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This looks better than our regular white on white. I hope this is the only time we see all whites.

I agree. Being it was his 3rd. With a fender bender. While hosting a 5 star WR, I expected the suspension to be for the season. Lets be honest - who was in town ("hosting a 5 star") has zero to do with this. Would it have mattered less if it was a 3 star? If he had been out with his wife? I hate that people keep bringing up Lewis with this. It has no place. I don't think they are specifically pointing out Lewis as much as the fact that he was hosting a recruit this weekend. And that does matter considering how many times you hear a player/recruit call a coach their father figure.

I agree. Being it was his 3rd. With a fender bender. While hosting a 5 star WR, I expected the suspension to be for the season. 4 games and only missing 2 weeks of pay is very light. I thought at the bare minimum it should be 6 games and all w/o pay. edit: Sorry I just saw this same idea posted above. Am I wrong in thinking that suspending a coach seems to do more damage to the rest of the team than to the actual coach. Is it possible to just suspend his pay? I don't know if that's even possible, but it seems like just as firm of a punishment to let him coach but take away his pay for the length of the suspension. Now the other coaches have to take away from their position groups and recruits to cover for him. Maybe I'm just putting football above everything else, but this seems to be a punishment on everyone and not just the coach.

I don't completely disagree with your point, but your examples aren't exactly fair. Carl's indiscretions weren't nearly as public and he was fired for them. I remember the discussions among the people who did have an idea being very similar to this. Banderas wasn't a coach who is supposed to be a leader for the players on the team. And there were definitely people giving him some heat for his bad decisions. This board is also a very small portion of the whole fan base. I don't think the overall negativity is quite as bad as you make it out to be with your God reference. He is in a very visible position at a public university. All the criticism comes with the job, whether it's on the field or not.

It doesn't hurt our athletic department, but it really doesn't bring in any significant money. There are no large TV contracts for volleyball. There is not alot of interest for volleyball outside of the state.

National championship for volleyball is a little higher than "middle of the pack", don't you think? Nebraska also took indoor and outdoor track, but if you only count sports with a ball in them, your point stands. But those sports don't generate revenue and we all know that this is what it is all about. Again, I don't think this is actually happening, just trying to see why this would actually happen if it's true. Knapp, I agree more and more with you. The AAU wasn't a good fit for Nebraska because most of our research comes in areas that aren't measured by the AAU. We are still doing tremendous work in other fields. I am not denying that. I was only saying that the Big 10 loved to say that all of it's members were also in the AAU. I also probably shouldn't have said where there is smoke, there is fire, but it just seemed like such an idiotic rumor that no would actually make that up right? You would have to be a really old guy losing his mind to come up with something like that.

I completely agree with you guys. I just feel with this stuff that where there's smoke there's fire so I was just trying to think of a scenario that might make sense. It doesn't make any sense for Nebraska to want out so I figured if anything it had to be the other way around.

You are meaning just in football correct? Cause last time I checked, we have been successful in volleyball, GBB, softball, at times in baseball and both track teams seem to be doing fairly well. As far as the AAU, we would have lost it no matter what. We had been fighting to stay in it for 10 years prior to losing it. It was a no-win situation. Maryland and Rutgers were brought in because of TV sets, that is pretty much it. I mean in sports that generate revenue for the conference - football and basketball. Volleyball has been incredibly successful, unfortunately, that doesn't really mean much in the financial picture. It's a hard sell to say that Nebraska creates a lot extra money when the contracts are renewed. I know the AAU thing is completely out of our control and it was inevitable, but I would hear all the time how every Big 10 school was an AAU member. TV sets were exactly the reason why Rutgers and Maryland were added, which makes me wonder why we were added just a couple years before. It definitely wasn't for the number of TV sets in the state. We were told it was because of the prestige the program. That prestige is not trending up right now.

I see no reason why Nebraska would want to go back to the Big 12, but I wonder if there is any pressure coming from the Big 10. What exactly have we provided to raise the prestige of the conference? We have been middle of the pack athletically in the major sports and we lose our AAU status right as we enter the conference. When I look at the reasons why Maryland and Rutgers were brought in, they don't align with what we provide or were told when we joined. Our football program seems to have lost ground since we joined and basketball still doesn't draw any excitement outside the state. This is just me trying to find a reason why these rumors might be true.

