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Sounds like he has a good head on his shoulders. Should be fun to see him develop.

This kid has "underdog" in his DNA. Couple that with our recent success recruiting WRs, and I think Kade is going to surprise a few people.

I don't want to name any names, but I think he's going to put his head down, outwork one of our highly touted scholarship WRs, and make a name for himself here.

Riley will find him a nice little niche in the new offense and he's going to a be a very valuable pick-up for us. Really excited for him to be a Husker!

I love these guys.

This would be awesome. For many reasons.

McShane started to follow Kentucky grad transfer WR Jeff Badet on twitter.

Badet had 82 catches for 1,385 yards and 7 TDs throughout his career at UK.

He was widely considered one of the fastest players on the team and was their most consistent home run threat.

I think he would be a huge get. He led the SEC (6th in the country) in YPC at 21.6 in 2016.

6'0 - 180lbs.

 

 

 

 

This game goes on Webster. He needs to go back to school as he thinks there is an I in TEAM!

.....he had an off day. As the lone senior and soul of the program, he's the clear cut best player. You live and die with him unless others step up. Jack stepped up in the first half as well as Horne and Jordy and times, but the foul trouble was eventually too much to overcome. Jordy couldn't play as physical of defense as he'd like and it cost us points in the 2nd half. That was the difference, not Tai being selfish.

 

An off game? His lack of team play has costed us more than one game this year. He had sev, TOs and more than half his shots were forced. Also the last few games, he has gotten frustrated about the officiating and quits playing def.. If you remember, he was on the bench when we came back against Purdue. It's all about Tai, plain and simple.

 

....no.

 

No What! Also remember he had 2 TO to cost us a game.

 

I'm not going to entertain your claim that Tai is the problem.

He isn't. The problems with the team aren't as cut and dry as one player being selfish.

In a way, it's selfish of you to make that claim. To put it all on one player.

 

 

This game goes on Webster. He needs to go back to school as he thinks there is an I in TEAM!

.....he had an off day. As the lone senior and soul of the program, he's the clear cut best player. You live and die with him unless others step up. Jack stepped up in the first half as well as Horne and Jordy and times, but the foul trouble was eventually too much to overcome. Jordy couldn't play as physical of defense as he'd like and it cost us points in the 2nd half. That was the difference, not Tai being selfish.

 

An off game? His lack of team play has costed us more than one game this year. He had sev, TOs and more than half his shots were forced. Also the last few games, he has gotten frustrated about the officiating and quits playing def.. If you remember, he was on the bench when we came back against Purdue. It's all about Tai, plain and simple.

 

....no.

This game goes on Webster. He needs to go back to school as he thinks there is an I in TEAM!

.....he had an off day. As the lone senior and soul of the program, he's the clear cut best player. You live and die with him unless others step up. Jack stepped up in the first half as well as Horne and Jordy and times, but the foul trouble was eventually too much to overcome. Jordy couldn't play as physical of defense as he'd like and it cost us points in the 2nd half. That was the difference, not Tai being selfish.

never leave your feet to make a pass. start of second looking ugly.

Yeaah. Evan Taylor is definitely the weak spot of the back court. It's showing more with Glynn being injured and Tai is just having an off day.

Roby needs to step up also. He's just getting beat.

Down 2 at the half. This is shaping up to be another thriller.

Despite the foul trouble with Jordy and Jacobson, we've been playing from ahead.

Jack and playing out of his mind. He's driving to the hole, hitting mid-range shots, and is really playing tough defense. What a turnaround.

Also, love the black uniforms. Love the shoes.

A commercial airplane traveling at about 500mph (which google says is average) would travel about 125 miles in 15 minutes, which would be about your travel time between the Waco & Crete exits. Since you're going the same direction as the plane (roughly), at 75-80mph, you're cutting some time off its fly-by estimate. So it's not unreasonable at all to think you'd see the plane for that long, and appearing in about the same spot.

 

Someone better at math than me could try and figure out flight patterns and angles and probabilities of that headlight appearing in your field of view for X amount of time based on a cone of vision, but that's beyond me.

 

I'm just saying, I've seen that kind of bright light several times, and every time it's an airplane. Occam's Razor tells us it's almost certainly an airplane.

 

Someone, sometime, is going to be the first person to see an alien spacecraft. But the odds that it's you are pretty darned small. So it's almost certainly not that.

My rational side agrees with you. In that moment, I really wanted to believe it was an airplane just so I could forget it and focus on the road, but I couldn't.

It didn't move like one. It's so hard to describe.

I have no doubts that you've seen lights in the sky at night that have turned out to be planes, but I'm still not convinced we saw similar things.

You're on I-80 doing about 80mph, from about the York/Waco area to about the Milford/Crete area. At that speed, you're talking about 10-15 minutes of observation time, depending on exactly when you noticed it & when you lost sight of it.

 

I've done a lot of driving at night around Lincoln and Omaha and I've seen things like you're describing. It is almost certainly an airplane on descent to either Lincoln or Omaha. Commercial airliners have headlights that are very bright, brighter than most stars. When they're at cruising altitude those headlights are pointed parallel to the ground and we don't see them, but when those planes are descending they're pointing downward. They can point at you for a long time.

