that just in case the fight drags out.

I was thinking that, too, but apparently she's from Ohio and they live in Austin. A lot of bad influences to overcome there. Andy has his work cut out for him.

We needed a new celebrity superfan. Rush Limbaugh is too polarizing and Clarence Thomas is under fire. Dan Whitney is a great guy and awesome supporter of the program, but I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the Larry the Cable Guy character as the face people associate with the University of Nebraska. Wasn't Keanu Reeves spotted wearing Husker gear a few years back after he came here as Will Ferrel's guest for the USC game? Somebody get that guy a sky box.

This is true and seems to be a point lost in all the suggestions for DirecTV or Dish Network. It doesn't matter if you already have the BTN, you won't see the games until the Big Ten releases broadcast rights for Nebraska games to the Big Ten Network. They won't do that until the cable companies in question agree to put the channel on a basic tier. It sounds like everyone has (tentatively) agreed except Time Warner. I still think the Big Ten is in the right since every other state in the conference has the BTN on a basic tier. Time Warner is hoping Nebraska fans ignore that fact and focus their anger on the Big Ten rather than the cable industry when the season rolls around and the games that were supposed to be on BTN are not.

Xzibit is that you? The whole planking thing is irony within group-think within irony. It was actually an experiment some time ago from a group of goofs in Britain who wondered if they could "manufacture" an internet craze. They picked something completely random and nonsensical - lying stiff on random objects - and proceeded to get people within their social networks to do it. Before long, people lost sight of the sarcasm behind it and started doing it because they thought it was actually funny. I don't mean to poop in the punchbowl, but at the head of all this are a handful of English dudes laughing their butts off at people who do it un-ironically.

It sounds like the BTN is not included in the sports package for him since he is in a Big Ten area. It's probably because Dish Network has agreed to the Big Ten's terms to provide it on a basic tier, but are waiting for the broadcast rights issue with cable companies to be resolved before going live with it.

The Big Ten Network generates revenue through exposure. They want the maximum number of households to have the channel. That means they want it on the lowest programming tier possible. BTN wants Nebraska cable operators to put it on the basic tier like it is in other Big Ten areas. Time Warner (and other cable companies) make money through subscription packages. They know Nebraskans are nutty for football and most will pay a premium for access to games broadcast on BTN. Therefore, they want to keep the channel on a special sports tier that costs extra for the subscriber. The Big Ten is holding back broadcast rights for Husker games from the BTN until the Nebraska cable companies agree to move the network to basic. This is to make sure those cable companies who already have BTN on sports tiers won't be able to show the games. The cable companies are betting that if they hold out as long as possible, fan anger will switch from them to the Big Ten for not releasing broadcast rights. It's a staring contest at this point between the cable companies and Big Ten over who can withstand the fury of Nebraska fans faced with another round of expensive PPV or no games at all.

I saw that yesterday when the story hit Yahoo and was Turns out he's the TE and special teams coach. Hilarious that he works alongside Scott Frost.

Link Time to make yourselves heard. Read this in Mandel's piece on SI.com yesterday. From just reading it - it seems as though no one, regardless of whether you have BTN currently will be seeing Nebraska games. Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/stewart_mandel/06/29/nebraska/index.html#ixzz1Qn5JU0pR So nobody will see the games if Time Warner doesn't budge - even if your local cable company agrees to the Big Ten's terms. Lovely.

Every single one of them, apparently.

The vote tally just jumped enormously since I checked it a few hours ago. Either ESPN updates the total intermittently, or there's a Husker hacker out there somewhere with a botnet that's gaming the vote.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume Yoshi is being careful not to spend too much time in the weight room. Just sayin'. Also, could it be that Martinez is still in California? I remember reading a couple of articles that mentioned he was back home working with a QB coach during the winter. Perhaps he returned to that after spring ball and is not back in Lincoln yet?

There's been a rash of them in the last couple of weeks. I assume it's because Nebraska's official move to the Big Ten is coming in a few days and the Big-12 and its media mouthpieces want to ambush the narrative with "their" version so it doesn't become a Nebraska love fest. There will be a lot of these types of articles this week, I suspect.