caveman99

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.