 

Before I figured out these were planes, I used to think maybe I was seeing a star going nova or something from space (UFO?), but after a few times you realize what they are. They can appear to mostly stay in the same part of the sky, but move up or down or side to side depending on your perspective. You don't see the flashing wing lights because the headlight is so bright.

 

Checking airlines, United has a flight from Denver to Omaha, which sometimes flies parallel to I-80, landing at 8:16pm.

American has a flight from Salt Lake City landing in Omaha at 8:33pm.

Southwest has a flight from Denver to Omaha landing at 8:35pm.

 

One of these is your most likely culprit.

I appreciate the input, Knapp. It's going to be impossible for me to describe exactly how this light source moved, but I really don't think it was a plane.

I used to work at the airport and am somewhat familiar with how planes descend into LNK from DEN. It didn't move like a plane. It was more sporadic.

Trump needs to build a wall in space to keep those illegal aliens out

After I kept seeing it for about 15-20 miles straight, I was out of "rational" ideas for what it could be.

I then figured it's got to either be some sort of UFO/Alien type thing or a Trump/Gov. thing.

...or

...BOTH!

I also experienced something similar although in my case the mysterious light was quite small and actually flew into and around the interior of the car I was driving. It was after dark, and I was traveling along a gravel road on the way home one night from a high school ball game. I still remember it quite vividly.

 

I first saw the ball of light as I would describe it, perhaps the size of a softbal, which first appeared in my rearview mirror in back of the vehilce as I was traveling perhaps 45 mph. This stretch of road had NO farmsteads or other improvements of any kind and I traveled it many thousands of times over nearly 50 years. It was not near any sort of light source and beyond the electrical lines with transformers and power poles which ran long both sides of the road, I would have no idea what could have possibly created the source of the light so I have no explanation or idea how it happened.

 

The light ball appeared to follow me in the car for perhaps a half mile and then quite suddenly simply came in through the back glass and circled around the interior of the car, then hung or hovered about the dash and then again circled about the interior of the car and then as suddenly as it came in flew out through a side window and quickly disappeared into the night over a field. I was alone that night but it did happen one other time a couple months or so later and this time I had my then girl friend to become my wife of many years with me. She of course witnessed the event as well. We were not in the exact same location although we were within a mile and half or so.

 

My initial explanation was to come up with some kind of reflection or other such physical explantion but again, there was no apparent light source anywhere near or apparent. There is almost zero chance it could be explained away as some kind of laser, spotlight or other similar device. This area was nothing but cornfields and pastures etc. I knew well each and every acre of the lands within several miles in all directions. There were no farmsteads, no businesses, no radio or TV or other towers, etc. I drove the same car for over five years after and never once did any kind of similar experience occur after those two. I continued to live in my home a couple miles up the road for another 38 years. It never happened again anywhere or anytime. I was quite awake, alert and sober both times and am quite positive I did not imagine it. Hadn't thought about it for a few years until I read the opening post. Still would appreciate any legit explanations or hearing about others with similar 'close encounters" of the unexplained kind. LOL

Holy sh#t, dude. I thought my experience was freaky! That's messed up. At least you got to share the 2nd time with your wife so you know that you're not crazy.

I just wish I had someone else with me who could vouch for me.

Did you ever see it directly or was it always seen through a mirror?

 

I ask because I have had the same thing happen a few times and I've usually traced it back to a fixed light source (light inside the car, streetlight, moon, other cars headlights) and the movement was some combination of the car/item/mirror moving around. I remember these occurances because they were a little freaky prior to actually figuring it out.

 

I'm not saying this is the case but it could be one logical explanation. Windows and mirrors can cause some weird visual things.

I was so enamored by it that, after a while, I would turn my entire upper body around to make sure I wasn't just seeing things in my mirror. I saw it directly and it looked exactly the same.

Just so we're clear, I was the only one in danger here. I wouldn't have acted that way if I had cars in my vicinity.

_{The Spooklight - Wikipedia I've personally never seen it, but I know people that have. We used park on the country roads outside of Quapaw waiting to see it.}

Hmmmm. That's sounds pretty similar to what I saw.

The thing that I couldn't wrap my head around was that I could see it passing York, Waco, Utica, Beaver Crossing, Goehner, Seward, Milford, Crete. I was checking my mirrors every few seconds and it was still in the sky, no bigger, no smaller, but still moving about in a weird little pattern.

Next time pull over to watch - its safer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And easier for the aliens to abduct you.

Hahaha. I know. When I got home, it really hit me how reckless I was being at the time, but I honestly couldn't help myself.

I've never come across anything that I couldn't at least guess what it was. This was extremely unsettling to witness, especially since I was driving.

I am being 100% genuine when I type this.

I was driving East on I-80 tonight, heading back to Lincoln. I went past the York / Waco area around 8:30 and I noticed something in my rear view mirror.