It needs to be twice as tall, dome, and corn stalks on the field.

I'd be more interested to see how everyone's attitude has changed since Riley was hired. I am in the "like them" camp now, but I was probably indifferent when I heard he was hired. It doesn't seem like I am the only one who feels this way, which is pretty amazing after a losing season. I don't think recruiting is the only reason for this either. He just brings an optimism and inclusive feel that we haven't had in a long time.

Had to look it up to believe it. $35 / month for mid-level package including BTN! Has anyone tried this out on here? I have it and it works pretty well. I strongly recommend getting and Amazon Fire TV or using a PS4 for streaming. It just came out on the Roku last week, but it is a very dumbed down version of the app. It's fine for a secondary TV, but it is missing a lot of features. I have my main TV hooked up to the Fire TV and the only issue I have is the frame rate but that should be fixed soon with an update coming any day that takes it to 60fps. I also have 100 mb/s internet and the Fire TV is hardwired to the router. Your results might be different if you are using wifi or have slower internet. I have found that the price far outweighs any negatives.

It's a good thing if Ohio St. is paying attention to us. We must be going after the same recruits and beating them if they feel like they need to say something. Keep it up!

The no one are the fan bases other than Nebraska and Oregon and the recruits 2-4 years down the road who aren't going to be in the stadium. We want as many eyes on this game as possible. This has the potential to be a huge game for the perception of Nebraska football. It can't be on those channels. Ignoring the factual impossibilities in your question, the later the better for a big time game. Our record at home under the lights isn't an accident. I was just referencing some of the other ideas that were brought up earlier in this thread. I understand it's not a possibility.

Are we really hoping to play a 9:30 game or be on FS1/2 or CBS sports network just to accommodate a few recruits? I would much rather have the 2:30 ABC slot than be on a time or channel that no one will watch us.

I think we would have looked very similar to what Ferentz has done at Iowa. Overall, very average but a bad season and very good season thrown in every few years. Unfortunately we fired him after the bad year before we could make our 12-0 run with no trophies.

I'm not sure I agree. The old staff was able to get Cody Green, Brion Carnes, Bubba Starling, Johnny Stanton, and Jamal Turner. These were all fairly high rated recruits even though none of them panned out. I'm really hoping that this staff's QB development is significantly better. That wouldn't take a whole lot, but I think that is where we will see the biggest difference in coaching. Edit: How could I forget TA. He was also a pretty big get at the time.

Well, I'll trust Williams' evaluation over yours, no offense. Calvin's film is damn impressive. I don't know if he had a bad day, but he's ran a 4.49 electronic at other camps. And he is blazing fast on the field. I agree. I have seen a lot of smaller guys be big playmakers at this level and the NFL, especially on Riley's teams at OSU with Brandin Cooks and Jacquizz Rodgers.

So are you going to give any information? No point. It's already been given. One of the big pieces is that he inherited more highly drafted players than he left Bo. His recruiting was uneven, relying too heavily on jucos to bolster recruitnik rankings, leaving an unbalanced roster that took a couple of years to fix. Also, if you look at California recruits, the attrition rate is much higher than other areas. It's good to grab a player here and there, but building a program founded on talent taken from 2000 miles away is poor strategy. Recruiting and having highly drafted players are two different things. I'm not saying Callahan was a good talent evaluator or player developer, but he was able to get kids to campus who wouldn't have otherwise been interested. A lot of the recruits we got at the time were heavily recruited and we were able to beat out many top schools at a time when things were very unsteady. I also haven't seen or heard anything about the attrition rates being higher for California recruits. I'll assume you are right, but I haven't noticed that it's any worse in our program. I would much rather have a pipeline in Calabasas than any high school in Nebraska.

So are you going to give any information?

What was misguided about Callahan hitting California? Recruiting was the one thing he did exceptionally well. I don't expect Riley to be able to recruit better than Callahan, but I sure hope the on field results are better.

So if he commits to us, we have to go through all this again with Gebbia and Holmes? I don't know if I can handle that.

Wheres the -1 button?

He was the football coach 2 years ago. He still has a large effect on the team whether you like to admit it or not. He established a culture that we are trying to change. I would still say he is rather relevant.