Nobody was driving in my immediate area. There were a few cars maybe a half mile ahead and the same behind me.

At first I thought it may have been a glare from a light or something like that, but after multiple mirror checks for many miles, I was sure that it wasn't a glare.

You can see a few stars when driving on I-80, but they aren't very bright, but this thing was. It was as if you had a star, but 3x the size of ones you see in the sky.

The light kept moving to the left and right, up and down, almost like it was flying, but, again, it was lit up and it never got any smaller as I drove down the road.

I kept trying to rationalize it to myself because I started freaking out a little bit. I had gotten all the way to Crete and I was still seeing it, mirror or no mirror.

I hit the rumble bars like 5 times because I kept looking at it. Every time I looked, it was still up in the sky, moving around in an unorganized little pattern.

I was like, maybe one of the cars behind me has like a glowing kite thing that they're flying out of their sunroof? No way, what about the underpasses?

A drone? Wait a minute, 75mph? How would it be keeping up? I'm not saying it was following me, just that it never seemed to get any smaller from my vantage point.

I still have no clue what it was. By the time I got to the 77 exit, I was just trying to focus on the road and not get myself killed trying to figure this thing out.

It wasn't an airplane, it wasn't a helicopter, and it wasn't a drone. The movements I saw don't match up with those things. It was something else.

Has anyone else ever seen anything in the sky that they couldn't explain? Not just something you aren't aware of, but something that just didn't make any sense?

You can laugh at me now if you want.

And focusing on negatives perpetuates negativity via law of attraction. Also we fans don't run this operation so our awareness of failure isn't relevant to UNLs success.

There it is.

 

Anyone changing their thinking with a new DC?

Yep. I probably would've said 8 wins if the DC change had not been made and if our recruiting class wouldn't have been what it is. But I went with 11 wins. Yeah, yeah, I realize that may be a little optimistic but with all this good news recently I figured WTH YOLO. 9 or 10 wins is probably a lot more realistic but I'm hoping with the right guys for the desired offense and some renewed energy on the D side, maybe we pullout a couple of the games we're accustomed to writing off as loses.

 

I'm with you. I'm not sure the win total will be all that different, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say our losses will be easier to stomach.

We'll be breaking in a rookie QB and that will be the main factor determing how things go: I have little reason NOT to expect struggles in this regard.

 

On paper, we "should" beat ASU, NIU, Rut, ILL, and Purdue. So, there's 5 Ws--hopefully. Other than that, tOSU should be another massive, embarrassing, hemorrhaging blowout loss for us as per massive talent differential and those guys were mostly a team of youngsters last year, which is scary. And, OBTW, that's the game that got Mr. Mark Banker fired, remember? Well, I suppose there's probably not anybody they could fire after the massive blowout nxt year, one would think. We don't have anybody, of significance, left to fire, 'cept the head man himself, and I don't think we're "there" yet, are we?

 

@ PSU, another sure or nearly sure loss as per BIG QB and RB advantage for them--and about everything else. PSU is for real and very tough to beat @ home, just ask tOSU.

 

Other than that, I'll play the optimist here--so folks don't yell at me too much-- and figure we scratch out another close 2 wins, say @ Minny and home vs IA. No guarantees there, though.

 

So, optimistically, I put us @ 7-5.

I think you're tragically negative. You should look for the good in the team instead of dwelling on the bad things.

Might make your fan experience less stressful. Just by the language you use in your posts, it seems like you really have little hope for the Huskers.

 

http://www.huskers.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?id=5928141

 

Nothing too crazy in there, but a great listen! I like hearing his evaluations of recruits: Sees Avery Roberts as a "prototypical inside linebacker" with his size/speed and leadership potential. Sees Guy Thomas as an "every-down player" with versatilitiy. Didn't comment on whether as OLB or DE.

 

Right. Not so much crazy, but I thought he said a lot of things worth mentioning. You hit on a few of them here.

His answers aren't quite like the others. Which is refreshing as hell. He's like Banker in that regard.

University of Nebraska Omaha?

Que?

http://www.huskers.com/mediaPortal/player.dbml?id=5928141

Love this guy. Great movie, great line.

Hilarious!

 

 

If he is going to be homesick, then i dont want him here.... And i dont mean that like "You dont want to be here dont be here"... I mean if he is going to be homesick and miserable here, I want him to stay where he feels safe and comfortable.

 

The kid is looking at the distance and is freaking out. I fully understand but think he should know Lincoln is like a second home. He will have a bunch of buddies from the west coast and I bet he will be too busy having a great time to notice.

 

He has done a lot of research on Nebraska and just curious how much he has done on WSU. Seems like it might be the unknown and is only going there because it is closer...

 

Make the best choice for you and the rest will work itself out.

To be honest I think he'd be happy at which ever he chooses. The important piece will be to finally commit to one and sign the paper. I'm sure WSU is a pretty good school.

 

 

 

Wazzu would be fun, if you liked getting the side of your head caved in by the elite teams in your conference.... He can get that at Nebraska!

 

It's almost like he wants to go somewhere as remote as Lincoln, but without any of the football success.